SEMESTER 2
419 – Post-flood Human Nature and Conduct
BIBLE INSTITUTE OF CORRESPONDENCE
COURSE: BIBLE SURVEY II LESSON # 19
POST-FLOOD HUMAN NATURE AND CONDUCT
INTRODUCTION:
1. Because of our anti-grace nature, we tend to think that in Noah and his offspring God preserved a superior quality of people.
2. Be sure, Noah was “just,” “perfect in his generations,” “seen righteous,” and he “walked with God.” (Gen. 6:9
, Gen. 7:1)
3. Be equally sure that these standings were all totally by grace. (Gen. 6:8)
4. To assure biblical thinking in this area, we need only consider man’s conduct after the flood.
5. By this, we will learn that the salvation of Noah and his offspring was as much by grace as ours is today.
I. EVIDENCES OF POST-FLOOD DEPRAVITY
1. The direct statement of Scripture. (Gen. 8:12)
2. The revealed conduct immediately following the flood. (Gen. 9:20-29) (These men were directly saved from the flood.)
i. Noah displayed depravity, in drunkenness and nakedness.
ii. Ham did so by his ungodly conduct toward his father.
3. The extended conduct of people after the flood. (Gen. 11:1-9)
4. Thus, we conclude that sovereign choice marked out these men for preservation, not inherent character.
II. RESULTS OF POST-FLOOD DEPRAVITY
1. Rebellion against God’s command to them. (Gen. 9:1 compared to Gen. 11:4)
2. Murder, as foreseen by God. (Gen. 9:5-6)
3. False religion, as evidenced by the tower of Babel.
4. Shortening the life span of the people in ten generations, from 950 to 175.
i. The eventual graduation of this disproves the theory of different length days.
5. The confounding of tongues. (Gen. 11:7-9)
6. The division of the races, colors, etc.
III: The recent discovery of different lead content in blood.
7. The curses that go with both racial and national differences. (Gen. 9:24-29)
III. POST-FLOOD IDOLATRY – (JOSH. 24:2-4
)
1. This reference “The other side of the flood” does not mean pre-flood, but the other side of the great waters, the Euphrates River.
2. The point is that from Abraham, moving back into the lifetime of Noah, we see idolatry.
3. The worship at the tower of Babel was not polluted worship to Jehovah, but idolatry of the worst kind.
4. Remember that not only were the people of the land from which Abraham came idolatrous, but the people of the lands into which he went, Canaan and Egypt, were equally so.
5. Thus, we see that while Noah and his sons yet lived the earth was overspread with idolatry.
CONCLUSION
1. Those saved from the flood, were not inherently different from those destroyed by it.
2. They were saved from the flood by pure grace.
3. The flood in no way changed their nature. The imagination of their hearts remained only evil continually.
4. Thus, not only was the salvation of these 8 souls totally by grace, the salvation of man as a race, and the spiritual salvation in Christ is all of grace.