Genesis Children's Sermons: The Fall and the Flood

Greetings, all who teachers blessed and loved by God! I'm excited to share my collection of 10 children's sermons for Genesis 3-9. It includes:

• 4 children's sermons on the Fall
• 1 children's sermon on Cain and Abel
• 1 children's sermon on Enoch
• and 3 children's sermons on Noah, one of which happens after the Flood .

There's a simple object lesson or activity to go with each children's sermon.

If you can coordinate your worship teaching with the children's Sunday School or Children's Church, you can use these children's sermons as a follow-up on lead in to my lessons on The Fall , Cain and Abel , or Noah's Ark and the Flood .

Recommended Extras

You can certainly use the children's sermons as presented below without any extra materials other than the object listed. These resources will simply add a little more vibrancy to your time with the children.

Paid Resources

The Complete Illustrated Children's Bible – I always recommend showing pictures to young ones to help them imagine the story, and this book has some wonderful artwork. The stories are also short and Biblically accurate, perfect for using in a children's sermon. I suggest using this book to tell the Bible story during the children's sermon and then reading the actual verse from the Bible. That way, kids get the Biblical text with some extra illustration and easier to understand phrasing.

The Beginner's Bible: Timeless Stories for Children – As an alternative to the above, this book has a more cartoony art style, but also goes into a little more detail in the stories.

Check out both to see which would appeal more to the kids you're teaching. Whichever you buy will serve you well in almost any children's sermon you want to give. They both cover all the major stories of the Bible, so keep them on your shelf and let kids get to know the books week after week.

N is for Noah – If you have a younger crowd, consider using this short book by Ken and Mally Ham, founders of Answers in Genesis. Even older kids will enjoy the artwork and rhyming storytelling.

Digging Up the Past (Discover 4 Yourself Series) – If you have a few older kids who are reading on their own or families who do devotions together, consider giving them or recommending to them this resource by Kay Arthur. It covers Genesis 3-11 in a fun way with a story, puzzles, and both review questions and application questions. It will help kids and families go deeper with the stories you're teaching about.

Free Resources

I very much enjoy the object lesson in Ministry-to-Children's lesson on the Fall. I haven't explored how Adam and Eve's sin carried consequences for us in my following children's sermons, so this would be a good one to use if you want to teach on that topic.

The Test

Purpose: Use this children's sermon on the Fall to teach kids that every choice we make shows our obedience or disobedience to God.

Scripture: Genesis 2:15-17

Needed: a copy of the test questions included at the end of this children's sermon for every student (feel free to make up your own test questions as well)

Children's Sermon: Show your stack of papers and tell students, I have a test I want all of you take today. How many of you like taking tests?

This test asks you to give the meaning to very long and difficult words. It asks you to solve very difficult math problems. It asks you hard questions about science and history. And you can't ask anyone for help.

(Hand out the tests. Wait for some of the kids' reactions and then read some of the questions out loud for the benefit of the congregation. When the kids can't answer any of the questions, direct them to the last question.)

What about the last question. You can answer that one, can't you? How did you like this test?

It was too difficult, wasn't it? I have to tell you truth and say that I don't know the answer to some of those questions, either.

But did you know that God gives us tests?

The first test that He gave the first man, Adam, was much easier than the test I just gave you.

(Read Genesis 2:15-17 , quoted here in the NIV.) "The LORD God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it. And the LORD God commanded the man, 'You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die.'"

What did God tell the man not to do? (Not to eat from a certain tree.)

What would happen if the man ate from the tree that God told him not to eat from?

He would die. If the man never ate from the tree, he would live forever.

So, the first test that God gave Adam was whether Adam would listen to Him and not eat from the tree or not listen to God and eat from the tree. He could eat or not eat. Listen to God or not listen to God. That was the test.

And God gives us tests too. Every day, we have choices. Some of those choices are to listen to God or to do things that God has told us not to do. And God is watching to see what we'll pick. He's watching to see if we'll obey Him or disobey Him. When we choose to listen to God, we pass the test!

The good thing is that God's tests are easy. It's usually pretty easy to know what God wants us to do and what He doesn't want us to do. God's tests aren't difficult like the test I gave you.

So, let's all try to listen to God all the time so that we can always pass the test.

