COVENANT

Re-Creation  SCV.01 explain the relationship between Scripture and Divine Revelation (CCC § );  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 § , );  I will describe covenant as it related to the Jewish people and as it relates to me today.

Covenant  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 GOD God’s People God provides for the people The people follow God’s law God provides for the people The people follow God’s law 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? 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? A covenant is always a loving relationship otherwise it is simply a contract or agreement.

Covenant  Read pages in the text, Path Through Scripture.  Write a sentence summarizing each of the following events: 1. God Calls Moses 2. Moses Confronts Pharaoh 3. The Passover 4. God Frees His People 5. God Covenants His People 6. New Life- and Worship-style 7. God Tests His People 8. 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  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  Re-read the Ten Commandments.  What might each category be considering?  How might we follow that category/commandment today?

Covenant  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  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.