Dale Partridge - Genesis 9_25-27： The Curse of Ham and the Blessing of Shem and Japheth (Part Two)

00:00:00.000 Amen. Well, welcome to this part two of this five-part series that I'm doing through Genesis,

00:00:14.360 and it's titled Race, Nations, and Christian Nationalism. This series was originally going

00:00:22.940 to be three parts, but I thought it would be more fitting to add my last two sections on the table

00:00:29.160 of Nations and the Tower of Babel to really put this series together. Now, this sermon is going

00:00:36.040 to be a little bit longer than normal, so I'm just asking you to just get your minds ready,

00:00:40.420 open up, pay attention. One of the most important sermons that I've ever written, honestly,

00:00:46.800 I spent 40 hours preparing this sermon. It's about double to triple what I typically prepare

00:00:53.360 for a sermon. Now, because of the sensitive nature of this topic when we're talking about

00:00:59.240 issues of race or nations or whatever it may be, there's going to have to be a great deal of nuance

00:01:05.180 of context that is required so that I might work through this gently. I'm anticipating how I might

00:01:12.660 be misunderstood, and there's a variety of complexities that are happening around this

00:01:17.280 talk this morning. Now, for that reason, it might feel a little bit more like a lecture and more

00:01:23.540 like an exposition. I just don't have the luxury of reading the text and coming to the historical

00:01:28.540 conclusions of the text because it will require more explanation, understanding, and careful

00:01:37.300 foundation for this discussion. Now, if you remember my last sermon that was titled,

00:01:42.980 understanding the curse of Ham, what that looked like historically. We examined chapter 9,

00:01:49.000 verses 18 through 27, and we saw that Noah functions as a second Adam. He essentially

00:01:55.500 is the new covenant head of humanity after the flood. And we also saw that his three sons,

00:02:04.020 Shem, Ham, and Japheth, were serving as covenant heads of the nations, which leads us into chapter

00:02:11.960 10, which is the table of nations. Now, from these three men, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, came these three

00:02:20.320 macro races of humanity. And we have the Shemites, or as we know them as the Semites. We have Ham, 0.92

00:02:27.560 or the Hamites. And then we have the Japhethites. And in that sermon, we saw a tragedy unfold between 1.00

00:02:35.120 Ham and Noah. A tragedy unfold between Ham and Noah. And we answered three key questions.

00:02:42.940 What did Ham actually do to Noah?

00:02:46.140 Why was Canaan cursed for Ham's sin?

00:02:50.860 And was the curse on Canaan ultimately a curse to some degree on Ham?

00:02:56.780 Those are the three questions that we answered in that last sermon.

00:03:00.300 Now, in regard to those first two questions, we considered three main interpretations throughout history on this relationship of the sin of Ham to Noah.

00:03:12.520 And we looked at the voyeurism view, we looked at the sodomy view, and we looked at the maternal incest view.

00:03:19.940 And we concluded that the maternal incest view had the most explanatory power, specifically because it offered an explanation for why Canaan would have some sort of curse upon him for the sin of his father.

00:03:36.800 Ultimately, we concluded that Canaan was cursed because Canaan was the illegitimate seed of an incestual relationship between Ham and Noah's wife.

00:03:47.820 now this did not mean that ham had no consequences

00:03:54.920 as we know canaan's curse only existed because of ham's sin and seeing the curse on canaan

00:04:05.360 as ultimately a curse upon ham required a covenantal framework we had to look at this

00:04:11.840 as a covenantal framework that Ham and Canaan are connected in a covenantal framework. And when we

00:04:19.460 speak of covenant heads, as we are in this passage of scripture, again, we are in Genesis 9, the

00:04:25.360 father represents the family line. That's something that we see throughout scripture. And we also see

00:04:30.920 the line represents the father. We see that with Adam representing all humanity. He operates as a

00:04:36.600 federal head. We see that if you're a part of Abraham's seed, you're represented by Abraham in

00:04:41.480 some degree. We see this even in the Old Testament. Israel, whose kings, if you have a sinful king

00:04:48.160 or an obedient king, essentially it affected the entire nation. We also see this, of course, 0.60

00:04:52.840 with Jesus Christ, who is our federal head, and we are represented by him before the Father.

00:04:59.840 But we also see this here in the sons of Noah. The point I'm trying to make is this, that in a

00:05:06.720 covenantal structure. And again, I know some of you are not really mature in covenantal thinking,

00:05:12.260 but in a covenantal structure, independence is simply not a category. You don't get to think

00:05:18.840 as an independent individualist in a covenantal framework. The only people that think this way

00:05:25.580 are individualists or maybe under a Baptist theology where you can create an interpretation

00:05:32.660 of an isolated curse.

00:05:36.520 So I'm arguing that to curse Canaan is to some degree to curse Ham. 0.52

00:05:43.640 And as we're going to see later, the curse of Ham is the position of not merely the 18th

00:05:49.720 and 19th century of Southern Presbyterians who were trying to push the transatlantic

00:05:54.880 slave trade.

00:05:56.080 Okay, that is a common objection that we see in this discussion throughout history.

00:06:00.380 But the curse of Ham was held by several early church fathers, like Origen, Hippolytus of Rome, Augustine, Epiphanenus, St. Ambrose.

00:06:14.980 We also see that this position is held by many in the Reformed camp, including the magisterial reformers, including Luther and Calvin,

00:06:23.740 including Henry Ainsworth, Matthew Poole, Matthew Henry, Abraham Kuyper, and many others.

00:06:33.920 Even the art, if you look at the cover of your liturgy, the art is by the great biblical

00:06:41.460 illustrator Gustav Dori, and the title of it is The Curse of Ham. And so this was the historic

00:06:49.900 position across much of Christendom. And so today in part two, we're going to turn to verses 25 to

00:06:56.640 27, and we're going to do two things. Number one is we're going to argue that while the curse was

00:07:03.960 particularly focused on Canaan, it was generally upon Ham and to some degree flowed down to all

00:07:13.660 of Ham's descendants, which we can see in both scripture, history, and experience.

00:07:21.760 Number two, what I want to do here is I'm going to explain the blessings Noah gave to

00:07:27.900 Shem and Japheth and to show how they have shaped civilizational history across their

00:07:34.420 descendants in world history.

00:07:37.900 And so first, let me begin.

