READ: Genesis 9:18-27
“AND NOAH AWOKE from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him. And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a SERVANT OF SERVANTS SHALL HE BE unto his brethren” – Genesis 9:24-25
Noah cursed Canaan to be a servant of servants. Inferiority, mediocrity and shoddiness were slapped onto the descendants of Ham by the words of Noah. Ham dishonoured his father and the result was this curse against Canaan. Since Ham was the one who dishonoured his father, we can assume that Canaan was receiving this brief, startling curse on behalf of Ham’s descendants.
“The sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, Phut, and Canaan” (1 Chronicles 1:8). Cush was the father of various Ethiopian tribes that settled south of Egypt and also overran Arabia, Babylonia, and India. Mizraim was the father of various Egyptian tribes. Tribes of the upper and lower Egypt called the land of Ham, came from him. Phut was the father of the Libyans and other tribes in northern Africa. Canaan was the father of the peoples that settled mainly in Palestine, Arabia. It was this group of people that were cursed to be the servants of servants.
We can all imagine how the life of a servant will play out and imagine how the life of a “servant of servants” will turn out to be. To be cursed into a servant of servants is to be demoted in society below the lowest mark. Indeed, this curse is one of the most far-reaching and devastating curses ever spoken.
A curse creates a picture! To recognize a curse you must know the picture it creates! You will now recognize the unmistakeable and inexplicable picture of a “servant of servants” created by the curse of Noah. After you pick out these signs, you can pluck them off one by one until the picture of your life and ministry do not reflect that picture.