* LESSON
* TEN COMMANDMENTS
* JESUS’ COMMANDMENTS
* HANDOUT
* MOSES PLAY
Bible Memory Verse:
“Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord.” Colossians 3:20
Jesus’ Commandments: 1. “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.” 2. “Love your neighbor as yourself.” Matthew 22:37-40
The Bible says Moses was humble: “Now Moses was a humble man, more humble than anyone else on the face of the earth” Numbers 12:3 WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE HUMBLE? (not think you are important, to rely on God) God spoke to Moses face to face: “When a prophet of the Lord is among you I reveal myself to him in visions, I speak to him in dreams. But this is not true of my servant Moses; he is faithful in all my house. With him I speak face to face…” Numbers 12:6-8
God protected His people from anything in the desert that would harm them. But they didn’t trust Him like they should. When they came to the Desert of Sin they grumbled against Moses and his brother Aaron because they could find no food to eat.
Moses prayed to God and asked His help. God said to Moses, "I will rain down bread from heaven for you." Exodus 16:4
The next day God sent little honey cakes down from heaven. These honey cakes were called "manna". Manna rained down from heaven each day and all the people gathered it. God told them to gather enough for each day and no more. Some people disobeyed and when they gathered extra manna to save for the next day it had maggots or little worms.
The Sabbath day was the one day out of seven on which to rest and worship God. God told the people to gather twice as much manna on the day before the Sabbath so they wouldn’t have to work on the Sabbath. The people that disobeyed God and didn’t gather extra manna on that day didn’t have anything to eat because no manna came from heaven on the Sabbath day. When God told them to gather extra manna it didn’t have maggots even after it was two days old. No matter where they traveled they had manna to eat.
One time the people grumbled against Moses because they didn’t have anything to drink. Then Moses cried out to the Lord, “What am I to do with these people? They are ready to stone me (throw stones at).” Exodus 17:4
The Lord answered Moses, “Walk on ahead of the people. Take with you…the staff with which you struck the Nile…Strike the rock…and water will come out from it for the people to drink.” Exodus 17:5-6 Moses did this and the people had water.
God set Mount Sinai apart as a holy mountain. He only allowed Moses to go up on the mountain. If anyone else did they would die. God had Moses come up on the mountain to get a set of rules for the people to live by. He wrote these laws on stone tablets. They were called the Ten Commandments.
Moses was on the mountain for forty days. The people who were back in the camp began to complain to Moses’ brother, Aaron, “Come, make us gods that will go before us. As for this fellow Moses who brought us out of Egypt, we don’t know what has happened to him.” Exodus 32:1 (Deuteronomy 9)
Aaron replied, “Take off the gold earrings you are wearing.” He took what they handed him and he made a gold calf for them to worship and told them, “These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you out of Egypt.” Then he announced that the next day there would be a festival (party) to offer sacrifices to the golden calf.
Meanwhile, on Mount Sinai, God told Moses to go down because the people had become corrupt. God wanted to destroy them, but Moses prayed for them and God did not bring on the people the disaster He had threatened.
Moses could hear singing while coming down the mountain. Seeing the golden calf and the people singing and dancing, he became so angry he threw the stone tablets out of his hand, breaking them to pieces. He burned the stone calf in the fire; ground it into powder, threw the powder into the water and made the people drink the water.
Moses said to Aaron, “What did these people do to you, that you led them into such great sin?” Exodus 32:21
Aaron said, “Do not be so angry, my lord. You know how these people are so quick to do evil. They said to me, ‘Make us gods who will go before us. As for this fellow Moses who brought us up out of Egypt, we don’t know where he is. So I told them to bring me their gold jewelry and I threw it into the fire and out came this calf.” WAS HE TELLING THE TRUTH? WHY DO YOU THINK HE LIED?
Moses went back up the mountain where God again wrote the Ten Commandments (Exodus 20 Deuteronomy 6). These were the Commandments God wrote:
1. You shall have no other gods before Me.
2. You shall not make for yourself an idol.
3. You shall not misuse the name of the Lord your God.
4. Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy.
5. Honor your father and your mother. That means almost the same thing as our memory verse does: "Children, obey your parents" which is written in the New Testament
6. You shall not murder.
7. You shall not commit adultery.
8. You shall not steal.
9. You shall not lie or say false things about anyone.
10. You shall not wish that you had anything that belongs to someone else.
A few thousand years later Jesus summed up these Ten Commandments into two."…an expert in the law tested him with this question, ‘Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?’
Jesus replied: ‘”Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.” This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it, “Love your neighbor as yourself.” All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.’” Matthew 22:35-40
When they came near the promised land Moses said, “…See, the Lord your God has given you the land. Go up and take possession of it as the Lord, the God of your fathers, told you. Do not be afraid or discouraged.” Deuteronomy 1:21 Numbers 13-14
The people said, "Let us send men ahead to spy out the land for us and bring back a report about which route we are to take and what towns we will come to."
