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Week of September 1-6
Memorization verse: II Tim 2:15 KJV Study
to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that
needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the
word of truth.
Sunday September 7
Ask the students to recite this week's Bible Verse:
II Tim 2:15 KJV Study to shew thyself approved
unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed,
rightly dividing the word of truth.
- How do we gain God's approval?
- How hard do you have to study?
- Why would a workman be ashamed?
Select age appropriate questions for your
classes.
Younger Classes and Older Classes
Do a quick review of Moses'
life and the Ten
Commandments.
- What pneumonics did you write to help you
remember the order of the Ten Commandments?
- Share the Ten Commandments you wrote for yourself,
your home, school, church, and play.
- How are you doing in learning the books of
the Bible in order?
- Let's practice saying the books of the Torah
(first five books of the Old Testament).
Read Exodus 17 and Numbers 20: 1-11
- Describe what the people were complaining
about.
- What did God tell Moses to do?
- Why did the Children of Israel keep forgetting
what God could do?
- What does God's power mean to you?
- What can we do to remember God's power and
presence?
- Do you like complainers?
- How did God handle the complaints?
Read Exodus 24:12-18; 32-34
- Look at Ex. 24:12 And the Lord said unto
Moses, Come up to me into the mount, and be
there: and I will give thee tables of stone,
and a law, and commandments which I have written;
that thou mayest teach them.
- What did God ask Moses to do?
- What does it tell us we should do? (go to
God)
- What does it mean to "be there?"
- Have you ever heard your teacher speaking,
but you didn't listen?
- Do you think God was telling Moses not only
to be obedient but also to be alert and listen?
- While Moses was away, what did the people
do? (Ex.32:1)
- What did the Children of Israel ask Aaron
to do? (make a graven image)
- What did they make out of gold? (golden calf)
- Why do you think the people did this?
- Their excuse was that Moses hadn't come back,
but they had just promised to obey the Ten Commandments.
Was this a good excuse? (no)
- Which commandments forbid the use of idols?
(1 & 2)
- What was Moses' reaction to the golden calf?
(Ex. 32:19-29)
- What do you think you would have done in Moses'
place?
- Why was it wrong to make the golden calf?
Assignment:
Younger Children:
Read Water
out of the Rock in Kids Korner. Ask parents
to read "Moses
Sets Up God's 'Church' " and work with
the Interior
of the Tabernacle to help children fill in
each aspect of the Tabernacle.
Older Children:
Read Hurlbut's "The
Tent Where God Lived Among His People,"
and "How
They Worshiped God in the Tabernacle."
Fill in the details of the Tabernacle.
Look at the Healing
Message about 9/11.
Week of September 8-13
Memorization verse: Ps. 62:2 NIV He alone
is my rock and my salvation; he is my fortress,
I will never be shaken.
- What does this verse mean to you?
- How can you use this verse this week as we
think about 9/11?
Sunday September 14
Ask the students to recite this week's Bible verse
above.
- Discuss the meaning of the verse.
- What have they discovered about God as their
rock and salvation?
- What is a fortress?
- How is God our fortress?
- Why is it important never to be shaken?
Younger and Older Classes (pick and choose
questions and activities appropriate for your
age group)
Teachers: The materials for this Sunday
include a description of the high priest's garments
and the tabernacle (also called, the Tent of Meeting,
the Pattern of the Mount, and the Tent of Congregation).
When God calls Moses to meet him in the Mount,
He describes the Priest's garments and the building
of the tabernacle. When Moses comes down from
the mountain, the people have already made a golden
calf. When the people who chose not to follow
one God were separated from the congregation,
Moses put the wheels in motion to make the garments
as God described and build the important tabernacle
where the twelve tribes would learn that God was
to be in the midst of them. It was a movable church.
Three tribes camped on each side of the Tent of
Meeting. The tabernacle was a tent. The Tent of
Meeting was the first thing set up after each
journey. This impressed upon the people the importance
of having God-centered lives. The duty of the
High Priest was to help everyone maintain a God-centered
existence.
Open your Bibles to Exodus 28 - this is
the discussion of the high priest's garments.
See High
Priest picture in Kids Korner.
