July 12, 2026
TEXT: Genesis 9:1-17

“That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just
powers from the consent of the governed, —That whenever any Form of Government
becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it,
and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and
organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their
Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established
should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience
hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than
to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a
long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a
design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to
throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. —Such
has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which
constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present
King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct
object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States.”

I. God’s command to families (vv. 1-4)—Replenish
A. Be productive with your life (v. 1a)
1. Fruitful with your life in accomplishing things
2. Fruitful with your spouse in having children
3. Fruitful with your children in rearing them to know God and honor Him
B. Be multiplying yourselves on earth (v. 1b)
1. Having children to add to the population
2. Having children to fill the earth with people (Genesis 1:26-31)
C. Be benefitting from good things from the earth (vv. 2-4)
1. The challenge of benefitting from the earth (v. 2)
2. The nourishment needed in eating meat (v. 3a)
3. The nourishment needed in eating fruits and vegetables (v. 3b)
4. The restriction to not eat the life of the body in blood (v. 4)

II. God’s concept for government (vv. 5-7)—Protection
A. God’s declaration to the sanctity of human life (v. 5)
B. God’s image in human life making it sacred unto Him (v. 6a)
C. God’s authority to punish destroyers of human life (v. 6b)
D. God’s expectation for mankind to flourishes on the earth (v. 7)
1. Proverbs 8:12-21;  2. Isaiah 9:6-7
3. Daniel 2:19-23;  4. I Timothy 2:1-2
5. I Peter 2:13=14;  6. Titus 3:1

III. God’s covenant with life on earth (vv. 8-17)—Rainbow
A. The source of God’s covenant (vv. 8-10)
B. The extent of God’s covenant (vv. 11-12)
C. The evidence of God’s covenant (vv. 12-17)