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.
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