Covenants and Contracts
What is a covenant?
A covenant is an unbreakable promise to give yourself to another person/ God.
What was the sign of God's covenant with Noah?
The rainbow!
What is the first commandment?
I am the Lord, your God. Have no false gods before me.
What does "Letter of the Law" mean?
Bonus: What does "Spirit of the Law" mean?
What the law literally says.
Bonus: What the law really means.
Baptism makes us a part of God's ______ and washes away _______ _______ .
Family ; Original Sin
What is a contract?
Bonus: How is it different from a covenant?
A contract is a promise made between two people.
Bonus: If one person breaks the contract, the other person does not have to follow it.
How did Moses first hear the voice of God?
He heard it in the burning bush.
What does the word "idol" mean?
Give an example of something that could be an idol.
An "idol" is anything we choose to honor or worship something more than God.
Did Jesus want his disciples to ignore/break the Ten Commandments? Explain.
No, he wanted them to follow the Spirit of the Law. By doing this he perfected God's covenant with Moses.
Prayer is when we lift up our _____ and _____ to God.
Hearts ; Minds
Give one example of a covenant.
Marriage ; God's covenant with Noah/Moses/David ; Jesus' covenant with humanity
What did God give Moses and the Israelites on Mount Sinai?
Bonus: What were the Israelites doing when Moses came down from the mountain?
The Ten Commandments
Bonus: Worshipping a Golden Calf
The first three commandments help us love _____, and the last seven commandments help us love _____.
God ; others
Who instructed the Jewish people to follow the Letter of the Law during Jesus' time?
The Pharisees
Draw two symbols of baptism.
Why does God make covenants with people?
Why were the Ten Commandments so important to the Israelites?
It taught them how to love God and others while they started their new nation in the promised land.
Name two of the last seven commandments.
Honor your father and mother ; do not kill ; be pure in word and action ; do not steal ; do not lie ; be pure in thought and desire ; do not envy what others have.
Explain one way that Jesus fulfills the covenants of the Old Testament.
He perfectly follows the Ten Commandments ; He brings the whole world into God's family ; He is David's great descendant who will lead the nations.
_______ is the liturgical season in which we prepare for Jesus' death and resurrection.
Lent
In God's covenant with Noah, God promised to never flood the earth again. What did Noah have to give back to God?
Nothing! He only had to praise God and help fill the Earth with more people.
What was God's covenant with King David?
Bonus: How did King David break that covenant?
Because David loved God so much, God promised David that he would have a very powerful descendant.
Bonus: He broke God's laws by ordering another man to be killed so he could take his wife.
Breaking the 10 commandments hurts or sometimes breaks our relationship with God and others.
How do we fix this broken relationship.
We fix this by asking for forgiveness. We can ask for forgiveness by going to mass, praying, and especially by going to confession.
Before dying on the cross, Jesus gave us the New Covenant at the Last Supper. He tells us this covenant will never end. How can we be a part of this New Covenant?
We can be a part of the New Covenant by going to Mass, where we receive the Body and Blood of Christ in the Eucharist.
Recite the entire Glory Be prayer.
"Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is not, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen."