Genesis chapter 5 makes an interesting break in our story line where we were kind of understanding all the different elements of creation
And we have Adam and Eve and then we have Cain and Abel and then a very tail end of chapter number four
were introduced to another seed to another lineage of Seth and
Then chapter number five it says in verse number one says this is the book of the generations of Adam now
That's kind of an interesting statement later
I'm gonna try and explain what I think about that, but we have generations
And it's basically you know all the different lineages that we have of
Adam it says in the next phrase in the day that God created man in the likeness of God made he him
Bible says in verse 2 male and female created he them and blessed them and called their name Adam in the day when they were
Created so we have really great doctrine just laid out here in verses number one and two
It's gonna tell us about Adam and the Bible reiterates this fact that
Adam was created in the likeness of God God created man in his image, and then he created
Females in the image of man, but I like this statement. It says and he called their name
Adam we see that the woman was associated with her husband they become one flesh and the dominating
Person in this relationship is the man he calls their name
Adam and you know in our culture today
We still have something very similar where a woman will take her husband's last name
And they're basically the Shelley's you know people say hey the Shelley's you know you could be referring to me and my wife
Even though that's my name. She never had that name until she ended up marrying me and so she takes on my
Name and really this is just the way that God is orchestrated and created the foundation of the entire
Bible let me reiterate this fact go to Genesis chapter 1 back and look at verse 26 again
The Bible says in God said let us make man in our image after our likeness and let them have dominion over the fish of the
Sea and over the fowl of the air and over the cattle and over the all the earth and over every creeping thing that creep
Upon the earth so God created man in his own image in the image of God created he him
male and female
Created he them so every time it's reiterating the fact that God created the man in his image
The man is in the likeness of God go if you went in the New Testament of 1st, Timothy
chapter number 2 1st, Timothy
chapter number 2 and if God made the man in his image in the woman is made in the image of
the man that tells me that God is
Masculine that God in fact when we specifically talk about the Lord Jesus Christ is a man
Look what it says in 1st Timothy chapter number 2 verse number 5 for there is one God and one
Mediator between God and men the man Christ Jesus so the Bible clearly tells us Jesus Christ was a man
We understand that God gave his only son
You know God is you know giving us his image, and you know the Bible tells us about Jesus Christ
That is the express image of his person
So don't tell me that God is not a man
You know in the sense that he's masculine obviously is now obviously God is a spirit
So we understand that God the Father and Jesus Christ are not identical in that regard
Because Jesus Christ is the God man
And he was born and you know like made like unto sinful flesh like us whereas God the Father is a spirit
But we understand that he's still
Masculine he's still a man in that regard when it comes to his identity go go to Matthew 23 Matthew 23 now
God the Father you know he's not flesh and blood he's not
Mankind and so there is verses in the Bible to say God's not a man that he should lie
Neither the Son of Man that he should repent and basically that's just telling us that God is divine
He's different than mankind mankind can lie
Mankind can change his mind and do different things you know he can make mistakes
But God can't you know the Bible tells us God cannot lie, and God's not like us in that regard
But he is a man look what it says in Matthew
23
Matthew 23 and let's look at verse number 9 the Bible says and call no man your father upon the earth
For one is your father
Which is in heaven so God is you know referred to as the father and specifically know that as the person God the Father
And that's his name. That's who he is you know when Jesus Christ prays in John chapter number 17
He says Heavenly Father okay, and so we always have a masculine name
or pronoun
Associated with God because that's who he is okay. He made man in his image. Okay in the image of
God created he him okay now go if you went to Genesis
Go back to Genesis and keep your finger in the New Testament goes back to Genesis
And I'll show you another one. I should have gone there earlier
But the Bible hammers this point that God is masculine that man was created in his image
And so we don't want to have a weird concept of who God is today and really honestly
It's sad, but this is being attacked today the fact that God is male
There's a man is masculine and that men are in the image of God is under severe attack with all this gender confusion
and this transgender
Nonsense and all kinds of modern Bibles, and it's no new thing under the Sun
There's always been an attack on who God is and the fact that there's male and female
And that men are made in the image of God and female are made in the image of man
This has been a doctrine that's been constantly attacked, and we need to go back to the fundamentals
We're a fundamental Baptist Church, and we believe that the men are created in God's image look at what it says in verse 6
Genesis 9 verse 6 who shows shed with man's blood by man shows blood be shed for in the image of God
Made he man so notice in God's image. He made man
Okay, go back to 1st Corinthians chapter number 11. Go back to 1st Corinthians chapter number 11
Now when it comes to people preaching false doctrine in this regard
It's too much to even mention just a minute amount of the false teaching that is in this area
And so really it's best to just know what the Bible says
But I am going to point out a few things that I've seen online and a few things that I've heard
But the modern Bibles attack the fact that you know there's this distinction between male and female
There's this distinction between men and women and that men are in the image of God and that we have the man Christ Jesus
And that it's God the Father. It's not God the mother you know, but you would say that's that seems obvious
Well, it's not obvious to some people. It's not obviously then saved
It's not obvious to the reprobate today look at 1st Corinthians chapter 11 verse 7
for a man indeed ought not to cover his head for as much as he is the image and
Glory of God, but the woman is the glory of the man
So the Bible makes it very clear that you know a man is in the image of God
And it's funny these people that attack this doctrine
They love to pontificate about letting people know what your pronouns are
It's like God already told us what all those pronouns are
Why why don't you respect the pronouns that he gave us when he says he and him and God and it's the man
And it's the father they just want to attack that and put confusion out there to attack
God because they want to corrupt God and make him into an image made like to corrupt a woman
But he's not like corruptible man. Look we went to Psalms chapter number 8 go to Psalms chapter number 8 and
Let me show you an example of this now in the
new revised standard version, okay in the new revised standard version in
1989 when this Bible version came out one of its goals was to be more inclusive of
Various genders, you know various types or whatever
That's one of its goals and these modern Bibles do this stuff all over but let's read Psalms 8 verse number 4 the Bible says
What is man but thou art mindful of him and the son of man that thou visit is him
It's a very clear verse. It's just basically, you know, what is a man you know, it's mankind and you know
What's the son of man, you know, basically showing how insignificant we are in God's creation from our perspective
Why would God, you know pay so much attention to us, you know, why is God, you know?
