Lesso 5 47 God Gives the Te Commadmets (Part 2) Exodus 19:16 20:21 First- ad secod-graders are eager for more idepedece. I their quest for idepedece, they may sometimes become defiat ad rebellious. While it s importat for them to lear idepedece, it s also importat for them to show respect to others while exercisig that idepedece. Use this lesso to help kids uderstad what respect looks like ad why it s importat to God. LESSON WHAT CHILDREN DO SUPPLIES EASY PREP 1 Gettig Started 2 Bible Exploratio Respect the Leader (about 15 mi.) Play a game to lear about respect. More From the Moutai (about 25 mi.) Discuss pictures that describe each commadmet. Bible, tape, scissors Teacher Pack: Respectig Others card, Te Commadmets poster, God Gives the Te Commadmets poster (from the Big Bible Poster Pack) Cut apart the pictures o the Respectig Others card. Bible Poit God tells us how to respect others. Key Verse Do ot murder, do ot commit adultery, do ot steal, do ot give false testimoy, hoor your father ad mother, ad love your eighbor as yourself (Matthew 19:18-19). Weavig Faith Ito Life Kids will show respect to others. Bold text withi the lesso is spoke text. Lesso 5
48 LESSON WHAT CHILDREN DO SUPPLIES EASY PREP 3 Weavig Faith Ito Life I Will Respect Others (about 10 mi.) Commit to showig respect durig the ext week. Joi the Club! (about 10 mi.) Make badges to remid them to show respect. Bibles, My Bible Fu, CD player, crayos Teacher Pack: CD My Bible Fu, crayos, several pairs of scissors, tape Tear out the Lesso 5 pages from each My Bible Fu studet book. Daily Challeges (about 5 mi.) Choose a Daily Challege to apply God s Word. My Bible Fu, pes 4 Lastig Impressios Weavig Faith at Home (about 2 mi.) Talk about how to share what they leared with their families. Bold text withi the lesso is spoke text. Lesso 5
49 God Gives the Te Commadmets (Part 2) Exodus 19:16 20:21 BIBLe BACKGROUND FOR LEADERS Last week s Bible Backgroud cocetrated o the evets surroudig the givig of the Te Commadmets, while this week s cocetrates o the commadmets themselves. If you have t already doe so, you may wat to read both of them before begiig this lesso. Commadmets With a Purpose These commadmets were t give to force the Israelites to follow a arbitrary set of rules. These commads were iteded to help the people live their lives to the fullest i relatioship with oe aother. With the death ad resurrectio of Jesus, we live o loger uder the law but uder grace. Jesus said he came to fulfill the law (Matthew 5:17-18). Certaily we are ot boud to follow these laws to try to wi God s favor, but the priciples behid the Te Commadmets are valid priciples for all time. Commadmets i Two Categories Over the ceturies, scholars have divided the commadmets ito categories i varyig ways. For the purpose of these studies, we re dividig them ito two sectios. The first four commadmets have to do with our relatioship with God; the last six have to do with our relatioships with others. God s Commadmets Establish Priorities The commadmets regardig our relatioship with God clearly spell out the priority ad hoor that he is to hold i our lives. How ofte eve i the Christia commuity do we let other thigs come before our relatioship with God? especially i today s culture, is the istructio ot to misuse God s ame. To use it i swearig or frivolously i jokig is ot appropriate. How we use God s ame directly reflects how we feel about God. He ad his ame are worthy of all the hoor we ca muster! The commadmets regardig our relatioships with others (Exodus 20:12-17) give us lots of guidace o how to respect others. Though eve our Christia culture ca fail to take may of these commads seriously, livig by them gives people the hoor ad respect due them as uique creatios of God. No matter what we see aroud us, we must hold true to these priciples if we are to hoor God ad respect others the way God iteds. The Jesus Coectio As our relatioship with Jesus grows, we ca begi to see this world ad other people through his eyes of ucoditioal love. We will ejoy fellowship more ad others will see Jesus presece i our lives. God wats us to alter our lives to reflect our Savior who loves us eough to die for us. It s easy to get distracted, eve by good thigs, ad we ca get caught up tryig to be like other Christias more tha we try to be like Jesus himself. God loves his creatio so much that he gave us commadmets to help preserve it ad glorify him. God s greatest creatio is humaity ad we are surrouded by it. Every perso you have cotact with today gives you a opportuity to glorify God by liftig up his greatest creatio people. At the ed of the day, take ote of who God blessed through you ad how you were blessed i his service. You ca write your prayer i the space below. Oe commadmet that is ofte take too lightly, Lesso 5
