Sermon Tone Analysis

We're going to dismiss our children up to the third grade.

Where is there?

Some freezer bags?

That kind of catch people's attention.

Especially my children when I say, you know, once upon a time, all of a sudden, they will stop what they are doing.

And a 01.

A story is about to begin.

When, when I mention the word, I remember when they, they lock in because Dad's about to tell a story about the pants, Something about that today that our kids and indeed and others kind of find intriguing.

I mean, I've noticed as a password when I say and I say, you know, I remember one time when all of a sudden everybody is trying to do a list.

Symptoms for sleeping.

There was going to be a beginning, middle and end.

It's exciting, isn't it?

What's this time of year?

Because honestly, at our house, we had this place, there's a picture up there.

I'll let them bring that up for you place in our backyard.

Fire pit, would you have a fire pit in your backyard?

Are you need to get you one?

It is it is one of the best thing to have an and I asked many people this week whether or not I should hook this up to propane, I really wanted to, but I thought better of it being on the fire department lighting a fire indoors with propane, just didn't seem prudent.

So you're going to have to imagine a flame, they're okay, but in the Charleston household we we can have her around this fire pit in the backyard.

It's a gas fire pit.

So we can do your round, we can do it either.

When there's a fire, ban is wonderful, we sit around and and we tell stories, and we've looked back and reminisce number one of my favorite things, just to sit around in here, the kids tell the stories of things, they remember and see their perspective.

So much fun.

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I'm over having the youth over for a fire coffee houses because we gather around this and in after you if you put some caffeine in them, in some marshmallows and whatever other goodies my wife bakes, that that night, they should have been in that warm crackling fire, Begin to talk.

How many of you ever had conversations around a campfire?

Their special time.

Aren't they around the campfire?

that you remember, around the campfire that You kind of share some lessons learned in life and sometimes you you share those stories.

But the third time to kind of remember things, good at things done wrong, but you move away from that campfire.

Moving forward in a different way.

Sometimes, don't you The Johnson household is the saying that's me, you know what?

We, we sacrifice marshmallows to the flame.

We we we sometimes go pretty deep, but sometimes we go deep.

The nation of Israel would have understood this.

In fact, that Israel is the nation where the Nerdist destroyed was worth the lesson.

Jesus would would walk this Earth.

Do you repel Parables and stories to teach lessons?

As we go through Genesis we're going to find that about a great deal of what we're going to be looking at moving forward is in narrative form.

God's word is insane.

Dust, do this or best?

Don't do this?

It's a story.

It is we study and read that story and hear it.

What were to learn some things.

imagine the first audience of Genesis, They're out there in the wilderness.

They have the fire at night.

Moses has handed down the book of the pentateuch to man and they told Moses, and then the father's in the grandfather, the back to their homes and families are around the fire where the day's work and activities are done.

They don't turn on the TV.

They like the fire.

Grandpa or dad.

Great grandpa.

Begin to share some of the things about their past.

Things that would help them understand where they're going, things that would help them understand about this great guy that they worship.

This great guy that has brought them out of the land of Egypt.

As as we have, as we look at that original audience.

The nation of Israel in in, in the, in the desert.

We get to be the secondary audience going through this narrative and see what God has for us today.

I want to kind of help set the the tone here.

In Genesis jewelry called Genesis chapter 9, we read in verse one right after the flood, it says in God, bless Noah and his sons in subsidence.

Fruitful and multiply and fill the Earth.

We jump down the verses 18 and 19, it says never Sons, ignore Who come out of the Ark was Shem ham and japheth and ham was the father of King bees.

Three were the sons of Noah in, from these, the whole earth was populated.

God is his giving his narrative noses and mobile repairing, this down and delivering it to the nation to call doubt nation of Israel.

He's a living legend.

God is the one sharing shoes story.

That he wants is red to know that he wants you and I to know a good Storyteller is one of my favorite shows nose is Paul Harvey Paul Harvey.

And now, you know the rest of the story, right?

Okay.

One of my favorite modern storytellers is micro.

He has this amazing story podcast died that engaging these people in short little stories and it is titled the way I heard it.

I love good storyteller.

Because what they do.

As, as they know the story, they share events.

They should be tails and they say, if they share the story of the end, it all comes together.

We'll go.

I hope and I'm not anywhere near the Storyteller that those two men are but I hope this morning as we look to God's work, as we unwrapped Story, the events, the details but he's sharing with us as we come to the end if he unveils his truth to us, we go.

Just the same.

And God is sharing an intentional story with a purpose that he wants first and foremost for Israel.

But there's something you and I can learn from this as well.

If nothing else, we learn something greater about this wonderful God, that we sir So gather around the fire so to speak, okay, sit down.

How much cake in the story?

God is setting.

The stage is set the stage for the people are in the promised land, and they're going to, to a new land, write a land that God has promised.

It will talk more about that next week, but I hear God is called himself.

A fool people, and they called out people.

Let me see you as well as a nation here.

And as we begin, Genesis 9, God is very clear to let them know that first and foremost, he wanted them to populate the Earth to spread across the Earth.

Every see that all people come from these three families Shem, ham and japheth Don't want it is would understand that it was a reason he's on folding these truths.

Think about the stage that's been said, God is just wiped out all mankind animals in.

Superfly.

He's placed in the in the sky in chapter 9 of rainbow for them to remember his promise, never once again.

But he destroyed the Earth with with a flood with water.

That offers a promise.

As a book, I had to be clouds coming to understand something about God and then the narrative begins, here's what happens.

Now.

So wrong, in Genesis chapter 9 will read this Meredith.

Beginning verse 27, Noah,

A drink of the wine and became drunk and uncover himself inside him.

The father of Tina and saw the nakedness of his father and told his two brothers outside.