Jesus' 2nd Coming and Judgement Day Creed #7

Jesus’ 2^nd Coming and Judgement Day

Entrance Craft for Kids: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/291678513349638649/

Transition: 

            We will start with a Relay Race to gather cards that will spell a phrase that we need to remember as we think about the End Times and the uncertain events to come. The only Letter Card you can have two of is “T”

            The phrase is “Trust God”. The big thing we need to remember any time you study Revelation and Jesus’ 2^nd Coming is that there are things the Bible just doesn’t tell us. So we need to Trust God! It is OK to DISAGREE about each other’s interpretations of the End Times – it shows that we are digging and processing the scriptures BUT it is NOT ok to DIVIDE because of our interpretations. THERE ARE NO CLEAR ANSWERS for all the events to come in the End of Satan’s reign on earth. Proverbs 3:5 – look up and read

Large Group:

Your next task today is you look up the scriptures on the back of your letter cards. Read them and as a table decide which ones are talking about Jesus’ 2^nd Coming vs Judgement Day. Be ready to share with everyone what the point or fact we can gather from each scripture is.

2^nd Coming: Matthew 24:26-31, 1 Thes 5:1-11, 1 Thes 4:13-18 and Luke 12:35-48

Judgement: Matthew 16:24-28, Romans 2:5-11, Rev 20:11-15 and Rev 21:6-8

Share after

End Illustration: Have adults stand up on one side of the room with the youth and children on the other. We are going earn medals based on our good deeds this week. (Have a handful of individuals assigned before-hand to say something like “Ha no thanks – I quit now” and they will sit down in the front to watch.) State various good deeds like “Read the Bible at least 2 times this week” or “Said meal prayers”. If someone has done them they can stay standing, but if not they come to the center to receive their medal. The first group who is “out” receives the bronze medals. The second group the silver and the last group the gold.

Point out to everyone – those who choose not to “play” or have Faith in Jesus will go to Hell on Judgement day – they won’t receive the prize of Heaven. Those going to Heaven will then be judged on what they did with Jesus in their lives – did they make a difference? They will receive different rewards based on their earthly deeds. NOTE our DEEDS do not save us!! FAITH ALONE saves us.

(Medals can be ordered off from Amazon.)

Take Homes: Everyone can take a medal home to hang up to remind themselves to let their faith make a difference in their actions.

Jesus' Resurrection Creed #6

Jesus’ Resurrection

Entrance Craft for Kids: Easter Foldable http://paththroughthenarrowgate.com/easter-finger-puzzle/

Transition: Today’s section is “and the third day He rose again according to the Scriptures, and ascended into heaven, and sitteth on the right hand of the Father;

            Today we are going to act out various skits to decide whether Jesus’ resurrection was truth or fiction

Large Group:

Leader can be the Narrator or you can assign someone to be the Narrator

Lawyer – has questions on each Witness sheet, so print two of each

WITNESS SCRIPTS

Witness #1 – Roman Soldier at the Cross

Witness #2 – Roman Guard

Witness #3 – Thomas

Witness #4 - Paul

**Each person has an Evidence Worksheet to fill out as they listen

Discuss what they wrote down after the skits

Jesus' Crucifixion, Death and Burial Creed #5

Jesus’s Crucifixion, death and burial

Entrance Craft for Kids: Easter Buns – kids will assemble their own Easter Bun (marshmallow is sinless Christ – cinnamon is our sin He took on – bread dough is the tomb) and put in oven so ready at the end.

Transition: Today’s section is “and was crucified also for us under Pontius Pilate; He suffered and was buried,”

            Why did Jesus have to be crucified? Have everyone put a red dot on top of their hand with a marker and then write their name under it.... As we go through the journey of the cross today, look at the dot to think of all Jesus did for you so that you could be in heaven with Him.

Table Time: Journey of the Cross Worksheet – will take each table through Bible verses explaining why: crucified, Pontius Pilate, Suffering and Buried. Each section also has a small snack to assemble

Large Group:

Talk thru each point on worksheet:

            Crucified – Gentiles were crucified while Jews were stoned

            Pontius Pilate – Historical creditability – stops the debate that Jesus’s death was only a Spiritual issue); Also that God can use evil people for His good

            Suffered – Jesus is our Passover Lamb

            Buried – Normally those crucified were thrown into the garbage heap – the burial shows God’s acceptance of the sacrifice

Atonement video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVQgSlfJ6hg

Take Homes:

Good Friday Nature Walk http://www.theunlikelyhomeschool.com/2014/04/good-friday-nature-walk-free-printable.html

Jesus Son of God Creed #4

Jesus Son of God

Entrance Craft for Kids: Stick Nativity Puppets http://www.biblestoryprintables.com/BibleCraftsChristmasNativity#.WU8IWYzyvIV

Opening: 5 different tables get a Heavenly Signs card to act out to review quickly the signs from heaven showing Jesus was from heaven to various individuals so that they could be witnesses. You could add more like Jesus’ dedication at the temple or any others you think of. 

Transition: Today we are looking at why it is important to acknowledge that Jesus is the Son of God. Why does it make a difference?

            C. S. Lewis, who was a professor at Cambridge University and once an agnostic, understood this issue clearly.  He writes: "I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: 'I'm ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don't accept His claim to be God.' That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic - on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg ‑ or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the son of God: or else a madman or something worse."

Then Lewis adds: "You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come up with any patronizing nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to."

Table Time: Only’s Poster and Worksheet: the Creed says Jesus is the “only BEGOTTEN Son of God” What does BEGOTTEN mean? In Greek it is “monogenes” which means one of a kind or unique; only.

Each table will do one of the verses from the Only’s worksheet and decide what “Only” it explains about Jesus. Then someone will write a list of the Only’s that Jesus fulfills.

Large Group: Jesus is God on Earth as a person – ONE person with TWO natures – He was God’s divinity placed in Mary’s womb to obtain human flesh so that He could become Jesus the man…SO if Jesus IS the Son of God – How does that change your life??

Take Homes:

Magnify Glasses and Wordsearch for kids along with Nativity coloring book from Oriental Trading.