The KJV Standard Lesson Commentary, 2013–2014, vol. 61

September 22

Lesson 4

AN EVERLASTING COVENANT

DEVOTIONAL READING: Isaiah 54:9–14
BACKGROUND SCRIPTURE: Genesis 6:9–9:28

GENESIS 9:1, 3–6, 8–17

KEY VERSE
I will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.—Genesis 9:11

LESSON OUTLINE

Introduction
      A.      Judgment Day
      B.      Lesson Background
          I.      Commands (GENESIS 9:1, 3–6)
      A.      Duty (v. 1)
      B.      Diet (vv. 3, 4)
      C.      Demand (vv. 5, 6)
          II.      Covenant (GENESIS 9:8–11)
      A.      Participants (vv. 8–10)
      God’s Care
      B.      Promise (v. 11)
          III.      Confirmation (GENESIS 9:12–17)
      A.      Sign (vv. 12, 13)
      What Comes to Mind
      B.      Significance (vv. 14–17)
Conclusion
      A.      Today’s Floods
      B.      Prayer
      C.      Thought to Remember


Douglas Redford, James B. North, et al., An Everlasting Covenant, ed. Ronald L. Nickelson and Jonathan Underwood, The KJV Standard Lesson Commentary, 2013–2014, vol. 61 (Cincinnati, OH: Standard Publishing, 2013) 34.