Let me invite you to turn in your Bibles to Genesis chapter 9. Genesis chapter 9, this is one of those passages that if I were a topical preacher who just from week to week preached on different topics, I don't think I would ever preach. On this passage. but if we are doing a study through a book and we're going verse by verse, and we're going through the Book of Genesis, then we come upon this passage today and we're going to cover it, in, our message time this morning as we're doing our study through the Book of Genesis, we come this morning to Genesis chapter 9, verse 20, and my goal, this morning is to cover verses 20 through 29.
And if you want to give a title to the message this morning, it would be The Story. Behind Noah's last will and testament. Noah's last will and testament. We, in recent weeks have seen how Noah comes off the ark and he offers up a sacrifice to the Lord and God responds to his sacrifice by establishing a covenant with Noah and his sons and with all of us and to never destroy the earth again with a global Flood.
God provides the sign of the rainbow as his bright beacon of mercy upon the world. So everything, now that the covenant is concluded, this is where we left off two weeks ago. It seems that everything is set for a fresh start at life in a post-flood world with righteous Noah and his family and all the lessons that they have learned along the way. As we come into verse 20 of Genesis 9, we have every reason to expect wonderful things.
In the coming verses, right? And yet sadly as we come to our passage today, we see that the story as Warren Weirby says, now moves from rainbows to shadows. In just a few verses, we go from a fresh beginning with a covenant promise and a beautiful rainbow to drunkenness, nakedness, voyeurism, gloating in the shame of another and cursing. It becomes immediately clear to us that the flood has not washed away nor solved the sin problem of man....
