Sermon Outline

Havasu Christian Church               

August 9, 2026

“People of Genesis”      

Genesis 8:14 and following

“Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord” (part 3)

INTRO: We’ve spent 2 weeks with Noah. We could probably add a couple more weeks, but we’ll finish looking at his life today. 

         We’ll Be in Genesis chapter 8 and chapter 9. When we left them, Noah and his family had just entered the Ark, and the flood had begun.

         There were cataclysmic forces, tearing the world as they knew it, apart. They have finally grounded somewhere in the area of the Ararat Mountains, but they still had to wait. When we see them today, they have been living in the Ark for just over a year, Now, it’s time for another big change.

1. It’s FINALLY time to come out of the Ark!

Genesis 8:14–22 (NASB95) In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry. Then God spoke to Noah, saying, “Go out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and your sons’ wives with you. “Bring out with you every living thing of all flesh that is with you, birds and animals and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, that they may breed abundantly on the earth, and be fruitful and multiply on the earth.” So Noah went out, and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives with him. Every beast, every creeping thing, and every bird, everything that moves on the earth, went out by their families from the ark.

1. What a relief!
2. A little over a year inside this “floating Zoo!”
3. It’s WAY better than being outside, but you’ve got to be a little “stir crazy” by now!
4. Noah, his family, and the animals come out into a totally different world than they left behind. If creation scientists are correct,
5. There are now huge mountains which have uplifted, where there were only small ones before.
6. There are mountains of sediment, turning into rock all around them.
7. The earth is no longer a single continent.
8. There are deep oceans where before there was only shallower waters.
9. There are no animals out and about with the exception of water animals and the land animals that Noah and company release from the Ark.
10. Weather patterns have changed significantly.
11. Seasons will be much more pronounced.
12. The atmosphere may even have changed.
13. There are huge areas where water running off the continents have cut valleys and canyons.
14. Noah and family release the animals to begin to live on the land again.
15. These animals will find their way all over the earth.
16. How? If much of the water winds up in an ice age, there are land bridges to just about everywhere.
17. Animals (and humans) will have a way to go to new places.
18. Living in those places will bring genetic traits out that will help animals and people to survive.

1. Noah and his family thank God!

Genesis 8:20 Then Noah built an altar to the LORD, and took of every clean animal and of every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

1. These sacrifices would not have been as numerous as you might think.
2. We are talking about “kinds,” species.
3. Not every kind of goat… just a goat.
4. Not every kind of cattle… Just one cow.
5. Not every kind of dove… just one dove.
6. God has then bring “extra” clean animals in order to allow this. 

1. God makes a Covenant.

Genesis 8:21-22 The LORD smelled the soothing aroma; and the LORD said to Himself, “I will never again curse the ground on account of man, for the intent of man’s heart is evil from his youth; and I will never again destroy every living thing, as I have done. “While the earth remains, 

        Seedtime and harvest, And cold and heat, 

        And summer and winter, And day and night 

        Shall not cease.”

1. A covenant is a promise. We might call it a contract today….
2. This is NOT a negotiation where God and man compromise. God is making it, not Noah.
3. But this covenant IS for human’s benefit.
4. God makes some promises.
5. He will never again destroy the world with water.
6. In first Peter, we read that the world will one day be destroyed by fire, so it can be rebuilt.
7. There will be seasons from this point forward.
8. These seasons will be much more pronounced than they were before the flood.
9. Animals will be afraid of people.
10. This is a good thing.
11. You can now eat animals.
12. Whether they already did or not, now they have God’s permission to eat meat.
13. God also makes some demands.

Genesis 9:1–17 (NASB95) And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth. 

         2     “The fear of you and the terror of you will be on every beast of the earth and on every bird of the sky; with everything that creeps on the ground, and all the fish of the sea, into your hand they are given. 

         3     “Every moving thing that is alive shall be food for you; I give all to you, as I gave the green plant. 

         4     “Only you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood. 

         5     “Surely I will require your lifeblood; from every beast I will require it. And from every man, from every man’s brother I will require the life of man. 

              6      “Whoever sheds man’s blood, 

        By man his blood shall be shed, 

        For in the image of God 

        He made man. 

              7      “As for you, be fruitful and multiply; 

        Populate the earth abundantly and multiply in it.” 

         8     Then God spoke to Noah and to his sons with him, saying, 

         9     “Now behold, I Myself do establish My covenant with you, and with your descendants after you; 

         10      and with every living creature that is with you, the birds, the cattle, and every beast of the earth with you; of all that comes out of the ark, even every beast of the earth. 

         11      “I establish My covenant with you; and all flesh shall never again be cut off by the water of the flood, neither shall there again be a flood to destroy the earth.” 

         12      God said, “This is the sign of the covenant which I am making between Me and you and every living creature that is with you, for all successive generations; 

         13      I set My bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a sign of a covenant between Me and the earth. 

         14      “It shall come about, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow will be seen in the cloud, 

         15      and I will remember My covenant, which is between Me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and never again shall the water become a flood to destroy all flesh. 

         16      “When the bow is in the cloud, then I will look upon it, to remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth.” 

         17      And God said to Noah, “This is the sign of the covenant which I have established between Me and all flesh that is on the earth.”

1. Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth.
2. This is a command to people and animals alike.
3. Do not eat meat with the blood still in it.
4. This is good for human and animal as well.
5. Bleeding an animal kills it quickly.
6. Meat is much better for consumption if it is bled.
7. If someone murders a human, they are to be killed.
8. This includes animals.
9. This is not a contradiction!
10. This is a reminder that human life is valuable.
11. We are made in the image of God!
12. God gives the rainbow as a reminder that He will keep His word.
13. I can’t prove it, but I think God changed natural law to make this happen.

1. Dealing with the aftermath…
2. Noah and the family make a good start!

Genesis 9:18–20 (NASB95) Now the sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem and Ham and Japheth; and Ham was the father of Canaan. These three were the sons of Noah, and from these the whole earth was populated. Then Noah began farming and planted a vineyard.

1. I think we can safely conclude that the whole family is pitching in.
2. They are growing crops.
3. They are taking care of livestock.
4. Noah even finds time to plant grapes.
5. Noah messes up!
6. This issue doesn’t come up immediately.
7. It takes a few years to go from seeds to grapes.
8. We also know this because Ham’s wife has already given birth to Caanan by this time.

Genesis 9:21-23 He drank of the wine and became drunk, and uncovered himself inside his tent. Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside. But Shem and Japheth took a garment and laid it upon both their shoulders and walked backward and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were turned away, so that they did not see their father’s nakedness.

1. Moses gets drunk!
2. He allows himself to lose control.
3. All through Scripture, we see that God expects His people to maintain self-control, so they can give HIM control!
4. This situation is not simply Noah’s fault.
5. In some way, Ham takes advantage of his father’s condition.
6. There are LOTS of theories about this, but none is conclusive.
7. If you really want to know more, you can Google the verse, or you can ask me later.
8. Ham then, tells his brothers.
9. They don’t go along with whatever Ham had done.
10. Instead, they deal with the problem.
11. Noah lives another 350 years after the flood.

Genesis 9:28-29 Noah lived three hundred and fifty years after the flood. So all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years, and he died.

What is there for us to learn from this part of Noah’s life?

• Sometimes, we have to wait for God’s timing.
• I’m sure that when the Ark came to rest, the whole family was ready to disembark.
• That would have been a terrible idea.
• The world is still almost totally mud.
• Every day, they probably woke up thinking “Is today the day?”
• Waiting was the right thing to do. God was working!
• This is most certainly true of our lives as well.
• There are times when it seems that God has us in a “holding pattern,” like an airplane waiting for an open runway.
• But waiting is the Right thing to do.
• While they were waiting, they stayed busy.
• Whatever chores they had done in the Ark still had to be done.
• Feeding and watering,
• Waste disposal,
• Making sure the lions didn’t get into the pen with the sheep.
• Imagine being Japeth and having to explain to your Dad that you didn’t get the pen securely shut. (Maybe that’s what happened to unicorns? “OOPS! Sorry Dad!”)
• When God said “GO” they were ready.
• While we are waiting, we should be preparing for what comes next.
• Sometimes, God uses that time to prepare us.
• Whatever comes, we should always be thankful!
• Even though the world they have stepped out into is different than the one they left behind, Noah and his family are grateful!
• When our life takes a turn, it’s easy to mourn for what you’ve left behind.
• But we should be grateful for where the Lord is taking us.
• God made a covenant with Noah and Family.
• We are also under a covenant with God.
• Through the Sacrifice and Resurrection of Jesus, we have the opportunity to be Children of God!
• As was Noah, we are called to faithfulness!
• God has always had expectations of His people, and that is still true today.
• Noah messed up! You will too!
• That’s where God’s Grace comes in.
• When we fail, we confess our sin and ask for God’s forgiveness.

1 John 1:5–10 (NASB95) This is the message we have heard from Him and announce to you, that God is Light, and in Him there is no darkness at all. 

         6     If we say that we have fellowship with Him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth; 

         7     but if we walk in the Light as He Himself is in the Light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin. 

         8     If we say that we have no sin, we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us. 

         9     If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 

         10      If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar and His word is not in us.