00:07:39.440 I want to give some of this context, this nuance, this laying some foundation to explain why I

00:07:45.760 believe this sermon is very important. Number one is that we need biblical answers to explain

00:07:52.440 reality. And number two, we need to see the beauty of fulfilled prophecy because it strengthens

00:08:00.920 faith. And so let me start with number one. As Christians, we believe that the Bible gives us

00:08:08.400 the clearest and most honest explanations of reality. This is a good thing. We believe this,

00:08:15.360 including the real distinctions that God has sovereignly and providentially established

00:08:19.680 between the races and the ethnicities and the nations and the cultures across world history.

00:08:27.020 And yet we live under what I would call an egalitarian regime that treats the mere

00:08:32.860 acknowledgement of any sort of racial distinctions as some sort of moral evil.

00:08:39.160 But what if the Bible does, in fact, actually give us clear answers for why these distinctions

00:08:47.720 exist? What if the historic Christian understanding of these matters is actually correct? The more I

00:08:57.020 study this particular topic, the more I am compelled about how many people held the position

00:09:02.840 that I'm going to present today. But what if we're not allowed to hold that position?

00:09:10.560 What if the position of almost all of church history, for example, it's similar to head

00:09:15.380 coverings. You see head coverings on women all the way from the, for early church, all the way

00:09:21.080 until about 1960. Is this something that we were wrong for almost all of church history and now

00:09:30.000 just after feminism we have finally figured it out? I don't think so. And so I believe this is

00:09:39.660 the deeply frustrating position that we find ourselves in, that we can read church history,

00:09:45.100 We can see the patterns in our own experience in life.

00:09:48.680 We can see the chaos of denying reality.

00:09:52.020 We can see the broad distinctions across races, across ethnicities, across the differences and distinctions between people.

00:10:00.920 Yet we are forbidden by the cultural orthodoxy, and even in the church, to notice or discuss those distinctions.

00:10:07.460 this past week a group of pastors from a well-known denomination were talking about my first sermon

00:10:15.760 on this topic and said that uh i thought we were done with this curse of ham stuff

00:10:20.940 that was the response and they say that while they cite quotes from all of their favorite

00:10:29.720 theologians in their sermons who also hold the position that i hold

00:10:34.360 And they say this as if, well, I actually heard a few gentlemen out on the internet this last week that had reviewed my sermon.

00:10:48.580 They actually said, this is heresy.

00:10:51.720 This is, you're preaching heresy.

00:10:55.600 And they said that because, well, just think about this with me.

00:10:59.620 they say it as if my conclusions were not a reasonable exegetical deduction of the text

00:11:07.720 they say that all the while exceptional theologians throughout church history

00:11:16.700 across many continents and across many centuries also hold the same positions

00:11:21.620 here's the truth why do they call it heresy they call it heresy not because it violates

00:11:29.600 biblical historic Christianity. They call it heresy because it violates liberalism.

00:11:35.360 That's why they call it heresy. And in liberalism, any doctrine that even suggests some sort of

00:11:42.920 positive or negative distinctions around races or ethnicities or cultures is automatically deemed

00:11:49.780 racist. And this is because egalitarianism is the West's most adored idol.

00:11:59.600 everything being the same everything being equal god does not create an equal world

00:12:07.600 some are sick and some are healthy some are strong some are weak some are tall some are short some

00:12:14.760 are rich some are poor some are elect some are destined for hell you have to understand god does

00:12:23.600 not create an egalitarian, flattened, androgynous world. He creates a world of distinctions. It is

00:12:30.320 not a fair world. It is a just world. But here's the problem facing the liberals and the demons

00:12:39.480 of the day. We live in the information age. We live in the information age. Statistics, videos,

00:12:47.360 photographs, news, historical documents, studies are now available to anyone who looks.

00:12:54.980 And you can't, it's very difficult to hide reality, by the way. There's a big movement

00:12:59.360 right now of people called noticers. What that means is that they are noticing things that

00:13:04.920 they're not allowed to talk about, but everybody also notices them.

00:13:09.100 what was the kind of instinctual or experiential experience of previous generations has now and

00:13:21.040 is becoming more empirical it's becoming more undeniable in today's culture you start to see

00:13:27.120 things we can now see like imagine back in the 1950s or the 1940s the only thing you had maybe

00:13:33.460 you as something that was on the newspaper. But now you can see what's happening around the world

00:13:39.520 all the time. And you can start putting patterns together. You can start doing understanding the

00:13:45.980 research of studies. There are global studies that are happening and understanding differences

00:13:51.700 between people groups. And as a result, more and more people are coming to see these distinctions.

00:13:58.420 They're noticing things like the generally civilized nature of the West, of white, historical, European, Western nations, the generally civilized nature in comparison to, say, the generally uncivilized nature of African nations.

00:14:17.160 In fact, I was looking today at some studies around Libya, and the first thing that popped under Google was, is it safe to travel to Libya?

00:14:27.020 And I clicked it, and it opened up. It says, no, there are many national bans on travel to Libya right now.

00:14:34.380 And I thought, like, it's just, we're noticing. It's right there.

00:14:38.940 How many times have there been a travel ban to France or a travel ban to Poland?

00:14:46.440 Probably never.

00:14:50.040 So my objective in this sermon is to show how the Bible explains these civilizational distinctions.

00:14:58.620 Why are things the way they are?

00:15:02.040 Does the Bible give us an explanation for this sort of reality?

00:15:05.380 and that is how the blessings on Japheth and Shem and the curse of Ham here in Genesis 9.25

00:15:14.780 are the cause of these, again, broad generational, civilizational distinctions.

00:15:23.680 In other words, there is a biblical answer to what we see in reality. There is a biblical

00:15:32.180 answer. Now, liberalism hates it, and even liberalism in the church won't let you talk

00:15:36.620 about it, but there is an answer, particularly between what we see in the broadest distinction,

00:15:45.400 I think the most, or I'll say the sharpest distinction, is between European civilization

00:15:49.860 versus African civilization. And these distinctions, I think, are rather sharp, and I want to explain

00:15:57.340 that. They range from rates of violence and family stability to intellectual capacity,

00:16:03.700 civilizational and technological and economic output. There are a wide range of distinctions

00:16:09.180 that have been noticed as we have had more information. Black economist Thomas Sowell,

00:16:15.860 genius man, has cited in his work, and I'm going to paraphrase long sections into kind of a short

00:16:22.860 little paragraph that is paraphrased from his collected statistics.

