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Well, turn if you would to 
Genesis chapter 6. 

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I texted my good friend Paul 
hubby, many of you know him. 

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I texted him the other day and I
said I'm preaching the message 

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this week that I've waited my 
whole life for. 

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If you are familiar with Genesis
6 or you like to geek out on fun

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little scriptural topics, then 
you are aware of where we are 

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headed this morning. 
A while back I was talking with 

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someone and they said, oh, 
preaching is like giving a book 

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report every week. 
And I was like, yes, this week I

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feel like it was a research 
paper. 

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This week was a lot of stuff to 
digest. 

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I've known a lot of what I'm 
about to convey to you this 

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morning, but there's just so 
much I had to process and sift 

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through in order to make it 
palatable for you. 

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And if you're looking at the 
note sheet, you will see that 

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there is a lot of information on
the note sheet because 

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inevitably you will be like, 
what was this and what was that?

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And trying to figure stuff out. 
So I've tried to make it as easy

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for you as possible. 
So I've put a lot of information

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there on the note sheet so you 
can refer back to that because I

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know everybody goes home and you
file all your note sheets away 

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and keep them for safekeeping, 
right? 

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I know a few people do. 
I know a few people do. 

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But yeah. 
So this morning's message is 

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going to be much different than 
a normal message. 

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But you know, as we get towards 
the end of it, I'll kind of 

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bring it into into scope, into 
view of what's important for us 

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to take note of in our passage 
this morning. 

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But if you are able, would you 
stand as we read from Genesis 

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chapter 6 verses one through 7, 
when man began to multiply on 

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the face of the land and 
daughters were born to them, the

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sons of God saw that the 
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attractive, and they took as 
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Then the Lord said, My Spirit 
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for he is flesh. 
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The Nephilim were on the earth 
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afterward, when the sons of God 
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and they bore children to them. 
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were of old, the men of renown. 
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of man was great in the earth, 
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thoughts of his heart was only 
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And the Lord regretted that He 
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it grieved him to his heart. 
So the Lord said, I will blot 

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out man whom I have created from
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animals and creeping things and 
birds of the heavens, for I am 

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sorry that I have made them. 
You may be seated Now before we 

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examine this text, let's remind 
ourselves of of where we've been

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after the fall and the humans 
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We we looked at Cain and Abel 
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that the problem with Cain's 
sacrifice was that it wasn't his

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best. 
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Cain's best. 
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out into the field because his 
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accepted. 
And when no one was around, Cain

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killed Abel. 
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careful and not allow sin to 
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But Cain didn't yield to God's 
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when he began having children. 
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descendant of his who who stands
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He epitomizes the sinful way of 
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of his own making and not 
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But not all was lost. 
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Seth, enters the scene. 
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righteous Enoch, whose character
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they warranted him passing go 
and advancing straight to heaven

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without seeing death. 
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line, Seth's descendants. 
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point, Chapter 6. 
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aware that humanity's growing. 
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multiplying as what Scripture 
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They weren't just adding one 
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multiplying as each generation 
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more offspring. 
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long they might have, how many 
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being pregnant, carrying 
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time if you live hundreds and 
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However, the directive to 
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Genesis 122. 
God bless them. 

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This is the initial creation. 
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fruitful and multiply and feel 
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birds multiply on the earth. 
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verse 28, the command was 
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God bless them. 
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multiply and fill the earth. 
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multiplying was presented as 
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fulfill God's plans for the 
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But now with humanity 
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lurking problem as as the 
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this leads to increased 
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Verse 2 says the sons of God saw
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attractive, and they took as 
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And then we jump down to verse 
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The Nephilim were on the earth 
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when the sons of God came into 
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bore children to them. 
These were the mighty men who 

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were of old, the men of renown. 
SO3 Quick questions come to mind

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when you're reading this text. 
Who are the sons of God? 

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Who are the daughters of man? 
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nepheline? 
The identity of these three 

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groups has precipitated 
thousands of pages of response 

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and speculation and 
explanations, both in paper and 

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digital formats. 
And here I'll do my best to 

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present to you the primary 
options for interpreting the 

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text this morning. 
Now before we jump in, I want to

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make something clear. 
First of all, highly qualified 

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and well trained theologians and
and and commentators will fall 

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on various sides of this issue. 
Highly respected theologians 

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will fall on different views. 
Secondly, this is not a primary 

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issue. 
I would say it's not even a 

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secondary issue. 
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more of a tertiary issue, an 
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something that is just fun, if 
you will, to speculate on and 

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try to understand as much as we 
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the information that we have 
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So with that said, there are 
three main perspectives on the 

