Lesson 60

It’s Easter Sunday next week, so there won’t be Sunday School. Our lesson should be about Saul being chosen as king but I want to teach about the Lord Jesus Christ and what He accomplished by His death and resurrection too. so rather than using the Mayflower resource picture I made my own.

Saul, The First King Of Israel

The lesson will be

1. Saul appeared good and right on the outside but his heart was sinful and wrong.

2.God could see into King Saul’s heart and He sees our hearts.

The link to Easter, the Lord Jesus died on the cross to save his people from their sins and rose from the dead .

Memory Verse

But the LORD said to Samuel, Do not look at his appearance or at the height of his stature, because I have refused him. For the LORD does not see as man sees; for man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart.

1 Samuel 16 v 7

Heart Book

2 large Heart Shapes (Autoshapes) with” man looks at the outward appearance” attached.

1 smaller black(fill) heart shape with “but the Lord looks at the heart”attached and Jeremiah 17 v9

1 pink(fill) heart shape (the same size as the black heart) with the texts Luke 10 v 27 , 1 Peter 3 v18 and 1 Corinthians 15 v 3 – 4 .

I inserted the Bible verses into text boxes, cut them out, the children will glue the texts to the right heart (I numbered the texts and hearts beforehand) and then to the bigger heart.

 

Lesson 59

Samuel Becomes Israel’s Leader

1 Samuel 3 – 7

The Lord’s Justice and Mercy

I wanted to include the destruction of Dagon, the Philistines’ god and Samuel setting up the stone Ebenezer, I found some pictures to illustrate Dagon’s demise and God’s punishment of those who’d taken the Ark here.

The lesson plans I use don’t include this so I had to improvise. I found a photograph of a large boulder, printed it then traced the outline with permanent marker, adding a few indentation lines of my own. I traced it, printed some labels with Ebenezer and its meaning, a DIY take home activity .

Memory Verse

1 Samuel 7 v 12

Then Samuel took a stone and set it up between Mizpah and Shen, and called its name Ebenezer, saying, “Thus far the LORD has helped us.”