The OLD & NEW CovenantMarch 2, 2014

Review• Unit 1 (Jan/Feb): creation

• Week 1: Creation of the Universe

• Week 2: Creation of Man & Woman

• Week 3: Fall of Mankind

• Week 4: Activity - Tree of Encouragement

Review• Unit 2 (Feb/March): Life in God

• Week 1: Who is Jesus?

• Week 2: Cain and Abel

• Week 3: Noah Part I - Intro

• Week 4: Noah Part II - The Covenant

Review• Unit 2 (Feb/March): Life in God

• Week 5: Abraham

• Week 6: Isaac

• Week 7: Joseph

• Week 8: Activity - Baltimore Trip

Last weEkNOAH

Noah built an ___

Noah

ark

Noah lived during a time of

S__ & E___

Noah

sin & evil

GOD

So the Lord said, “I will wipe from the face of the earth the human race I have created—and with them the animals, the birds and the creatures that move along the ground—for I ______ that I have made them.”

Genesis 6:7

regret

GOD

The Lord then said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and your whole family, because I have found you _________ in this generation ”

Genesis 7:1

. . .

RIGHTEOUS

And Noah did all that the Lord

_________ him.

Genesis 7:5

Noah

comManded

GOD

But God __________ Noah and all the wild animals and the livestock that were with him in the ark, and he sent a wind over the earth, and the waters receded.

Genesis 8:1

remembered

GOD

The Lord smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart: “Never again will I curse the ground because of humans, even though every I__________ of the human heart is E___ from childhood. And never again will I destroy all living creatures, as I have done.”

Genesis 8:21

. . .

inclination evil

GOD

Then God _______ Noah and his sons, saying to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the earth ”

Genesis 9:1

. . .

blesSed

GOD

Then God said to Noah and to his sons with him: "I now establish my ________ with you and with your descendants after you ”

Genesis 9:8-9

. . .

covenant

GOD

I have set my _______ and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth.

Genesis 9:13

rAINBOW

The OLD & NEW Covenant

1. What is a covenant?

2. Why do we need a covenant?

3. What covenant do we have today?

what is a covenant?

covenant

promise=

covenant ‘cutTing’

GOD

Then God blesSed Noah and his sons, saying to them, “ I now establish my covenant with you and with your descendants after you and with every living creature that was with you ”

Genesis 9:1, 9:8-9

. . .

. . .

GOD Noah

bloOd covenant

bloOd covenant required an animal

bloOd covenant sealed the promise

bloOd covenant What I have is yours & What you have is mine

!

Broken Promise = Death

why do we neEd

covenants?

punishment of sin = death

what covenant do we have

today?

JESUS

new covenant

Therefore he is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance, since a death has occurred that redeems them from the transgressions [SINS] committed under the first covenant.

WE HAVE A NEW COVENANT

IN JESUS!