Genesis Week 7 - Covenant

After the flood the earth and everything in it has significantly changed. Adam’s loving supremacy over the animals has now been replaced with fear and dread. Directions are now given with respect to taking Life. For the first time we have recorded God establishing a covenant – a formal, solemn, and binding agreement – with all humans and all of creation. The fulfillment of this covenant is not dependent on people’s obedience but on God’s faithfulness alone. Were it not so the peaks of our beloved 14ers might be covered tomorrow!

The world we now live in has been deeply affected by Adam and Eve’s sin. Isaiah tells us there will be a return to the patterns of relating between man and animal when Jesus makes all things new again. (Isaiah 11:6-9) Until that day we join with creation’s groaning as we wait eagerly to be set free from our bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God. This is the Hope unto which we have been saved. (Romans 8:18-25)

Prepare for this week's teaching by reading Genesis 9