Lesso 7 71 Sata Tempts Jesus Luke 4:1-13 Your third- ad fourth-graders are proe to temptatio; i fact, few people are more tempted tha kids this age. Professioals who have the best, latest techology available desig ads geared to tempt your childre to buy or demad specific cosumer goods. Do t make the mistake of believig your third- ad fourth-graders are somehow too youg to be tempted. Use this lesso to help kids uderstad what temptatio is ad that God ca help them avoid it. Lesso What Childre Do Supplies easy prep 1 Gettig Started 2 Bible Exploratio Temptatio Grid (about 15 mi.) Try to go through a fu maze filled with tasty temptatios, first aloe ad the with help. The Test (about 15 mi.) Liste to the Bible passage o CD, ad the discuss how Jesus respoded to temptatios. maskig tape, Hershey s Kisses, fu-size cady bars, copy of the Temptatio Grid hadout (at the ed of this lesso) CD player Teacher Pack: CD Use maskig tape to create a larger versio of the Temptatio Grid hadout o the floor of your room. Place a Hershey s Kiss o each square i the grid. Put the fu-size cady bars i a hidde place util you eed them. Bible Poit Jesus helps us resist temptatio. Key Verse Because he himself suffered whe he was tempted, he is able to help those who are beig tempted (Hebrews 2:18). Weavig Faith Ito Life Childre will resist a specific temptatio by askig Jesus to help them. Bold text withi the lesso is spoke text. Lesso 7 Witer Quarter
72 Lesso What Childre Do Supplies Easy Prep 3 Temptig Situatios (about 10 mi.) Lear the Key Verse as they thik about temptatio, ad discover how God ca help them stad strog. Bibles, idex cards, pes, clothespis Weavig Faith Ito Life Temptatio First-Aid Kit (about 15 mi.) Create a first-aid kit to use whe dealig with temptatio. Bible Truth Sleuth, CD player, card stock, scissors (several pairs), tape, crayos, markers, 1 copy per child of the Temptatio First-Aid Kit hadout (at the ed of this lesso), copies of the lyrics page (at the ed of this lesso) Teacher Pack: CD Tear out the Lesso 7 pages from each Bible Truth Sleuth studet book. Use card stock to make the copies of the Temptatio First-Aid Kit hadout. 4 Lastig Impressios Daily Challeges (about 5 mi.) Choose a Daily Challege to apply God s Word. Weavig Faith at Home (about 2 mi.) Talk about how to share what they leared with their families. Bible Truth Sleuth Bibles, first-aid kits from the Temptatio First-Aid Kit activity Bold text withi the lesso is spoke text. Witer Quarter Lesso 7
73 Sata Tempts Jesus Luke 4:1-13 BIBLe BACKGROUND for Leaders Jesus Goes Ito the Wilderess Jesus temptatio by Sata followed closely o the heels of his baptism ad God s cofirmatio of Jesus relatioship with him (Luke 3:21-22). Why did God allow Jesus to be tempted i this way? At least oe aswer is foud i Hebrews 4:14-16. If Jesus had ot bee tempted as we are, he would ot be able to sympathize with our vulerability to temptatio. Because he was tempted, he ca idetify with us. Sata Tempts Jesus i the Wilderess Some ask if it was possible for Jesus to give i to Sata s temptatios. There s ot a easy aswer to this questio. Some say his divie ature ruled out the possibility of his siig. Others say that his humaity made him vulerable to si ad that if the temptatio to si was t real, the he would t have bee able to atoe for our sis i his death. For further study, read Hebrews 2:14-18. Although Luke 4:1-13 is referred to as the temptatio of Jesus, it s importat to remember the words of Luke 4:13. These evets did t mark the ed of Sata s attempts to draw Jesus away from God. Throughout Jesus miistry, Sata tried to capitalize o Jesus humaity. However, Jesus always withstood the test, ad he died for us after livig a siless life. The Jesus Coectio As your relatioship with Jesus grows through spedig time i God s Word, your resistace to Sata s temptatios will become stroger. What temptatios are you battlig right ow? Use a Bible app or a Bible website to fid a verse that helps you fight that temptatio. Persoalize it as a prayer, ad memorize it. You ca write your prayer here. Whe Sata offered Jesus all the kigdoms of the world, the stregth of the temptatio was i the shortcut it offered. Sata offered Jesus authority over the world uder Sata, who was uder God, without havig to go through the humiliatio ad sufferig that Jesus kew was comig. The oly coditio was that Jesus had to worship Sata. But all this was a deceptio. Jesus would t have become kig; he would have become a servat of Sata. Ad Jesus saw through Sata s pla. Jesus Overcomes Sata s Temptatios Jesus aswered each of Sata s temptatios with Scripture. What does that tell us about how we ca be prepared to face temptatio? Lesso 7 Witer Quarter
