Free2ShareVBS-Year 1-Day 4


Day 4
Salvation
Now as Jesus was going up to Jerusalem, He took the twelve disciples aside and said to them, “We are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be betrayed to the chief priests and the teachers of the law. They will condemn Him to death and will turn Him over to the Gentiles to be mocked and flogged and crucified. On the third day He will be raised to Life!” Matthew 20:17-19 NIV®
[This next passage is after Jesus had arisen from the dead.]
Mary Magdalene went to the disciples with the news: “I have seen the Lord!” And she told them that He had said these things to her. On the even[ing] of that first day of the week, when the disciples were together with the doors locked for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said, “Peace be with you!” After he said this, He showed them His hands and side. The disciples were overjoyed when they saw the Lord. Again Jesus said, “Peace be with you! As the Father has sent Me, I am sending you.” John 20:18-21 NIV®
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“For God so loved the world that he gave His one and only son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.” John 3:16 NIV®
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Discussion Example:
Explain, “Before it ever happened, Jesus told His Disciples that He was going to be betrayed, and condemned, mocked, flogged, and crucified, and rise again on the third day. The Disciples had to be very confused with this. They may have wondered, ‘How could Jesus know all of this before it happened?’ ‘If Jesus is crucified as He says, how can He rise on the third day?’ ”
“The thing they forgot is that Jesus is the Son of God and is all-knowing and knew this ahead and wanted to prepare His Disciples for this. He did this so they truly knew Jesus was the Savior when He arose from the dead as He said He would.
“The thing I think is amazing is that Jesus knew ahead of time that the soldiers were going to tease Him, hit Him, and kill Him, but He didn’t run away and hide. I’m not sure I would have gone through all of that if I knew ahead of time that it was going to happen, but He did that for us! He did this, so that all who believe He is our Savior could one day join Him in heaven. Pretty amazing!"
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Arts and Crafts Example:
Have the children make a quick free form design on a piece of paper with a crayon. (This is a great time to use old, broken crayons.) Then they are to color each portion within shapes and outside of the shapes, so that no shape touches the same color, coloring as hard as possible until the whole sheet is colored.
Explain, “It was a very sad day for the Disciples and the followers of Jesus, when He was crucified on the cross and buried in the tomb, even the skies turned dark. You are going to take a black crayon and color as hard as you can over your drawing so that there are no light spaces to represent the dark sky and the sadness the disciples felt.”
When finished say, “Jesus’ death had a purpose. Since we are all sinful people, because of Jesus Christ’s death and rising from the grave for us, all who believe He is our Savior can one day go to heaven to be with Him.
“Imagine how confused and excited Mary and the other Disciples were when they saw Jesus Christ had really risen from the grave as He told them He would. Now, take the item ( the end of scissors that aren't too sharp, tooth pick, plastic silverware, etc.) and scratch out a design in the top of your paper to represent all the joy and happiness they must have felt when they saw their Lord and Savior alive on Easter.”
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Science Example:
Each student will need 2 rubber bands and a cardboard tube (toilet paper tubes or from rolls of foil, etc. cut about the size of a toilet paper tube). They may need some assistance to put the rubber bands around the tube stretching from end to end to make a musical instrument.
Explain, “When Mary and the Disciples finally realized that Jesus had arisen from the dead, they had to be so excited! We are making instruments to sing things like: Rejoice our Savior is Risen or other things you might think they would sing.”
After they make their instruments and sing, ask them the following. “What is your Hypothesis about what makes the music in the instrument you created?” After listening to their Hypotheses explain, “The vibrations from the rubber bands creates sound waves that make the sounds you hear.”
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Game Example:
Say, “We are going to play Share the Good News, which is similar to Heads-Up 7-Up.”
Have 3, 5, or 7 students stand up (depending on the size of the group) and explain: that are going to gently tap the thumb of one student per round, to represent sharing the Good News that Jesus is Risen! The other students are seated with their heads down, eyes closed and thumb up. After the tappers have returned say, “Heads-Up, Jesus is Risen!
Call on the students who have been tapped one at a time, and explain that they will identify who has tapped them by saying something like, “I think Fred was sharing the Good News with me.” If identified correctly, the person becomes the tapper, if the student puts their head down with the rest of the students on the next round.
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