because I have found you righteous in this generation

Genesis 7:1-24

The Lord then said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and your whole family, because I have found you righteous in this generation. Take with you seven pairs of every kind of clean animal, a male and its mate, and one pair of every kind of unclean animal, a male and its mate, and also seven pairs of every kind of bird, male and female, to keep their various kinds alive throughout the earth. Seven days from now I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the earth every living creature I have made.”

And the rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights.

Every living thing that moved on land perished—birds, livestock, wild animals, all the creatures that swarm over the earth, and all mankind. Everything on dry land that had the breath of life in its nostrils died. Every living thing on the face of the earth was wiped out; people and animals and the creatures that move along the ground and the birds were wiped from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those with him in the ark.

The waters flooded the earth for a hundred and fifty days.

Why?

Because in the generation of Noah, there were evil men and evil minds in human beings, so the Lord erased all living animals and life in the world.

Only the family of Noah and their chosen animals are saved after this flooding.

Under the wrath of the Lord who can stand firm or living? No one can.

How?

Honor the Holy Name of the Lord and fear the Lord for God is righteousness.

When God created mankind, he made them in the likeness of God. He created them male and female and blessed them.

 Genesis 5:1-32 

When God created mankind, he made them in the likeness of God. He created them male and female and blessed them. And he named them “Mankind” when they were created. 

When Adam had lived 130 years, he had a son in his own likeness, in his own image; and he named him Seth. After Seth was born, Adam lived 800 years and had other sons and daughters. Altogether, Adam lived a total of 930 years, and then he died.

........When Lamech had lived 182 years, he had a son. He named him Noah and said, “He will comfort us in the labor and painful toil of our hands caused by the ground the Lord has cursed.” After Noah was born, Lamech lived 595 years and had other sons and daughters. Altogether, Lamech lived a total of 777 years, and then he died.

After Noah was 500 years old, he became the father of Shem, Ham and Japheth.

Why?

There were many sons and grandsons of Adam, and the Lord called them Mankind. 

Finally, Noah was born, he is God's love man in that generation.

How?

Don't care about what most mankind cares about. but only Noah is the chosen one by the Lord in that generation.

Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord

 Genesis 6:1-22

Then the Lord said, “My Spirit will not contend with humans forever, for they are mortal; their days will be a hundred and twenty years.”

The Lord saw how great the wickedness of the human race had become on the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of the human heart was only evil all the time. The Lord regretted that he had made human beings on the earth, and his heart was deeply troubled. So the Lord said, “I will wipe from the face of the earth the human race I have created.

But Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord. 

Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight and was full of violence. God saw how corrupt the earth had become, for all the people on earth had corrupted their ways. So God said to Noah, “I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth. So make yourself an ark of cypress wood; make rooms in it and coat it with pitch inside and out.

Noah did everything just as God commanded him.

Why?

Why the Lord regretted that he had made human beings on the earth, and his heart was deeply troubled? Ans. God KNOWS how things are going to “pan out” and God ALLOWS things to happen the way they do. This is not a failure in God. When God gave mankind “free will” He knew that man would choose to go his own way and do his own thing. If He had stopped the evil men in pre-diluvian times; if he had stopped Saul making his mistakes; then He would be a controlling God and we would be automatons. It’s pretty nigh-on impossible to understand but God ALLOWED mistakes to be made while KNOWING all the mistakes that would be made. Let’s not blame God for the evil in man – that’s our fault!

But Noah was chosen by the Lord to continue God's work on God's creations.

How?

God is good, all of the evil minds and faults come from our sins. God allows us have fault, but for the love of the Lord, we may confess our sins and return to the Lord through Jesus Christ.

God has granted me another child in place of Abel, he named him Enosh

 Genesis 4:1-26

Now Abel kept flocks, and Cain worked the soil. In the course of time Cain brought some of the fruits of the soil as an offering to the Lord. And Abel also brought an offering—fat portions from some of the firstborn of his flock. The Lord looked with favor on Abel and his offering, but on Cain and his offering he did not look with favor. So Cain was very angry, and his face was downcast.

Then the Lord said to Cain, “Why are you angry? Why is your face downcast? If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must rule over it.”

The Lord said, “What have you done? Listen! Your brother’s blood cries out to me from the ground. Now you are under a curse and driven from the ground, which opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand. When you work the ground, it will no longer yield its crops for you. You will be a restless wanderer on the earth.”

Adam made love to his wife again, and she gave birth to a son and named him Seth, saying, “God has granted me another child in place of Abel, since Cain killed him.” Seth also had a son, and , he named him Enosh.

Why?

The Lord takes care of Cain and gives another son Enosh to Adam to replace Abel. God's love endure forever and full of abundence.

We don't know too many things and which is beyond our mind and imagination. What we can do is obey the word of the Lord and the love of the Lord are abundance and God is faithfulness Lord.

How?

Give thanks to the Lord, even I do not understand the background or any reason or God's plan, but God arranges the best for us.

Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat food from it all the days of your life.

Genesis 3:8-24

Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the Lord God among the trees of the garden. But the Lord God called to the man, “Where are you?”

He answered, “I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid.”

And he said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?”

To the woman he said, “I will make your pains in childbearing very severe; with painful labor you will give birth to children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”  To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat from it,’ Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat food from it all the days of your life. It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field. By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return.”

So the Lord God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken. After he drove the man out, he placed on the east side of the Garden of Eden cherubim and a flaming sword flashing back and forth to guard the way to the tree of life.

Why?

Adam and his wife Eve ate the fruit that the Lord forbade, so they were banished from the Garden of Eden to work the ground and for dust, Adam came, and to dust, Adam will return. They could not have eternal life.

These are the laws that every man needs to work hard to get food for a living. And the women have to bear the labor to give birth to children. These are the penalties of sin to all human beings.

How?

Thanks the Lord gives us a new way to get eternal life, which is through Jesus Christ. Through one man all are die, but in the same manner through one man Jesus Christ, we can get eternal life.

You will not certainly die

 Genesis 3:1-7 

Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?”

The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, but God did say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.’”

“You will not certainly die,” the serpent said to the woman. “For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”

When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it. Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.

Why?

This word lets us know that the word of the Lord can not be modified or suspected.

God's word is the truth and love and righteousness.

No certainly dying is not about the physical life but the spiritual life. The relationship between us and the Lord.

Knowing good and evil, but losing the trust in the Lord.

How?

God's word is worthy and is the way and life for us!

you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die

Genesis 2:4-25

The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it. And the Lord God commanded the man, “You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die.”

The Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.”

But for Adam no suitable helper was found. So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man’s ribs and then closed up the place with flesh. Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man. 

The man said, “This is now bone of my bones  and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called ‘woman,’ for she was taken out of man.”

Why?

There is a rule to follow: to obey the word of the Lord and to respect the honor of the Lord. Love others and I have no right to judge others.

There was not one animal suitable to Adam as his helper, so the Lord made a woman from Adam's bone, so my wife is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh.

How?

Love and take care my wife for she is the bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh.

The seventh day he rested from all his work.

 Genesis 1:26-2:3

Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”

So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.

God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.”

God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day. Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array. By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work.

Why?

The Lord created the earth and human and all universal, then rested from all his work on the seventh day.

The first Human being is created in the image of God. and let man manage all other creatures.

We should let seven day rest to serve and meditate the job of the Lord.

How?

We have the image of the Lord so we should work with the Lord and manage this environment better and beautifully keep the state when the Lord created.