00:16:28.900 It says, a white American is roughly 30 times more likely to be killed by a black person than

00:16:35.240 the reverse. Black males aged 15 to 45, just 4% of the population, commit approximately 60% 0.95

00:16:44.260 of the national murders. 70% of black households have an absentee father compared to about 20% 0.92

00:16:52.400 of white households. These patterns extend beyond crime. The average IQ in sub-Saharan Africa 0.89

00:17:01.040 is around 67 to 70, compared to 100 in white European nations. White Europeans account for 0.87

00:17:10.340 over 95 percent of major scientific inventions and technological breakthroughs, the vast majority 0.99

00:17:17.520 of Nobel Prizes and most billionaires. Africans account for less than one percent in all three 1.00

00:17:24.980 categories. These disparities extend far beyond America and the contemporary period. They persist

00:17:33.840 with striking consistency across nations and historical eras from Africa to Europe, Russia,

00:17:41.020 Canada, and Australia. So when the gaps are this sharp, when the gaps are this noticeable,

00:17:49.520 this persistent, when they're cross-cultural, people begin to ask, why? Like, why? Why is this?

00:17:58.420 Like, what's driving that? It's not like a phenomenon of the last century.

00:18:03.600 It's a phenomenon of the last few millennia.

00:18:07.960 Is it circumstance or is it providence?

00:18:12.560 That's the question.

00:18:14.080 Is it circumstance or is it providence?

00:18:17.660 Now, certainly, I think that some degree it's both.

00:18:22.440 But at the macro level, I believe it's providence.

00:18:26.020 Which leads me to my second point for why this sermon is so important,

00:18:29.800 which is that prophecy that's fulfilled strengthens faith.

00:18:35.640 Not only does the Bible explain reality with incredible accuracy,

00:18:39.620 but it also predicts the future.

00:18:43.300 And when Scripture does so with such precision,

00:18:47.680 it strengthens not only our trust in the reliability of God's Word,

00:18:51.060 but our faith in the God of Scripture itself.

00:18:55.080 And so in this passage of Genesis 9,

00:18:57.300 not only foretells the civilizational reality

00:19:01.620 that has played out across thousands of years.

00:19:04.920 You are going to see this.

00:19:07.520 It also gives us a biblical framework

00:19:10.260 for understanding the physical world as it actually is,

00:19:15.680 which is not fair, which is not equal,

00:19:19.960 and not egalitarian.

00:19:22.860 So let's read together, verses 25 to 27.

00:19:26.040 Now, I already addressed some of this in my last sermon,

00:19:52.100 but I think it's important to look a little further

00:19:54.440 and determine if the curse in Genesis 9 is limited only to Canaan?

00:20:02.520 Or does this curse, to be a servant of servants,

00:20:07.580 extend to Ham to some degree and all of his descendants to some degree? 0.80

00:20:14.000 And again, I believe it's the latter, and I'm going to explain why. 0.74

00:20:17.840 Let's begin with this first phrase, Noah said.

00:20:20.940 Noah said, cursed be Canaan.

00:20:24.440 As we know, this entire passage concerns three branches of humanity that are descending from Noah's three sons.

00:20:34.840 In verse 919, it says,

00:20:38.160 And this is vital. This is vital context because Noah is speaking to his sons in a covenantal manner.

00:20:53.580 That is a fact. He is speaking to his sons in a covenantal manner. It's similar to what we see

00:21:00.600 when Abraham's blessing Isaac and Ishmael, or when Isaac's blessing Jacob and Esau, or when Jacob's

00:21:09.340 blessing all of his 12 sons. This is the type of covenantal blessing that we're looking at here.

00:21:16.840 these blessings and curses they're not limited to the the lifetimes of these particular

00:21:23.860 individuals these are ancestral blessings or ancestral curses they're prophetic words

00:21:32.880 to covenant heads that affect all of their descendants it's like when you

00:21:37.060 when when jacob blessed judah do we think oh it's only talking about judah no we realize that it's

00:21:45.760 talking about judah's line that's going to give rise to david that's going to give rise to christ

00:21:51.120 it's a descendant declaration

00:21:56.340 we also know that these three sons are the three kind of racial macro racial branches

00:22:05.480 of the world because the very next very next chapter is what chapter 10 which is the table

00:22:12.920 of nations, and it's showing how all of humanity came from these three boys.

00:22:21.500 And for that reason, in a moment of blessing and cursing, it would be extremely strange

00:22:27.800 for God to leave one entire branch unaddressed. It would be very strange to see that.

00:22:37.020 So, as I mentioned earlier, and in my last sermon, in a covenantal framework, the curse pronounced on Canaan was effectively a curse on Ham through his offspring.

00:22:50.820 And this, again, was the prevailing interpretation for much of church history, and also much of Jewish history.

00:22:57.660 In fact, I used—this sermon was so long, I wanted to include the incredible history of Jewish history,

00:23:07.540 Old Testament, extra-biblical Jewish history, on their commentations on this particular passage.

00:23:14.220 But I got a few of them in here.

00:23:16.080 An 8th century Jewish midrash says, quote, 0.55

00:23:18.520 Just as he cursed the earth on account of the snake, as it says, may the earth be cursed because of you,

00:23:29.120 so a third of the world was cursed on account of wine, as it says, and Noah awoke from his wine. 0.55

00:23:38.560 St. Ambrose said, Ham was condemned by his father's curse.

00:23:46.060 end quote. Martin Luther says, quote, Ham is cursed by his father, a servant of servants shall he be,

00:23:54.400 that is, the lowest and vilest of slaves, end quote. Matthew Henry, who wrote the longest standing

00:24:01.140 Bible commentary in the history of the world, says, quote, he pronounced a curse on Canaan,

00:24:07.560 the son of Ham, in whom Ham is himself cursed, end quote. Matthew Poole, he has a commentary

00:24:16.220 published by Banner of Truth, and it says, quote, when Canaan is mentioned, Ham is not exempted from

00:24:22.980 the curse, but rather more deeply plunged into it, end quote. W.G. Blakely, who was also endorsed

00:24:32.360 by Charles Spurgeon and also published by Banner of Truth, said, quote, though the curse of Ham

00:24:39.980 was formally pronounced on Canaan alone, it has been reflected more or less on the other branches

00:24:46.480 of his family, end quote. Abraham Kuyper, in his book Common Grace, volume one, which is published

00:24:54.380 by Lexham Press, which is owned by Logos Bible Software, says, quote, the fact that now for the

00:25:01.360 first time the actual history of our human race gets underway is expressed in the prophecy that

00:25:08.180 the Holy Spirit placed on Noah's lips. It led him to sketch out the lines along which the history

00:25:16.180 of the world would unfold in his full blessing on Shem, his partial blessing on Japheth, and his 0.85

00:25:23.480 curse on Ham. And then John Calvin, in his commentary on Genesis, also published by Banner

00:25:33.100 of Truth, says, quote, and that is to say Ham is cursed first. As if the words were framed this way,

00:25:43.940 God is not content to punish Ham who offended, but God's rigor and severity will have to extend

00:25:50.800 further. And God shows from age to age that that lineage is an abomination to him. The first thing 0.55

00:26:01.520 we have to remember about this passage is that God wanted to punish Ham in all his lineage. So it is 0.70

00:26:08.520 with good reason that such a sentence is pronounced on Ham and all his lineage, end quote.

