Knowing God Devotional

This year at the conference my message was on the fall with regard to our first parents, Adam and Eve, all the way through to the covenant, the noatic covenant or the covenant of preservation. It was a very important topic because absolutely everything with regard to our Christian faith has to do with what happened in the garden. Some could say, rightly so, that we could use Dickens for a moment, the tale of two cities, but instead, the history of the world is the tale of two men. The failure of Adam in the garden, and the triumph of Christ in Gethsemane and on the cross. So after we come forth from the failure of Adam and his condemnation and the judgment that comes upon Adam and Eve and the world itself, then we begin to see from that very moment, Genesis three fifteen, God's promise and work of redemption.

And it goes from that first promise in Genesis three fifteen that God would send someone born of woman who would crush the serpent's head on through. As we look at each generation that follows, it seems there's no hope because in each one of those generations, we just have sinner after sinner after sinner. We reach Noah and the world deserves to perish entirely globally. Even Noah himself. But Noah finds mercy, finds grace before the Lord.

And God does something with Noah that has... Redemptively it has tremendous implication in that Noah should have died along with everyone else, but God preserved him in a family. Why? So that he might continue this work of redemption among men. And when Noah comes forth from the ark, God gives him a covenant.

And that covenant is known as the noatic covenant, but it's also known as the covenant of preservation. And in that covenant, God is basically saying human kind, mankind deserves to die every day. But I will preserve the race until I can send my Son and carry out a work of redemption through Him and then through the church.