You can find answers to your questions in the Bible.

Praise Jesus! Paul Explains the Purpose of Scripture Lesson 13 Bible Point You can find answers to your questions in the Bible. Bible Verse Fear of the Lord is the foundation of wisdom. Knowledge of the Holy One results in good judgment (Proverbs 9:10). Growing Closer to Jesus Students will n learn how to use a concordance, n discover that timelines can help them understand the Bible, and n look in the Bible for answers to specific questions. Teacher Enrichment Bible Basis n Paul explains the purpose of Scripture. 2 Timothy 3:16-17 This passage is one of the key places we turn to in the Bible for an explanation of God s inspiration of the Bible text. From this passage, we know that we can trust the Bible to be true. The verses tell us that God was active in the formation of the text that we call the Bible. Each writer wrote from a particular perspective and background, but was guided by God in what was written. The fact that God was active in the formation of the Bible guarantees its reliability. If God was guiding the process, certainly he would make sure that his Word was conveyed accurately. And if it s reliable, then we can trust it to provide solutions to our problems, answers to our questions, and guidance for our daily lives. If we want to know how to please God, how to be trained in righteousness, the Bible is the book we need to study. And Timothy promises that if we focus on God s Word, we ll be equipped to do what God wants us to do. Other Scriptures used in this lesson are Leviticus 19:11; Deuteronomy 5:19; Psalm 90:1-2; Matthew 19:14; Mark 10:14; Luke 18:16; and Ephesians 4:29; 6:1-3. Prayer Look back at 2 Peter 1:20-21, which you studied in Lesson 9. What further light does this passage shed on God s inspiration of his Word? Pray: God, help me to impress upon my students how fully they can trust the Bible to answer their questions. Help me to show my students how important the Bible is by 143

Lesson 13 Before the Lesson n Collect the necessary items for the activities you plan to use, referring to the Classroom Supplies and Learning Lab Supplies listed on the chart. n Make photocopies of the Hands-On Fun at Home handout (at the end of this lesson) to send home with your students. n Pray for your students and for God s direction as you teach the lesson. This Lesson at a Glance Attention Grabber What Students Will Do Classroom Supplies Learning Lab Supplies All-Star Answers Race to tell where to find answers. Chalkboard and chalk or newsprint and marker Bible Exploration & Application Improve Your Aim Try to hit a target on the floor, read 2 Timothy 3:16-17, and learn how a concordance can help them find targets in the Bible. Bibles, concordances, masking tape Who Came First? Learn about Bible chronology by making a timeline, and read Psalm 90:1-2. Bibles, masking tape, marker, pencils, paper, tape Dear Ernie Discover the Bible s answers to questions. Bibles, Dear Ernie handout (p. 153), Scenarios handout (p. 154), scissors, wrapped candy Closing Bible Boosters Read and listen to Proverbs 9:10, and make posters to promote Bible reading. Bibles, newsprint, markers, tape, CD player 144

Paul Explains the Purpose of Scripture Welcome As kids arrive, ask them how last week s lesson affected their lives. Ask questions such as, How did you show that you re a follower of Jesus? and Who did you tell about Jesus? Remind kids that whenever you say B-I-B-L-E as you click the bug clicker, they are to stop talking, clap twice, and focus on you. Explain that it s important to respond to this signal quickly so the class can do as many fun activities as possible. Module Review Use the casual interaction time at the beginning of class to ask kids the following module-review questions. What did you read in your Bible at home this week? What new things have you learned about the Bible in the past few weeks? If you could spend more time on one of the lessons about the Bible, which one would it be? Why? How is your life different as a result of what you ve learned in class this month? Attention Grabber n All-Star Answers SUPPLIES: chalkboard and chalk or newsprint and marker Have kids form teams of no more than four and sit with their teams in different areas of the room. Place the foam star at the front of the room. Say: When you need to find certain information, there are lots of places you might look. You might ask your teacher or parents. You can also find answers in books. Today we re going to have an all-star answers race to see how fast you can think of where to find answers to your questions. I ll ask a question, and your team will decide where to look for the answer to that question. As soon as your team has agreed on where to look, send a runner to the foam star. The first runner to get to the foam star will tell us where the answer would be. After the first runner has answered, he or she will pass the foam star to another team s runner. The first runner will get 2 points for a correct suggestion. All other correct suggestions will be awarded 1 point. There may be more than one correct suggestion. Remember: We re not looking for answers to the questions just where we would find the answers. It s important to say the Bible Point just as it s written in each activity. Repeating the Bible Point over and over throughout the lesson will help kids remember it and apply it to their lives. 145

