3:45 4:00 CHECK IN / SNACKS / GAMES 4:00 4:10 ACTIVITY SHEET / ARRIVING ACTIVITY 4:10 4:15 CLEAN UP / GO OVER RULES & CONSEQUENCES 4:15 4:50 KIDS LIVE

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1 1 st 4 th Grade Teacher Guide The Unmerciful Servant Bible Passage: Matthew 18:21-35 Main Point: God sent Jesus so we can see how to get to heaven and how we should live on earth. Memory Verse: Luke 4:18 The Spirit of the Lord is in me. This is because God chose me to tell the Good News to the poor. God sent me to tell the prisoners of sin that they are free, and to tell the blind that they can see again. 3:45 4:00 CHECK IN / SNACKS / GAMES One teacher take control of sign-in: One nametag will go on the child, another will go on the clipboard, and one will be used for checkout. Just place the Pick-Up sticker on the clipboard to check the child out. If someone is new to the church or not in our database, they can fill out a guest tag. Please make sure that you get their phone number in case we need to contact them and any special instructions for the care of their child. One teacher leads orderly free play. 4:00 4:10 ACTIVITY SHEET / ARRIVING ACTIVITY Activity Sheet: Distribute activity pages and instruct the kids to complete the challenge. (The challenge is located on the back of the coloring sheet.) INTRO ACTIVITY: Draw the line Explain that one side of the room represents That s so easy! and the other represents That s too hard! The middle of the room represents I m not sure. You may choose to lay a piece of masking tape or painter s tape across the floor to help kids visualize the spectrum. Tell kids that you will read a statement. Kids should think about how easy or hard it would be for them to show forgiveness or mercy in that situation. Allow kids to move along the line after each statement. Your classmate didn t invite you to a party. Your friend spilled chocolate milk all over your shirt. Your brother borrowed and lost your favorite game. Your sister ripped your new jeans. Your dad missed your soccer game. Your grandpa broke his promise to take you to the movies. Say Believers should not draw the line on how many times we will forgive someone who wrongs us. Through Jesus, God has forgiven all of our sin past, present, and future. God shows mercy to us so that we will show mercy to others. 4:10 4:15 CLEAN UP / GO OVER RULES & CONSEQUENCES Respect the Leaders Respect Others Respect the Property 4:15 4:50 KIDS LIVE Have the kids sit together. Keep an eye on them and watch the door for more kids. 4:50 5:00 CRAFT Merciful/unmerciful masks Gospel Project Unit 22.2

2 Distribute to each kid two paper plates and a craft stick. Instruct them to draw a happy face on one paper plate and an angry face on the other to represent merciful and unmerciful attitudes. Help the kids tape their craft sticks to one plate and then tape the two plates together to make a two-sided mask. Allow kids to use other craft supplies to decorate their masks. Come up with situations where people might choose to act mercifully or unmercifully, and ask the kids to use their masks to show how they might react and how God would want them to react. Say In our lives we can choose to show mercy to others and forgive them. God showed us great mercy when He sent Jesus to take the punishment we deserve. We can show mercy to others because God first showed mercy to us. If we choose not to show mercy, our bad feelings will often grow inside of us. When we choose not to show mercy, we end up hurting ourselves as well as others. 5:00 5:10 BIBLE STORY REVIEW Story: Read the Bible Story provided in the teacher aid bin. Say: God sent Jesus so we can see how to get to heaven and how we should live on earth. 5:10 5:20 REVIEW & APPLICATION QUESTIONS Review Questions: Family Feud Style Game (Items Needed: Buzzer) Divide the group into two teams. Have one person from each team come to the Check-In desk with the buzzer on it. Tell them to put their hands behind their back until you ask the question. The first person to hit the buzzer gets to answer the question. If the team answers the question correctly, they get 10 points. If they answer incorrectly, the other team can steal the points. For each question, pick a new person on the team to answer the question. The goal is to give every child the opportunity to be asked a question. 1. How many times did Peter think he should forgive someone? (seven times, Matt. 18:21) 2. How many times did Jesus say to forgive someone? (seventy times seven times, Matt. 18:22) 3. In the parable, how many silver coins did the servant owe the king? (fifty million, or 10,000 talents; Matt. 18:24) 4. What did the servant ask the king to do? (give him more time, Matt. 18:26) 5. What did the king do for the servant? (The king forgave him, Matt. 18:27) 6. How many silver coins did the man owe the servant? (one hundred, or 100 denarii; Matt. 18:28) 7. What did the man ask the servant to do? (give him more time, Matt. 18:29) 8. What did the servant do to the man who owed him money? (put him into jail, Matt. 18:30) 9. Why was the king angry? (The king forgave the servant what he could never repay, and the servant did not forgive the small amount; Matt. 18:32-33) 10. Who paid the debt for our sin? (Jesus, Rom. 4:25) 11. Why can we forgive others? (God has greatly forgiven us, Eph. 4:32) 5:20 5:25 MEMORY VERSE Review with the entire group. Use the Memory Verse sheet located in the teacher aid section of the bin. Luke 4:18: The Spirit of the Lord is in me. This is because God chose me to tell the Good News to the poor. God sent me to tell the prisoners of sin that they are free, and to tell the blind that they can see again. 5:25 ENDING ACTIVITY / PARENT ARRIVAL Free play. Gospel Project Unit 22.2

