New Instructions And Arrangements part 1 Discussion

Our Scripture Of The Week Is:

1 Corinthians 13:1 KJVS
[1] Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.

Paul launches into one of the most loved and meaningful chapters in the Bible. It is brief, but it powerfully describes the very heart of what it means to live together as believers in Jesus. He begins by showing just how pointless even the most impressive spiritual gifts are without love.

Even the God-given, supernatural ability to speak in a language one doesn't know, even the language of angels, becomes as the sound of a noisy gong and clanging cymbal if it is not exercised with love. The specific word used here is agape, meaning a self-sacrificing and godly love.

The "tongues of men" are understood to be proper human languages. This is a gift given so that those who do not know the speaker's language can understand the message given by God. The language of angels may very well refer to the actual language spoken among heavenly beings, who apparently participated in some way in the worship gatherings of the early church (1 Corinthians 11:10).

Or, this might simply be a figure of speech Paul uses to make his larger point about the primacy of love. No matter how impressive such a display would be, it becomes nothing but repulsive noise when practiced without love for other believers.

Our topic today is:

NEW INSTRUCTIONS AND ARRANGEMENTS part 1 Discussion

Genesis 9 describes God's dealings with Noah and his sons in a world remade by the flood.
It can be divided into three sections.

First, God gives blessings and commands to Noah and his sons which very closely echo His words to Adam and Eve (Genesis 1:28), but with significant differences. God once again blesses mankind with both ability and responsibility to reproduce and fill the earth.

This time, however, God's instruction to subdue the earth includes the fact that all animals would be fearful of humanity. In Eden, God explicitly gave plants as a food source (Genesis 1:29–30).

Now, after the flood, in addition to plants, humanity is given overt permission to eat animals. However, they are not permitted to eat the blood of those animals. In addition, if a person kills another person—or an animal kills a person—God will now require the killer's life to be taken, as well, as a protection against the kind of violence that raged on the earth before the flood (Genesis 9:3–6).

Genesis 9 begins with God's blessing on, and charge to, the humans who remain alive on the earth. This blessing is similar to God's blessing on humankind in Genesis 1:28 and Genesis 5:2.
This is also the third instance so far in Scripture where God commands humanity to be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth (Genesis 1:28; 8:17).

In a very real sense, this blessing shows that God is beginning again with Noah what He started with Adam. This time, however, there will be specific differences set out from the start of this reboot of God's relationship with humanity. Among these will be slightly different directions regarding food and the consequences of murder, for example.

The tendency of animals to fear and flee human beings will also be brought up in this passage.
Previously, God indicated that the animals of the ark were meant to repopulate the land devastated by the flood (Genesis 8:17). Now, God's command defines for Noah and his sons their greatest remaining purpose: reproduce.

These first verses of Genesis 9 repeat some of the language God used with Adam and Eve when He blessed them. After commanding Noah and his sons to be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth, God now speaks to them about subduing the animal kingdom, as He did with Adam (Genesis 1:28).
This command to rule over the animal kingdom is different from th