Lesson 13 To avoid the Internet as a catch-all answer for all questions, tell kids that this answer is off limits. Ask teams the following questions. Keep score on a chalkboard or newsprint. Ask: What s Aunt Sharon s phone number? (Phone book; personal address book; information or directory assistance.) What does precocious mean? (Dictionary; thesaurus.) What s the capital of Tennessee? (Atlas; book of maps; encyclopedia.) How do I make a chocolate cake? (A cookbook; a recipe file; my mom.) What are the Ten Commandments? (The Bible.) Place the foam star out of sight. Count up the points, and declare a winning team. Then have teams stand as you ask the following questions. Say: Raise your hand when you think of an answer to each question I ask. I d like to hear lots of different, interesting answers. When someone gives an answer you thought of and you don t have anything more to add, you may sit down. When everyone is seated, I ll ask you to stand again for the next question. Ask: What kinds of questions do you expect the Bible to be able to answer? (Questions about God and Jesus; questions about what happened a long time ago; questions about the people of Israel.) Do you think the Bible can answer questions about your everyday life? Why or why not? (Yes, the Bible can help us do good things; yes, the Bible tells us what s right and wrong; no, the Bible doesn t talk about stuff like TV and movies.) Say: We can look in many different places to find answers to our questions. When you have questions about God and about how to live, you can find answers to your questions in the Bible. Today we re going to practice finding answers in the Bible. If you don t know how to use a concordance, ask your minister or someone else to help you learn. In most concordances, you can look up a word the way you would look it up in a dictionary. The concordance tells you where any particular word is used in the Bible. To help kids review what they ve learned about the Bible in the past several weeks, ask if anyone knows where to find 2 Timothy. If you have enough concordances, limit the number of students in each group to two or three. This will allow all students to interact with the concordances. Bible Exploration & Application n Improve Your Aim SUPPLIES: Bibles, concordances, masking tape Before class, gather several Bible concordances. Try to get concordances that are separate reference books rather than the abbreviated concordances in the back of many Bibles. Become familiar with the concordances you ll use. Say: How good are you at hitting a target? Let s play a game to find out. Run masking tape along the floor and up the sides of the rainbow spring to help it keep its cylindrical shape as you use it for a target. Have kids stand about 5 feet away from the rainbow spring and try to toss the inflatable crayon so its point lands in the center of the rainbow spring. If you have a large class, give each person one chance to get the point of the inflatable crayon into the rainbow spring. If you have a small class and if time allows, let everyone try two or three times. Collect the inflatable crayon and the rainbow spring. Ask: Was it easy or hard to hit the rainbow spring target with the inflatable crayon? Explain. (It looked easy, but it wasn t; most people didn t hit the target.) 146