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sons of God. 
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perspective is that the sons of 
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The sons of God are fallen 
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holds. 
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three perspectives, I think if I
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say that this might be the most 
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How is it though that demons 
could marry human women and have

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children? 
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since we tend to think of angels
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who aren't necessarily sexed and
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But there are a couple reasons 
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angels. 
First of all, the phrase the 

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sons of God is used four other 
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And every time sons of God, that
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son of God, every time that's 
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being. 
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divine counsel and Job there at 
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of God came to present 
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then Satan tags along, joins the
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We also see a son of God there 
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about Shadrach, Meshach and 
Abednego being thrown into the 

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furnace, the the explanation or 
it's described as seeing one 

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like a son of God, meaning an 
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So those uses heavily predispose
us to seeing Genesis, six sons 

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of God as fallen angels. 
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for this case. 
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potentially speak to the 
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Second Peter 2 verses 4 through 
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They're on the screen. 
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when they sinned, but cast them 
into hell and committed them to 

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chains of gloomy darkness, to be
kept until the judgement, If he 

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did not spare the ancient world,
but preserve Noah, a herald of 

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righteousness with seven others,
when he brought a flood upon the

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world of the ungodly, then it 
goes on to say, will he not also

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rescue Peter's audience? 
Here Peter tells us God didn't 

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spare the sinful angels from the
ancient world, but he preserved 

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righteous Noah. 
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punishment in view here in 
Second Peter is actually 

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referring to the initial 
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the angels before time even 
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The other passage used to 
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Jude 6 says and the angels who 
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position of authority, but left 
their proper dwelling, he has 

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kept in eternal chains under 
gloomy darkness until the 

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judgement of the great day. 
God wasn't happy with these 

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angels, so he punished them. 
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outside of their proper 
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The Are these angels that it 
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are mentioned in Genesis 6. 
Again, the text isn't explicit, 

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so we can only speculate. 
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matters, there's the book of 
Enoch. 

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It wasn't written during the 
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First of all, to be clear, it 
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later during the 
intertestamental period between 

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the end of the Old Testament and
and Jesus coming into the world.

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The book of Enoch is also found 
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Dead Sea Scrolls. 
But just because it was found 

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there doesn't mean that we take 
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We call these writings the 
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Catholic background, you you are
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the Book of Enoch. 
The book of Enoch tells us a bit

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about angels called watchers is 
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the text. 
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fallen angels. 
In the Book of Enoch, which Jude

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14 and 15 actually quotes, the 
book of Enoch writes about both 

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holy and fallen angels and the 
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watchers in in this case, the 
fallen angels, they mated with 

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human women and produced the 
Nephilim, a race of giants. 

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You may think, well, this seems 
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like I said, the biblical text 
isn't isn't specific and we 

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can't take the book of Enoch as 
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And then Jesus says something 
potentially contrary to this 

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position. 
And in Mark 12, the Sadducees 

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had asked Jesus about life after
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They approach him and say, 
suppose a woman's husband dies 

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and then after he dies, the his 
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marries her and he dies and then
the next brother and so on, so 

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forth. 
When this happens in the 

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resurrection, whose whose wife 
will she be? 

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Jesus proceeds to rebuke them 
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when they rise from the dead 
they neither marry nor are given

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in marriage but are like angels 
in heaven. 

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The point Jesus was making was 
that angels don't marry and and 

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people won't marry in heaven 
either. 

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Then the logical conclusion is 
since angels don't marry, the 

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sons of God aren't angels. 
Take that. 

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You see how thoroughly confusing
this topic can be. 

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So I am presenting each of these
perspectives to you. 

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I will say I think I do land on 
the fallen angels perspective, 

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but all of them have a point to 
make and issues you have to deal

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with. 
The next perspective is called 

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the Sethite view. 
The Sethite view says that the 

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sons of God are descended from 
the line of Seth and the 

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daughters of men are descended 
from the line of Cain. 

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In this framework, the sons are 
followers of Yahweh descended 

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through the godly line of Seth. 
However, the these these 

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descendants of Seth chose to go 
outside of their godly lineage 

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to pursue wives from the ungodly
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And these marriages, it's said, 
produced wicked children, 

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children who took after their 
mothers more than they did their

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fathers. 
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chapters 4 and five place a 
significant focus on the on the 

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2 lines of descendants. 
Indeed, I've actually conveyed 

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it that way right in the last 
couple weeks as I've talked 

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about these descendants. 
I have communicated it in that 

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manner. 
So we don't need to import other

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ideas and concepts into our 
interpretation of the text in 

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order to hold to this view. 
It's actually fairly natural, is

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the argument. 
It's fairly natural to arrive at

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the conclusion the godly people 
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line, and the ungodly people in 
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Clearly I'm dealing with 
something. 