- What are the items they needed to make? (A
breastplate, an ephod, a robe, a broidered coat,
a mitre, and a girdle)
- What is an ephod? (a sleeveless vest made
of linen)
- What colors were in the ephod? (gold, scarlet,
purple, and blue)
- What is a girdle? (In Biblical times it was
a sash or belt)
- Describe the breastplate.
- How many jewels were in the breastplate? (12)
- What do the numbers represent? (The twelve
tribes of Israel. The jewels close to the high
priest's heart represented "the whole nation,
carried into the presence of God. This jeweled
pouch was also called the "breastpiece
of decision" Ex. 28:29, because it held
the Urim and Thummim used to discern God's will.
Most believe there were stones engraved 'yes'
and 'no,' which God caused the high priest's
hand to grasp when people came to 'inquire of
the Lord.' Thus the breastpiece not only symbolized
Israel's entry into God's presence, but also
portrayed the Lord's continuing guidance of
his people." [Richards Complete Bible Dictionary,
p. 170.]
- What is a mitre? (A turban worn by the high
priest)
Turn to Exodus 40 and
read about the construction of the Tabernacle
or Tent of Meeting. See Interior
of the Tabernacle in Kids Korner.
- What is a Tabernacle or Tent of Meeting? (the
first design of the Tabernacle was a portable
worship center. The Tabernacle traveled with
the Children of Israel from Mt. Sinai to Canaan
where it was set up in Shiloh. It was moved
to Nob after the Philistines threatened it in
Shiloh. Solomon completed a stationary Temple
and used the furnishings from the original Tabernacle.
Richards Complete Bible Dictionary.)
- What was so important about the Tabernacle?
(the design of it was given by God to Moses)
- What is the significance of the Tabernacle?
(God is willing to meet with His children)
- Why was there only one door? (Only one way
to go to God)
- What was the purpose of the altar of brass?
(Sacrifice)
- What are we asked to sacrifice today? (Human
will)
- What was the laver used for? (Cleaning)
- What was in the Holy Place? (Seven-branched
Candlestick; Table of Shewbread; and Altar of
Incense)
- How many loaves of bread were on the Shewbread
table? (12)
- This number represents? (Twelve tribes of
Israel)
- What covered the Holy of Holies? (veil)
- Who could enter the Holy of Holies? (Only
the high priest. They tied a rope on his leg.
In case anything happened to him they could
pull him out since no one else could go into
the Holy of Holies.)
- What was in the Holy of Holies? (The Ark of
the Covenant)
- What was in the Ark of the Covenant? (the
Ten Commandments)
- Why is this so important? (If you look at
Jesus' life and the statements he made about
himself, what others called him, and what he
did, you can see the pattern of the Tabernacle
in his life. When he refers to his body as the
Temple [tabernacle] that he will raise up in
three days, he is letting each of us know we
are the temple of God. Look at his statements
- or ask students to find these statements:
- Entrance to the Tabernacle - Jesus said
I am the door. John 10:9.
- Altar - John called Jesus the Lamb
of God. John 1:29 The lamb was used
for sacrifice.
- Laver- purification - Jesus washed his
disciples feet - he purified their footsteps
- Golden Candlesticks - Jesus said I
am the light of the world. John 8:12
- The shewbread - Jesus said I am the
bread of life. John 6:35
- Incense - gratitude and prayer - Jesus
began many of his healings in prayer or
thanksgiving.
- The Veil kept everyone but the high Priest
out of the presence of God. Jesus' death
on the cross ripped the veil in the temple
showing that man has free access to God.
- The Ark of the Covenant contained the
Ten Commandments - the laws that Jesus lived
and taught. He also summed up the Ten commandments
in two -
- Matt 22:37-39 Thou shalt love the Lord
thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy
soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first
and great commandment. And the second is like
unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
- Jesus took those commandments from
- Deut 6:4,5 Hear, O Israel: The
Lord our God is one Lord: And thou shalt
love the Lord thy God with all thine heart,
and with all thy soul, and with all thy
might.
- Lev 19:18 Thou shalt not avenge,
nor bear any grudge against the children
of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour
as thyself: I am the Lord.
This works as a nice summary of the commandments.
The Ark of the Covenant is where the commandments
were kept.
- Where would you keep your most important
treasures?
Assignment:
Younger pupils:
Older pupils:
Week of September 15-20
Memorization verse: Psalm 145:8 NIV The
Lord is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger
and rich in love.
- What does this verse mean to you?
- How can you use this verse to handle anger?
Sunday September 21
- Ask the students to recite this week's Bible
verse above.
- Discuss the meaning of the verse.
- How do you keep from becoming angry?
Younger Classes and Older Classes (select
age appropriate questions)
Open your Bibles to Numbers 12
- Why were Aaron and Miriam bad mouthing Moses?
- Do you think they were jealous? Why or why
not?
- What did God say to Miriam and Aaron? (Num.
12:5-9)
- Why was God angry?
- Do you talk directly to God?
- What happened to Miriam? (Num. 12:10)
- What did Aaron do about Miriam's condition?
(Num. 12:11)
- What did Moses do for Miriam? (Num. 12:13-14)
- Was Miriam healed?
Open your Bibles to Numbers 21:1-9
- Tell the story about the fiery serpent.
- What did the Children of Israel do? (complain)
- What did they complain about?
- What happened?
- Doesn't complaint sound like the hissing of
a snake?
- What did God ask Moses to do for the people?
- What did the serpent on the pole do?
- What is your favorite commandment?
- Did the Children of Israel break any commandments
when they complained to God?
- Which commandments did they break?
- How do we keep from breaking commandments?
Teachers: Share information about Aaron
from Bible Characters
with your classes.
- Who was Aaron?
- What were some of his responsibilities?
- What was his title in the tabernacle?
- Where did Moses place blood on Aaron? (Lev.
8:23)
- For what purpose did he place blood on Aaron?
[… when Moses took some of the ram's blood
and put it on the lobe of Aaron's right ear,
the thumb of his right hand, and on his big
toe of his right foot. The symbolism of this
is that his hearing, doing, and walking would
all be consecrated to the service of the Lord.
He was to hear God's commands, perform them
with his hands, and walk in the ways of the
Lord.]
- Approximately how many people left Egypt during
the exodus? (2 million)
- Finding enough food and water for everyone
was whose responsibility? (God's)
- What lessons were the Children of Israel to
learn? (complete trust in God)
Assignment:
Younger Classes
Older Classes
Week of September 22-27
Memorization verse: Psalm 106:3 Blessed
are they who maintain justice, who constantly
do what is right.
- How can you use this verse in your life?
- What does it mean to constantly do what is
right?
- What does justice mean?
Sunday September 28
Ask the students to recite this week's Bible verse
above.
- Discuss the meaning of the verse.
- How do we constantly do what is right?
Younger Classes and Older Classes (select
age appropriate questions)
Open your Bibles to Numbers 13 - 14. This
is the story of sending spies into Canaan.
- How many spies were sent to spy out the land?
(12)
- Where did they come from? (There was one from
each of the twelve tribes.)
- What is another name for Oshea? (Joshua)
- What kind of food did they find? (grapes,
milk, and honey)
- What did the spies discover? (men as giants
that made them look like grasshoppers)
- How many days were they gathering information?
(40 days)
- What did Caleb and Joshua report? (Num. 14:6-9)
- What did the people want to do to Caleb and
Joshua? (Stone them)
- How did God respond to this report? (Num.
14:11-12)
- What was their penalty for not going into
the promised land? (Num. 14:34,35)
- Why do Caleb and Joshua get to go into the
promised land? (They trusted God. Those who
didn't trust God never were allowed into the
promised land.)
- What was the penalty for those who didn't
trust God? (They had to wander 40 years in the
wilderness and they never saw the promised land.)
- Who do you trust?
- What does God require of each of us?
- What happened to Moses? (Deut.34:5)
Week of September 29-October 4
Memorization verse: Deut 32:4 KJV He is
the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways
are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity,
just and right is he.
- Discuss the meaning of the verse.
- What is judgment?
- Who judges?
Assignment: Read Joshua 1 - 2
- GAL
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