Paul Explains the Purpose of Scripture How could we have made this game easier? (By using a bigger target; by throwing the flat marbles or something else that s easier to throw.) How is trying to hit this target like trying to find an answer to a certain question in the Bible? (You know the answer is there, but you may miss it; you can just keep trying and keep missing the target; you may just give up and stop trying to hit the target.) How can we make it easier to hit the target as we look for answers in the Bible? (Get to know the Bible better; use a Bible with page tabs so you can find the books.) Distribute Bibles, and help kids look up 2 Timothy 3:16-17. Explain that 2 Timothy is in the New Testament, near the end of the Bible. Say: This passage tells us how important the Bible is. As we listen to the passage, see if you can discover how we can use the Bible. After all kids have found the passage, ask a volunteer to read it aloud. Have the other kids follow along in their Bibles. Ask: What does this verse say we can use the Bible for? (To teach us what is true; to find out what s wrong in our lives; to correct what s wrong in our lives and teach us to do what s right; to help us be better people; to teach us to live the right way and do God s work.) Say: The Bible has answers to lots of our questions about how to live. But the Bible is such a big book that sometimes it seems hard to find an answer to a particular question. Today we re going to practice using a tool that will help us hit the target as we search the Bible for answers to our questions. Hold up a concordance. Say: This is a concordance. It works sort of like an index. If you have a question, you can look up key words in the concordance. The concordance will tell you where in the Bible to find the answer to that question. For example, if I wanted to know where the Bible talks about Jesus life, I would look up Jesus in the concordance. Open the concordance to the page that lists references to Jesus, and point out the page to the kids. Under Jesus, the concordance lists verses that mention Jesus by name. Form groups, and give each group a concordance. Have kids practice looking up some big targets, such as Jesus and Moses. Then say: You can see that Jesus is a pretty big target to look up. Maybe you want to know what Jesus said about children. Look up children in your concordances. We know that the beginning of the New Testament tells about Jesus life, so if you look up a verse from Matthew, Mark, Luke, or John you ll find out what Jesus said about children. Let kids look up passages about children. Circulate among the groups to help kids with any problems they may have. Ask volunteers to read aloud Matthew 19:14; Mark 10:14; and Luke 18:16. If you have time, let kids choose some other words to look up. Call the groups back together by saying B-I-B-L-E and clicking the bug clicker as you say each letter. Wait for kids to respond, and then ask: How did the concordance help you find what you were looking for? (The concordance told me where to look for things; sometimes I could read part of the verse in the concordance to see if it said what I wanted.) Was it easy or hard to use the concordance? Why? (It was easy once you showed us how; it was kind of hard; I still need more practice.) Say: You can find answers to your questions in the Bible, and a concordance can help you hit the targets you re looking for. Bible Insight Paul probably wrote 2 Timothy during his second imprisonment in Rome. While Paul had decent living conditions and was able to receive visitors during his first imprisonment, his lodging was more dungeonlike and desolate during the second imprisonment. 147

Lesson 13 Because Bible scholars disagree about the dates of Creation and the Flood, Adam and Eve and Noah are not included on the timeline. Your students will enjoy starting the timeline with Abraham, since they ve just learned about his life. If students ask you about Adam and Eve or Noah, simply tell them that Creation and the Flood happened before Abraham, or ask them what they think. n Who Came First? SUPPLIES: Bibles, masking tape, marker, pencils, paper, tape Use masking tape to make a line on the floor, across the classroom. If your class has more than eight people, make more than one masking-tape line. Use a marker to write time increments along the tape, putting the first and last numbers at the beginning and end of the tape and leaving spaces between the numbers. Write, 2,500 B.C., 2,000 B.C., 1,500 B.C., and so on until you mark A.D. 100 at the end of the tape. Point to a spot between 2,500 B.C. and 2,000 B.C. on the masking-tape line, and say: This spot on the masking-tape line represents when God chose Abraham and his descendants to be God s people. The other end of the line represents the end of the New Testament portion of the Bible. As I call out names of people in the Bible, I want you to stand on the spot you think shows the time that person lived. I ll give you each a piece of confetti to mark the spot you choose. Call out the following names, and let kids mark their guesses as to when each person appeared in the Bible: Abraham, Moses, King David, Jesus, the Apostle Paul. Ask: What was it like trying to guess when certain Bible people lived? (Confusing, because I didn t know where to stand; it was fun trying to guess; funny because everyone s answers were so different.) Say: We ve already seen how a concordance can help us find answers in the Bible. Another tool that helps us find things in the Bible is a timeline. Let s mark the right answers on our line. Have kids form trios. Assign one or more of the following dates to each trio. Have one person in each trio stand on the spot on the tape that represents that trio s date while another person writes the name of the Bible person or event on a sheet of paper. Have the third person tape the paper sign to the correct spot. Between 2,000 B.C. and 2,500 B.C. Abraham made agreements with God. Sometime between 1,450 and 1,250 B.C. Moses led the people out of Egypt. About 1,000 B.C. King David ruled. Just before A.D. 1 Jesus was born. Sometime between A.D. 30 and 50 Paul became a missionary. Just before A.D. 100 the last book of the New Testament was written. When kids have finished marking each spot, you may want to extend the line to the present day so your class can get an idea of how long ago some of the Bible events happened. After you ve completed your timeline, ask: How can a timeline help us look for answers to our questions in the Bible? (We can know some things happened a long time before others; we can know whether to look in the Old or New Testament for things.) Explain to your students that dates followed by B.C. happened before the birth of Christ, and dates that follow A.D. happened after the birth of Christ. Say the events in the Bible center around Jesus, as do the events in all of history! 148

