This past Sunday our focused upon obedience to God. Your children learned that it would’t make sense to tell God that we loved Him and then turn around and disobey his commandments.
Sunday we showed your children how the Bible teaches that in order to truly show God that we love him, we must obey.
On stage today we told the story of Moses and the ten plagues on Egypt found in Exodus 5-11. In this story Moses goes to Egypt and tells Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, to let the Israelites go and be free from slavery. Pharaoh refuses and makes life harder for the Israelite people. Moses goes back to Pharaoh and tells him once again to let the Israelites go, but again Pharaoh refuses. God then sent a plague of frogs on the Egyptians. Moses continued to go back to Pharaoh and demand freedom for the Israelites but every single time he did Pharaoh refused. Each time Pharaoh refused God sent another plague. Even though it got harder each time, Moses
never stopped obeying God. In this way Moses showed love for God.
never stopped obeying God. In this way Moses showed love for God.
The Bible tells us in John 14:15 “If you love me, obey my commandments.” (NLT)
Just like Moses showed love by being obedient, we should be obedient as well.
During our large group skit, Tex got the assignment of being a scout. He had to repeatedly run on ahead of the group, look around and report back. After a couple of trips Tex was exhausted! He wanted to quit but Cookie encouraged him to keep obeying the trail boss. Cookie explained that we are being obedient to God when we are obedient to the authority figures that God has placed in our lives. In the same way, the children show love to God by being obedient to their parents and teachers, that’s one reason why obedience is so important.
All of the elements of today’s lesson were for the purpose of teaching your children that the best way to show our love is by being obedient to God and to those in authority over us.
During our large group skit, Tex got the assignment of being a scout. He had to repeatedly run on ahead of the group, look around and report back. After a couple of trips Tex was exhausted! He wanted to quit but Cookie encouraged him to keep obeying the trail boss. Cookie explained that we are being obedient to God when we are obedient to the authority figures that God has placed in our lives. In the same way, the children show love to God by being obedient to their parents and teachers, that’s one reason why obedience is so important.
All of the elements of today’s lesson were for the purpose of teaching your children that the best way to show our love is by being obedient to God and to those in authority over us.
This week you can help your children understand the concepts we discusses by Reading the Bible story in Exodus 5-11. You may want to read selected parts because this is a lengthy passage. Explain to your children that even as an adult there are people that you have to obey. Try to give them specific examples of times that you are obedient, like when you are driving down the road there are traffic laws and speed limits that you have to obey.
Read John 14: 15 and explain that love is a large part of obedience.
Throughout the week share with your children times you have to be obedient to God.
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