{"id":15453,"date":"2021-04-29T22:00:49","date_gmt":"2021-04-30T05:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/genesis_8_1-12-copy\/"},"modified":"2021-04-25T18:36:21","modified_gmt":"2021-04-26T01:36:21","slug":"genesis_8_13-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/genesis_8_13-22\/","title":{"rendered":"The Power of a Sacrifice"},"content":{"rendered":"

Genesis 8:13-22 Click here for Bible Verses<\/a><\/p>\n

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Hi GAMErs,<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s passage is Genesis 8:13-22.\u00a0\u00a0Let\u2019s go!<\/p>\n

Genesis 8:13-20 (NIV)<\/em><\/strong>
\n13\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0By the first day of the first month of Noah’s six hundred and first year, the water had dried up from the earth. Noah then removed the covering from the ark and saw that the surface of the ground was dry.
\n14\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0By the twenty-seventh day of the second month the earth was completely dry.
\n15\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0Then God said to Noah,
\n16\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0“Come out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and their wives.
\n17\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0Bring out every kind of living creature that is with you–the birds, the animals, and all the creatures that move along the ground–so they can multiply on the earth and be fruitful and increase in number upon it.”
\n18\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0So Noah came out, together with his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives.
\n19\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0All the animals and all the creatures that move along the ground and all the birds–everything that moves on the earth–came out of the ark, one kind after another.
\n20\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0Then Noah built an altar to the\u00a0LORD\u00a0and, taking some of all the clean animals and clean birds, he sacrificed burnt offerings on it.<\/em><\/p>\n

On verse 20:\u00a0\u00a0Notice that Noah\u2019s first major action after coming out of the ark with his family unscathed was to build an altar to the Lord and sacrifice burnt offerings on it.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0What can we learn from this?\u00a0\u00a0When God preserves you and protects you from a terrible ordeal, when He provides greatly for you, the thing to do \u2013 the first thing \u2013 is to give God a sacrifice of worship and praise.<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0Realize that whatever you give God is little compared to what God has given to you.<\/p>\n

Genesis 8:21-22 (NIV)<\/em><\/strong>
\n21\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0The\u00a0LORD\u00a0smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart: “Never again will I curse the ground because of man, even though every inclination of his heart is evil from childhood. And never again will I destroy all living creatures, as I have done.
\n22\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0“As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease.”<\/em><\/p>\n

On verses 21-22:\u00a0\u00a0Why would God promise never again to curse the ground because of man and never again to destroy all living creatures this way?\u00a0\u00a0Did God regret bringing the flood and its destruction?\u00a0\u00a0No.\u00a0\u00a0I believe something else is happening here: God is responding to Noah\u2019s sacrifice.\u00a0\u00a0Notice that God\u2019s promise is prompted by the pleasing aroma of Noah\u2019s sacrifice (v21).\u00a0\u00a0As the new Adam in a post-Flood world, and as a priest representing mankind before God, Noah offers to God a sacrifice that touches God\u2019s heart.\u00a0\u00a0Despite God observing that as for man, \u201cevery inclination of his heart is evil from childhood\u201d (v21), God decides to relent from ever bringing such destruction again as a response to Noah\u2019s sacrifice.\u00a0\u00a0You could make the case that Noah\u2019s sacrifice and God\u2019s response to it restored order back into the world, even the seasons (v22).<\/p>\n

Thus I believe\u00a0these verses are showing us not God\u2019s fickleness or His regret, but the power and the importance of giving a sacrifice to God<\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0Here we learn that\u00a0despite God\u2019s great wrath toward people\u2019s sinfulness, God is willing to curtail His wrath in response to a sincere and pleasing sacrifice.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Noah\u2019s sacrifice here in Genesis 8 is pointing us forward to the day when an even greater sacrifice would be made.\u00a0\u00a0Noah\u2019s sacrifice is pointing to when Jesus Christ would give to God the most perfect sacrifice<\/strong>, becoming \u201cthe atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world\u201d (1 John 2:2).\u00a0\u00a0Whereas Noah\u2019s sacrifice prompted God to promise never again to bring a flood to destroy life on earth as He did in Genesis 6-7, Jesus\u2019 sacrifice is even greater: it deflected God\u2019s wrath against our sins for eternity.<\/p>\n

Heavenly Father, thank You for teaching me today about the power of a sacrifice, how Your great wrath against sin can be appeased when a person pleasing to You offers a sacrifice.\u00a0\u00a0Jesus, thank You for the precious sacrifice You made so that God\u2019s wrath would turn away from us and we could be forgiven.\u00a0\u00a0In Jesus\u2019 name, AMEN!<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hi GAMErs,<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s passage is Genesis 8:13-22.\u00a0\u00a0Let\u2019s go!<\/p>\n

Genesis 8:13-20 (NIV)
\n13\u00a0\u00a0By the first day of the first month of Noah’s six hundred and first year, the water had dried up from the earth. Noah then removed the covering from the ark and saw that the surface of the ground was dry.
\n14\u00a0\u00a0By the twenty-seventh day of the second month the earth was completely dry.
\n15\u00a0\u00a0Then God said to Noah,
\n16\u00a0\u00a0“Come out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and their wives.
\n17\u00a0\u00a0Bring out every kind of living creature that is with you–the birds, the animals, and all the creatures that move along the ground–so they can multiply on the earth and be fruitful and increase in number upon it.”……<\/p>\n

On verse 20:\u00a0\u00a0Notice that Noah\u2019s first major action after coming out of the ark with his family unscathed was to build an altar to the Lord and sacrifice burnt offerings on it.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0What can we learn from this?\u00a0\u00a0When God preserves you and protects you from a terrible ordeal, when He provides greatly for you, the thing to do \u2013 the first thing \u2013 is to give God a sacrifice of worship and praise.\u00a0\u00a0Realize that whatever you give God is little compared to what God has given to you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15455,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gametime-sharing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15453"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15454,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15453\/revisions\/15454"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}