Even allow us to have dominion over this entire earth and dominion over all the beasts of the field and all these things
It's a very humbling verse. Let me read in the
NRSV sounds like a STD if you ask me
Says what are human beings?
That you are mindful of them mortals that you care for them
And you know, this is the type of language they use throughout the whole Bible human beings, you know
Because they want to make it more understandable and more inclusive
You know, I don't feel very included when it says human beings
It feels like a very weird abstract term man feels a little bit more comfortable to me
I would think even women would say hey man sounds a little bit more comfortable than human beings
You know, this is weird scientific term. It's not very poetic to say the least
Okay, but that's just a microcosm you say oh, that's not that bad
Okay, but here's the problem. It's just the gateway to open up to even worse filth and abomination
Okay, and really these modern versions and anything that you see in the world today the devil starts off slow
But then he starts building up steam and then it gets to a point of ridiculousness
You know, I feel like in our country, you know ten years ago
Preaching against all the evils and the wicked of this world, you know people that would preach against those things
we're looked at as being crazy or
very bombastic, you know over-the-top
Exaggerative
but I think the last ten years have proven that
Most of that preaching was probably even not even to the scale of the weirdness that we've seen today
You know and I think that even today it preaching right now
We probably can't even anticipate how weird and evil and wicked our world's gonna be in the next ten years. I mean it's
Exponentially growing at a rate that we would just mock at you know to say I used to think you know
Oh two plus two doesn't equal four, you know, they're gonna start saying that you know, it's like they do
It's like what, you know, the insanity has reached such a level. It's crazy to think where it could go
It's crazy to think how much further the degeneracy could go downhill
But I'm telling you it can't and I'm telling you it probably will it's not going in the right direction
But I looked up online. I you know, I looked at lots of different resources
Wikipedia has a web page called the gender of God or gender of God, you know
And Wikipedia is a pretty prominent website as far as in search results
If you search for anything if you say like what is the gender of guys one of the top results?
this is what Wikipedia says and
Wikipedia when it's defining who God is it breaks it up in different categories. It says well, here's how Jews view God
Here's how Islam views God and here's how these different religions
Well, this is what it says in the Christian section. Okay. So this is what they say Christians view God as
It says God ultimately transcends the human concept of sex and is neither man nor woman. He is God
But say he's not anything, you know, he's just this androgynous being or whatever
Then I looked at another article. It's not Wikipedia but a separate article and
this lady was talking about how her female pastor there is strike one and
Her sermon recently she preached and she was doing a prayer and she prayed and she says dear God our father and mother
and
Look, this is a one example of a micro look. This is happening all over
I already preached against Robert Morris the false prophet from Gateway. That's not even that far as in South Lake
It's one of the largest churches in the world
Okay, it's one of the largest churches and he got up and he said oh God is male and female
You know, the perfect picture of God is the man and the woman that's his image is this weird, you know
Either androgynous view or this view where he's both or there's just all this confusion today and it's coming from modern versions
It's coming from the devil mind you it's coming from a wicked agenda
To try and create all this confusion and try to say all male female. That's a that's a human construct
That's something that we made up
That's something that mankind just developed. No, no, I didn't develop any of it. God already delivered it to it
God already gave it to us. Okay, and they're gonna want to get rid of it because I've even seen in, California
There was recent article saying that they're trying to pass legislation
I don't know how far it is and how much has been passed or not yet
But it's definitely been written up to make all online retailers
make it illegal if they have a certain threshold of employees and everything like this for them to
Identify toys or clothing as male or female and
I think it was like if they have 500 employees or more
their stores
Cannot put like this is a boy toy or a girl toy or female clothing
So, you know undergarments
I mean undergarments cannot be labeled as this is a man's garment or a woman's garment or anything and
It can't even be distinguishable down the aisles
You know just complete and if you violate it, they'll penalize you they'll sue you you'll get fines
So, you know all the companies even if they weren't already a hundred percent on board
They're gonna feel compelled to go on board and you whatever happens in California happens in Texas ten years after all
They all of them come over here. And so, you know, who knows what's gonna happen in the future
but I I want to
Take a minute and talk about a new version
I've never heard of this version before but there's a Bible version
It's called good as new
Okay, it's as good as trash if you ask me and you don't even know yet
You know, it doesn't seem like it's necessarily super popular, but I found lots of articles about it
the author's name was John Henson, okay, and he titled it good as new a
Radical retelling of the scriptures and radical is not an is not an understatement. Okay?