00:26:15.600 i honestly hadn't i didn't have enough time to add more there are more quotes

00:26:21.780 but here's a vital point even if someone says you know what dale i'm not buying it

00:26:29.000 i'm not buying it ham himself is not cursed this is the point well if he is not cursed we can

00:26:36.880 certainly argue that he is not blessed so even though he may not be cursed he is certainly not

00:26:43.920 blessed, which circumstantially ends us to the same place. His branch of humanity, at some degree,

00:26:56.860 is being judged. Now, let's talk about this line, a servant of servants, he shall be to his brothers.

00:27:06.240 the term servants servant of servants it's a hebrew superlative and it does mean the lowest

00:27:15.360 of servants but it's not limited to actual slavery i think there are people that have

00:27:20.920 abused this to justify chattel slavery which is wicked from my understanding of this hebrew word

00:27:29.100 in the research that I did, it's speaking more to a political subjugation or like a

00:27:37.600 civilizational subordination. It's talking more to kind of a lower of the branch of those lines

00:27:44.260 of humanity. Now, the most modern commentators on this passage, they try to limit the curse

00:27:51.140 strictly to the Canaanites because they'll say, hey, it's just a Canaanite. So they're going to 0.87

00:27:55.920 try to strictly limit it to the Canaanites and Joshua's

00:27:59.760 conquest of the Canaanites. But I believe

00:28:04.040 there's an interpretation failure and some serious

00:28:08.060 logical problems with that position. And here I'll tell you why.

00:28:12.100 The text clearly states that Canaan will be a servant of servants

00:28:16.040 not only to Shem, but also to Japheth.

00:28:20.700 Yet no descendants of Japheth participated in

00:28:24.060 Joshua's conquest over the Canaanites. So if the curse was fulfilled solely through Israel's wars 0.60

00:28:32.000 against the Canaanites, then this portion of the prophecy concerning the servitude to Japheth

00:28:38.960 remains completely unfulfilled in Scripture. So it creates a difficulty for those who want to

00:28:47.080 restrict the curse and the effects of the servitude only to Canaan and the conquest of 0.54

00:28:53.120 Joshua. The only consistent reading where the prophecy is fulfilled is when you interpret

00:29:02.100 the curse of Canaan as a representative judgment on the broader line of Ham. Not just Canaan,

00:29:07.060 but actually the entire line of Ham. And why is this important? Because Deuteronomy

00:29:13.800 18, 21 through 22 says, how may we know the word that the Lord has not spoken?

00:29:23.120 And it goes on, it says, when a prophet speaks in the name of the Lord, if the word does not come to pass or come true, that is a word that the Lord has not spoken, end quote.

00:29:38.200 So we have two options here.

00:29:40.080 We have two options.

00:29:42.160 Either Noah is a false prophet, or this prophecy about Canaan is really about something more than the Canaanites.

00:29:51.280 so just to kind of summarize this section here i believe the curse falls particularly on canaan

00:29:57.820 but generally on the line of ham

00:30:03.240 which which means that i believe that there is a real historical subjugation

00:30:10.220 of ham's descendants not just canaan but all of ham's descendants under the descendants

00:30:16.600 of Shem and Japheth, which is a pattern clearly seen in world history. R.L. Dabney,

00:30:27.100 he says, doubtless God's sentence here pronounced by Noah was based on his foresight of the fact

00:30:33.900 that Ham's posterity, like their father, would be particularly degraded in morals as actual history

00:30:41.080 testifies of them, end quote. Okay, let me wake you guys up for a second here. I know it's a lot. 0.70

00:30:49.460 Ham had four sons. Four sons. Canaan, Cush, Mizraim, and Put. Four sons. Remember those names because

00:31:01.560 we're going to go through that. Canaan, Cush, Mizraim, and Put. Now from Cush comes Nimrod.

00:31:11.080 the founder of Babel and the builder of the Tower of Babel, 0.92

00:31:14.920 the very first organized rebellion against God after the flood.

00:31:19.340 From Cush also comes the great empires of Babylon and Assyria,

00:31:25.760 which are repeated archetypes all throughout the Bible of tyrannical opposition to God's kingdom.

00:31:32.720 You can see this in Isaiah 13-14, Jeremiah 50-51, Revelation 17-18.

00:31:38.720 Now, from Mizraim comes Egypt, the great enslaver of Israel and became the classic biblical picture of worldly oppression, idolatry, a resistance to the Lord and his kingdom.

00:31:53.180 You can see this in Ezekiel 29-32, Isaiah 30-31, Revelation 11-8, and many other passages.

00:31:58.760 now put he's mentioned less frequently in the scriptures but he's consistently appearing in

00:32:06.880 some kind of like warlike mercenary position where he's supporting the hemitic people to

00:32:13.080 fight against god's people you can see that in ezekiel 27 10 30 verse 5 and nahum 3 9 and then

00:32:21.440 we have canaan which i believe also is the firstborn but we don't have time to go through that 0.82

00:32:27.500 But Canaan has the Canaanite nations, including the infamous cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, the Philistines, the Amalekites, which again all become symbols of gross immorality and opposition to God's kingdom. 0.61

00:32:43.900 So all four lines of Ham are marked as antagonistic to God's people throughout biblical history and as we will see throughout world history. 0.93

00:32:56.460 Now, in addition to hostility, we also see kind of this biblical and historical Hamitic servitude and subjugation. 0.64

00:33:08.300 Not just with Canaan, we see it with the other three sons as well. 0.72

00:33:13.280 For example, in Genesis chapter 16, I'm reading this with family worship with my own family right now.

00:33:18.080 Sarah's maidservant, Hagar, is Egyptian. 0.98

00:33:22.360 She's from Mizraim and is brought into subjugation under Abraham, who is a Shemite. 0.99

00:33:29.860 And that leads, of course, to the chaos of Ishmael. 1.00

00:33:35.940 In Genesis 41, Joseph is made second in command over Egypt. 0.97

00:33:42.280 It's kind of a bit of that prophecy that Shem will kind of rule over Egypt or rule over Ham.

00:33:51.120 Later, in Exodus 12, 35-36, the entire nation of Egypt is plundered and forced to serve Israel during the Exodus.