74 gettig started Temptatio Grid Supplies maskig tape Hershey s Kisses fu-size cady bars copy of the Temptatio Grid hadout (at the ed of this lesso)! allergy alert Temptatio Grid Easy Prep Use maskig tape to create a larger versio of the Temptatio Grid hadout o the floor of your room. Place a Hershey s Kiss o each square i the grid. Put the fu-size cady bars i a hidde place util you eed them. Temptatio Grid What You ll Do Welcome kids warmly as they arrive, ad ask them how their week wet. Keep your copy of the Temptatio Grid hadout i a place where you ca see it but kids ca t. Say: Today we re goig to go through a maze. I have the solutio here, but oe of you will kow the correct way to get to the ed. Have kids form a lie at the startig poit of the grid. Say: Your goal is to choose the correct square o each tur to get our group through this maze. You ca step o oe square per tur. I ll let you kow if it s right or wrog. Pay attetio to where other people move so you lear the way. If you choose the correct square, you ll give the cady from that square to me ad go to the back of the lie. There are really good treats for you at the ed of this maze if you make it there. You ca choose to step o a square you kow is wrog, ad you ca eat the cady o that square, but you wo t get to have ay of the treats at the ed of the maze. If you accidetally step o a wrog square, you ca leave the cady there ad the ext perso will take a tur. Ecourage the first perso to choose a square he or she thiks might be the begiig of the path through the grid. If the perso chooses correctly, take the cady from that square, ad have that perso go to the back of the lie. The ext perso ca try as well, followig the rules metioed before. Give kids 10 miutes to get to the ed of this maze. If people keep takig the Hershey s Kisses, they ll ever get to the ed, but if they work together, they ll get the prizes at the ed. Talk With Kids Lead kids i this discussio. Ask: What was easy or difficult about workig with everyoe else to get through this maze? How did you decide whether or ot to give i to temptatio i this maze? I what ways is that like or ulike the way you decide whether or ot to give i to temptatio i real-life situatios? Say: Sometimes goig through life is like goig through a maze. We ca go may differet ways, but oe way is the best way. We ca be tempted to go the wrog way by goig after thigs that lead us away from the right path. Today we ll take a look at how Jesus faced temptatio as we talk about how Jesus helps us resist temptatio. Witer Quarter Lesso 7
75 2 Bible Exploratio The Test What You ll Do Say: Most of you have had to face tests. By sittig dow ad aswerig tough questios, you ve had to show a teacher what you ve leared. The Test Supplies CD player Teacher Pack CD: The Test (track 7) Let s liste i o what happeed to Jesus durig this temptatio test. Have kids close their eyes ad liste carefully, tryig to visualize the scee as they hear it. Play The Test (track 7 o the CD). Whe the track has eded, ask childre to form pairs. Have pairs discuss the followig questios: Ask: Which of these temptatios seems the most difficult to you? Explai. What s differet about the ways the devil tempted Jesus ad the ways he tempts you? How ca Jesus help you resist the temptatios you face? Ask pairs to share their isights with the larger group. Say: Oe reaso Jesus could use Scripture whe the devil tempted him was that Jesus kew God s Word. Jesus kew what was true. He did t have to try to reach a decisio because he already kew what would please God. Jesus helps us resist temptatio, too! Talk With Kids Lead kids i this discussio. Ask: What does it mea to you that the devil backed dow whe Jesus quoted Scripture to him? What do you have that you ca use to defeat temptatios? What ca you do to prepare to beat temptatio before it happes? Say: Jesus already kew the Bible verses he was goig to use to put Sata i his place, ad Jesus helps us resist temptatio, too. Sice Jesus already beat temptatio i the biggest way, we kow he s able to help us with whatever we face, ad we kow it brigs glory to God whe we resist temptatio. Lesso 7 Witer Quarter
