Immersed in the Blessing pt3 – From Disaster To Paradise—The Power of the Blessing to Fix It.
Immersed pt3—From Disaster To Paradise—The Power of the Blessing to Fix It.
[Gen 9:1, 16 NASB95]
The destruction Noah saw was devastating. It was caused by curse as a result of sin. God gave him something to reverse the results of the destruction.
God gave Noah the blessing.
What is the blessing? What does it do? How can we access it?
God’s blessing empowers a person to experience the reversal of the destruction caused by the curse and it is released/realized by faith through obedience and words.
God’s blessing empowers a person.
God blesses Noah.
[Pro 10:22 NASB95]
Meaning over definition. (Kneeling?) (God blesses his people when he bestows on them some gift temporal or spiritual. Easton Bible Dictionary)
It is a force. (There is a pronoun “hu” not an article.)
What happens when it comes? Deuteronomy 28.
To experience the reversal of the destruction.
God wants Noah to experience the reversal of the destruction.
[Gal 3:13-14 NASB95]
God intends to reverse every curse and fix every broken thing. That is the point of the blessing with Noah and his sons in Genesis 9!
The same is true for us!
Caused by the curse.
The destruction was caused by the curse that resulted from sin.
The curse is caused by Satan and sin.
[Gen 2:17 NASB95]
[Gen 3:17-19 NASB95]
The curse has effects
[Deu 28:25, 30-32, 48, 60-61, 63 NASB95]
Defeat, failure, nothing works. 25
Broken family. 30
Poverty. 48
Sickness. 60
Broken relationship with God. 63
We are redeemed!
It (the blessing) is released/realized by faith through obedience and words.
Noah had to hear the blessing and live it out.
The blessing is ours now potentially. We have to realized it to experience it. [Eph 1:17-18 NASB95]
Faith is how we access anything from God. [Heb 11:6 NASB95]
Faith has works. [Jas 2:26 NASB95]
Obedience. [Deu 30:19 NASB95]
Words. Isaiah 65:16 AMPC – “So [it shall be] that he who invokes a blessing on himself in the land shall do so by saying, May the God of truth and fidelity [the Amen] bless me; and he who takes an oath in the land shall swear by the God of truth and faithfulness to His promises [the Amen], because the former troubles are forgotten and because they are hidden from My eyes.”
God turns destruction into paradise by His power through promise.
God’s blessing empowers a person to experience the reversal of the destruction caused by the curse and it is released/realized by faith through obedience and words.
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