Closing Prayer: Lord, we thank You for making Your tests for us very easy. You tell us what You want us to do and You tell us what You don't want us to do. Help us to listen to You every time so that we can always pass those tests. In Jesus' na,me we pray, amen.

Very Difficult Test Questions:

1. What does "floccinaucinihilipilification" mean?

2. What does "psychoneuroendocrinological" mean?

3. A person 100 meters from the base of a tree, observes that the angle between the ground and the top of the tree is 18 degrees. Estimate the height h of the tree to the nearest tenth of a meter.

4. What number does "x" represent in the following equation? -0.25x + 1.3 = -0.55x - 0.2

5. In what year did Queen Cleopatra die?

6. What is the name of the hormone that makes people sleepy?

7. How did you like this test?

The First Temptation

Purpose: Use this children's sermon on the Fall to teach kids how to resist temptation.

Scripture: Genesis 2:15-17; 3:1-6

Needed: candy or other treats for each student

Children's Sermon: Hand out your treats, but tell students not to eat it while you go get your Bible. Then, have someone else "sneak up" and talk to the kids about how good the treat is and how much the kids would enjoy eating it.

Come back and send the other person away. Ask students, Do you think it was mean of (name of the other person) to tell you how good that treat is after I told you not to eat it?

The same thing happened in the Garden of Eden. This happened right after God the first man.

(Read Genesis 2:15-17 , quoted here in the NIV.) "The LORD God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it. And the LORD God commanded the man, 'You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die.'"

What would happen if the man ate from the tree that God told him not to eat from?

He would die. If the man never ate from the tree, he would live forever.

(Read Genesis 3:1-6 , quoted here in the NIV.) "Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, 'Did God really say, "You must not eat from any tree in the garden"?'

"The woman said to the serpent, 'We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, but God did say, "You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die."'"

"'You will not certainly die,' the serpent said to the woman. 'For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.'"

"When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it."

So, there was a certain tree that God told the man not to eat from. And then the serpent, the snake, the devil came and told the woman that she should eat it!

Who do you think the woman should have listened to? Should she have listened to God or the snake?

She should have listened to God. But the devil lied to her and tempted her to do something God told her not to.

Did you know that the devil tries to keep us from listening to God too? He tempts us to do things that God told us not to.

What do you think we can do when we feel the devil tempting us to do something wrong?

I think the woman could have done two things when the devil was tempting her. First, she could have prayed for God's help to know what to do. She didn't talk to God at all, did she? She only talked to the snake.

So, when we feel tempted to do something God told us not to, we should pray and ask for God's help.

Second, she could have went away and stopped talking to the snake. When she feel tempted, we can go do something else so that we don't keep thinking about doing that bad thing.

Closing Prayer: Dear Father, thank You for the lesson that the first man and woman taught us. And thank You that we don't have to give into temptation like they did. When we're tempted to do something You've said is wrong, help us to pray to You and leave the temptation behind. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.

The Blame Game

Purpose: Use this children's sermon on the Fall to teach kids how to ask God for forgiveness.

Scripture: Genesis 3:12-13

Needed: any small object

Children's Sermon: Show students your object and tell them that you want to play a game with them. You're going to hand them the object and then you're going to close your eyes for three seconds. Their goal is to pass the object around and hide it so that you won't know who has the object when you open your eyes. Tell them that when you open your eyes, you're going to try to guess who has it. Their goal again is to keep you from knowing who really has it.

Start the game and count to three out loud. On three, open your eyes and try to guess who has it. If you guess wrong, ask that student which of their peers has it. If they catch on, they'll lie to you. If they tell you the truth, reiterate that their goal is to keep you from knowing who really has it and play again.

When they mislead you and you finally guess who has the object, point out that they did a good job of pointing the finger at others.

Say, The same thing happened in the Bible. After the snake tempted the first man and woman to eat from the tree that God told them not to eat from, they both blamed someone else.

(Read Genesis 3:12-13 , quoted here in the NIV.) "The man said, 'The woman You put here with me—she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it.'"

"Then the Lord God said to the woman, 'What is this you have done?'"

"The woman said, 'The serpent deceived me, and I ate.'"

Did you hear that? The man blamed the woman and the woman blamed the snake, just like all of you blamed everyone else having my item.

But who do you think should get in trouble in the story, the man, the woman, or the snake?