76 3 Weavig Faith Ito Life Temptig Situatios Supplies Bibles idex cards pes clothespis Temptig Situatios What You ll Do Make sure each child has a Bible, idex card, ad pe. Say: We ll all face a variety of temptatios as we go through our lives. These idex cards ca represet us. Take a few miutes to write dow some words about the temptatios you face. Allow time. Whe kids are fiished writig their temptatios o the idex cards, say: Facig temptatios ca be so overwhelmig. Let s try to stad up our cards without chagig them i ay way you ca t fold them or tear them. Allow time. You ca lea them agaist oe aother but ot agaist aythig else i the room. Allow time. Say: Your cards did t stad up very well o their ow or eve whe they leaed o each other. That s how we are whe we face temptatios i our lives. Let s see what our Key Verse today, Hebrews 2:18, has to say about temptatio. Have kids fid the Key Verse, Hebrews 2:18, i their Bibles, ad read the verse aloud with them: Because he himself suffered whe he was tempted, he is able to help those who are beig tempted (Hebrews 2:18). This verse tells us that we ca trust Jesus to help us with temptatios we face. Let s see what we ca do to help our cards stad up better. Give a clothespi to each child. Show kids how to clip the clothespi at the bottom of the card to form a stad for the card. Talk With Kids Lead kids i this discussio. Ask: I what way is the clothespi like or ulike what our Key Verse told us about Jesus help i temptatio? explai whether or ot you thik Jesus help i times of temptatio will mea you ever have to face temptatio. What s oe way you ca tur to Jesus whe you face temptatio? Say: Your cards were t able to stad up o their ow. Whe we face temptatio, we ca kow that Jesus is strog eough to help us, because he already beat temptatio himself. The best thig to remember is that Jesus helps us resist temptatio. Witer Quarter Lesso 7
77 Temptatio First-Aid Kit What You ll Do Say: The devil kows that it s easiest to tempt us where we re weak. If you have a quick temper, you ll probably be tempted to get mad every time your sister says somethig mea to you. If you re always wishig you had ew clothes, you ll be tempted to get jealous every time oe of your frieds gets ew clothes. Today we re goig to make somethig to help us remember that Jesus has bee through temptatio ad to remid us that Jesus helps us resist temptatio. Distribute copies of the Temptatio First-Aid Kit hadout, ad set out scissors ad tape. Direct kids i makig their Temptatio First-Aid Kits by givig them the followig istructios: 1. Cut out the patter by cuttig oly o the solid lies. 2. Color ad decorate the patter ay way you choose. 3. Fold iward o all the dotted lies. 4. At the corers, fold the triagles iward ad tape the flaps to the iside of the box. 5. Tape the outside corers of the box to secure them. 6. Fially, cut out the hadle ad attach it to the top of the box with tape where idicated. Play That You May Believe (Joh 20:31) (track 3 o the CD) a couple of times while kids work. After kids have fiished makig their Temptatio First-Aid Kits, distribute the Bible Truth Sleuth pages ad have the kids tur to the Temptatio Badages sectio. Have kids cut out the badages ad place them i their first-aid kits. Whe kids have fiished their first-aid kits, distribute copies of the lyrics page ad lead kids i sigig That You May Believe (Joh 20:31) (track 3 o the CD). But these are writte that you may believe That Jesus is the Christ, the So of God, But these are writte that you may believe That Jesus is the Christ, the So of God, Ad that by believig you may have life i his ame; Ad that by believig you may have life i his ame; Ad that by believig you may have life i his ame; Ad that by believig you may have life i his ame. Temptatio First-Aid Kit Supplies Bible Truth Sleuth CD player card stock scissors (several pairs) tape crayos markers 1 copy per child of the Temptatio First-Aid Kit hadout (at the ed of this lesso) copies of the lyrics page (at the ed of this lesso) Teacher Pack CD: That You May Believe (Joh 20:31) (track 3) Temptatio First-Aid Kit Easy Prep Tear out the Lesso 7 pages from each Bible Truth Sleuth studet book. Use card stock to make the copies of the Temptatio First-Aid Kit hadout. (Repeat from the begiig.) That You May Believe (Joh 20:31) by Dea-o. 2003, 2006 Group Publishig, Ic. All rights reserved. Lesso 7 Witer Quarter