Now when it comes to this gender confusion
It says this that the version includes inclusive language gender neutral language is used for God
Eliminating the sexist father. So now he's calling God the father sexist
Okay, and also for Jesus the male-oriented son of man becomes the complete person
So no longer is Jesus Christ the son of man in the in this, you know trash that they want to claim his scripture
They call him the complete person and then it says
Yet on the basis of mere grammatical gender
Henson argues that the Spirit of God should be represented as a feminine person
So they also make the Holy Ghost feminine, which is also false because he's a he okay
He will approve the world of sin better get that right
But this this Bible version if you won't even call it that okay, it makes the message seem like the Word of God
It's so bad. Okay. It's so awful and wicked what they do to it, but this John Henson
He got an endorsement from the Archbishop of Canterbury
It's written in 2004 and you know, it's kind of like maybe within Catholic circles or other that other things like that
But even the Times of London
printed
articles about this version and they and I'm gonna censor some of the wording and it uses just because it's so
Bad but this is what the Times of London wrote about this version it said st. Paul's notorious
condemnations of
sodomite, you know relations are
deleted and
Christians are told to go out and have more carnal relations
it literally gets rid of sodomy and
fornication and then
Encourages you to commit fornication
Okay, that's what the Times said about it, that's not what I said about it
That's not what the author said about this was that an independent just news report, you know
The Times of London said which I'm sure they're real Baptist, you know, and and their beliefs and everything like that
another
Basically quote from it says it turns st. Paul's strictures which just means restrictions
Against fornication on their head. That's a direct quote. It just turns on his head and
You know, it's developed by just these wicked people
It changes the name of a lot of the people in the Bible. I don't know why they want to make it modern
Okay, so they feel like the names of the Bible are kind of archaic. So st. Peter becomes rocky
Okay, so he's rock Mary Magdalene becomes Maggie Aaron becomes Ron and
Tronicus becomes Andy Barabbas becomes Barry
He says anybody that's demon-possessed
It just has a mental illness and then the Son of Man as I said earlier is described as the complete person
So they're really trying to help you, you know parables are now riddles to baptize is to dip
Okay, he salvation is healing or completeness and heaven
Becomes the world beyond time and space
It's just insane what people are doing now, let me give you some examples of this
Okay, go to mark chapter one. You can read this with me go to mark chapter number one
Salvation becomes healing, you know
And of course they want to just make everything physical and make it a lifestyle and you know, this thing teaches work salvation
It teaches everything bad you could ever imagine and you say why preach about this? Well, here's the reality
This is what our world is becoming and this is what Christianity is becoming where it's no longer
Oh, this is the Word of God without error
but rather oh
well
Just kind of make it up as it goes and the Bible is just a living document and we just keep making
Amendments to it like the Constitution where eventually the Constitution's just negated
You know in our country and the Bible is basically negated and everything's just flipped upside down and you know
the Bible already warned that they're gonna call good evil and evil good and
It's literally happening before our eyes
But look at Mark chapter 1 verse 4 the Bible reads John did baptize in the wilderness and preach the baptism of repentance
For their mission of sins great verse. Here's what this version says
John
nicknamed the dipper
Was the voice?
He was in the desert inviting people to be dipped to show that they were
Determined to change their ways and wanted to be forgiven
So that's also teaching work salvation the dipper, you know, it's it's a Baptist Church, okay
We're not going into the dipper denomination. All right
go to Mark chapter 1 verse 10 and
straight way
Coming up out of the water
He saw the heavens open and the spirit like a dove descending upon him and there came a voice from heaven saying thou art my beloved
Son whom I'm well pleased
Here's what this version says as he was climbing up the bank again
The Sun shone through a gap in the clouds at the same time a pigeon flew down and perched on him
Jesus took this as a sign that God's Spirit was with him a voice from overhead was heard saying that's my boy
You're doing fine
How blasphemous can see I mean it takes away
Baptism by immersion it takes out the Holy Ghost it even takes out the fact that God the Father is literally
Giving his endorsement of the Sun. It's just this random voice and you know
Jesus just kind of thinks that God's with them or whatever. It's so blasphemous. It's so wicked
It's so obvious go to Matthew 23 you go backwards. You're almost there. Just Matthew 23 and look at verse 25
this thing is bizarre and
Look whenever you open the door of confusion in any area it just change it just taints everything
When you can't even decide that God's you know
Made man in his image and that females are different than men and that females are in the glory of the man
Then guess what? Nothing makes sense. Nothing is real anymore
There's no foundation if the foundations be destroyed
What can the righteous do if you don't even know 2 plus 2 equals 4? How can you understand anything today?
And you know what? They're destroying everything
Matthew 23 look at verse 25. Whoa, and you scribes and Pharisees
Hypocrites here's the new version take a running jump. Holy Joe's humbugs
Go if you went to Matthew 26 Matthew 26, what in the world?
Look this is like what the world's gonna do to the Bible and you know
How can anybody understand this junk this foolishness this nonsense today? And you know, it's funny to me
I wonder if the liberal Christians would at least admit that this isn't the Bible
You know, it's like at what point does it have to be so bad for you to say?
Okay, that's not the Bible anymore. Or yeah, that's not the Word of God anymore
I mean is this one not the Word of God? I mean if that one's not the Word of God, where do we draw the line?
You know, I draw the line every word
Where Jesus drew the line that man does not live by bread alone, but by every Word of God
Look at Matthew 26 verse 69 now Peter sat without in the palace and a damsel came on him saying thou also us
With Jesus of Galilee, but he denied before them all saying I know not what thou sayest. Here's the other version
Meanwhile Rocky was sitting in the courtyard a woman came up to him and said haven't I seen you a Jesus the hero from Galilee?
Rocky shook his head and said, I don't know what the blank you're talking about
Go to 1st Corinthians 7 and I'll show you like just a few more examples of this
This is how bad it gets and look when you start tearing down at the very basic foundations
It's just the weird factor just goes to an infinity
exponential possibilities for weirdness and junk and and just insanity
You know that they say oh, well, it's not that big a deal to put inclusive language like we did in the NRSV
Okay, well then where's the line are you gonna go this nonsense
You know
They just like to open up the door and then it takes you way further than you wanted to go
first Corinthians 7 verse 1 the Bible reads
Now concerning the things where have you wrote to me?
