Now, Ham comes into tent, sees his father, and he brings the other brothers in to look

upon their father's nakedness.

Ham is glorying in the fall of his father.

How many times have you seen that happen?

People rejoicing in the fall of the righteous man.

We read that Noah, plants of vineyard, he harvests his crop, he produces wine, indulges

a little bit too much in the fruit of the vine, and gets into a state of drunkenness.

In his state of drunkenness he enters into his tent, and obviously has just thrown himself

across the bed, being careless in terms of his garments and his covering, and he has exposed

himself physically in the tent.

Now Ham comes into tent, sees his father, and if we read between the lines here, what

is it that he obviously does?

He runs out to the brothers and says, if you guys have to see the old man, he's obviously

treating his father in his sin with less than filial respect.

He goes out and tattles, as it were, to the two brothers, and makes a spectacle out

of his father's drunken stupor and his humiliated state of sinfulness.

He brings the other brothers in to look upon their father's nakedness.

Remember with the creation of man and woman and the institution of marriage in Eden, with

that little statement and the two were naked and unashamed, and here it is coming up again,

this whole business of nakedness.

Now do you see the significance of the nakedness here?

The father's sin is being exposed, and it's not like the boys had presumably never seen

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