What Is a Covenant?
A sacred agreement or mutual promise between God and a person or group.
What is a covenant?
This sacred place is where Church members make additional covenants with God.
What is the temple?
The Old Testament prophet with whom the Lord made a special covenant.
Who is Abraham?
Abraham’s covenant blessings are not only for his blood descendants, but also for people in this group.
Abraham 2:10
Who are those adopted into Abraham’s lineage by accepting and living the gospel?
The new and _____ covenant is called this because it is ordained by an everlasting God and will never be changed.
What is everlasting?
The one who sets the terms of sacred covenants and reveals them to prophets.
Who is God?
In this ordinance, we covenant to take upon ourselves the name of Jesus Christ.
What is baptism?
Abraham refused to worship these, even though his father did.
What are idols?
People can be adopted into Abraham’s lineage by accepting and living this.
2 Nephi 30:2
What is the gospel of Jesus Christ?
This work helps fulfill the promise that the gospel would go to all the earth.
What is missionary work?
God promises these when we obey a covenant.
D&C 35:24
What are blessings?
Through the sacrament prayers, we are promised that this person may always be with us.
Who is the Holy Ghost?
The Lord promised Abraham that he would have a numberless amount of these.
Genesis 17:4–8
What are descendants?
We enter into the covenant the Lord made with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob when we do this.
What is being baptized into the Church?
Covenant people have a responsibility to do this with God’s commandments.
What is keep them?
These may be withheld if people choose not to obey the covenant.
What are blessings?
If we repent, are baptized, and endure to the end, we are promised this.
D&C 18:22
What is salvation?
Abraham’s descendants would be entitled to the gospel, priesthood blessings, and these ordinances.
What are the ordinances of exaltation?
Abraham 2:11
Covenant people may receive this kind of help and guidance.
What is help and guidance from the Holy Ghost?
When we accept the new and everlasting covenant, we agree to follow this person to the end.
D&C 132:20–24
Who is Jesus Christ?
Members of the Church are called this because they make covenants with the Lord.
What are covenant people?
During the sacrament, we promise to take Christ’s name upon us, remember Him, and do this.
What is keep His commandments?
Through Abraham’s descendants, all of these would be blessed.
What are the families/nations of the earth?
This idea means people who accept and live the gospel can be counted as Abraham’s seed and receive covenant blessings.
What is being adopted into Abraham’s lineage?
The new and everlasting covenant is another name for this.
Jeremiah 31:31–34
What is the fulness of the gospel?