Homiletics in the Sierra Foothills: October 2020

Friday, October 30, 2020

Genesis 5-7

Homiletics Study – Genesis 2020

Lesson 5 Passage: Genesis 5-7

Content (List of Topics or Events)

Life and Death accounted from Adam to Noah (Genesis 5)

a. Adam to Seth 1 (1-5)

b. Seth to Enosh 2 (6-8)

c. Enosh to Kenan 3 (9-11)

d. Kenan to Mahalalel 4 (12-14)

e. Mahalalel to Jared 5 (15-17)

f. Jared to Enoch 6 (18-20)

g. Enoch to Methuselah 7, but 7^th walked with God and God took him (21-24)

h. Methuselah to Lamech 8 (25-31)

i. Noah has three sons 9 (32)

God’s regret seeing Man’s Corruption (Genesis 6)

a. Sons of God marry daughters of the earth - Mortal (1-4)

b. Evil inclinations of human heart cause God’s regret (5-7)

c. Noah found favor with God – righteous man. (8-10)

d. God instructs Noah to build an Ark (11-16)

e. God tells Noah of flood and provision to save a remnant (17-22)

God’s Remnant saved in Judgment (Genesis 7)

a. Righteous Noah and family sent ark 7 days before flood (1-5)

b. Noah is. 600 years old when flood waters come (6-12)

c. Noah, sons, wives and animals enter the ark (13-15)

d. Lord shuts them in ark (16)

e. Flood waters come wiping earth of people and animals (17-23)

f. Waters flood earth for 150 days (24)

Divisions (Main Blocks of Thought)

Life and Death accounted from Adam to Noah	Genesis 5
God’s regret seeing Man’s Corruption	Genesis 6
God’s Remnant saved in Judgment	Genesis 7

Subject Sentence (Summarizes the contents of the Divisions – No more than 10 words)

Generations from Adam become corrupt; remnant in righteous Noah saved.

Aim (Main Teaching Point of the Passage)

CTATLT righteous walk by faithfully with God

Specific Application Questions

1	How do you live life? What part do you let God be involved your daily routine?
2	In what ways are you listening to God’s instruction for you?
3	What ways is God protecting you? How do you consider this protection positively or negatively

Principles to Remember

1	Life has a purpose
2	Our Corruption displeases God
3	God is our protector

Characteristic of God

Our protector

Theme

Leaving God out of our lives leads to corruption and destruction.

God’s Word - What’s happening?

God’s Heart – What does God care about?

Today’s World – How does this connect to what is happening in my world today

Genesis 9:18-11:9

Homiletics Study – Genesis 2020

Lesson 7 Passage: Genesis 9:18-11:9

Content (List of Topics or Events)

Noah plants a vineyard; sin, a curse and blessings (Genesis 9:18-29)

a. Noah’s sons identified as source of people scattered over earth (18-19)

b. Noah plants a vineyard and gets drunk on wine which Ham discovers and tells (20-23)

c. Noah curses Canaan; son of Ham (24-25)

d. Noah blessings Shem and Japheth (26-27)

e. Noah length of life is 950 with 350 after flood (28)

Noah’s Son’s; an account of the generations (Genesis 10)

a. Sons of Japheth; clans each with their own language (1-4)

b. Sons of Ham; clans, languages in territories and nations (5-20)

c. Sons of Shem; languages in territories and nations (21-32)

Babel; man’s decision results in language confusion enabling God’s will (Genesis 11:1-9)

a. People’s decision to build a city and tower so they won’t be scattered (1-4)

b. Lord confuses tongue; (5-7)

c. People scatter from Babel because Lord confused language (8-9)