1 st 4 th Grade Teacher Guide

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1 1 st 4 th Grade Teacher Guide From Abraham to Jesus Bible Passage: Matthew 1:1-17 Main Point: Main point: God became man and showed us how to have power to obey Him. Memory Verse: Phil 2:7 He gave up his place with God and made himself nothing. He was born as a man and became like a servant 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 lead 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: Silent Message Write a variety of activities on strips of paper. Prepare one strip of paper for every two kids. (Suggestions: ride a carousel, wash a car, build a block tower, and so on) Guide kids to form pairs. Allow each pair to draw one strip of paper. Explain that the kids should imagine they have important instructions for the rest of the group. The kids should try to figure out what action they should take. Direct the pairs to take turns performing the action written on the paper. One partner will silently act it out and the other will narrate or provide sound effects. The partners may not say the words on the paper. The rest of the kids should guess what instructions the pair is performing. 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: Craft: Family tree. Items needed: Cardstock paper. Crayons. Gospel Project Unit 19.1

2 Instructions: (1) Have Kids place hand on construction paper. 2) Have kids color the hand picture like tree bark. 3) Have kids write each family member (or multiple ones) on each finger. 4) have Kids draw leafs around names. 5) (Optional have the kids cut out picture). Say: God became man and showed us how to have power to obey Him. 5:00 5:10 BIBLE STORY REVIEW: Story: Read the Bible Story provided in the teacher aid bin. Say: God became man and showed us how to have power to obey Him. 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. Who created Jesus? (God the Son has always existed. No one created Him; Heb. 1:2) 2. Who were Jesus parents on earth? (Mary and Joseph, Matt. 1:20-21) 3. Who is Jesus true Father? (God the Father, Luke 1:35) 4. Name a king in Jesus family. (David, Solomon, Jehoshaphat, Uzziah, Ahaz, Hezekiah, Josiah; Matt. 1:7-10) 5. How is Jesus different? Jesus is fully God and fully man. 6. Whom did God promise that his family would be as numerous as the stars? (Abraham, Gen. 15:5) 7. Whom did God promise that a king in his family would rule forever? (David, 2 Sam. 7:16) 8. Name a woman in Jesus family tree. (Tamar, Rahab, Ruth, Bathsheba/Uriah s wife, Mary; Matt. 1:3-6,16) Say: God became man and showed us how to have power to obey Him. 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. Phil 2:7 He gave up his place with God and made himself nothing. He was born as a man and became like a servant 5:25 ENDING ACTIVITY / PARENT ARRIVAL: Activity: Old age. Have the kids act like different members of their family from Grandpa and grandma to Mom and dad. Gospel Project Unit 19.1

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6 Memory Verse: Phil 2:7 He gave up his place with God and made himself nothing. He was born as a man and became like a servant Coloring sheet

7 The Gospel Project: 19.1 Elementary MC Guide From Abraham to Jesus Bible Passage: Malachi 1 4 Main Point: God became man and showed us how to have power to obey Him. Memory Verse: Phil 2:7 He gave up his place with God and made himself nothing. He was born as a man and became like a servant Lesson: Lesson synopsis. The prophecies concerning Jesus birth are numerous, and many of them refer to Jesus lineage. Old Testament prophecies tell of the promised Messiah being born from the seed of a woman (Gen. 3:15); from the seed of Abraham (Gen. 22:18), Isaac (Gen. 21:12), and Jacob (Num. 24:17); from the tribe of Judah (Micah 5:2); from the line of Jesse (Isa. 11:1); and from the house of David (Jer. 23:5). The prophecies said He would be born of a virgin (Isa. 7:14) and would be the Son of God (1 Chron. 17:13-14; Ps. 2:7). Jesus fulfilled all of these prophecies. In Bible times, Jews took great care to accurately record family genealogies. The family a person belonged to was directly linked to property rights. Matthew 1:1-17 and Luke 3:23-38 both chronicle the genealogy of Jesus. The account in Matthew presents Jesus as the king of the Jews the legal heir to the throne of David. The account in Luke was written to Greek Christians and focuses on Jesus descent from Adam. Jesus was born as a baby in Bethlehem. He had earthly parents, Mary and Joseph, but His true Father is God. Jesus is fully God and fully man. As fully God, in Him the entire fullness of God s nature dwells bodily (Col. 2:9). As fully man, Jesus has a human body, human mind, and human emotions. (See Luke 2:7,52; Matt. 26:38.) He is our sinless representative (2 Cor. 5:21), sympathetic high priest (Heb. 4:15), and substitute sacrifice (1 John 4:10). Use this Bible story with the kids you teach to review Jesus ancestors and their stories in the Old Testament. Help kids recognize that God had been working out His plan to send Jesus over hundreds of years through Adam, Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Jesse, David, Solomon, and Josiah. God sent Jesus to earth to save people from their sins. Go over Classroom Rules: Play the Intro-Video Timeline View: Our story today is about the family that God gave Jesus when Jesus was born on earth. It s called From Abraham to Jesus. Main Point: That leads us to our main point: God became man and showed us how to have power to obey Him. 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: God became man. Jesus is God the Son. God the Son has always existed; no one created Him. God planned to send His Son to earth to save people from sin. Jesus came to earth as a baby. He was born to Mary, who was married to Joseph. Jesus is fully God, and He is fully human too. That makes Jesus different from any other man. Like all people on earth, Jesus family had a history a family tree. Jesus had parents, grandparents, greatgrandparents, and great-great-grandparents all the way back for many generations. Our story shows us that God kept His promises. Do you remember all the promises God made in the Old Testament about the Messiah? God