Say: A timeline shows us when things happened in the Bible. Psalm 90:1-2 tells us how God fits into the big picture. Help kids look up Psalm 90:1-2. When everyone has found the passage, ask a volunteer to read it aloud. Have other kids follow along in their Bibles. Ask: What goes through your mind when you realize that you re following the same God that Abraham, David, and Paul followed? (It s awesome; it makes me think how great God is; it s a good feeling.) Say: It s good to know God s been in charge all along. He was around in Abraham s time, in David s time, in Paul s time, and in our time. Timelines help us remember how long people have been following God and how long God has been taking care of people. Using a timeline can also help you know more about when things happened in the Bible so you can find answers to your questions in the Bible. Paul Explains the Purpose of Scripture n Dear Ernie SUPPLIES: Bibles, Dear Ernie handout (p. 153), Scenarios handout (p. 154), scissors, wrapped candy Before class, photocopy the Dear Ernie handout, and cut the questions apart. Recruit four kids who are comfortable reading aloud, and give them their questions to review before they re called on to read aloud. Ask students not to share what s written on their papers. Form two teams, and give each team a bug clicker. The person on each team wearing the most blue should hold the clicker. Hold up the inflatable microphone, and address your students as if they re a studio audience. Say: Welcome to Dear Ernie, the advice show where the studio audience not only asks the questions but also gives the advice! That way we don t have to hire a lot of expensive psychologists and counselors, and we can t get sued if we give crummy advice! Besides, we know you re going to ignore our advice anyway. Everybody does! Both our teams have bug clickers, right? Here s what you ll do: A member of our studio audience will ask a question. When your team has an answer to the question, click your bug clicker. The sound of your clicker is the official signal that your team is ready to answer. Let s practice clicking. Encourage students holding the bug clickers to experiment. Say: Great clicker fingers! Remember: Whichever team clicks first gets to answer first. Then I ll give the other team an opportunity to answer. If our panel of judges that s me thinks that one team gives a solid answer, I will award that team 100 points. Oh, and here s something you should know: The points don t mean anything! Everyone gets a prize at the end, no matter what! Who has a question for our teams? Call on the volunteer reader who has Question 1 to read the first question aloud. Affirm any team that suggests it s a bad idea to cheat. Ask probing questions such as: Why do you think this is the best answer? Giving a third- or fourth-grader something to read aloud can result in a hard-to-understand performance if the student can t read through it a time or two beforehand. Handing out the Dear Ernie questions early will help! A small class is no problem. Divide the class into two teams, and read the questions yourself. 149