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6 Coloring Sheet Main Point: God sent Jesus so we can see how to get to heaven and how we should live on earth.

7 The Gospel Project: 22.2 Elementary MC Guide The Unmerciful Servant Bible Passage: Matthew 18:21-35 Main Point: God sent Jesus so we can see how to get to heaven and how we should live on earth. Memory Verse: Luke 4:18 The Spirit of the Lord is in me. This is because God chose me to tell the Good News to the poor. God sent me to tell the prisoners of sin that they are free, and to tell the blind that they can see again. Lesson synopsis Jesus had been teaching His disciples when Peter asked Jesus, How many times should I forgive my brother when he sins against me? Peter suggested seven times. Jews considered it standard to show forgiveness three times (see Job 33:29-30), so Peter probably thought he was going above and beyond. Jesus answered Peter s question by telling a story about an unmerciful servant. In the parable, a servant owed his master ten thousand talents. A talent was equal to about 20 years of wages. Ten thousand talents represented a debt that could never be repaid. Faced with debtors prison, the servant begged for more time to repay the master. Instead, the master released his servant and forgave the great debt. The same servant went out and confronted a man who owed him a hundred denarii about 100 days of wages. The man begged for more time, but the servant refused and put the man in prison. When the master heard what happened, he was angry that the servant who had been forgiven a great debt did not show mercy to the man who owed a small debt. So, the master put the man in prison until he could pay his debt. Jesus concluded the parable by explaining that God would react in the same way to anyone who does not forgive his brother. We are like the servant, and God is like the master. Because of our sin, we owe a debt we cannot pay. We deserve to be punished for our sin, but God the Father showed His love by sending His Son, Jesus, to pay the debt we owe. Jesus lived the perfect life we fail to live and died the death we deserve to die. We come to Him with nothing to offer but empty hands of faith. Those who trust in Jesus are completely forgiven. As you teach kids, emphasize that God shows mercy to us so that we will show mercy to others not just three times or seven times, but many times not keeping count. We have been forgiven a great debt, so we can forgive others when they sin against us. Play intro Video: In Today s video Charlie didn t want to forgive Kyle, In today s story, Jesus tells about a servant who didn t want to forgive either. Review: Last week we learned about the Parable Of the Sower. Today we will learn about forgiveness in The Unmerciful Servant. Timeline Picture: We recently started studying Bible stories from the New Testament. Can anyone tell me what the New Testament is about? [Allow kids to respond.] The New Testament is about Jesus life, teaching, and future return. It is also about the early Church. Main Point: That leads us to our main point: God sent Jesus so we can see how to get to heaven and how we should live on

