Great News for Sinners
Noah
planted a vineyard: and he drank of the wine, and was drunken;
and he was naked in his tent (see
Genesis 9:20-21).
As you read this, you may say, “What a condition for
Noah, the only righteous man, the preacher of righteousness, to be
found in!” BUT WHAT IS MAN? Look at him where you will, and you
will see failure. In the garden of paradise, he fails; in the church,
he fails; he fails everywhere and in all things. His true name is not
MISTAKE, but FAILURE.
His
advantages are great, his privileges are great; but he can only
display failure and sin because there is no good thing in him. "Noah
was a just man and perfect in his generation, and Noah walked with
God" (Genesis 6:9). Grace had
covered all his sins and clothed his person with a spotless robe of
righteousness. Noah displayed and exposed nakedness, but God did
not see it; for He looked not at Noah in the weakness of his
condition, but in the full power of Christ's divine and everlasting
righteousness.
"...we
may have boldness in the Day of Judgment, because AS HE IS, SO ARE WE
IN THIS WORLD" (I
John 4:17).
-Gospel
report by preacher Scott Richardson
“Many,
O LORD, my God, are Thy wonderful works which Thou hast done, and Thy
thoughts which are to us-ward: they cannot be reckoned up in order
unto Thee: if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than
can be numbered.”
-Psalm
40:5 [KJV]
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