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It has been quite a week. 
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one refers to men and daughters 
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sense. 
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multiply on the face of the land
and daughters were born to them.

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This is just men and women in 
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This is a general reference to 
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specific line. 
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verse 2 to to suddenly single 
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women descended from Cain. 
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descendants of Seth were so 
godly, then why did they go 

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marry these evil women? 
It's a question you have to 

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answer if you want to hold to 
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The next view is the royalty 
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The royalty view it it says that
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human rulers. 
The Sons of God are tyrannical 

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human rulers. 
Those who hold this position see

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the Sons of God as polygamists, 
nobles, kings, governors, Lords 

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who who all viewed themselves as
gods. 

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Now, it's no secret that that 
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thought of themselves as either 
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or as gods themselves. 
They were in this view they they

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held to themselves as being 
divine prodigy prodigy, not 

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prodigy progeny. 
They were divine progeny who who

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had lusted for power and and 
took wives from among the common

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people and sometimes forcing 
these women to join their 

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harems. 
There are a couple arguments for

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this view. 
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Offspring of these unions could 
easily be called what it says 

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are men of renown since they 
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bloodlines so they they could be
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And later in Genesis 10, we'll 
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first kings named in Scripture, 
is identified as a mighty man, 

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potentially lining him up as 
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And this is also a practice 
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the first night. 
Now the right of the first night

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is a practice that that was 
sometimes exercised, that the 

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king could exercise the right to
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getting married. 
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wedding day, the king, that Lord
tyrant, could exercise the 

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rights of the first night. 
It was his right to have her on 

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that first night. 
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Gilgamesh it is it is the 
exercising of the rite of the 

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first night that that leads to 
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tyrant early on in his life. 
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existed in their time here. 
The question in this view, the 

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question needs to be asked, is 
it sinful for a king to marry a 

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common woman? 
I would think not 2nd, we need 

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to be cautious in our 
interpretation to not impose our

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culture's meanings for words 
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It said that they took wives, 
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Is what it what it says they 
took wives from among the 

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daughters, daughters and men. 
Well, taking a wife is simply a 

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Hebrew idiom for marriage and it
and it doesn't by any means 

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imply coercion. 
Later in in Genesis, Abraham, 

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Nahor, and Isaac, they'll all be
said to take wives who who 

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willingly marry them so they're 
not coerced into being married. 

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It's difficult for us to be 
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views. 
Now, have you seen they can each

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be supported in some sense by 
the text, and they each leave 

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you with questions and issues to
navigate. 

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What is clear though is that 
some sort of grievous sexual sin

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is in view. 
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nepheline? 
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plural. 
It's taken from the word nephal,

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and the word nephal simply means
fallen. 

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So strictly speaking, Nephilim 
are fallen ones. 

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That is all that the word 
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They are fallen ones. 
One perspective of the Nephilim 

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is that they are offspring of 
the union between the fallen 

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angels and women. 
Their offspring of the union 

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between the fallen angels and 
women. 

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The thought here is that this 
was a superhuman hybrid race of 

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giants that were the products of
fallen angels mating with human 

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women. 
The obvious question here is are

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are demons sexually compatible 
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they able to even produce 
children? 

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This view says yes, they took on
bodily forms and and they 

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impregnated women in various 
spots. 

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In Scripture we will see that 
angelic beings take human forms 

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soul. 
That is an argument for that 

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perspective. 
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The next option is the Nephilim 
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God and daughters of men. 
The Nephilim are independents of

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the sons of God and daughters of
men. 

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Verse four said the Nephilim 
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and also afterward when the sons
of God came into the daughters 

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of man and they bore children to
them. 

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So this view maintains that the 
Nephilim have nothing to do with

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fallen angels marrying human 
women. 

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The Nephilim were there before 
and after the sons of God 

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cohabitated with the daughters 
of men. 

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When you read the text, that's 
what it looks like. 

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Further, the sentence does not 
begin with the word and, which 

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is very unique in in Hebrew 
Scripture. 

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And when a sentence does not 
begin with the word and then, 

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then it's doing this for one of 
two reasons. 

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Either it's beginning an 
entirely new section or it is 

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acting as a footnote. 
It is, it is a sort of 

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commentary on the previous 
sentence. 

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The argument here is the 
Nephilim were, were already 

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there and they'll, they'll 
continue to be there after this 

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moment and as well as after the 
flood, right? 