It is good for a man not to touch a woman
Nevertheless to avoid fornication let every man have his own wife and let every woman have her own husband
Here's what the other version says some of you think the best way to cope with
Carnal relations is for men and women to keep right away from each other
That is more likely to lead to carnal offenses. My advice is for everyone to have a regular partner
So it literally changes to
Abstain from fornication and to get married to just saying just have a regular partner
That'll that'll be better for you. It says in verse number
7 and 8 in the King James it says I say therefore to them unmarried and widows
It is good for them if they abide even as I but if they cannot contain let them marry for it is better to marry
than to burn
The other version says if you know, you have strong needs get yourself a partner
Better than being frustrated. It's just sick go to Romans chapter 1 go to Romans chapter 1
And it's obvious that these things have an agenda
You know, you wonder like who would tamper with the Bible who would tamper with the Word of God, you know
They are they're called
reprobates
They hate the truth they hate God's Word and you know, of course if they're gonna X anything out of the Bible
I wonder what they're gonna X out. Oh, yeah
Things about them things about them being sodomites and wicked and evil and reprobate, you know
Just like that Helen. What is it? Like Mullen cough or something the dyke that was on the NIV committee?
She said there's nothing in the Bible against sodomy or homosexuality nothing. Oh
I'm shocked that the NIV, you know
Makes a liberal provision in all of those areas of the Bible this one. It doesn't even make liberal provision
It's just so bad
look at verse 26 and 7 for this cause God gave them up into vile affections for
even their women to change the natural use into that which is against nature and
Likewise also the men leaving the natural use of the woman
burned in their lusts one toward another men with men working that which is unseemly and
Receiving in themselves that recompense of their air which is me so the Bible makes it clear these sodomites
They the reason why they're doing the thing that they're doing is because God gave them up
You say why did God give them up because they changed the truth of God into a lie
Because they hate God they don't retain them in their knowledge. Just the Bible makes it very clear
What does this version say?
for verses 26 and 27
God let them go on to pursue their selfish desires
Women use their charms to further their own ends men instead of being friends ruthlessly exploit one another
This is gone
They just took everything away from it not only that not only they screw up these verses this version omits first and second Timothy
Titus second Peter second and third John Jude and the book of Revelation
But to make up for that they added the Gospel of Thomas
I didn't even know the Gospel of Thomas was as bad as it is
But I'm gonna read you an excerpt for that. You don't you can't follow along because it's trash. Okay, and
And this is their justification for adding the Gospel of Thomas
It's a return to the selection of books which were held in the highest esteem by the early church in the first two centuries
Well, it sounds like a bad church if you ask me, I don't even know if that's accurate
This is what he says in the Gospel of Thomas. He took the Gospel of Thomas
He added it but then he had to change the Gospel of Thomas now
I don't even know why I had to change it because the Gospel of Thomas is so bad
And I don't know you can pick whichever is worse. I don't know. It's just it's horrible. But again, it goes to the
This idea of this weird gender confusion, okay
This is a quote from the Gospel of Thomas
Simon Peter said and said to them let Mary leave us for women are not worthy of life
Jesus said I myself shall lead her in order to make her male so that she too may become a living spirit resembling males
For every woman who will make herself male will enter the kingdom of heaven
It sounds like Peter Ruckman version or something. I don't know
What in the world that's the original okay
Now he updated the very end the tail end where it said for every woman who will make herself male will enter the kingdom
of heaven this is what this new version says every woman who insists on
Equality with men is fit to be a citizen in God's new world
Talk about the feminist New World Order that we're talking about
Hey, you have to be you have to insist on equality with men talk about a feminist agenda
The and if you don't you're not suitable for a citizenship and the new order. Okay the new world. Oh, I'm shocked
Now let me tell you a little information about John Henson, he's a retired Baptist minister
What in the world
You know why he's he's he's also obviously a faggot when you look up all his information, which I'm shocked okay
But there's all kinds of other weird information. I'm gonna read a few other things in here, but he got this you know
Recommendation after someone read this trash and then literally recommended endorsed it some Anglican bishop because he must be a sodomite pedophile
Freak okay, and he wants it to create some kind of revolution
Well another person this guy named Richard
Holloway or no, I think this is the Anglican bishop. Okay. He wrote about this book. This is what he said about the book
Holy goes on to explain that
unsustainable prejudices
Persist in the church because some people continue to treat the Bible as a law book for all generations
Yeah, I do
It it per it's without time, you know, there's it's timeless
Is what he says among these prejudices are taboo against women holding sacred office and the various strictures against
carnality in the Bible including homophobia our response to these
Unenlightened prejudices should be allowing the living scripture of our own experience
to challenge the dead letter of the written law
You know he's saying he's saying that your experiences are literal scripture that can triumph
The Bible that can triumph the Word of God today. That's what he's literally saying
He's saying acknowledging that it witnesses to an earlier no longer
Appropriate attitude to human relationships. So he says the Bible is no longer appropriate
How we see man and women
You know how we see sodomy and fornication and just everything in the Bible. It's no longer appropriate
We have to change with the times. We have to allow the world and our human experiences to tell us what the living scriptures are
Today, you know what? This is the spirit of the Antichrist that is gonna permeate all of the world
God is gonna send them strong delusion that they should believe a lie and I'm telling you, you know
I'm not gonna stop kicking the modern versions into the trash. I'm not gonna stop burning them people get so offended
When I go down to pure words and I burn the New Living Translation and I burn the NIV
You're like it contains some of the Word of God
Look the whole the thing is a whole is trash because a little 11 11 at the whole lump
And I'm not gonna sit here and try and figure out which parts are or not
I'm just gonna burn it and hand you a king games Bible
Hey
We're not going out just trying to burn Bibles we're replacing them
We're deprecating them and look they've been, you know, replacing manuscripts all throughout history. There's no problem in destroying an old manuscript
It's not like the physical parchment is anything special
It's the words that we're preserving today and if the words are what's special
Something that changes alters and destroys it or tampers with it should be destroyed
It's trash it's garbage today, okay
Now this this is where it gets even worse
This is the author of the book. This is his conclusion. Okay, he says in the introduction of his book