78 Talk With Kids Lead kids i this discussio. Ask: I what way is beig ready to resist temptatio like carryig a first-aid kit with you? Jesus used the Bible to resist temptatio. I what way does that give you cofidece that you ca beat temptatio? What ca you do to help yourself remember the verses o the back of the badages whe temptatio comes? Say: God ever promised we would t face temptatio, but he did promise that Jesus helps us resist temptatio. Whe we have Jesus with us ad we face temptatio, we will grow closer to Jesus. Jesus faced temptatio that was greater tha aythig we ll ever face, so we kow he s stroger tha ay temptatio we could face. 4 Lastig Impressios Daily Challeges Supplies Bible Truth Sleuth Daily Challeges What You ll Do Say: Let s cosider this week how Jesus helps us resist temptatio as we choose our Daily Challeges. Have kids fid this week s Daily Challeges o their Bible Truth Sleuth pages ad choose oe to do this week. They ca choose oe or more of these three optios: With a paret s permissio, write a word o your had to remid you of our Key Verse. Every time you otice the word o your had, pray ad ask God to help you prepare to be strog agaist temptatio. Fid a Christia fried that you ca talk to. Whe you feel tempted to do somethig wrog, talk to your fried about it. Pray, ad thak Jesus for givig you this fried. Set your Temptatio First-Aid Kit beside your bed, ad read a verse o oe of the badages before you go to bed at ight. Pray, ad ask God to help you use these verses be stroger tha the temptatios you will face. Make sure you choose a Daily Challege as well, ad tell the kids what you chose. Kids will be more iclied to follow through o their commitmets whe they see you doig the same. Witer Quarter Lesso 7
79 Talk With Kids Lead kids i this discussio. Ask: What s a practical way you re goig to do your Daily Challege? Iclude a time, a place, ad other ideas. Say: Jesus resisted some pretty major temptatio, ad he was able to stad strog. We do t have to be as strog as Jesus was all by ourselves. Jesus helps us resist temptatio. Let s trust Jesus to help us become stroger tha temptatio by followig through o our Daily Challeges this week. Weavig Faith at Home Ecourage kids to talk with their parets about the Daily Challeges they chose ad what they leared about temptatio. Kids ca also do the activities i the HomeCoect sectio of their Bible Truth Sleuth pages with their families. Talk to your Director about emailig the FREE FamilyCoect to all your church s families. Available at group.com/digital. Weavig Faith at Home Supplies Bibles first-aid kits from the Temptatio First-Aid Kit activity Have kids carry their Bibles ad first-aid kits with them ad stad i a circle. Say: The badages i our first-aid kits have Bible verses o them to help us remember to let God help us be strog i times of temptatio. Let s pray over our first-aid kits. Sit with kids i a circle. Allow time for kids to choose verses from the badages i their first-aid kits ad look them up i their Bibles. Say: Let s pray these verses to help us beat temptatio. Pray: Dear Jesus, please help us be strog agaist temptatio. Please help us use your Word to stad strog. Allow time for kids to read siletly or aloud ay verses they wat to read as a prayer. I Jesus ame, ame. Lesso 7 Witer Quarter
80 Lyrics That You May Believe (Joh 20:31) But these are writte that you may believe That Jesus is the Christ, the So of God, But these are writte that you may believe That Jesus is the Christ, the So of God, Ad that by believig you may have life i his ame; Ad that by believig you may have life i his ame; Ad that by believig you may have life i his ame; Ad that by believig you may have life i his ame. (Repeat from the begiig.) That You May Believe (Joh 20:31) by Dea-o. 2003, 2006 Group Publishig, Ic. All rights reserved.! ok to copy Witer Quarter Lesso 7
81 Temptatio First-Aid Kit a b a b Temptatio First-Aid Kit! ok to copy Lesso 7 Witer Quarter
82 Temptatio Grid! ok to copy Witer Quarter Lesso 7