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Solemn Promises

Solemn Promises. What is a promise ? What promises have you made? Wh at would make you take a promise more seriously?. What is a Covenant?. To define what a Covenant is (AT1, L3) To explain the difference between a Contract and a Covenant. (AT1, L4-5)

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Solemn Promises

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  1. Solemn Promises • What is a promise? • What promises have you made? • What would make you take a promise more seriously?

  2. What is a Covenant? • To define what a Covenant is (AT1, L3) • To explain the difference between a Contract and a Covenant. (AT1, L4-5) • To consider what a Covenant with God would involve & its impact (AT2; L5-6)

  3. A Covenant is a solemn promise between a more powerful person and a weaker one, who needs their help. Watch the clip. Who is the more powerful person? Who is the weaker one? What do they promise each other? • Abram: will give yearly sum of money flocks and wool in return for permission to use the King’s land to pasture his animals/ use the water in his wells • Sacrifice the animal saying curse • Write down the definition of a Covenant. Put a box around it. • Explain who is the more powerful, who is the weaker, and what they promise each other. • What do they do and say to show how seriously they will take this Covenant? What does their action mean? **In the covenant of blood, people promise on their very lives. Do you know of any other covenants that come close to doing this today? “May what was done to this animal be done to me if I break this covenant...”

  4. Would you enter a blood Covenant with anyone?

  5. Sort the cards into 2 columns: covenant or contract? Answer the questions: Describe one example of a contract. Describe one example of a Covenant Explain the difference between a Covenant and a Contract. **What would a deal with God be – Covenant or Contract? Explain why. • When you sign a contract, it is just a transaction of money or goods between equals. • In the Old Testament, a Covenant is NOT a deal between equals. And it makes demands on that person’s life in some way.

  6. A Covenant is…?? If God made a deal with us, would it be… a. A Contract a. A deal between equals b. A solemn promise to a more powerful person that makes some serious demands on your life b. A Covenant c. A deal where there may be penalties to pay if either person wants to break it c. Neither

  7. If God made a Covenant with us, what would He offer? What would He expect? GOD To protect you Be faithful to God: worship only Him To bless you – land, wealth, children To give you eternal life with Me Obey God Draw the speech bubblesand write in them what God would expect and what He would promise. Who would most likely break the Covenant? How? **What would you personally want to promise God? What would you hope God would give you?

  8. What does this quote tell us about how much God’s covenant makes us part of Him? • Draw the palm • Write in the quote inside • Around it, write what you personally would promise God. “See, I have engraved you on the palm of my hand”. Isa 49:16

  9. 2 Words that describe what a Covenant is….

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