50 GETTING STARTED Respect the Leader What You ll Do Welcome kids warmly as they arrive, ad ask them how their week wet. Gather everyoe together. Say: Let s play a game that s kid of like Follow the Leader. Have kids get i oe big circle. Ivite oe child to be the first leader. Have the leader stad i the ceter of the circle. Say: The leader will choose oe perso to do or say somethig ice to aother perso i our group. For example, the leader could say, Tell your eighbors somethig you like about them or Shake oe eighbor s had. After the leader gives oe istructio, he or she must appoit a ew leader by spiig aroud three times with oe arm outstretched ad the idex figer poitig out. Whoever the leader is poitig to whe he or she stops will be the ew leader (as log as it s someoe ew). Play util everyoe has a chace to be the leader. More From the Moutai Supplies Bible tape scissors Teacher Pack Respectig Others card Te Commadmets poster God Gives the Te Commadmets poster (from the Big Bible Poster Pack) More From the Moutai Easy Prep Cut apart the pictures o the Respectig Others card. Talk With Kids Lead childre i this discussio. What was it like to have to do what the leader told you? What were you thikig as you did ice thigs for your eighbors? How is that like or ulike how God wats us to treat others? Say: I our game, our frieds told us how to be ice to others. Like that, GOD TELLS US HOW TO RESPECT OTHERS. Today we ll lear the Te Commadmets that have to do with respectig others. Let s see what those commadmets are! 2 BIBLE EXPLORATION More From the Moutai What You ll Do Ope your Bible to Exodus 19, ad show kids the passage. Say: GOD TELLS US HOW TO RESPECT OTHERS. He wats us to do this because he kows it s what s best for us. Lesso 5
51 Show the God Gives the Te Commadmets poster (from the Big Bible Poster Pack), ad say: God gave Te Commadmets to us. The first four have to do with hoorig him, ad the other six have to do with respectig each other. What do you thik it meas to respect someoe? Let several childre aswer. Say: Whe we respect someoe, we treat that perso icely. We treat that perso the way we would wat to be treated. But let s get more specific. Read aloud Exodus 20:13-17. The have kids form six groups, ad give each group oe of the pictures from the Respectig Others card. Say: Look at your group s picture ad talk about what you thik is happeig i the picture. Allow time. Show the Te Commadmets poster. Briefly metio the first four commadmets. Say: The fifth commadmet tells us to hoor our fathers ad mothers. Ivite oe child from the group with this card to share what his or her group discussed. What do you thik it meas to hoor your father ad your mother? What s easy or hard about always obeyig your parets? Say: It s ot always easy to obey our parets, but obeyig them is part of hoorig them. God promises us that we ll live log i the lad if we obey this commadmet. So it must be really importat to God for us to hoor our parets. Ivite the childre to tell specific ways they ca hoor their parets. The choose a child to attach the Hoor your father ad mother card to the Te Commadmets poster. Say: The ext commadmet tells us to ot hurt others. I fact, this commadmet says we should t kill ayoe. What kids of thigs hurt others? Say: God wats us to cotrol our ager ad be ice to others. He kows that s what s best for us. Ivite the childre to tell specific ways they ca avoid hurtig others. The choose a child to attach the Do ot hurt others card to the Te Commadmets poster. Say: The seveth commadmet tells us ot to commit adultery. God wats married people to be faithful to each other. He wats them to care for each other ad treat each other with respect. You re a little youg to worry about beig married right ow, so let s go o to the ext commadmet. Choose a child to attach the Do ot commit adultery card to the Te Commadmets poster. Lesso 5
52 Say: Our ext commadmet tells us ot to steal. Whe we take somethig that does t belog to us, that s called stealig. God gives each of us good gifts, ad he does t wat us to take what belogs to someoe else. How ca ot stealig show respect for God? Choose a child to attach the Do ot steal card to the Te Commadmets poster. Say: The ith commadmet tells us ot to lie. Okay, ow be hoest you do t have to raise your hads or aswer out loud just thik of your aswer to this questio: How may of you have ever lied? Pause. Say: Lyig ca be a easy thig for some people to do. Whe you do t wat to get i trouble or you do t wat to do somethig, it ca be a temptatio to just lie your way out of it. But lyig makes God very sad. How do you thik lyig could hurt someoe? How is lyig ot showig respect to someoe? Choose a child to attach the Do ot lie card to the Te Commadmets poster. Say: The last commadmet tells us ot to covet. That meas God does t wat us to be jealous about thigs other people have. To covet meas you thik a lot about that thig the other perso has ad wish you had it istead of them. God wats us to be thakful for everythig he gives us, ad he wats us to be happy whe he gives others good gifts. Tell about somethig you wated that beloged to someoe else. What might you thik or feel if someoe wated somethig you have? How might covetig keep you from respectig others? Choose a child to attach the Do ot covet card to the Te Commadmets poster. Talk With Kids Say: GOD TELLS US HOW TO RESPECT OTHERS. These commadmets we ve heard today give us great ways to show respect to others. Eve though God gave them to the Israelites a log time ago, God still wats us to obey them today. Eve today, they help us live good lives, full of joy. Lesso 5