00:33:59.880 2 Chronicles 14, 9-15, King Esau, which is the king of Judah, defeated Zerah the Cushite, which came against him.

00:34:11.000 I don't know if you remember the story.

00:34:11.840 It came against him with one million men, 300 chariots.

00:34:15.380 and you see Judah essentially plundering the Cushites. 0.51

00:34:23.300 In Daniel 11, 42-43, the prophecy of the kings of the north and the south,

00:34:28.960 Egypt and Put, would later be conquered and ruled over by successive Japhethite and Shemite powers.

00:34:35.720 We see this in world history, Greeks in 332 BC and Romans in 30 BC. 0.95

00:34:39.960 In fact, Egypt was ruled over by Japhethite powers for like 300 to 600 years and put for even longer.

00:34:48.900 All four branches, this is what I'm getting to, I know this is a lot of historical information, 0.85

00:34:52.160 but all four branches, Ham, Canaan, or all four branches of Ham, Canaan, Cush, Mizraim, and Put,

00:34:58.540 show this historical and biblical theme of subjugation to the Shemite and Japhethite people.

00:35:06.340 It's throughout biblical history and it's throughout world history. 0.99

00:35:09.960 so look at that for a second just zoom out for just join me for just zoom out for a minute

00:35:15.560 and you're looking you go okay all four lines create some sort of biblical thematic

00:35:24.660 opposition antagonistic peoples to god's people and then in biblical and world history you see

00:35:32.840 actually all four lines of ham being in some sort of political or civilizational subjugation

00:35:40.080 to Japhethites or Shemites. You're zoomed out. You're looking at this. Now in medicine, 0.97

00:35:46.460 there's a process called reverse diagnosis where you would look at the results and determine the

00:35:51.880 cause. Basic principle. Jesus uses this principle. Look at the fruit, determine the tree. Okay. Look

00:35:59.560 the fruit determined the tree and when you look at the fruit when you look at the results the

00:36:06.180 historical and biblical outcomes for ham's descendants through biblical history or world

00:36:10.760 history it strongly indicates that the curse was not limited just to one branch of canaan

00:36:18.800 no it indicates that it was actually extended to some degree varying degrees to all four of

00:36:26.460 the children of Ham.

00:36:30.820 So, it is either a very strange coincidence

00:36:34.480 that virtually all the nations descended from Ham 0.79

00:36:38.760 are biblically and historically hostile toward and eventually conquered by the nations of Shem and Japheth. 0.98

00:36:43.340 Wow, that's a coincidence that goes on

00:36:47.020 for thousands and thousands of years. Or,

00:36:50.180 the prophetic curse applies particularly to Canaan

00:36:54.520 and generally to Ham's entire line. 1.00

00:36:58.260 And again, I believe it's the latter.

00:37:01.680 Now, before we return to some kind of greater evidence of this in world history,

00:37:05.880 I want to look at verses 26 through 27.

00:37:07.880 We're making it through. Hang with me here.

00:37:10.460 Verses 26 through 27, it says,

00:37:12.780 He also said,

00:37:14.680 Blessed be the Lord, the God of Shem, 0.84

00:37:18.300 and let Canaan be his servant.

00:37:20.420 May God enlarge Japheth, and let him dwell in the tents of Shem, and let Canaan be his servant. 0.94

00:37:31.860 All right, first, just do some basic exposition here. 0.91

00:37:35.500 Notice that Shem is not directly blessed.

00:37:37.940 Look at your text.

00:37:39.820 Shem is not directly blessed, but the Lord, the God of Shem, is blessed.

00:37:46.400 Now, it's fascinating to me, if we're just going to use logic for a minute,

00:37:50.420 It's fascinating to me how people can make the connection of an indirect blessing to Shem, 0.56

00:37:56.440 but they cannot make the connection of an indirect curse on Ham.

00:38:00.120 It's a double standard of interpretive doctrine.

00:38:03.820 And what I mean by that is this.

00:38:05.720 We readily recognize the historical outworkings of the blessing on Shem,

00:38:09.600 even though it was spoken indirectly. 0.62

00:38:13.080 Yet when we see the same historical outworking on the curse of Ham's descendants,

00:38:16.900 many suddenly insist that it must be limited justicated.

00:38:20.420 it's a double standard of historical interpretation

00:38:23.920 okay the primary blessing to shem is this

00:38:29.180 that the messiah would come from shem's branch of humanity

00:38:37.260 but that wasn't their only blessing that's the primary blessing the messiah would come 0.65

00:38:44.860 from the Shemites. In fact, it's why he's listed first in birth order, even though he's actually

00:38:51.420 the youngest child or the middle child. I can't remember, but he's not the oldest.

00:38:56.760 We know that Japheth is the oldest.

00:39:01.040 John Brown Haddington. He lived in Scotland. He was a minister in the Scottish Presbyterian

00:39:07.700 denomination in the mid-1700s. And he produced this extensive commentary on world history

00:39:16.200 based on this prophecy. I wish I could read the whole thing, but we'd be here until 2 p.m.

00:39:22.540 and you'd be upset with me. But it's incredible because you're like watching the Noaic prophecy

00:39:28.860 unfold in world history. I'm going to give you just a couple snippets throughout the rest of 0.90

00:39:32.840 the sermon that will just give you a little taste of the level of research and scholasticism that

00:39:39.920 was put in to this work. He says in his section regarding Shem, but the countries of Persia,

00:39:48.920 Assyria, Chaldea, Lydia, Sinia, Arabia, India, and I suppose most of China were peopled by the

00:39:56.200 posterity of Elam, Asher, Aphrodax, Lud, Aram, and who are the sons of Shem. The blessings bestowed

00:40:05.160 upon them by God have been remarkable. The most rich or fertile parts of the world fell to their

00:40:13.600 share. They formed the Assyrian, Chaldean, Persian, and Saracen monarchies. From the death of Noah to 0.85

00:40:21.800 that of Christ, the knowledge of the true religion, and the new covenant relation to God as his church 0.85

00:40:27.460 and people were almost wholly confined to the Shemites, particularly to the Jews. And from them, 0.96

00:40:34.500 the Messiah, the Lord of heaven, has had his human descent. And from them, the apostolic founders

00:40:41.300 of the gospel church did spring, end quote. All right, moving on to Japheth. I wish I could spend 0.68

00:40:49.960 more time here, but keep on with me. We see that Japheth actually receives two blessings, two

00:40:57.960 blessings. First, God says that he will enlarge Japheth, that God will enlarge Japheth.