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And, and especially when the 
Israelites are going in to take 

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the promised land, the land of 
Canaan, they will see many 

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giants there. 
So they were there before, 

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they're going to continue to be 
there after. 

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That's the argument. 
So that's the fun theoretical 

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part of the message. 
Go home, start Googling, start 

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looking up articles, read 
everything you can and you will 

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find yourself even more confused
than when you started. 

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It has been fun for me to take 
an even deeper dive on this, but

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you know, this is just 
theoretical stuff. 

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This doesn't change anything 
about our faith or how we read 

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Scripture, but there are some 
things that that we can still 

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look at in this passage. 
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you might be left with a couple 
questions. 

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Still, verses 6 and seven read. 
The Lord regretted that he had 

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made man on the earth, and it 
grieved him to his heart. 

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So the Lord said, I will blot 
out man whom I have created from

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the face of the land, man and 
animals and creeping things and 

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birds of the heavens, for I am 
sorry that I have made them. 

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The phrases of notes here are 
the Lord regretted that he had 

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made man on the earth, and God 
saying, I am sorry that I've 

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made them. 
Now these phrases might well 

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trigger the memory of any good 
students of the word You'll say 

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God regretted, God was was 
sorry. 

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How? 
How is this possible? 

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Because Numbers 2319 says God is
not man that he should lie or a 

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son of man that he should change
his mind. 

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Has he said and will he not do 
it or has he spoken and will he 

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not fulfill it? 
And then Malachi 36 God says 

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that he doesn't change. 
And plus there are other 

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passages speaking to God's 
immutability and and the fact 

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that he doesn't change. 
We know that we can count on 

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God, right? 
That he is trustworthy in all 

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his ways. 
So how how could it possibly be 

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that God regretted or changed 
his mind about creating humans? 

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Well, it's best for us to 
understand God's sorrow and his 

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regrets, to understand those two
concepts as grief over what man 

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had become. 
God was grieved over what man 

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had become. 
He was experiencing emotional 

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anguish over over these humans 
motives and and their actions. 

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He'd been wronged by the 
presumptuous sin of humanity. 

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He had initially set out what 
was right and what was wrong, 

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but humanity said no, I know 
better and chose to redefine 

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right and wrong. 
It's important to clarify God's 

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grief over the making of 
humanity isn't remorse in the 

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sense of sorrow over a mistaken 
creation. 

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God didn't make a mistake. 
However, these verses show that 

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God's pain has its source in 
humanity's perversion and 

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sinfulness. 
Creation of man was was no 

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error. 
It's what man had made of 

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himself that grieved God so 
much. 

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See, God intimately engages with
his creation, which effects him 

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in ways that that we can't 
comprehend. 

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He's pained by the sinner's 
rebellion and acknowledging his 

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possibility. 
That is his ability to 

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experience emotions. 
Acknowledging his ability to 

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experience emotions, it doesn't 
diminish the fact that he is 

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immutable and he does not 
change. 

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When we say God loves, that God 
gets angry or God grieves. 

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The point isn't to say that we 
are the same. 

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There are, of course, drastic 
differences between our emotions

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and God's version of emotions. 
God doesn't love the way we do. 

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He doesn't get angry in the same
way US sinful mortals do, He 

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doesn't grieve in the same 
manner that we do, But this 

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doesn't make his emotions any 
less real. 

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God was sorry for what his 
creation had become. 

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The Imago day, that is, the 
image of God, had been 

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tarnished, and what was it that 
led to God's grieving? 

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Verse 5 told us the Lord saw 
that the wickedness of man was 

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great in the earth, and that 
every intention of the thoughts 

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of his heart was only evil. 
Continually, humanity had become

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wicked. 
In fact, humanity was so wicked,

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God shortened humanity's 
lifespan from being 8-9 hundred 

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years, nearly 1000 years to 120.
Shorter lifespans serve to limit

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the destructive impact of 
humanity's selfishness, greed, 

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and rebellion. 
Individuals bent on violence can

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harm or destroy an immense 
number of people in a 900 year 

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lifetime. 
Also, their spiritual malignancy

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can spread like a cancer if they
live for hundreds and hundreds 

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of years. 
The sins of the sons of God and 

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the daughters of men represent 
just just part of the picture of

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moral disintegration that 
pervaded Noah's world. 

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Earth's entire human population 
had grown irreparably wicked. 

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It was so bad God declared every
intention of the thoughts of his

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heart. 
Human hearts was only evil 

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continually. 
Man's every thoughts, man's 

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every inclination was towards 
evil. 