53 3 WEAVING FAITH INTO LIFE I Will Respect Others What You ll Do Say: Today we re learig that GOD TELLS US HOW TO RESPECT OTHERS. Ad i our Key Verse, Jesus himself repeats the commadmets we ve talked about today. Let s look at the verse together. Distribute Bibles, ad help kids fid Matthew 19:18-19. Read the verses aloud as kids follow alog i their Bibles. Have the kids repeat the verses with you several times: Do ot murder, do ot commit adultery, do ot steal, do ot give false testimoy, hoor your father ad mother, ad love your eighbor as yourself (Matthew 19:18-19). Set out crayos. Give each child a Lesso 5 My Bible Fu page, ad poit out the I Will Respect Others sectio. Say: Thik about our Key Verse. What are some specific ways you ca show respect to others? Allow time. Say: Choose oe way that you feel God wats you to show respect to others this week, ad draw a picture to remid yourself. Here are some ideas if kids are stumped: Liste to your parets without talkig back or complaiig. Sicerely apologize to someoe you hurt. The do your best ot to hurt that perso this week. Tell each of your family members somethig you like about them. Tell the truth all week, eve if it s scary. I Will Respect Others Supplies Bibles My Bible Fu CD player crayos Teacher Pack CD: Praise Him (track 6) I Will Respect Others Easy Prep Tear out the Lesso 5 pages from each My Bible Fu studet book. Play Praise Him (track 6 o the CD) as kids are workig. A copy of the lyrics ca be foud at the ed of the lesso. Talk With Kids Lead childre i this discussio. I what way does followig God s commads help you? Say: GOD TELLS US HOW TO RESPECT OTHERS because he made us ad he kows what s best for us. Let s do our best to respect others this week by doig what God ad Jesus ask us to do. Lesso 5
54 Joi the Club! Joi the Club! Supplies My Bible Fu crayos several pairs of scissors tape What You ll Do Say: You ve heard all the Te Commadmets today. Ad we talked about the six commadmets that remid us that GOD TELLS US HOW TO RESPECT OTHERS. Let s make a craft to remid us to obey God s commads. Poit out the Joi the Club! activity o the My Bible Fu page. Have kids write their ames o the badges. The let kids cut out the badges. Help kids tape the badges to their clothig. Gather everyoe i a circle. Talk With Kids Say: Welcome to the Te Commadmets Club! You ve leared all 10 of the commadmets God gave Moses that day o Mout Siai. Wear your badge this week to remid you of what you decided to do this week to show respect to someoe. 4 LASTING IMPRESSIONS Daily Challeges Supplies My Bible Fu pes Daily Challeges What You ll Do Say: Let s thik about how GOD TELLS US HOW TO RESPECT OTHERS. As this week s Daily Challege, try to follow through o showig respect to someoe i the way you drew o your My Bible Fu page. Tell the kids how you ll show respect to someoe. Kids will be more iclied to follow through o their commitmets whe they see you doig the same. Talk With Kids Lead kids i this discussio. What s a practical way you re goig to do your Daily Challege? Iclude a time, a place, ad other ideas. Say: I the Bible, we ca fid the Te Commadmets, the thigs God tells us so our lives ca hoor him ad we ca be filled with his joy. Let s remember that GOD TELLS US HOW TO RESPECT OTHERS as we follow through o our Daily Challege. Lesso 5
55 Weavig Faith at Home Ecourage kids to talk with their parets about the Daily Challeges they chose ad what they leared about how God tells us how to respect others. Kids ca also do the activities i the HomeCoect sectio of their My Bible Fu pages with their families. Talk to your Director about emailig the FREE FamilyCoect to all your church s families. Available at group.com/digital. Take a couple of miutes to pray with your kids, thakig God for carig eough about us to give us his commadmets. Pray: Dear God, thak you for teachig us through the Te Commadmets what we eed to do to show respect to you ad others. Please help us remember your commadmets ad always respect you ad other people. I Jesus ame, ame. Lesso 5
56 Lyrics Praise Him Praise him; praise him. Praise him i the morig; Praise him i the ootime. Praise him; praise him. Praise him whe the su goes dow. Love him; love him. Love him i the morig; Love him i the ootime. Love him; love him. Love him whe the su goes dow. Serve him; serve him. Serve him i the morig; Serve him i the ootime. Serve him; serve him. Serve him whe the su goes dow. (Repeat from the begiig.)! OK TO COPY Lesso 5