8 earth. Show the Main Point Everyone say that with me (Have them repeat the MAIN Point) Very interesting! Let s take a look at how he did this! Bible Story: Play the Bible Story Video: In that time If you owed someone money they couldn t pay, they would be thrown into debtor s prison. The Unmerciful servant in this story Owed the king more than he could ever pay back. This man deserved to be thrown into prison, but the king was merciful and forgave the man of his debts. The man s servant owed him only one hundred silver coins and was very cruel to the servant and threw him into jail. When the king heard about his he was very angry; he had forgiven this man of so much and the man didn t treat his servant the same way. The king then threw the unmerciful servant back into prison. Jesus Told His disciples this to teach them something very important. God has forgiven us of so much. There is no way that we could ever pay God back for all that we owe Him. The price for our sin is Death. Do you guys know who paid that price? Jesus! We have no choice but to forgive others because we have been forgiven by God. Christ Connection: Nothing we do is enough to pay the debt we owe God and take away God s punishment for our sin. Jesus came and died on the cross to pay for our sin and take the punishment we deserve. When we trust in Jesus, God forgives our sin completely. We can forgive others because God has greatly forgiven us greatly. Show Main Point (Have them repeat the MAIN Point!) God sent Jesus so we can see how to get to heaven and how we should live on earth. Application: Have you ever accidentally broken something that wasn t yours? Watch this video and think about that question. Show the Unit 22, Session 2 discussion starter video. Ask the kids how they would react in that kind of situation. Could they show forgiveness to a friend if he broke something very important to them? Could a friend show them forgiveness if they broke something important to that friend? Play the Discussion Starter Video: Could they show forgiveness to a friend if he broke something very important to them? Could a friend show them forgiveness if they broke something important to that friend? It is very hard to show mercy when someone does something that makes you very angry or upset. God showed us mercy by choosing not to punish us as we deserved. Instead, God sent Jesus to die for our sin and rise again. Show Memory Verse: Repeat after me Luke 4:18: The Spirit of the Lord is in me. This is because God chose me to tell the Good News to the poor. God sent me to tell the prisoners of sin that they are free, and to tell the blind that they can see again. Show Main Point: Let s review our Main Point one more time. God became man and showed us how to have power to obey Him. (Have them repeat the MAIN Point!) Go over Classroom Rules: 1. Respect your leaders 2. Respect others 3. Respect the property

9 Dismiss kids to class: The Unmerciful Servant Matthew 18:21-35 Peter asked Jesus, How many times should I forgive someone who wrongs me? Is seven times enough? Jesus answered, Not just seven times, but seventy times seven times! Then Jesus told Peter a story to help him understand what forgiveness in the kingdom of heaven is like. Jesus said, One day, a king asked all his servants to tell him how much they each owed the king. One of the servants owed the king fifty million silver coins! The servant did not have any money to give the king, so the king ordered for the servant and his family to be sold as payment for the debt. But the servant fell on his knees and begged the king, Please give me more time. I will repay you everything I owe! The king felt sorry for the man, so he let the man go and forgave the debt; the servant did not have to pay the king anything. As the servant was leaving, he ran into a man who owed him one hundred silver coins. The servant grabbed the man by the throat and choked him. Give me the money you owe me! he demanded. The man fell to his knees and begged the servant, Please give me more time. I will repay you everything I owe! But the servant refused, and he threw the man into jail. Some other servants told the king what happened. The king called for the servant he had forgiven. You are an evil man! said the king. I forgave what you could never repay, and you did not forgive the small amount. The king was angry. He punished the official and made him pay his debt. Jesus said, This is what My Father in heaven will do if you do not forgive each other. Christ Connection: Nothing we do is enough to pay the debt we owe God and take away God s punishment for our sin. Jesus came and died on the cross to pay for our sin and take the punishment we deserve. When we trust in Jesus, God forgives our sin completely. We can forgive others because God has greatly forgiven us greatly.