“The Sovereign Lord of History”   6/03/07

Genesis 10:1-32

 

REVIEW- Time of Moses looking BACK

 

“Genesis 10 stands absolutely alone in ancient literature, without a remote parallel, even among the Greeks, where we find the closest approach to a distribution of peoples in genealogical framework....The Table of Nations remains an astonishingly accurate document.”   William  Foxwell Albright

 

“All the persons of the house of Jacob who went to Egypt were seventy.”   Gen 46:27

 

“Remember the days of old, Consider the years of many generations. Ask your father, and he will show you; Your elders, and they will tell you: When the Most High divided their inheritance to the nations, When He separated the sons of Adam, He set the boundaries of the peoples According to the number of the children of Israel.”  Deut 32:7-8

 

“And He has made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, and has determined their preappointed times and the boundaries of their dwellings, so that they should seek the Lord.”  Acts 17:26-27

 

 

POINT 1- The Kingdom of God will be challenged by the REBELLIOUS

 

A.   The sons of Japheth separated west and east are called INDO-EUROPEAN

 

B.    The sons of Japheth have now been brought into the tents of SHEM

 

C.   The sons of Ham are typified in the first king of man named NIMROD

 

D.   The sons of Ham will be judged: Babel, Philistines, Canaan, SODOM-GOMORRAH

 

 

Going         Ask yourself whether you are building God’s kingdom or YOURS

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“But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.”  Matthew 6:33

 

“But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. "For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.” Matthew 6:20-21

 

What are your priorities? Prayer or TV? Bible or the Paper?  Giving or Gadgets?

(Philippians 3:18-21; Colossians 3:2; 2 Corinthians 5:15; 1 Peter 4:10; Eph 5:16)

 

WHAT ARE YOU SACRIFICING FOR THE LORD RIGHT NOW?

 

POINT 2- The Kingdom of God will be established through His CHOSEN

 

A. The children of Shem end up in Abraham, David, and eventually JESUS

 

Going         God has personally chosen you to believe in Him, what are you doing with it?

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