The snake should get in trouble because he tempted the woman to do something that God told her not to. The woman should get in trouble because she did the thing that God told her not to. And the man should get in trouble because also did the thing that God told them not to.

All three of them did something wrong, and God punished all three of them, even though the man and woman both tried to blame on it someone else.

So, instead of blaming their wrong actions on someone else, what should the man and woman have done?

They should have told they were sorry for what they did. And that's what we should do. Instead of blaming other people for the wrong things we do, we should simply tell God that we're sorry, and He'll forgive us.

Closing Prayer: Father God, we thank You for the story of Adam and Eve, the first man and woman. We pray that You'll help us to learn from them not to blame other people or things when we do something wrong, but to simply admit what we did and ask You to forgive us. We thank You that You'll always forgive us when we're honest with You. Amen.

Aww! Do We Have to be Punished?

Purpose: Use this children's sermon on the Fall to teach kids how punishment helps us.

Scripture: Genesis 3:14-19

Needed: a picture of you as a child

Children's Sermon: Ask students, Do any of you have rules at your house? Do you ever break the rules? Do you get in trouble when you break the rules?

(Show the picture of you as a child and tell a story about a time when you did something wrong and were punished for it.)

Do you like to be punished? I didn't like to be punished, either. Why do you think our parents punish us?

(Explain that your punishment helped you learn not to do the wrong thing again.)

The Bible tells us about the time when God punished the first man and woman. The devil used a snake to tempt them into eating the fruit that God told them not to eat from. When they ate from it, God punished the snake and the man and woman.

(Read or summarize Genesis 3:14-19 , quoted here in the NIV.) "So the Lord God said to the serpent, 'Because you have done this, Cursed are you above all livestock and all wild animals! You will crawl on your belly and you will eat dust all the days of your life. And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.'"

"To the woman He said, 'I will make your pains in childbearing very severe; with painful labor you will give birth to children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.'"

"To Adam He said, 'Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded you, "You must not eat from it," Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat food from it all the days of your life. It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field. By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return.'"

So, God made the snake crawl on his belly when snakes had legs before. God made the woman have pain when she had babies. And God made it harder for the man to grow his food. He made both the man and the woman die when they got older. Those were all punishments for their sin, for them doing what God told them not to do.

Do you think God punishes us when we do something wrong?

He does. One way that punishes us is by making us feel bad about what we did. But the only reason that God punished Adam and Eve, the first man and woman, and the only reason He punishes us is to teach us not to do those things anymore.

Punishments are one of the ways God teaches us. Just like when your parents punish you for breaking the rules, God punishes us to show us that He's serious about not wanting us to do wrong things.

The great thing about God, though, is that even when we do the wrong things He doesn't want us to do and He has to punish us for it, He's also always ready to forgive us.

Closing Prayer: Father God, we thank You for punishing us. We thank You for the example of the first man and woman and how You punished them. Help us to learn to listen to You and not do the things that You've told us not to do. And thank You for forgiving us whenever we ask You to. In Jesus' name we pray, amen.

Satan's Bait and Switch

Purpose: Use this children's sermon on the Fall to teach kids how sin is never as rewarding as it seems.

Scripture: Genesis 3:1-6

Needed: a torn up or shredded dollar bill or a crumbled cookie (keep it hidden), a new dollar bill or cookie

Children's Sermon: Tell students that you will give them a dollar or a cookie if they bark like a dog for five seconds. The first student who volunteers gets to do it. After they do it, congratulate them on a job well done and give them the useless dollar or crumbled cookie.

When they seem disappointed, say something like, I told you I would give you a (dollar, cookie) if you did what I asked. I never told you it would be a good (dollar, cookie). You see, you thought you were going to get something good, but I tricked you, didn't I?

The same thing happened to the first man and the first woman, Adam and Eve. When God made them, He told them not to eat from a certain tree, or they would die. But then Satan used a snake to trick Adam and Eve.

(Read Genesis 3:1-6 , quoted here in the NIV.) "Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, 'Did God really say, "You must not eat from any tree in the garden"?'

"The woman said to the serpent, 'We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, but God did say, "You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die."'"

"'You will not certainly die,' the serpent said to the woman. 'For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.'"

"When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it."

Satan used the snake to tell the woman that she would get something good when she ate the fruit, but she didn't get anything good out of it.