00:41:10.300 Now, in a nationalistic context, this speaks to geographic expansion, geographic expansion

00:41:18.580 of Japheth's line, which, by the way, totally lines up with history when you realize that

00:41:23.460 like half of China, Japan, Korea, Russia, Europe, America, Canada, Australia, all of it,

00:41:31.400 Japhethite, okay? So just, it's like actually true in history, but just let me move on. 0.98

00:41:40.040 Second, he says that to Japheth, that Japheth shall dwell in the tents of Shem.

00:41:47.700 Japheth shall dwell in the tents of Shem. 0.76

00:41:50.400 Now this points to two realities, okay? 0.98

00:41:52.580 Number one, that will actually, the Japhethites, which they did historically, took Shemite lands. 0.99

00:41:58.620 They actually came in and took over their lands. 0.72

00:42:00.720 But I think that's the less focused point.

00:42:02.780 The second point is better. 0.82

00:42:05.080 It speaks about the Gentiles, which the Japhethites make up that group, in part at least, 0.74

00:42:15.300 that they will be grafted in as romans 11 says they will be grafted in to the church that sprung

00:42:24.180 forth from shemites are the shemites from the jews and that connection to romans 11 man i wish i could

00:42:32.540 do in another another complete sermon on that connection there now in the same way a prophecy

00:42:39.520 of in the same way a prophecy of subjugation and servant people manifest in certain biological

00:42:47.400 and civilizational characteristics i'm going to say that again because that was big okay in the

00:42:52.340 same way that a prophecy will actually produce physical characteristics in a particular person

00:43:04.280 God says, I'm declaring the ends.

00:43:07.220 Well, when God declares the ends, he will also prepare the means to result in those ends.

00:43:13.060 And so when you have a prophecy that a person is going to be a servant, then there's going to be physical attributes displayed as means in those particular people to produce those ends. 0.79

00:43:27.020 The same thing is true of Japheth. 0.85

00:43:29.440 If you go, the ends are that this is going to be an enlarging people that's going to essentially take over the world or parts of the world. 0.97

00:43:37.960 Then part of that prophecy will include the physical means in which that prophecy can meet those ends.

00:43:48.560 And so what does that mean?

00:43:52.780 It means that Japheth was endowed with ambition.

00:43:56.760 It means that Japheth had industry and high intelligence and technological capacity and virtue and artistic excellence and military prowess.

00:44:07.680 Do you understand truly that 95% of every invention has come out of the European root?

00:44:16.880 Everything that is out there. 1.00

00:44:19.180 Your phones, your cars, your computers, your satellites, your rockets, your guns, your cannons, your ships, all of it is coming out of this Japhethite line. 0.97

00:44:40.500 Anarius, Augusta Deneas, observed during the time of the first crusades, he says, 0.98

00:44:47.560 quote, those of Shem are free, those of Japheth are noble, and those of Ham are serfs.

00:44:55.720 The Westminster annotations on this passage said, quote, the European Gentiles, especially the

00:45:03.580 Romans of the posterity of Japheth, extended their temporal empire so far as to account themselves

00:45:11.920 lords of the world, end quote.

00:45:16.700 John Haddington, the guy that wrote this beautiful historical commentary,

00:45:21.820 he says of Japheth, a little bit of a longer section, but hang with me.

00:45:25.420 We're going through history for a second.

00:45:26.660 He says, the sons of Japheth were Gomer, Magog, Madom, Javan, Tubal, Meshach, and Tyrus.

00:45:34.500 Their descendants, the Celts, or Gauls, the Tartars, the Medes, Greeks, Romans, Goths, Turks,

00:45:40.720 prodigiously multiplied and peopled the whole of Europe and the northern half of Asia,

00:45:49.220 and I suppose most of America. This is in the 1700s. For many ages, they have been settling

00:45:56.640 themselves in the original habitations of the posterity of Shem. There it is, dwelling in the 1.00

00:46:03.420 tense of Shem. About 330 years before the birth of our Savior, the Greeks under Alexander overrun

00:46:11.000 Asia to the river Indus and for several ages held in its subjugation. Next, the Romans pushed their

00:46:18.420 conquest into Syria, Assyria, and Canaan, and for more than 700 years retained what they could of

00:46:25.480 it. In the 11th century of the Christian reckoning, the Seleucan Turks formed themselves into four

00:46:32.860 kingdoms of Baghdad, Damascus, Aleppo, and Iconium, and quickly extended their dominion

00:46:38.860 as far as the Indus. Meanwhile, Mabhugansi, with an army of Tartars and the others, invaded

00:46:45.260 India and founded there a mighty empire, which continued about 200 years. In the 13th century,

00:46:51.820 Genghis Khan and his sons and their Tartar troops conquered the greater part of Asia.

00:46:57.720 The empires which they founded in China and in Persia continued about nine generations. 0.67

00:47:03.660 For about 300 years, the Ottoman Turks have been masters of Assyria, Syria, Canaan, and the places about,

00:47:11.220 while the Portuguese, the Spaniards, the English, the Dutch, the Danes, the French,

00:47:16.900 have been rendering themselves masters of islands or settlements almost innumerable in the East Indies.

00:47:23.380 Thus, there is a scarce one single country of note, which originally pertained to the offspring of Shem, but is now possessed or governed by the enlarged posterity of Japheth.

00:47:38.680 Awesome. You're just watching Bible history unfold in world history. 0.76

00:47:46.380 I should say, you're watching Bible prophecy unfold in world history.

00:47:51.820 Ultimately, Japheth's line was chosen to be that particular race which would spread across the globe.

00:48:00.620 Why?

00:48:02.360 To receive the gospel.

00:48:04.900 And then, to disseminate the gospel across the whole world. 0.97

00:48:10.120 And it's why the Romans, which are Japhethites, occupied Jerusalem at the time of the birth of Christ. 0.98

00:48:20.840 It was God's purpose to use the Japhethites to spread the gospel. 0.97

00:48:25.400 What happens when Rome becomes Christian? 0.98

00:48:28.300 The whole world becomes Christian. 0.99

00:48:31.340 At least the known world. 0.95

00:48:32.940 So we see from the Christianization of Rome, through the evangelization of Europe, Russia, and parts of Asia,

00:48:39.080 ultimately Christendom was established by who? 0.56

00:48:42.360 The descendants of Japheth. 0.97

00:48:44.980 Then you have what? 0.95

00:48:46.980 The Reformation.

