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Text: Genesis 9-11 as summarized in “After the Flood” and 1 Chronicles 1:19

1. Sin Survived the Flood.
   1. God dealt with extreme sin through the flood.
   2. Noah saved lives, but he wasn’t a savior from sin.
   3. Sin survived the flood in the hearts of Noah and his family.
2. Sin Drove a Wedge in Noah’s Family.
   1. Noah sinned through drunkenness.
   2. Ham sinned by dishonoring his father
   3. The result was a curse on part of Ham’s family.
   4. That curse necessarily separated the hearts of Noah’s extended family
   5. Sin separates people from God and people from people
3. Sin Led to Division Among Nations
   1. God's will was for people to spread throughout the earth.
   2. Nimrod sought to rally them around himself—a sin of rebellion.
   3. God confused their languages to break up the rebellion and drive them apart.
   4. God accomplished His intention of filling the earth.
   5. Because of sin, God also had to thoroughly divide them with language barriers.
4. At the Peak of Separation, God Planned Reunion.
   1. Peleg was named for a huge division among the people of the earth.⁽¹⁾
      1. This division possibly refers to people dividing at Babel.
      2. This division might refer to early continental drift
      3. In any event, sinful people were now separated fully.
   2. It looks like the hopeless isolation and death caused by sin.
   3. Peleg was an ancestor of Abraham.
   4. God would bless the divided families of the earth in Abraham through Christ.
5. Even while God let sin do its work, He laid the foundation of reconciliation in Christ.

⁽¹⁾ The possible meanings of the earth's division were explored by Dr. Bernard Northrop either on a broadcast or an audio tape by WCTS-FM (now AM) in the late 1970's.

This devotional was written to complement our story After The Flood.