(Read Genesis 3:8 , quoted here in the NIV.) "Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the Lord God among the trees of the garden."

The man and the woman were afraid of God after they ate the fruit. Do you think we should be afraid of God?

We should love God. But the man and the woman felt guilty that they had eaten the fruit, so they were afraid and hid from God.

And afterward, God did punish them for breaking His rule when He said not to eat from that tree. The man and the woman had to leave the Garden of Eden and they eventually died, like God said. They never would have died if they hadn't eaten the fruit that God told them not to eat.

So, just like I promised you a (dollar, cookie), Satan promised to give the man and woman something good, but it only turned out bad.

Satan does the same thing to us today. He tells us that doing something wrong will be fun or that we'll get something good out of doing something bad, but it never works that way. Instead, we only feel bad about the wrong things we do and get in trouble for them.

Let's not listen to Satan's lies. Let's listen to God and do what He tells us because He knows what's best.

Closing Prayer: Father God, thank You for always telling us the right thing. Help us not to listen to Satan's lies when he tells us that we'll get something good out of doing something bad. In Jesus' name we pray, amen.

As children leave, give your volunteer a good dollar bill or cookie.

Giving God Our Best

Purpose: Use this children's sermon on Cain and Abel to teach kids how to give God their best.

Scripture: Genesis 4:2-5

Needed: a box of cookies or something comparable

Children's Sermon: Show students your box of cookies and ask who wants one. Randomly give one student the entire box while you give everyone else a piece of a cookie.

When children start to complain, ask, What's the matter? Are you not happy that I only gave you a crumb? (To the student who received the full box of cookies) You're happy with what I gave you, aren't you?

So, (student name) is happy because I gave them something really good, but the rest of you aren't happy because I gave you something that wasn't as good. Is that right?

The same thing happened in the Bible. Adam and Eve, the first man and woman, had two sons named Cain and Abel.

(Read Genesis 4:2-5 , quoted here in the NIV.) "Now Abel kept flocks, and Cain worked the soil. In the course of time Cain brought some of the fruits of the soil as an offering to the Lord. And Abel also brought an offering—fat portions from some of the firstborn of his flock. The Lord looked with favor on Abel and his offering, but on Cain and his offering He did not look with favor. So Cain was very angry, and his face was downcast."

Did you hear what Cain brought to God as an offering? (Some of the crops that he grew.)

What did Abel bring to God as an offering? (Some of the firstborn of his flock of animals.)

God liked Abel's offering, but He didn't like Cain's offering. What do you think was the difference?

One difference was that Cain brought fruits and vegetables while Abel brought animals, but that's not why God liked Abel's offering better. The reason God liked Abel's offering better is because he brought the firstborn of his flock. He brought the very best. Cain brought some fruits and vegetables, but they weren't the first of his crops. They weren't the best.

Just like how you didn't like it when I gave you crumbs, God doesn't like it when we don't give Him our best. How do you think we can give God our best?

We can always do the things that God wants us to do. We can spend time reading our Bibles and praying to Him. We can make sure that we come to church. We can give God our offerings like He asked. All of those are ways that we can give God our best. And when we do those things, God will be happy with us just like He was happy with Abel.

Closing Prayer: Lord, help us to be more like Abel this week. Help us to always give you our best in every way that we can. In Jesus' name we pray, amen.

Afterward, ask the child who received the box of cookies to share with everyone else.

Walking with God

Purpose: Use this children's sermon on Enoch to teach kids how to have a relationship with God.

Scripture: Genesis 5:21-24

Needed: nothing

Children's Sermon: Lead your students on a walk around the sanctuary. If you have a portable microphone or a loud enough voice, you can start the children's sermon while you walk. Otherwise, just wait until you get back to the front.

Say, I really enjoyed taking a walk with you today. Walking with someone is a special experience. Why do you think people like to take walks together?

When people take walks, they get to spend time together. They get a chance to talk while they walk.

Did you know that the Bible says our relationship with God is like taking a walk with Him? I want to read you an interesting story about one man who had a special relationship with God.

(Read Genesis 5:21-24 , quoted here in the NIV.) "When Enoch had lived 65 years, he became the father of Methuselah. After he became the father of Methuselah, Enoch walked faithfully with God 300 years and had other sons and daughters. Altogether, Enoch lived a total of 365 years. Enoch walked faithfully with God; then he was no more, because God took him away."

