COVENANT
Re-Creation
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SCV.01 explain the relationship between Scripture and Divine Revelation (CCC §51141);
SCV.03 describe the development of oral and written traditions in Scripture using
historical, literary and critical approaches;
SCV.04 demonstrate a familiarity with and an ability to retell key biblical
narratives that illustrate God’s faithful covenant relationship with a chosen people
and the community’s response to this relationship;
SCV.05 express connections between the relationships described in biblical events
and their own life experiences.
PFV.04 consider how religious faith is shaped by human experience
PSV.01 use a variety of prayer forms to enrich and express personal and communal
spirituality (CCC §2559-2565, 2623-2643);
I will describe covenant as it related to the Jewish people and
as it relates to me today.
Covenant
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A covenant is a special, loving relationship in which
God blesses the people and the people live as God
desires. It is a loving relationship because it seeks to
foster the good of the people in the context of their
concrete situation. The covenant ‘re-creates’ the
relationship between God and God’s people.
The covenant was established through the
Patriarchs, codified with Moses, and fulfilled in
Jesus.
Covenant
Love means to seek and
foster the good of others in
the context of their concrete
situation.
How might God’s laws
‘grow’ our goodness? How
can we ‘grow’ God’s
goodness?
God provides for the people
GOD
God’s People
The people follow God’s law
A covenant is always a
loving relationship
otherwise it is simply a
contract or agreement.
Covenant
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Read pages 41-50 in the text, Path Through Scripture.
Write a sentence summarizing each of the following events:
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God Calls Moses
Moses Confronts Pharaoh
The Passover
God Frees His People
God Covenants His People
New Life- and Worship-style
God Tests His People
Death of Moses
Answer the questions for review on page 50.
What else might you know about the stories that wasn’t included in
the text?
Covenant
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The Ten Commandments became the way that the
Jewish people would keep the Covenant.
Each Commandment represented a category or
kind of rule.
These rules were expanded in the 613 mitzvoh or
‘blessings’ that followed.
The ‘law’ as it came to be known was a complex
and comprehensive way of living: socially,
religiously, legally.
Covenant
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Re-read the Ten Commandments.
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What might each category be considering?
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How might we follow that category/commandment
today?
Covenant
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When Jesus came, he fulfilled the covenant and
became its new focus.
Jesus’ sacrifice would be the last sacrifice that
would need to be made for the forgiveness of sins.
Jesus described a new model for loving God. He
did not erase the old law but summarised it simply
for us:
Love the Lord your God with all of your mind, heart,
and soul, and love your neighbour as yourself.
Covenant
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Love the Lord your God with all of your mind, heart,
and soul, and love your neighbour as yourself.
Jesus calls us to live in loving relationship with God,
ourselves, other people, other nations and nature.
We will now look more closely at how we live in
relationship with one another.