“BEGINNING,” with part 2: “We Began” - By Rev. Troy Benton

Sunday,

January 15, 2017

 

Genesis 8:15-22

(CEB)

¹⁵God spoke to Noah, ¹⁶“Go out of the ark, you and your wife, your sons, and your sons’ wives with you. ¹⁷Bring out with you all the animals of every kind—birds, livestock, everything crawling on the ground—so that they may populate the earth, be fertile, and multiply on the earth.” ¹⁸So Noah went out of the ark with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives. ¹⁹All the animals, all the livestock, all the birds, and everything crawling on the ground, came out of the ark by their families.

 

God’s promise for the earth

²⁰Noah built an altar to the Lord. He took some of the clean large animals and some of the clean birds, and placed entirely burned offerings on the altar. ²¹The Lord smelled the pleasing scent, and the Lord thought to himself, I will not curse the fertile land anymore because of human beings since the ideas of the human mind are evil from their youth. I will never again destroy every living thing as I have done. ²²As long as the earth exists, seedtime and harvest, cold and hot, summer and autumn, day and night will not cease.