Now, that's an interesting story for a few reasons. First, did you hear how old Enoch was? He lived until he was 365 years old! People lived a lot longer back then.

But the most interesting part is that it says that when Enoch was 365 years old, God took him away. Where do you think God took him?

God took Enoch to Heaven. That's where we all want to go when we die, right? We want to go to Heaven so that we can be with God and Jesus and all our family members who die before us.

But Enoch didn't have to die. God let him skip dying and took him straight to Heaven. Why do you think God did that for Enoch?

I think God let Enoch skip dying because Enoch was such good friends with God. It says that he walked with God faithfully. That's what we all want to do, isn't it? We want to walk with God and be friends with him.

Let's talk about how old Enoch was again. Does anyone remember?

He was 365 years old. That's interesting not only because he lived so long, but because… How many days are in a year?

There are 365 days in a year. So Enoch walking with God for 365 years is a good reminder to us to walk with God 365 days a year. If we walk with God every day, we'll be just like Enoch. And whereas God might not let us skip dying like He did Enoch, if we walk with God and stay friends with Him, He will take us to Heaven to be with Him.

Closing Prayer: Father, help us to walk with You every day. Help us to remember that You're right there beside us and that we can talk with You any time. In Jesus name we pray, amen.

God Saves Noah… and Us!

Purpose: Use this children's sermon on Noah's Ark and the Flood to teach kids how they can be saved.

Scripture: Genesis 6:5-9

Needed: some pictures to play the game Which One of These Things Is Not Like the Others?

Children's Sermon: Tell students that you want to play a game of Which One of These Things Is Not Like the Others. You're going to show them a few pictures and their job is to call out when they spot what's different in the pictures.

Show 3-5 pictures and then something like, God played this game in our Bible story today.

(Read Genesis 6:5-9 , quoted here in the NIV.) "The Lord saw how great the wickedness of the human race had become on the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of the human heart was only evil all the time. The Lord regretted that He had made human beings on the earth, and His heart was deeply troubled. So the Lord said, 'I will wipe from the face of the earth the human race I have created—and with them the animals, the birds and the creatures that move along the ground—for I regret that I have made them.' But Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord. Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time, and he walked faithfully with God."

What was God planning to do in this story? (Destroy all the humans and animals.)

Why was God going to destroy all the humans and animals? (Because humans were acting wickedly and thinking evil things in their heart. Everyone was doing things that God didn't like.)

But there was one person who was different. Do you remember his name? (Noah.)

So God looked down at all the people and saw how evil they were, but He spotted one person that was different. The Bible tells us that Noah was someone who did the right things and had a good relationship with God.

The story continues with God telling Noah to build a very large boat because God is going cause it to rain so much on the world that there would be a great Flood. Everyone who did evil would drown in the Flood, but Noah and his family would be saved in the boat.

Did you know that God has told us how we can be saved too? We don't have to be saved from a big flood. We need to be saved from going to Hell when we die. Hell is a horrible place filled with pain and hate and sadness. Nothing good ever happens there. But God wants to save us from it, just like He saved Noah from the Flood.

How can we be saved?

God saves us from going to Hell when we believe in Jesus. Like Noah, we become friends with God and try to do the things that God wants us to.

Closing Prayer: Lord, we thank You for saving us like You saved Noah. You sent Jesus so that we could believe in Him. Help us to be better friends with You and give us the strength to do the right things that You want us to. Amen.

The Rainbow of Hope

Purpose: Use this children's sermon on Noah's Ark and the Flood to teach kids that God always gives us hope.

Scripture: Genesis 9:12-16

Needed: Picture of a rainbow

Children's Sermon: Ask students, How many of you have ever had a bad day?

What kinds of things can happen to make it a bad day?

When you have a bad day, does that mean that the next day is going to be bad, too, or do things usually get better?

Things usually get better, don't they?

There's a story in the Bible about how the whole world had some bad days, but then things got better.

(Summarize the story of Noah's ark in your own words or with the following story.)

Things in the world were very bad. Everyone's hearts were full of evil and they were doing all the things that God hates. Only one man, Noah, and his family were living in a good relationship with God. So God decided to send a great Flood to kill all of the people who weren't following Him. He told Noah to build an ark, or a big boat, so that he and his family could float on top of the waters of the flood. God also told Noah to take some of each kind of animal on the ark so that they could survive too.

When Noah was finished building the boat, God made it rain for 40 days and 40 nights. It rained so much that water covered the tops of the mountains. Everything on earth was destroyed except for the people and animals in Noah's ark. That sounds like some pretty bad days, doesn't it?

But then, the waters slowly dried up, the ark landed on top of a mountain, and Noah and his family and the animals were able to get back out. The world was new again and everything was better after those bad days.

Then, God made Noah a promise.

(Read Genesis 9:12-16 , quoted here in the NIV.) "And God said, 'This is the sign of the covenant I am making between Me and you and every living creature with you, a covenant for all generations to come: I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between Me and the earth. Whenever I bring clouds over the earth and the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will remember my covenant between Me and you and all living creatures of every kind. Never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all life. Whenever the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and all living creatures of every kind on the earth."

(Show your picture of a rainbow.)

God made the rainbow as a reminder of His promise that He will never flood the earth again. And a rainbow is a reminder to us, too, that even when we have bad days, things won't stay bad forever. God will help things get better for us, like a rainbow coming out after a storm.

Closing Prayer: Father God, we thank You for the rainbow. It reminds us that You will keep Your promise never to flood the earth again and it reminds us that even when we have bad days, You will always help things to get better for us. Amen.

Covering Others' Sin

Purpose: Use this children's sermon on Noah and his sons to teach kids how to be gracious toward others when they make a mistake.

Scripture: Genesis 9:20-23, 1 Peter 4:8

Needed: a blanket

Children's Sermon: Ask students, do you know anyone who ever did something wrong?

What should we do when we see someone who did something wrong but then they feel bad about it?

I want to read you a funny Bible story about how one man made a mistake and what his three sons did when they saw it.

The story is about Noah. Does anyone remember who Noah was?

Noah was God's friend who built the ark. He was the only one out of all the people on earth that was doing the things God wanted. He and his family were the only ones God saved from the great Flood.

This story happens after the Flood, after Noah and his family got off the boat.

(Read Genesis 9:20-23 , quoted here in the NIV.) "Noah, a man of the soil, proceeded to plant a vineyard. When he drank some of its wine, he became drunk and lay uncovered inside his tent. Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father naked and told his two brothers outside. But Shem and Japheth took a garment and laid it across their shoulders; then they walked in backward and covered their father's naked body. Their faces were turned the other way so that they would not see their father naked.

Did you hear what happened? Noah drank too much wine and was lying naked inside his tent. His son, Ham, saw him lying naked and thought it was funny. So, he went back outside and told his brothers about it.

But what did his brothers do? (They walked in backward so they wouldn't see Noah naked and laid a blanket over him.)

(Show your blanket and demonstrate how our actions might be like Noah's sons covering Noah.)

One of Noah's sons made fun of him when he made a mistake, but the others helped Noah by covering him up. I wonder if there's a way we can help people when they make a mistake.

When someone feels bad about a mistake they made, we can say that we forgive them (pretend to lay the blanket over something).

When someone feels bad about a mistake they made, we can help them make things better (pretend to lay the blanket over something).

When someone feels bad about a mistake they made, we can help them not to do it again (pretend to lay blanket over something).

When someone feels bad about a mistake they made, we can pray for them (pretend to lay the blanket over something).

The Bible tells us that when we show love to people, we help cover their sins (pretend to lay the blanket over something).

(Read 1 Peter 4:8 , quoted here in the NIV.) "Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins."

Closing Prayer: Loving God, help us to be like Noah's sons. Help us to love other people by helping them when they make a mistake. In Jesus' name we pray, amen.

I hope you've found these children's sermons to be helpful in your time with the kids. If you're continuing with your series on Genesis, I invite you to check out our page for Genesis Children's Sermons: The People Build a Tower, but God Builds a Family . Here you'll find children's sermons on the Tower of Babel and the patriarchs.

We've also published Children's Sermons about the Bible . You can use these children's sermons any time to teach kids what the Bible is and why they should trust it.

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Thank you for reading. Thank you for teaching. May God's Spirit continue to be with your spirit! - Steve