Question to Children:
Whom did Noah choose to walk with everyday?
Answer: With God. “Noah was a just man, perfect in his generations. Noah walked with God.” Gen 6:9b
Question to Intermediates:
Why did God like Noah?
Answer: Because Noah was just, righteous, and walked with God. “But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord. This is the genealogy of Noah. Noah was a just man, perfect in his generations. Noah walked with God.” Gen 6:8-9.
Questions to Adolescents:
What was people's attitude like in Noah's day?
Answer: Their thoughts were continually evil, but Noah was just, righteous, and walked with God. “Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. ... Noah was a righteous and perfect man in his generations; Noah walked with God." Gen 6:5 and 9b.
Question to Children:
What did God tell Noah to build that would serve as salvation for him and his family?
Answer: An ark. "... Make yourself an ark ... But with you I will establish my covenant; and you and your sons and your wife and your sons' wives will enter the ark with you." Genesis 6: 14a and 18
Question to intermediates:
Why did God make a covenant with Noah?
Answer: Because Noah was just, upright and walked with God. "... Noah was a just and upright man in his generations; Noah walked with God." Gen 6: 9b.
Question to adolescents:
What did God do with Noah to deliver him from the judgment that would come on the Earth?
Answer: God made a pact, a covenant with Noah. "... But I will establish my covenant with you; and you will enter the ark, you and your children, and your wife, and your children's wives with you." Gen 6:18.
Question to Children:
Who entered the ark?
Answer: Noah and his family. “So Noah, with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives, went into the ark because of the waters of the flood.” Genesis 7:7.
Question to intermediates:
Who closed the door of the ark?
Answer: The Lord God. “So those that entered, male and female of all flesh, went in as God had commanded him; and the LORD shut him in.” Genesis 7:16.
Question to adolescents:
How did people behave in Noah’s days?
Answer: They behave as if there would not be a judgement upon the earth. “For as in the days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, 39 and did not know until the flood came and took them all away, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be.” Matthew 24:38-39.
Question to Children:
What are the birds that Noah released after the flood?
Answer: The raven and the dove. “Then he sent out a raven, which kept going to and fro until the waters had dried up from the earth. He also sent himself a dove ....” Gn 8:7-8
Question to intermediates:
Noah released the raven and the dove when he was in the ark. Which represents a life of sanctification in the servant’s life?
Answer: The dove. “Pursue peace with all people, and holiness, without which no one will see the Lord…” Heb 12:14.
Question to Adolescents:
What does the dove represent?
Answer: The dove represents the one who lives in sanctification, who has a good testimony. “...but as He who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, because it is written: Be holy, for I am holy.” I Pet 1:15-16.