00:48:47.980 you have the printing press

00:48:51.140 you have the translation of the scriptures

00:48:54.060 into the common tongue

00:48:55.200 of hundreds of people groups

00:48:57.140 think about this 1.00

00:48:58.640 you have Japhethites 1.00

00:49:00.140 who are taking the responsibility 1.00

00:49:02.100 a very ambitious people

00:49:03.500 and they are

00:49:07.560 translating the scriptures

00:49:10.100 into hundreds of languages

00:49:12.500 that are not their own

00:49:14.160 you have the founding of universities hospitals sanitation systems all of these emerged from

00:49:27.380 the Japhethite civilizations later you have the United States Canada Australia nations founded

00:49:34.880 again by Japhethite peoples and they became what centers of Christian missions centers of

00:49:41.320 Christian global publishing. It was British, Spanish, and later American colonialism and

00:49:47.780 missionary movements that carried the gospel where? To the ends of the earth, including to the Hamite

00:49:53.400 peoples. Gerhardus Voss said, quote, we should not allegorize Noah's statement. A real political

00:50:04.800 conquest is intended, but such physical conquest will have for its result the coming of a religious 0.96

00:50:12.540 blessing to Japheth. End quote. So all of this Japhethite enlargement occurred. Pay attention

00:50:23.620 here. All of this Japhethite enlargement occurred as European ships sailed past the coasts of Africa 1.00

00:50:32.200 in the 1700s where many Hamitic peoples still had not adopted the wheel 0.84

00:50:37.880 or developed a written alphabet

00:50:41.280 or produced a multi-story home made out of stone.

00:50:47.480 Think about that for a second.

00:50:51.340 According to African, West African, Frank Zanou,

00:50:56.240 he's got incredible videos on YouTube, by the way,

00:50:58.300 It was the African peoples themselves who first coined the term white supremacy.

00:51:04.380 It's not a white thing.

00:51:06.600 When Africans saw white people come into Africa, they were shocked.

00:51:14.920 I recently saw an image.

00:51:17.880 It showed a picture of a white astronaut looking down at Earth through the window of his capsule.

00:51:28.300 And then next to it, it showed the picture of an African tribesman trying to throw a spear at a drone that was taking a picture of him. 0.65

00:51:39.200 And it said, these two civilizations live at the same time. 1.00

00:51:45.660 To not notice distinctions that large, because you might be racist, is idiotic. 1.00

00:51:54.640 Okay, it's idiotic. 1.00

00:51:55.720 There are massive distinctions between civilizations, and I think the Bible offers explanations for why. 0.99

00:52:10.440 John Haddington says of the Hamites' relationship to Shem and Japheth, he says,

00:52:16.320 The descendants of Ham, by his sons Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan, peopled Africa and part of Western Asia.

00:52:26.940 For about 4,000 years past the bulk of the Africans have been abandoned of heaven to the most gross ignorance, rigid slavery, idolatry, and savage barbarity. 1.00

00:52:39.200 scarcely ever hath a state formed of them that has made any respectable figure. 1.00

00:52:47.320 The Egyptians and Carthaginians accepted, and even them had little dominion over any part of the 0.96

00:52:57.080 descendants of Shem or Japheth. For many ages, the northern parts of Africa were enslaved or harassed

00:53:04.420 by the Assyrian, Chaldean, and Persian descendants of Shem,

00:53:07.520 and next, by the Greeks, and especially the Roman Vandal and descendants of Japheth. 0.54

00:53:13.760 For 1,100 years past that, they have been enslaved by the Ishmaelite Saracens, 0.58

00:53:19.680 descended from Shem, or by the Seleucan Ottoman Turks, descended from Japheth. 0.64

00:53:25.000 And what multitudes of Western Africans are annually used for slaves

00:53:29.860 by the English, the Spaniards, the French, the Portuguese, the Dutch,

00:53:33.380 and condemned to the hardest drudgery, end quote.

00:53:38.460 Again, written in the 1700s.

00:53:41.700 I'm getting to a close here.

00:53:44.440 My hope in this sermon, in this whole series,

00:53:48.120 is to demonstrate that the state of Africa

00:53:51.520 is not some natural phenomenon.

00:53:56.580 I believe it is a supernatural phenomenon.

00:53:59.780 it's not systematic racism it's not economics those things play into some of this at some

00:54:08.920 degree but that's not the driving force behind this since 1960 africa has received 2.6 trillion

00:54:20.200 dollars in foreign aid and the results have been remarkably poor a friend of mine he leads one of

00:54:29.040 the greatest Christian charities that brings clean water to Africa.

00:54:36.360 And one of their biggest ongoing problems is that they install these wells at a really 0.94

00:54:43.040 high expense to their donors, who were Japhethites, by the way. 0.99

00:54:49.900 And then the wells stop working. 0.96

00:54:53.400 And the wells don't stop working not because of some sort of complex technical failure,

00:54:57.820 but because a $5 part breaks, or because someone in that village stole that $5 part

00:55:08.740 because they think that they needed it more than the entire village needed clean water.

00:55:18.560 Again, Frank Zanu of West Africa, he also noted that many African nations

00:55:25.260 don't even have a word for maintenance the word maintenance like landscaping

00:55:32.040 that's not a concept when you go to africa landscaping is not really a thing there

00:55:38.760 um they lack this cultural framework this future orientation the institutional habits required to

00:55:48.100 preserve and sustain what has already been built. Voti Bakum, the black Reformed Baptist pastor

00:55:56.740 who's recently passed away and was one of my favorite preachers on earth. He noted that in

00:56:03.000 America, nobody walks, yet we have sidewalks everywhere. And he says in Africa, everybody

00:56:13.520 walks and there are no sidewalks anywhere. And he related that to the value of the dignity that

00:56:22.900 comes with Western civilization. And this is a millennia long pattern. There's something deeper

00:56:34.680 than just modern arguments of systemic racism or that the economics are not fair or there's some

00:56:41.480 sort of form of external oppression it reflects at some degree a racial a civilizational an

00:56:49.120 intellectual distinction the only time africa has experienced like significant civilizational

00:56:57.540 blessing and advancement is when it operated under european colonial supervision essentially when it

00:57:07.040 obeys this curse, it's actually blessed. That's a weird thing to say, but think about that, is that

00:57:12.360 when you have European colonialism over Africa, Africa's thriving. I don't know if any of you guys,

00:57:18.260 some of you older folks might understand the history of Rhodesia. Rhodesia was a phenomenon.

