DISCOURSE: 12 STRIVINGS OF THE SPIRIT Genesis 6:3. _And the Lord said, My Spirit shall not always strive with man_. MAN, at first, was created in the image of his God: but when he fell, he begat children in his own fallen image. His very first-born became a murderer. Some of his posterity, however,... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 13 EXTENT OF MAN’S WICKEDNESS Genesis 6:5. _God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually._ THE extent of man’s wickedness is far greater than the generality of mankind have any conception of.... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 14 GOD’S DETERMINATION TO DESTROY MAN Genesis 6:6. _And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. And the Lord said, I will destroy man, whom I have created, from the face of the earth._ THE evil of sin is visible wherever we turn our eyes.... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 15 NOAH’S OBEDIENCE Genesis 6:22. _Thus did Noah; according to all that God commanded him, so did he._ NEVER, from the foundation of the world to this hour, if we except the sacrifice which Christ made of himself upon the cross for the sins of men, was there such a demonstration of God’... [ Continue Reading ]