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 that is binding on your life in some way.
Watch the clip. 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
“May what was done to this animal be done to me if I break this covenant...”
Write down the definition of a Covenant. Put a box around it.
Explain 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?

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 a promise that is binding on your life.
A contract is easily got out of, it doesn’t involve a serious relationship, it just involves money. A covenant has a big impact on your life, it involves a deep relationship with that person and it can’t be easily got out of.

6. A Covenant is…?? If God made a deal with us, would it be… c. Neither
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
If God made a Covenant with us, what would He offer? What would He want from you? How would it be binding on your life?
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 bubbles and write in them what God would expect and what He would promise.
How would it be binding on your life? (How would keeping/ breaking it affect you?)
**What would you personally want to promise God? What would you hope God would give you?

8. “See, I have engraved you on the palm of my hand”.
What does this quote tell us about how much God’s covenant binds us to 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….