Lesson 13 Try to vary the amount of time the top spins; some situations call for a split-second decision! What might happen if the person who asked this question chooses to cheat and lie anyway? Open your Bible, and read aloud Leviticus 19:11. Say: You can find an answer about cheating and lying in the Bible! Call on the volunteer reader who has Question 2 to read the question aloud. Affirm any team that suggests it s a good idea to obey parents. Ask probing questions such as: Why do you think this is the best answer? Why is obeying parents a good idea? Is it ever a bad idea? Explain. Open your Bible, and read aloud Ephesians 6:1-3. Say: You can find an answer about obeying parents in the Bible! Call on the volunteer reader who has Question 3 to read the question aloud. Affirm any team that suggests it s a bad idea to gossip. Ask probing questions such as: Why do you think this is the best answer? What would happen in a church or class if everyone used words to hurt other people? Open your Bible, and read aloud Ephesians 4:29. Say: You can find an answer about gossiping and using words to hurt other people in the Bible! Call on the volunteer who has Question 4 to read the question aloud. Affirm any team that suggests it s wrong to steal. Ask probing questions such as: Why do you think this is the best answer? In what ways can downloading music be stealing? Open your Bible, and read aloud Deuteronomy 5:19. Say: You can find an answer about stealing in the Bible! Collect the Dear Ernie questions and bug clickers, and put them out of sight. Say: It s great that we can find answers to our questions in the Bible, but if we don t read our Bibles, those answers won t do us much good. Sometimes we need to make decisions quickly. We need to know what the Bible says without stopping and looking up verses. Let s see if you know what answers the Bible gives about some situations. I ll describe a situation that needs an answer, and you tell me what the right thing to do would be. I ll spin this plastic spin-top, and you need to decide before the top quits spinning. That means you ll need to be fast! Share the first scenario from the Scenarios handout, and then spin the plastic spintop. Ask kids to tell you their answers and what the Bible says that helped them decide. Repeat this pattern with each of the scenarios. Add depth to this activity by asking kids what Bible passage they used to determine what s right and wrong. A passage to ponder is included with each scenario to provide some Bible guidance for making a decision. After quickly discussing the four scenarios, say: Do you see how helpful it is to know what s in the Bible? You can find answers to your questions in the Bible! Place Bibles where small groups of students can gather around them and touch them. 150

Say: God was good to us when he made sure that his Word reached us. The Bible helps us to know God, and we can find answers to our questions in the Bible. In our small groups, let s thank God for giving us the Bible. Ask kids to pray aloud if they re willing. If they don t want to pray aloud, ask them to talk to God silently. Pray: Dear God, thank you that we can find answers to our questions in the Bible. Please hear us as we tell you about decisions and questions that we face. For me, it s [briefly describe a decision or question you re facing]. Now hear our prayers as the rest of us pray. After you hear the audible prayers ending, or after about 30 seconds, continue. Pray: Dear God, you love us and are with us every minute of every day. Thank you for walking through life with us. You re a great, awesome God! Please hear our prayers as we tell you how wonderful you are. After you hear the audible prayers ending, or after about 30 seconds, continue. Pray: Dear God, Give us a desire to know you better. Help us learn more about you and what you want for us in the Bible. In Jesus name, amen. You promised a prize to everyone, and now it s time to deliver. Give each student a wrapped candy. Paul Explains the Purpose of Scripture HANDS-ON BIBLE Give each person 10 to 12 paper cups and two pieces of cardboard. Make sure kids have their Hands-On Bibles. Have students turn to Proverbs 9 in their Bibles and complete the Got Wisdom? activity found there. When kids finish, ask: How is knowing God like a foundation for your life? (Knowing God is the most important thing in life; it s what everything else is based on; nothing else in life matters as much as knowing God.) What part does the Bible play in building that foundation? (Reading the Bible is a great way to get to know God better; the Bible is how God reveals himself to us; the Bible is God s Word to us.) Closing n Bible Boosters SUPPLIES: Bibles, CD player, newsprint, markers, tape track 14 Before class, check to make sure it s OK to tape kids posters up around the church. Choose two or three locations you can lead the kids to after they ve completed their posters. List the Bible Points of this module s lessons on a sheet of newsprint: God inspired people to write the Bible. The Bible is divided into testaments, books, chapters, and verses. The Old Testament tells about God s people, Israel. The New Testament tells about Jesus and his followers. You can find answers to your questions in the Bible. 151

Lesson 13 Encourage kids to choose different Bible Points, but don t force them. Kids will add more detail and creativity to their posters if they get to pick their own Bible Points. Help kids find Proverbs 9:10 in their Bibles: Fear of the Lord is the foundation of wisdom. Knowledge of the Holy One results in good judgment. When everyone s found the verse, ask for a volunteer to read it aloud while everyone else follows along in their Bibles. Say: We ve learned that we can find answers to our questions in the Bible. Ask: How is knowing God a foundation for wisdom? Why would knowing God result in good judgment? (Because God teaches us in the Bible what s right and wrong; because God teaches us what s wise and good.) Say: We ve learned a lot about the Bible in the past few weeks. Read the list on the newsprint, and think about all you ve learned. Then choose the Bible Point you had the most fun learning about. Find a partner who picked the same Bible Point you did. With your partner, design a poster using that Bible Point to encourage people to read the Bible. For example, if you picked the Bible Point we learned today, You can find answers to your questions in the Bible, your poster might show a big Bible in the middle with lots of question marks in the background. Be sure to write the Bible Point you choose somewhere on your poster. You might want to include part of Proverbs 9:10 or another verse on your poster, too. We ll display our posters in our classroom and around the church to encourage the members of our congregation to read their Bibles. Give each pair a sheet of newsprint and markers. While kids work, play Fear of the Lord (Proverbs 9:10) (track 14) on the CD. Play the song through two or three times, depending on how much time you have. Then call for kids attention by saying B-I-B-L-E and clicking the bug clicker as you say each letter. Lead kids to the poster sites you selected, and have one or two pairs present their posters to the class at each site. Return to your room for the rest of the presentations. Close by having kids prayerfully complete the following sentence: I m glad I have the Bible because Growing closer to Jesus extends beyond the classroom. Photocopy the Hands-On Fun at Home handout (at the end of this lesson) for this week, and send it home with your kids. Encourage kids and parents to use the handout to spark meaningful discussion on this week s topic. 152

Dear Ernie Dear Ernie, I can t seem to pass a speling test, no mater whut. My dad wants me to pass with a gud grade, so I m thinking of cheeting by copying a frend s answers and then telling pepul that I passed the test myself. Iz this a gud idea? Dear Ernie, I want new parents! Mine make me go to bed too early and get up too early. They think they know everything. Do I really have to do what they say? Dear Ernie, My friend Kristen has been a total jerk lately. We used to be best friends, but now we re not best friends or next-to-best friends or even ex-next-to-best friends. When I call, she hangs up on me. When I see her in the hall at school, she ignores me. I was thinking of maybe getting even by telling everyone about the time back in kindergarten when she wet the bed. Do you think I should? Dear Ernie, OK, so I ve been downloading songs online that I m supposed to be paying for, but they cost so much, and it s not like I m hurting anyone. Is it really so bad to do that? Permission to photocopy this handout from Group s Hands-On Bible Curriculum Grades 3 & 4 granted for local church use. Copyright Group Publishing, Inc., 1515 Cascade Ave., Loveland, CO 80538. group.com 153

Scenarios Scenario 1 Uh-oh you accidentally scratched the family car when you rode a bike too close to it. You know your mom will see the scratch and wonder where it happened. No one saw you. It could have happened in a parking lot. Nobody will know if you re lying when you re asked if you know anything about it. When your mom asks, you figure you ve got to say something. What will you say and why? A passage to ponder: Leviticus 19:11 Scenario 2 That new kid at school is so strange the way he dresses, his foreign accent, his goofy grin. The other kids at your lunch table mock him all the time, especially about his out-of-date clothes. Your buddies expect you to join in. What do you do and why? A passage to ponder: Leviticus 19:15; 33-34 Scenario 3 There s a fun column next to the comics page in your local paper. The writer says she can predict your future based on your birthday. Some of your more conservative Christian friends warn you to never read the astrology column, but it s on the comics page. Nobody takes it seriously! What should you do and why? A passage to ponder: Leviticus 19:31 Scenario 4 The future is a scary place, isn t it? When you start to think about what life might be like when you re 30 or 50, your palms sweat and your knees shake. Lately you ve even had a hard time falling asleep at night. Is this a good thing? a bad thing? Does God even care about your future? What should you be thinking and why? A passage to ponder: Matthew 6:25-34 154 Permission to photocopy this handout from Group s Hands-On Bible Curriculum Grades 3 & 4 granted for local church use. Copyright Group Publishing, Inc., 1515 Cascade Ave., Loveland, CO 80538. group.com

Lesson 13 13 You can find answers to your questions in the Bible. Fear of the Lord is the foundation of wisdom. Knowledge of the Holy One results in good judgment (Proverbs 9:10). Make refrigerator biscuits for your family s breakfast one morning. Read Psalm 119:103 aloud, and then pass the honey. Have family members share one of God s promises before putting honey on their biscuits. It s OK if people say the same promise more than once. After the honey has been passed around the table, dig in and taste the sweetness of God s promises! Read Luke 2:46-47. Why would Jesus have been asking questions as well as giving answers? Read 1 Peter 3:15-16a. How can you share with others the answers you find in the Bible? Read Psalm 99:6-7. What are some ways God answers us? Read Matthew 5:43-48. What does the Bible tell us about getting along with others? One night at dinner, have each member of your family write a question they have that the Bible can answer. Put the questions in a box. After dinner, take turns drawing out a question and looking up the answer in the family s concordance. Let everyone guess where the answer appears in the Bible. Take a family trip to your local Christian bookstore or church library. Look in the Bible reference or Bible helps section to find as many different concordances as you can. Ask a salesperson or church staff member to show you more books or other resources that can help you find answers to your questions in the Bible. Permission to photocopy this handout from Group s Hands-On Bible Curriculum Grades 3 & 4 granted for local church use. Copyright Group Publishing, Inc., 1515 Cascade Ave., Loveland, CO 80538. group.com 155

Song Lyrics track 5 The Earth Is the Lord s (Psalm 24:1) track 14 Fear of the Lord (Proverbs 9:10) Look around (clap, clap), Up, down, left, right. Turn around (clap, clap). Everything you see belongs to God. Yeah, everything you see belongs to God! (Repeat.) The earth (clap, clap) is the Lord s, and everything in it. The world and all its people belong to him (clap, clap, clap, clap)! The earth (clap, clap) is the Lord s, and everything in it. The world and all its people belong to him! (clap, clap) Belong to him! (Repeat from the beginning.) The Earth Is the Lord s (Psalm 24:1) by Jay Stocker. 2005 Group Publishing, Inc. All rights reserved. track 6 And We Know (Romans 8:28) And we know (echo) that God (echo) causes everything (echo) To work together for the good of those who love him. And we know (echo) that God (echo) causes everything (echo) To work together for the good of those who love him, And are called according to his purpose for them, And are called according to his purpose for them. If you understand, it s in his command To work things out for his children. That is you! (echo) That is me! (echo) And we know (echo) that God (echo) causes everything (echo) To work together for the good of those who love him. And we know (echo) that God (echo) causes everything (echo) To work together for the good of those who love him. (Repeat.) Who love him. And We Know (Romans 8:28) by Rob Biagi. 2004 Group Publishing, Inc. All rights reserved. Fear of the Lord is the foundation of wisdom. Fear of the Lord is the foundation of wisdom. All the people say, Hey! Hey! (Hey! Hey!) We believe in God. All the people say: Hey! Hey! (Hey! Hey!) Good, good knowledge of the Holy One Results in good, good judgment. Good, good knowledge of the Holy One Results in good, good judgment. Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Fear of the Lord is the foundation of wisdom. Fear of the Lord is the foundation of wisdom. All the people say, Hey! Hey! (Hey! Hey!) We believe in God. All the people say: Hey! Hey! (Hey! Hey!) Good, good knowledge of the Holy One Results in good, good judgment. Good, good knowledge of the Holy One Results in good, good judgment. Good, good knowledge of the Holy One Results in good, good judgment. Good, good knowledge of the Holy One Results in good, good judgment. Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Fear of the Lord (Proverbs 9:10) by Ben Glover. 2005 Group Publishing, Inc. All rights reserved. 156 Permission to photocopy this handout from Group s Hands-On Bible Curriculum Grades 3 & 4 granted for local church use. Copyright Group Publishing, Inc., 1515 Cascade Ave., Loveland, CO 80538. group.com