This is his introduction, but it's basically his conclusions about the Bible
He says names Henson. He says Henson maintains that Jesus never warned anyone
To avoid the wide and easy way that leads to destruction
Matthew 7 13 at that point in the text
He sees a favorable or a favorite picture of the Pharisees which Jesus quotes in order to refute it
Henson explains that the church has completely misunderstood Jesus
It is the wide and easy way that leads to life while the narrow gate spoken of by Jesus is the way to death
He literally just flips the scripture on his head he's trying to lead as many people in the hell with him as possible
He's just like the devil go back if you would to Genesis chapter number five go back to Genesis chapter five
You know these first these first three verses. I'm glad God contained them in this
Chapter so that we could get this great doctrine just hammered and you know for some people they need it
Two three four five six times mentioned in the Bible. It should take once
But if you have it five six times in the Bible just God made man in his image. We need to believe that doctrine
It's a foundational doctrine it's found in Genesis 1 it's repeated in Genesis chapter number 5
It's repeated in Genesis chapter number 9. It's all throughout the New Testament
God's constantly referred to as the Father
It's always a he look that's an important doctrine to establish and to get deep down into your hearts that
Men are created in the image of God
Okay, look at verse number 3 and Adam lived a hundred and thirty years and begat a son in his own likeness after his image
And called his name Seth now just as foolish is it would be to read that verse and then say Oh
Seth is a man, but Adams not is
It then say that Adam is also a man, but God is not okay and obviously in the sense of you know
gender or in the sense of
Masculinity obviously we understand God is a divine being and mankind is different than that
But we understand God said he made him in his image. That's what he looks like
Okay, just like you don't look like a panda bear or a chimpanzee. Sorry evolutionists. I don't look like a monkey
Maybe you will when you're burning in hell, but you know what? I don't look like an ape
I haven't evolved from birds. I haven't evolved from a rock or any of that kind of trash. No, I'm in the image of God
And you know what women are in the image of the man
That's what the Bible clearly teaches and just like Seth look like Adam Adam looked like God
Adam looked like Jesus Christ. Okay. Now it says in verse number four and
the days of Adam after you begotten Seth were
800 years and he begat sons and daughters now
I want to point a few things out and then I have a chart that I want to kind of show you on some of
this but
Notice that it goes from Adam to Seth
Now is Seth the firstborn of Adam?
No
And that's because what you have to understand is the Bible does not give every single detail of everything that's ever happened
The Bible only gives you
Specific information. Okay. Why would he give us specific information?
Well one one point of this is the fact that it's all we need. Okay. We only need specific details
Number one number two is everything in the Bible is about Jesus Christ
Okay, and so some details that really don't add any significance to Jesus Christ or who he is or the gospel
Narrative aren't included. So we have to understand is all the details that are included are really striving to something very specific
Jesus Christ and the gospel and God's Word, you know, it's all about Jesus Christ and so nothing in the Bible is accidental
Incidental or coincidental either so whatever reading something you think was boring
Stop boring. It's very specific to the gospel
It's very needed for the gospel and understanding all kinds of different parts of the Bible
God didn't just say you know what? Let's just throw in a bunch of genealogies for fun
Let's just throw some generations in here just because it sounds cool. No, there's a very specific reason why they're included and
every
Genealogy has an importance of why it's included
Every detail in the Bible is important is put in here for a very specific reason now you say do you understand all of them?
No
But I do know that it's there, you know, I read stuff in my Bible and I think there's something special about there's a reason
Why that's there. I have no idea and you know what I do. Just keep reading
But then that triggers some of my brain and then later
Sometimes I'll come back to it and I'll be like, oh wow. All right, you read it again you read it again
That's where the beauty of the Bible is
You can read it over and over and over and then you get more and more detail
More and more of these things start making sense more and more of these things fit together
Like a glove and it starts illuminating new scripture and new understanding to you
You know, you can keep reading the Bible and you feel like you know, you know less than you did the first time
As you read it you're like I still feel like I understand nothing in comparison to how much information there is to be learned or
Studied it's the unsearchable riches of Christ and you know when it comes to these genealogies and other portions of Scripture
You know, some of these are the difficult things to understand some of these are hard meat, you know, we can get a very surface
Understanding but to get deeper spiritual things takes time study effort energy and you know when you find them out, you know
It's gonna be really rewarding
But don't don't just skip over these in fact, I try to read
genealogies out loud
Because it also will help you with pronunciation
It just helps you with diction just helps you and all kinds of different ways
And so whenever I get to a difficult portion of scripture like this
I just try to read it out loud
Also, it helps me not lose my place because I don't want to have to read it multiple times
All right, just I if I lose my place. I'm just like where was I?
You know, and so I like to read these ones out loud in my personal reading, but we have a specific
Genealogy here and the generations of Adam and we start out with Adam we get to Seth
says in verse 4 in the days of Adam after begotten seth rate in years and he got sons and
Daughters and all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years and he died
now what I wanted to do is I
Charted all this on the board because I think whenever you actually take the data of the Bible and you put it out on the board
It'll actually
Show you some cool things and so what I did is I put it out there so I have to see if we're
Plotting this correctly and I'll kind of show you what I did
But in verse number three, it says that Adam lived a hundred and thirty years
Okay, so that was the age that Adam was at the birth of his son
Specifically seth in this genealogy. So I have a couple categories of Adam
I have his total age is his lifespan his son
The age that he was when his son was born the year that he was born and then the year that he died
Okay. Now, how did you get that? Well, you're gonna check my math with me. Okay, so you can learn math from the Bible
All right. Now it says that he lived 130 years. So that's where I put this number
Okay
Then it also said that in verse number four in the days of Adam after he had begotten seth were 800 years
So what's 800 plus 130?
930
930 right. So that's what we got
930 here. When was he born? I could have put day six
All right, but I just put zero year zero. All right, because we don't know it's right at the beginning
All right, and then he died
You're 930. That one was really easy. Okay, that one was pretty straightforward
We we got that one everybody good on my math anybody have any doubts of my numbers here based on the text?
Okay, so then we have the next
Lineage we have seth. It says in verse six and seth lived a hundred and
Five years and begat Enos. So again
105
then what does it say it says and
verse eight and all the days of seth were
912 years and he died now this one just says all the all the years so I didn't even have to do math
I just put 912 right? So that was pretty easy and
he was born at
130 of
Adam's age. So how did I get the year that he died?
Well, I took the year that he was born plus the number of years that he lived and we get
1042 so he would have died in this year as far as the beginning of creation and just adding the years up together
Right everybody still with me on my math. Okay. All right good. Let's keep going and Enos lived 90 years and begat Canaan and
Enos lived after be at Canaan
815 years and begat sons and daughters. So we have 90 and then we have
815 so we got
905 right
Let's just keep going and it says all the days of Enos were 905 years and he died and Canaan lived 70 years and begat
Mahalalil now if you ever hear Ben yelling this name get nervous Mahalalil
You know, I would get really nervous whenever he's yelling it but as he was reading it, I felt comfortable
Okay verse 13 and can and lived after we got Mahalalil
840 years and begat sons and daughters all the days of Canaan were
910 years and he died. So again, if you look at the numbers, this is how I'm calculating this how I'm creating it
We'll keep reading
Says and Mahalalil lived 60 and 5 years and begat Jared and Mahalalil lived after we got Jared
830 years and begat sons and daughters all the days of Mahalalil were
890 in five years and he died and Jared lived in 160 in two years and he begat Enoch
Jared lived after we got Enoch 800 years and begat sons and daughters and all the days of Jared were
960 in two years and he died and Enoch lived 60 in five years and begat Methuselah
And Enoch walked with God after begat Methuselah
300 years and begat sons and daughters now, that's a pretty significant break in our
Timeline because when it comes to these ages, it's kind of all over the board, right? It goes down it goes down
Oh goes up a little bit it goes down it goes way up
But then Enoch is just way different, you know, Enoch is significantly different in comparison to the ages of his
Fathers and you know the Bible says that he was translated which is kind of an interesting, you know phrase ology
there is another place in the scripture where it talks about you not keep your finger here and
Go if you would to the New Testament go to book of Jude of Jude
You
The Bible had said that Enoch walked with God and he was not for God took him for God took him and
You know, it's interesting
That he was walking with God and God would take him now
I'm not gonna look at all the scripture on this, but why would God just take somebody?
well, you know, there's other places in the scripture where it teaches like some people were even killed as a
Mercy killing or God would take their life as a mercy taking their life and say why would dying be merciful?
Well, because there's just so much evil or persecution or harm that's coming on them or their family or whatever
that is actually better to just die than to go through all that suffering pain or seeing all that evil or seeing all that wicked and
So it's actually merciful and with Enoch you got to think about his timeline
I mean Enoch's born in year
622 that's a long time and when you read Genesis chapter number six
You're gonna find out that the world is very wicked. It was very evil. It was filled with violence. It was a bad place
And so one reason that God may have taken Enoch is just he's sparing him from the evil wicked world
I mean sometimes can you not admit that a cut on occasion is I have okay, maybe you have it
I'm just thinking like going to heaven doesn't sound that bad today
You know when you when you read the news or you look at where the world's going are you thinking about what's happening?
I mean going going to heaven is not that bad. Sometimes it sounds kind of palatable, right?
And so you've got to think about this way back
Then it could have been even worse than it is now and when you read through history or in the Bible
There's plenty of times where it's way worse than what we're going through right now
We're infinitely worse even in other parts of the world today. It's infinitely worse. I mean in China
I was reading about what it's like to be a Christian in China. It's so bad. It's so horrible
I mean you can only join like the the church the state approved or government approved Catholic Church or
You can go to an underground church
but if you're caught you'll probably die or go to prison and they'll burn your church down and you're like a
Terrorist and all kinds of evil things. You can't have a Bible
It's hard to get any literature if you ever tried to preach the gospel
You know, everyone could be an informant. Everyone could potentially turn you in you could be tortured
You could be killed all kinds of horrible things. I mean happening right now
And we think all we're suffering it's like I don't
Their sufferings infinitely worse than our suffering right now
But what I like about Enoch is and this is a great proof text of the fact that in the Old Testament
They still had portions of the New Testament. I don't know how much but let me prove this look at Jude chapter 9
verse I'm sorry Jude verse number 14 and
Enoch also the seventh from Adam prophesied of these saying behold the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints to
Execute judgment upon all and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds
Which they have ungodly committed and of all their hard speeches, which ungodly sinners have spoken against them
Jude
Literally contains what Enoch was preaching and guess what? That means he was preaching New Testament
You gotta think about this. We look at the New Testament saying it's a quote of the Old Testament, but isn't the reverse true?
Isn't every time they were preaching in the Old Testament. It's a quote of the New Testament, too and
Think about it. They're pretty they're preaching on customer. He's preaching about the Lord
Returning with Saints to judge people. It sounds like their knowledge of the scriptures was a lot more than we get him credit for
and
No, he was one who walked with God and you know what God when you walk with him
He can preserve you from all kinds of evil and wicked things go back if you would to
Genesis chapter number five
So Enoch was a really special person and you know when we look at this link this lineage or this these generations
I mean, these are some pretty great guys, but even Enoch stood out and so don't think that you can't stand out
Even amongst your brethren, you know your potential to serve God is not measured by what your brethren do
You have unlimited potential above what everybody else do
You know if everybody reads the Bible once a year, you could read it ten times a year if you wanted
You know if nobody read memorizes scripture you can memorize scripture if no one goes to church
You can go to church if no one goes so winning you can go so winning
You know what? You can walk with God by yourself and I highly recommend it. I don't think Enoch was disappointed. You know, maybe
Abel was like, can you bring somebody else up here? I'm just I'm tired of waiting. Yeah
Like I need somebody else to give me some company I mean Adam
Obviously, I don't know maybe other people were saved as far as like Cain's lineage or other but like the first person that we know
Like really dying in the Bible that's probably that's for sure saved. It's probably Adam and that's nine hundred and thirty years
I mean Abel's waiting a while, right?