Moses chose twelve men, one man from each of the twelve tribes of Israel. These men went into the land and found beautiful fruit, which they brought back. But ten of the twelve men brought back a report that there were giants in the land. The people were taller and stronger than they were and their cities were large. That made the people afraid and they would not go into the promised land.
God was angry and said they would have to wander around in the desert until all the people that would not trust Him had died. The Bible says it was almost forty years before they entered the promised land. Only the two men who had trusted Him, Caleb and Joshua, would be alive to enter the Promised Land. One of these men, Joshua, would be the leader when the people entered the Promised Land.
QUESTIONS:
1. What the special food that rained down from heaven to feed the Israelites called?
2. What day were the Israelites supposed to rest and worship God?
3. What did Aaron make for the people to worship when Moses was on Mount Sinai?
4. What were the rules called that God gave the people to live by?
5. Why were the people afraid to go into the Promised Land?
6. What happened because the people were afraid to go into the Promised Land?
1. You shall have no other gods before Me.
2. You shall not make for yourself an idol.
3. You shall not misuse the name of the Lord your God.
4. Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy.
5. Honor your father and your mother.
6. You shall not murder.
7. You shall not commit adultery.
8. You shall not steal.
9. You shall not say false things about anyone.
10. You shall not wish you had anything that belongs to someone else.
1. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.
2. Love your neighbor as yourself.
MOSES–PART 3
Bible Memory Verse:
Jesus’ Commandments: 1. “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.” 2. “Love your neighbor as yourself.” Matthew 22:37-40
Words to choose from: NEIGHBOR, FORTY, TWO, TEN, WORSHIP, MANNA, GIANTS, GOD, CALF, HELP
1. Special food called __ __ __ __ __rained down from heaven to feed the Israelites.
2. The Israelites were supposed to rest and __ __ __ __ __ __ __God on the Sabbath or seventh day of the week.
3. Aaron made a golden __ __ __ __ for the people to worship when Moses was on Mount Sinai.
4. The rules God gave the people to live by are called the __ __ __ Commandments.
5. Jesus said the Ten Commandments can be put together into __ __ __ commandments.
6. We are supposed to love __ __ __ with all our heart, souls and minds.
7. We are supposed to love our __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ as ourselves.
8. Jesus explained that our neighbor is anyone we can __ __ __ __.
9. The people were afraid to go into the Promised Land because there were __ __ __ __ __ __ in that land.
10. Because the people were afraid to go into the Promised Land, they were not allowed to go into the Promised Land for __ __ __ __ __ years.
Bible Memory Verse:
“Children, obey your parents in everything for this pleases the Lord.” Colossians 3:20
CHARACTERS: Jolly the Giraffe, Polly the Polar Bear, Leo the Lion
LEO: (enter out of breath) Hi, kids! I got here before Jolly and Polly this week. I can’t wait to hear what happened to Polly! I wonder if she has to move! I wonder how God answered our prayers!
JOLLY: (enter) Hi, Leo. Hi, kids! How come you’re here before me, Leo? I thought you had basketball practice every Tuesday.
LEO: I do, but today I left a little early and ran all the way here. I can’t wait to find out what happened about Polly. Does she have to move?
JOLLY: I can’t wait to hear, either. She should be here by now.
LEO: Have you been praying?
JOLLY: I have and so has my family. But I don’t know how God will answer.
LEO: Here comes Polly, now.
(Polly enter)
JOLLY: Hi, Polly. What happened?
POLLY: What happened about what?
LEO: Do you have to move?
POLLY: Move where…just kidding. No, God did more than we could even think of praying for.
LEO: How?
JOLLY: What happened?
POLLY: First of all, I was telling my father about Kid’s Club and our memory verse last week: “My help comes from the Lord, Maker of heaven and earth.” Psalm 121:2 He seemed really interested. Then later in the week, someone offered him a job—even better than his old one. He said it was something he always wanted to do, but never dared to quit his old job. It worked out just right because he had to leave his old job anyway.
LEO: Boy, that is exciting!
POLLY: But that isn’t all. I was telling our pastor that we didn’t have the money to pay our rent because my father won’t get his paycheck for two weeks. So our pastor went to visit my father. He told him that our church would give him some money to help pay for the rent.
JOLLY: That was really nice of our church.
POLLY: And then the pastor and my father talked for a long time. And guess what?
LEO: What?
POLLY: My father believes in Jesus!
LEO: Wow!
JOLLY: That’s wonderful, Polly! More than we even thought possible!
POLLY: Thanks for praying, Jolly and Leo. You’re such good friends. I’d better leave. My parents said to come home early tonight. Remember our memory verse: “Children, obey your parents in everything for this pleases the Lord.” Colossians 3:20 I want to obey my parents! Good-bye, kids!
JOLLY and LEO: Good-bye, kids!
(Puppets exit)