FINISHING WELL

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• FINISHING WELL
• Genesis 9

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• How you start is
• important, but it is
• how you finish that
• counts. In the race for
• success, speed is less
• important than
• stamina. The sticker
• outlasts the sprinter
• BC Forbes

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• A SOBERING THOUGHT
• We know of 500 leaders in the Bible
• We know details of 100 of them
• We know how 49 of them finished
• Of these 49, only 13 finished well

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• And Lord, help us
• to end well
• Dr William Cubertson

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• It is human to err, but
• it is also human to
• conceal the blemishes
• of those we admire. Had
• the Bible been a human
• productionthe defects
• of its leading characters
• would have been
• ignored
• Arthur Pink

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• The sons of Noah who
• came out of the ark
• were Shem, Ham and
• Japheth. (Ham was the
• father of Canaan.)
• These were the three
• sons of Noah, and from
• them came the people
• who were scattered
• over the earth.
• Genesis 9.18-19

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NOAH SHEM HAM
JAPHETH CANAAN
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• Noah, a man of
• the soil, proceeded
• to plant a vineyard
• Genesis 9.20

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FIRST ISRAELI COIN, 1948

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• When he drank
• some of its wine, he
• became drunk and
• lay uncovered
• inside his tent
• Genesis 9.21

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• While the Bible
• condemns drunkenness,
• it doesnt condemn the
• growing or eating of
• grapes, or the drinking of
• wine
• Warren Wiersbe

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• Ham, the father of
• Canaan, saw his
• father's nakedness
• and told his two
• brothers outside.
• Genesis 9.22

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• The only thing that
• is worse than
• committing a
• specific sin is the
• devilish delight of
• finding out and
• revelling in that sin
• in others
• J.M. Boice

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• But Shem and Japheth
• took a garment and laid
• It across their shoulders
• then they walked in
• backward and covered
• their father's nakedness.
• Their faces were turned
• the other way so that
• they would not see their
• father's nakedness.
• Genesis 9.23

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• COVERING LOVE
• Proverbs 10.12
• Proverbs 12.16
• Proverbs 17.9

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• When Noah awoke
• from his wine and
• found out what his
• youngest son had
• done to him, he
• said, "Cursed be
• Canaan! The lowest
• of slaves will he be
• to his brothers."
• Genesis 9.24-25

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• THIS IS NOT
• A CURSE,
• ITS A
• PROPHECY

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• Noah is here
• prophesying about
• the future of his
• sons and one of his
• grandsons on the
• basis of their
• present character
• traits

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• He also said,
• "Blessed be the
• LORD, the God of
• Shem! May Canaan
• be the slave of
• Shem
• Genesis 9.26

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• SHEM HAM
• Israelites Canaanites

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• May God extend the
• territory of Japheth
• (YAPT) may Japheth
• live in the tents of
• Shem, and may
• Canaan be his slave.
• Genesis 9.27

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• THE GENTILES
• Extending to Many
• Nations
• Entering the
• Blessings of Israel

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• After the flood
• Noah lived 350
• years. Altogether,
• Noah lived 950
• years, and then he
• died
• Genesis 9.28-29

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• The call is
• bigger
• than the fall!

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• SO WHAT?

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• Every inclination of
• mans heart is evil
• from childhood
• Genesis 8.21

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• NO ONE IS
• ABOVE AND
• BEYOND
• TEMPTATION

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• WE CAN
• NEVER AFFORD
• TO BE
• COMPLACENT

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• ONE FALL
• CAN CAUSE
• LONG TERM
• DAMAGE

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• Therefore, since we are
• surrounded by such a
• great cloud of
• witnesses, let us throw
• off everything that
• hinders and the sin that
• so easily entangles, and
• let us run with
• perseverance the race
• marked out for us.
• Hebrews 12.1