This is only have the mean was like Kermit waiting at the window and he's like waiting for someone to die in heaven
I'm sure it was still fine. Okay. I'm sure he had a good time up there. Okay, don't feel too bad for him
now it says in verse 25 and Methuselah lived a hundred and eighties eighty and seven years and we got lamek and
Methuselah lived after begat lamek
780 and two years and begat sons and daughters all the days of Methuselah were
969 years and he died and they let lived 182 years and begat a son and he called his name Noah
Saying this same shall comfort us concerning our work and toil our hands because of the ground which the Lord hath cursed
And lamek lived after begat Noah
595 years and begat sons and daughters and all the days of lamek were
770 and seven years and he died and Noah's 500 years old and Noah begat Shem ham and Jacob
So we have a couple of interesting things here. You know, one thing that's kind of interesting is lamek
He lived 700
All right, say 770 and seven years that's kind of an interesting number there but
another interesting
Fact is Methuselah now Methuselah is the the oldest man as far as we know
Recorded in Scripture not saying there wasn't somebody older. He's most likely the oldest person
He's definitely the oldest contained in Scripture. But what's interesting is when you add up all this information
okay, and you figure out the year that they died is
The year that Methuselah died is
1656 okay, you're 1656 now based on this information. You can also calculate when the flood was guess what year the flood was
1656
so maybe
Methuselah died in the flood or
Maybe died just before the flood. We don't know but he definitely died around the timing of the flood now his
Son lamek had died a few years prior to that
But they probably both, you know, depending on how they get out of the house or not
I don't know. They might have been seeing Noah build the ark
As Noah's told at age 500 and it wasn't until his 600th year that we actually have the flood waters
coming upon the earth and so for a hundred years he's building that a
Couple other interesting things to note is, you know, they said that Noah was gonna bring comfort. Why was he gonna bring comfort?
Well, if you look at Genesis chapter 8 just flip the page and look at verse 21
The Bible says and the Lord smells a sweet saber and the Lord said in his heart
I will not again curse the ground anymore for man's sake for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth neither
Will I again smite anymore every living thing as I have done?
So after the flood God removed a certain curse that he'd put on the ground
Concerning the thorns and the briars that had come from Adam
Okay
and so Noah actually brought that kind of a comfort and kind of a restart to the world a restart to
Mankind and people serving God now what I thought was pretty fascinating
When studying this is look at I want to highlight or circle two dates here
Look at the year that Adam died
and
The year that lamek was born
You
That means that Adam
Very well could have seen lamek
lamek could have been a grandson on his knees, you know, it would have been someone that he saw
And I think when you look at this information, what's kind of interesting about it is look back again at verse number one
Genesis chapter 5 verse 1 this is the book of
The generations of Adam now that kind of makes sense because guess what?
These are all the generations that lived
During Adam's time right now
The only exception would be Noah
But he's right on the heels and it's a good tie into the next
Chapter and so when it's thinking about the book or the generations think about Matthew chapter number one
It says the generations of what of Jesus Christ and it's showing his genealogy is showing his
Lineage and the Bible gives us these type of lineages. Now. What's interesting is we have Noah
Who lived 950 years the Bible tells us in another place of Scripture and so he would have died in around
2006 now this is not
80 that's beat that's
Different timeline. Okay. It wasn't that wasn't just a few years ago. All right, we're talking about
2006 years after creation, okay
But what's interesting is if you take the next genealogy or the next generations and you plot them out
Now
Let's look at when Noah
he died in 2006
Okay, and look at this person's birth
Noah lived all the way up to Tara and
Was only two years from Abram
That's crazy when you think about it and you got to think about think about all the people now think about he
Abraham was born in 2008. Look at how many people he had alive in his life Shem our facts add
Selah
Eber this guy didn't make it P leg rheu
Sarug
Nahor didn't make it but Tara and you know, the Bible says that Abram was supposed to you know, leave his father's
And leave his kindred. I'm sorry
Specifically it says it's kindred think about he's literally living Shem and our facts
He's leaving a lot of people that are of great note worthy, you know
Resemblance or kindred, you know, they're leaving these people which are some of the greatest people
I mean, I would like to hear what Shem saw, you know, I mean Shem literally saw the flood
Abram could have heard about the flood from an eyewitness
Think about that
That's pretty incredible. That's pretty cool
When you start plotting out all these different time now, I'm not saying he did they may have never talked
But at least it was possible. It was plausible and since the Bible tells us that he left his kindred
I would assume he probably did have relations with some of these men and some of these people
And so you got to think about this. Why would the Bible just go from you know?
Adam and then basically straight to Noah and then straight to Abram
Well, that's basically the timeline if you kind of think about it, right because the timeline you have Adam
He dies and then it's introduced to who?
Noah and then basically when Noah dies we're interested to who?
Abram and so like God almost just kind of has his guy all the way throughout the Bible
You know as soon as the next guy dies, then he just gets another one, you know
And then he has another one and he uses different guys throughout the Bible
but there's other things that are significant about this go if you would to
Galatians go to Acts chapter 10. I'm gonna show you verse here
But again, everything's about Jesus Christ, okay
And you know this verse but we might as well just read it and we're almost finished
I'm not really showing you much more in the Bible
But it says in Acts chapter 10 look at verse 43 to him give all the prophets witness that through his name
Whosoever believeth in him shall receive remission of sins. Look it's all truly about
Jesus Christ and if you go to Luke chapter 3 and
You look at the last part of Luke chapter number 3
You're gonna see this genealogy that we have put out here for you
if you look at verse 36 of Luke chapter number 3, it starts out with
Canaan which was the son of Arphaxim son of Shem, which is the son of Noah
which is Noah here right and then which is the son of Lamech which is the son of Methuselah
Which is the son of Enoch, which was the son of Jared, which was the son of Malleel
Which is the son of Canaan, which is the son of Enos, which is the son of Seth
Which is the son of Adam, which is the son of God. So you say why would God include in this genealogy?