8 promised Abraham that someone would come from his family who would bless the whole world! He promised David that a king would come from his family who would rule forever. The prophet Isaiah said the Messiah would be born of a virgin. Jesus made all of these promises come true! Jesus came to earth as a baby in Bethlehem. Jesus had earthly parents, Mary and Joseph, but His true Father is God. Christ Connection: Jesus came to earth as a baby in Bethlehem. Jesus had earthly parents, Mary and Joseph, but His true Father is God. Through Jesus, God kept His promises to Abraham and David. Jesus saves people from their sin and adopts them into God s family. He came to this earth to show people how to have the power to obey Him. Show Main Point (Have them repeat the MAIN Point!) God became man and showed us how to have power to obey Him. Application: Let s watch our discussion starter video and see what it might have to do with our story. Play the Discussion Starter Video: 1. Who is the most important person in history? 2. What makes people famous? 3. Why do we remember some people from history but not everybody? 4. People may or may not agree on who is the most famous person in history, but Jesus is definitely the most important! God planned from before the beginning of time to send His Son into the world. God calls us to be part of His plan to make Jesus famous. Jesus is the most important, and He deserves to be made known. Only Jesus can save people from sin. Show Memory Verse: Repeat after me Phil 2:7 He gave up his place with God and made himself nothing. He was born as a man and became like a servant 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!) Dismiss kids to class:

9 Bible Story: Video Matthew 1:1-17 Jesus is God the Son. God the Son has always existed; no one created Him. God planned to send His Son to earth to save people from sin. Jesus came to earth as a baby. He was born to Mary, who was married to Joseph. Jesus is fully God, and He is fully human too. That makes Jesus different from any other man. Like all people on earth, Jesus family had a history a family tree. Jesus had parents, grandparents, great-grandparents, and great-great-grandparents all the way back for many generations. Jesus came from the family of Abraham and the family of King David. Abraham had a son named Isaac. When Isaac had a family, one of his sons was named Jacob. Jacob was part of Jesus family. Years later, a man named Salmon (SAL mahn) was born into Jesus family tree. He married Rahab (RAY hab), who hid the Israelite spies when they came to Jericho. Rahab had a baby, and his name was Boaz (BOH az). Boaz was a farmer, and he married Ruth. Boaz and Ruth had a son named Obed (OH bed). Obed s son was Jesse. Jesse had many sons, and the youngest was David. David was just a boy when he was chosen to be Israel s king. King David liked to write. He wrote songs called psalms and some of them were about the time when Jesus would come to earth. Other people in Jesus family were kings too. David s son Solomon was a king. King Jehoshaphat (jih HAHSH uh fat) was part of Jesus family, and so was Uzziah (uh ZIGH uh), Ahaz (AY haz), Hezekiah (HEZ ih kigh uh), and Josiah. Then came Matthan (MAT than). Matthan s son was named Jacob, and Jacob s son was named Joseph. Joseph is the man who took Mary to be his wife. Mary was Jesus mother, and Joseph raised Jesus as his own son. Jesus was truly God s Son the Messiah. Christ Connection: Jesus came to earth as a baby in Bethlehem. Jesus had earthly parents, Mary and Joseph, but His true Father is God. Through Jesus, God kept His promises to Abraham and David. Jesus saves people from their sin and adopts them into God s family.

Session 1 OLDER UNIT 19 1 UNIT 19 // SESSION 1 // CYCLE 1

Session 1 OLDER UNIT 19 1 UNIT 19 // SESSION 1 // CYCLE 1 Session Title: From Abraham to Jesus Bible Passage: Matthew 1:1-17 Main Point: Jesus earthly family included Abraham, David, and others. Key Passage: This saying is trustworthy and deserving of full acceptance: