After a number of years more, nothing has changed: no land, no children.

Abram’s wife now has another idea about how to “help” God’s promise come true…

What do you think it is?

God’s Covenant with Abram

To describe the TERMS of God’s Covenant with

AbrahamTo explain the SIGN of the Covenant God makes with

AbrahamTo reflect onAbraham’s

faith

Abram’s wife Sarai offers her servant Hagar to Abram, to sleep with – so that they could get a child that way.

Ishmael is born.

Has Abram done the right thing? 1. Explain what Sarai did.

2. Do you think this was a good thing to do? 3. Would it make God’s promise come true?

Why/ why not?**What do you think will happen next?

Watch the clip.. God appears to Abram twice. How?

1. What are the 2 different ways that God appears to Abram?

2. God makes a Covenant with Abram. What does God promise that is new?

3. What is the meaning of the changes in Abram and Sarai names? What the name of the promised son, “Isaac”, mean?

4. What must Abraham do, & all his male descendants, to show they are in covenant with God?

**Who do you think are the 3 people to speak to Abraham?From 1:40

“So shall my Covenant be in your flesh, an everlasting covenant.”

Which of the following “signs of God” do you have in your flesh” ?

1. Write out the quote above.2. Draw a Christian stick-person. Label

signs of God that most Christians carry around in their flesh

3. Which ones do you “carry around” in your flesh? Star them.

4. Do you think it is important to show your commitment to God in physical ways? Why/ why not?

• Fasting for lent• Wearing a cross• Not eating meat on Fridays• Behaving in a Christian way• Being modestly (not

flaunting your body)• Kneeling in prayer• Being unmarried for God

Which of the following did Abraham promise God in the covenant ?

1. To keep the 10 Commandments2. To keep walking3. To circumcise all males in his

family4. To be blameless

HOMEWORK

1. Read Gen 22:1-182. Do a story board of the

story in 6-8 boxes, with descriptions for each box

3. Explain with PEE one thing that you can learn from this story about God