So we can read it again in Luke and realize oh wow
That's where Jesus Christ came from and we have the lineage of Jesus Christ all the way through
That's why God included those guys in the Old Testament is because it was about Jesus Christ
Okay, notice we didn't get a genealogy about you know, other people necessarily and we have Cain
but Cain wasn't
Brought up back again. Why because no one cares about Cain anymore. Cain's off the scene, you know Cain's only included for other
specific reasons
one other quick thought I was gonna give for you is
Some people might ask this question. I did maybe you did how many people are alive
when the flood came
Okay
now
No one knows
But I try to do a couple calculations just get some idea
Now we have at least in the first generation at bare minimum five kids were born of Adam and Eve
because the Bible says they were born into them sons and daughters and
We know they had three sons. So he has to have at least two daughters
Okay, so that'd be a minimum of five in the second generation
now if you go to the third generation and
We just assume everybody had an average of four. Okay. I'm going really conservative on numbers
Let's say that generations were a hundred years in age and
Every they had four kids per family
Okay, and where'd you get the hundred? Well, I got it from these numbers. Okay, you look at these numbers
I'm just picking about a hundred. Okay, they could have been having kids a lot younger and look they're having kids all the way to
162 okay, so they could add a lot of kids potentially and we'll get to the most numbers
But let's say very conservatively
They're only having kids one every hundred years and about four of them
then
At the time of the flood they would add a hundred and thirty one thousand people on the earth
That's a very conservative estimate. I think that's way low. Okay, if they were let's say we change these numbers though
Let's say they were having eight kids per family
which was the average about in the 1900s and it was only 70 years a
70 year generation which is pretty big and gap. Okay, and mind you could have been way more there would have been
67 million people on the earth at the time of the flood
That's a lot, okay
now
Let's get some crazy numbers. All right, let's say they were having
And I'm running out of space, but I'll go on the flip on the other side
let's say that they had a
Hundred years in between generations, but they had 20 kids on average
Okay
Which is not that unreasonable. I mean some people are starting having kids at 70 some are starting to have kids at
162 I mean you don't think in that period of a hundred years
You couldn't have 20 kids by chance and some of them even having multiple wives
It's very reasonable and you read in the Bible some men in the Bible way after the flood have more than 20 kids
Okay, they're having lots and lots of kids
I mean some are having 60 kids now obviously they had lots of wives, but I'm just saying it's possible
If they had that many kids on average, that would be four quadrillion people on the planet
At the time of the flood
Now it's that now let's say it was just a 70 year
So they had 20 kids on average and it was a 70 year generation
It's 80
You
Sextillion
people on the planet I
Have no idea
nobody has any idea but there could have been a lot a lot of people on the planet and
At minimum hundreds of thousands at minimum and notice. God only brings up a few names
And
God only preserved eight. Yeah, and look the fossil record has
Billions if not trillions or even more fossils of all kinds of things on the planet and what was stopping them from reproducing
I mean there was a lot of people on the planet and God is very angry with them
And I think when you study these genealogies, it's a pretty interesting fact go to Galatians chapter 3 go to Galatians chapter 3
Here's here's the point that I want to make about this though
Is only one genealogy matters though
And
there could have been 86 billion people and you know what the majority of them are in hell and
Nobody cares their life doesn't matter
Nothing about the matters and you know in this world today. They want to make everything about race
They want to make everything about your ethnicity
They want to make it about being a Jew or or being this or you know, what kind of you know, are you?
a Native American
Or are you you know from Africa?
Are you from Asia all this cultural appropriation having to be respectful of everyone?
You know what? I don't care about your culture because God doesn't care about your culture either and none of it matters
And you know, what was the emphasis is about the seed?
The seed is that thread all the way throughout the whole Bible
It starts out in the very beginning the seed that's going to come from the woman and then we have this genealogy
It's all about the seed we find out that genealogy is about Jesus Christ and Luke chapter number three and look what the Bible says in
Verse 26 Genesis Galatians 3 verse 26 for you're all children of God by faith in Christ Jesus
For as many of you have been baptized into Christ and put on Christ. There's neither Jew nor Greek
There's neither bond nor free
There's neither male nor female for you're all one in Christ Jesus and if you be Christ then are you Abraham seed and heirs?
according to the promise
That genealogy we read
All the way from that part all the way down here to Abram. This is your genealogy if you believe in Jesus Christ
It's the only genealogy that matters
And you know what? You're in the club if you believe in the Lord Jesus Christ
If there's no Jew, there's no Greek all these things are stupid
all these things are just the devil's ploy at attacking God's Word and
So in confusion and so in doubt in the minds of people
And the cool thing about the Bible is all of this is about us if you're a believer in Jesus Christ
It's about Christ obviously, but then we're in Christ
We're Christ's seed we get to inherit these same promises and this is the only history that matters today
And so I love Genesis chapter 5. I think it's a great chapter. Don't skip over the genealogies
They give us other great truths in the Bible. Let's go to prayer. Thank you father so much for your word
Thank you for our church. I prayed that you would
Bless all of our efforts that you would help us to realize that
All this cultural stuff that the world is going on about this doesn't even matter
I pray that we just encourage ourselves to just win people to Christ so they can be of the right
genealogy the right generation they can be of
Christ genealogy and that we would go out and we would do great exploits in your name in Jesus name we pray Amen