COVER THAT NAKED MAN.

Text: Genesis 9:20-23. This text is about Noah and his children. Noah being a man that God had blessed in all ramification found himself in a state of mess i.e he was drunk to the extent that he removed all his clothes. One of his sons (Ham) saw his nakedness and he went to broadcast the event to his other brothers instead of him to cover his fathers nakedness. I have discovered that many people are like Ham as they are always interested in broadcasting people that are falling,people that have failed and people that are in need of help.Instead of helping such people to find ways of solving their problems,they escalate it and make it worse. Noah's case was very critical and pitiable because he was not aware that he had a problem not to talk of being helped but one thing that I was able to discover was that Ham(Noah's son) recognized that Noah was in a bad state. He was only interested in forecasting/relaying the news.The implication of what he did resulted to the cursing of Canaan his son by N

oah.I have a message for you this day that you not helping your brother/sister in a state of mess has a very serious implication. Jesus told a parable of a good Samaritan that helped a man that was robbed(Luke 15:25). Before,he came to help,there were several people that saw the man in a bad state but couldn't help.Even a priest saw him and by-passed him.This really show the extent to which people are guilty of not covering their fellow brother's/sister's nakedness. Paul was ever advocating the idea of supporting the weak and comforting the feeble minded.(1st Thessalonians 4:13-14). He knew that there will be some people that are fragile and all that they will ever need are people that will strengthen them and not people that will go about exposing/condemning them. A question to be asked is "How do we help those who are in a state of shame?" The answer to the question was given by Japeth and Shem;the other two sons of Noah who covered the nakedness of their father.The attitude displayed by these two guys implied that their father's nakedness/shame was covered/removed. It also implied that they helped him to overcome his problem which secured them blessing in return.This reveals to us that we can be blessed when we endeavor to cover someone's nakedness. Sometimes,it might not be easy but that is what is expected of us to do in these last days. Let us consider a girl's case who had some problems seeking admission into a higher institution of learning. She was squatting with some people in a hostel close to her school. Many of the people in that hostel realized that she was not getting things right. Instead of them to correct her,they started making jest of her and these people in question claimed to be worshipers of God in Spirit and in truth. All they kept doing was to condemn and mock the girl. After some time,the girl started breaking away from them. She got help from the people of the world and she has turned into something else now. Many of those making jest of her kept complaining that she went astray not knowing that they were the ones that led her astray by not covering her nakedness. All they did was to expose her like Ham did. At this point,it is imperative to stress that God is our help and in turn,it is necessary to help somebody. You cannot win a soul for Christ without you covering the nakedness of someone and I know that by you doing that,you will be blessed like Shem and Japeth. Another case study was Jesus in John 18 covering the nakedness of the woman who committed adultery. All the other people who caught her in the act wanted to stone her but Jesus defended her and covered her nakedness by telling them to cast the first stone if none of them were guilty of the same. They all left because their conscience really pricked them. And Jesus covered the woman's nakedness by telling her to go and sin no more. Jesus had to do this because his mission was to cover the nakedness that we inherited from Adam and Eve when they fell in the beginning. But by his death and resurrection ,our nakedness has been covered. Nevertheless,we have the responsibility of receiving the divine covering because once you are naked,it is a pathway to destruction. Beloved,it is high time we all accept Jesus as our covering and help others by acting as a cover for them.