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Sinfulness wasn't just a 
fleeting moment, a little little

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blip on the radar. 
Oh, there's just that little 

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dots of sin. 
No, sinfulness was all consuming

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in the hearts of humanity now. 
God wasn't just dealing with 

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externals here. 
We tend to think of sin as an 

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act. 
Yes, there are sins of 

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Commission. 
There are actions. 

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But sin is is more than that. 
And verse verse 6 actually 

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communicates that to us. 
Sin begins in the heart and it 

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makes its way outside into our 
actions. 

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It begins in the heart and makes
its way into our actions. 

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Your actions can still be 
compliant while you have a 

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sinful heart. 
Eve's first sin, it wasn't 

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taking the fruit. 
Her first sin was was in her 

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heart. 
When she desired that fruit more

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than anything, she looked upon 
it. 

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She saw it was good, and she 
took it. 

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When she looked upon the fruit 
it it created a desire that 

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she'd never felt before, and 
that was when she started 

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heading down the path towards 
sin. 

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Now I know none of us here is 
Cain, but nonetheless, you might

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feel like you're descended from 
an ungodly line. 

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Maybe there are generational 
sins in your family that you 

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face. 
Sin is crouching at the door. 

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It's desire is for you and to 
rule over you, but you must 

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master it. 
When it starts to rise up in our

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hearts, we need to take note and
take action against it. 2nd 

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Corinthians 10 verses 4 through 
5 read For the weapons of our 

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warfare are not of the flesh, 
but have divine power to destroy

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strongholds. 
We destroy arguments in every 

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lofty opinion raised against the
knowledge of God and take every 

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thought captive to obey Christ. 
Sins. 

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War against us isn't a fleshly 
battle, it's a spiritual battle.

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Our weapons from God serve to 
destroy the lies that Satan 

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throws at us. 
When we take our thoughts 

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captive, we're actively, we're 
filtering, we're evaluating, and

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we are aligning our thought life
with biblical truth. 

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And when we align our thought 
life with biblical truth, this 

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breaks the toxic, anxiety driven
and ungodly thought spirals that

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we can fall into as humans. 
No, it's not a insurmountable 

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task for us to break away from 
sin. 

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It's within our capacities to to
change our thoughts. 

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First Corinthians 10/13 you'll 
be familiar with this says no 

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temptation is overtaking you. 
That is not common to man. 

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God is faithful and He will not 
let you be tempted beyond your 

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ability. 
Before we go on, I just want to 

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say something it doesn't say. 
People will say, oh, God's not 

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going to give you more than you 
can handle. 

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No, God's going to give you more
than you can handle. 

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I want to make that clear. 
God sometimes gives you more 

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than you can handle, so it 
brings you to the end of 

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yourself and you trust in Him. 
What the verse is saying, God is

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not going to give you give you. 
He doesn't give you temptation. 

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He's not going to allow 
temptation more than you can 

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handle. 
That's what the text is saying. 

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Then it goes on with the 
temptation He will provide, the 

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way of escape that you may be 
able to endure it. 

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God has given us all the weapons
that we need, that temptation 

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that comes at you day after day 
after day. 

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God has provided the way of 
escape from that, the way to 

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freedom. 
When temptation comes, we aren't

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facing something that that no 
one else has faced in the 

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history of the world, though 
sometimes it feels like it, 

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right? 
No, it's said that which is 

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common to man, that which 
humanity has experienced. 

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What we're facing is completely 
normal to the human experience. 

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Others have walked this path 
before us, and God's promise to 

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us is that we won't face more 
temptation than we can handle. 

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God has provided the way of 
escaping and we can conquer the 

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sin that enslaved those early 
generations, those early 

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generations whose whose every 
intent of their hearts was evil.

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We can have victory over sin 
through Jesus Christ and the 

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power that he provides. 
So let's bow our heads and close

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our eyes. 
We're going to do something. 

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I'm going to do something I've 
not done before just to prep the

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worship team. 
We're going to go back and sing 

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Living Hope instead. 
But before we do that, let's 

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take a moment in our hearts to 
examine and to yield to say, 

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God, I give this to you. 
Would you help me to walk in the

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power that you have provided 
through the Holy Spirit to be 

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filled with the spirits? 
God, would you change the 

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intents of my heart? 
May my motives be right and pure

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before You, as Psalm 139 says. 
Search me, oh God. 

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Know my heart, try me and know 
my thoughts, and see if there is

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any wicked way in me, and lead 
me in the way everlasting. 

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Lead me in your ways, God. 
Just take just a minute to just 

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look in our hearts and surrender
them to God. 

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God, we come to you, 
So God, we offer our hearts to 

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you and surrender this morning. 
Search us, know us, see if 

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there's any wicked way in US and
us in your ways, Jesus name, 

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Amen.