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liberty bible church          11~/26~/06 P.M.
By Tom Zobrist
“how much worse can the world get?”
Genesis 5:1-6:8
introduction
Illus. of e-mail from Bruce Nichols.
In some parts of the world, evil is running unabated.
The world just seems to be getting crazier and crazier.
Where is it going to stop?
How long until the Lord returns?
How much worse can it possibly get?
Well, only the Lord knows for sure, but we can get a hint from the Scriptures.
OPEN to passage.
*Prop.
*In this passage, how bad the world can get before the global judgment of God.
Open in PRAYER.
PREVIEW the passage.
Last time we saw the sin of man begin to spread as we witnessed the murder of Abel by his brother Cain.
The sin nature was evident in every succeeding generation.
Cf. 4:16-24 But God was also at work.
Cf. 4:25-26 So, the pattern of the sin nature was set.
We see what happens to begin to send the world into a downward spiral.
It is an unavoidable result of the fall.
i.
evil infests everyone vs. 5:1-32
Illus. of the story of the 92 year old woman and the mother with her son.
Even those least expected are infected with sin.
Chapter 5 gives us a genealogy from Adam to Noah.
It links the first to sin with the one who would deliver the world from total annihilation.
Even though man is advancing and prospering, there is still the problem of the curse of sin.
People are still dying.
Last time we looked at the genealogy of Cain.
It listed 7 generations, with three sons listed at the end.
(Jabal, Jubal, and Tubal-Cain.)
Interestingly enough, only one man spoke in that list, his name was Lamech and he taunted the curse.
Cf. 4:23-24 In the genealogy from Adam to Noah, there are 10 generations with three sons listed at the end.
Only one man speaks and his name is also Lamech.
(A different Lamech as Chapter 4) He cries under the curse of sin.
Cf. 5:29 Let’s start with…
a. Adam sets the tone
V 1-2   1.
Everything starts out great.
Man is create in the image of God and is blessed.
However…
V 3-5   2.
After he passed on the sin nature to his children, Adam died.
He lived long, but death still resulted.
By the way, the Biblical record of longevity is supported by a secular record, the Sumerian king list from Mesopotamia.
Both the environment and God wanting to fill the earth probably made this happen.
b. and the beat goes on
V 6-8        1.
Seth lived and died.
V 9-11      2.
Enosh lived and died.
V 12-14    3.
Cainan lived and died.
V 15-17    4.
Mahalalel lived and died.
V 18-20    5.
Jared lived and died.
V 21-24    6.
The one exception.
Enoch “walked with God.”
This indicates that he was obedient to God and had fellowship with God.
He was granted divine favor by not having to die.
This is the type of walk Israel was to have with God and so are we today in the church.
Hopefully, we will be blessed being taking in the rapture.
V 25-27    7.
Methuselah lived and died.
He was the grandfather of Noah.
Interestingly enough, it appears he may have died in the flood.
He was 182 when Lamech was born and 369 when Noah was born.
600 years later the flood came.
V 28-31    8.
Lamech lived and died.
He was the father of Noah.
Lamech had hope that this boy would bring comfort to those struggling under the curse.
Noah literally means rest, but in Hebrew it sounds like comfort.
In this chapter of death, Enoch escaped it and now Lamech hoped that his son could bring some comfort  to those struggling with sin.
Little did he know what God would do.
*Trans.* EVIL INFESTS EVERYONE.
Even though the world looked bad then as it does now…
           
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evil influence escalates vs. 6:1-4
Illus. of the OJ book and show that was pulled this last week.
Why would people think such crazy things?
A.     Man still had a sin nature, but sin escalates
V 1      1.
This was the continuation of the normal course of events that we saw in chapter 5. Men were living and dying, a result of the fall.
In the next verse, we see as escalation of the evil.
V 2      2.
Some believe this refers to the sons of Seth, the godly line, marrying the daughters of Cain; believers marrying unbelievers.
But, the evil goes deeper than that.
Others view this as angels cohabiting with women.
This contradicts what Jesus told us about angels in Matthew 22:30.
They don’t marry.
Who are the sons of God?
            3.
The best interpretation would be fallen angels or demons possessing the bodies of powerful rulers and warriors on the earth.
We know from other passages that sometimes great kings had demonic powers ruling behind them.
Cf.
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