00:57:23.860 It was an incredible place, and essentially when Zimbabwe returned back under the Nelson Mandela

00:57:31.860 issue and all that, what happened to what was Rhodesia? It returned back to its third world state. 0.89

00:57:42.020 The great Puritan preacher Samuel Rutherford said, quote, some are by nature servants. It is good 0.99

00:57:50.200 for the weaker to be guided by the stronger, which cannot be denied to have some ground in nature,

00:57:55.980 end quote. Now, I have to make some clarification points so the internet doesn't hate me.

00:58:03.720 First, this is not a curse of redemption. This is a curse of civilizational station.

00:58:11.840 Very important point, okay? God loves and is saving African peoples. You shall want to love

00:58:22.960 and save African peoples. We want all people to come to Christ.

00:58:31.500 Second, these are generalizations. These are like macro level discussions. And the curse on

00:58:39.600 Hamitic peoples, it's not equally embodied in each individual African in the same way that 0.85

00:58:45.000 the Japhethite blessings are not equally manifested in every individual white guy.

00:58:53.880 These are massive generalizations. We do have exceptional, high-thinking, incredible black men.

00:59:03.960 We have Clarence Thomas. We have Thomas Sowell. We have Colin Powell. We have, I mean, there are

00:59:12.580 some incredible men, but they are truly, statistically, the exception. Because the vast

00:59:18.380 majority of people that stem from Africa have an IQ between 67 and 85. 1.00

00:59:31.520 But when you take off the political correctness, and I'm closing here, when you take off the 0.95

00:59:35.980 political correctness of today's current generation. This passage gives us answers for why Africa is 0.95

00:59:44.920 the way that it is, or why Semitic peoples are the way they are, or why Europeans are the way

00:59:51.060 they are, why Americans, historic Americans, are the way they are. It explains why the most 0.98

00:59:57.960 dominant language in the world is what? English. It explains why the greatest spiritual blessings,

01:00:06.840 the scriptures, the prophets, the Messiah come from the Middle East, the Semitic peoples. 1.00

01:00:14.000 And it explains why Africans are a physical people and not so much an intellectual people. 1.00

01:00:20.260 why are the blacks taking over sports well because they are a people that are dominated by 1.00

01:00:28.580 physical strength rather than an intellectual strength and why are the europeans the ones 0.99

01:00:36.040 that are responsible for 95 percent of the nobel prizes and scientific discoveries

01:00:39.920 because there is a intellectual superiority there at a civilizational level it's a fact

01:00:47.700 now in the end this passage should not leave any group of people in despair or with pride

01:00:58.160 this should not leave anybody into a position of despair or pride it should drive everybody

01:01:05.920 to the foot of the cross and here's why the blessings on shem and japheth and the curse 0.54

01:01:14.640 of civilizational subjugation on Ham. 0.81

01:01:20.420 I believe they're real,

01:01:22.160 I believe they're historical,

01:01:23.560 and I believe they're providential.

01:01:25.200 But I do not believe that they are the final word. 0.99

01:01:29.760 I think it should humble the Japhethites 1.00

01:01:32.020 who might boast in their enlargement. 1.00

01:01:33.960 And I think it should comfort the Hamite 0.51

01:01:38.120 that is under some degree of historical burdens. 0.56

01:01:41.720 burdens. I think it should remind the Semite people that the only value they have is if they 1.00

01:01:49.280 bless the God of Shem. But God is a God of order. God is a God of order, and it's our duty to submit 0.91

01:01:59.060 to that order in love and in grace and to order our world and to accept the station that the Lord

01:02:07.800 has given to us. And so if you're gifted, be gifted to the glory of God. If you're simple,

01:02:13.620 be simple to the glory of God. Whether you're Shemite, Hamite, Japhethite, every man stands

01:02:20.040 equally condemned by sin and equally in need of the same blood-bought mercy of Christ.

01:02:26.320 Every single one of us. I think of Paul's words of the proud, take heed lest you fall.

01:02:35.120 you think you're superior at some degree well god has blessed you great but the moment that

01:02:42.780 turns into pride take heed lest you fall so if you preach this message to anybody if you talk

01:02:49.240 about distinctions you talk about possibilities of biblical answers regarding race do it in love

01:02:54.880 do it in love so that it drives people to christ so it drives people to scripture

01:03:02.880 where you can find prophecy that predicts the future.

01:03:10.120 Now, because the Lord and his providence

01:03:12.300 has designed our nation 1.00

01:03:13.980 to be intertwined with both blacks and whites,

01:03:18.680 I believe it's vital for Christians,

01:03:22.940 especially right now.

01:03:23.940 I have a sense that there's a growing tension of race wars

01:03:27.300 that is about to boom off over the next 10 to 20 years

01:03:30.700 in America, in Europe, between Muslims, between Christians, between blacks, between whites,

01:03:38.680 there's tension that's growing. And honestly, if Christians don't offer great theological

01:03:45.900 instruction, then the world will. And when I mean the world, it'll be evil instruction. 1.00

01:03:53.160 And so Christians need to either be willing to have these conversations, 0.87

01:03:56.160 even if other Christians are screaming racism as they're doing it

01:04:00.740 but if you don't get it from people like me

01:04:03.880 you're going to get it from people who are actual Nazis

01:04:06.300 or people who are actually for eugenics

01:04:09.120 or people who are actually for dictatorships

01:04:11.780 and you're going to end up with something far worse

01:04:14.420 than Christian nationalism

01:04:15.800 and so next week

01:04:18.420 I hope to offer a sermon

01:04:21.760 that will be on that topic

01:04:24.880 to help figure out how Christians

01:04:27.800 should think about these things

01:04:29.200 while not negating distinctions

01:04:30.980 but also by realizing that in Christ

01:04:34.000 we can be unified

01:04:35.740 whether you're from Shem, Ham, or Japheth. 0.63

01:04:39.200 Amen? 0.96

01:04:40.220 Amen.

01:04:41.580 You guys made it.

01:04:42.720 You made it.

01:04:44.100 You made it.

01:04:44.740 Let's pray and move on this morning.

01:04:49.340 Father, we thank you, Lord,

01:04:51.940 for this blessing,

01:04:53.560 for your word lord we we know that you have a design for the world

01:04:59.700 and that you have given distinctions and lord we ask that you would help us to come to those

01:05:05.100 distinctions not with pride but with humility but lord also with order lord that you would give us

01:05:13.000 bravery and courage to have these discussions they might be done in love we thank you for your truth

01:05:19.640 that you have not left us guessing, but you have given us wisdom.

01:05:23.180 And we ask for your blessing upon these discussions as we move forward.

01:05:27.420 In Jesus' name, amen.

Dale Partridge - June 23, 2026

Genesis 9_25-27： The Curse of Ham and the Blessing of Shem and Japheth (Part Two)

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