Fourth and Fifth
Introduction
LessonTitle
1 God's Good Pleasure
2 More God's Good Pleasure
3 God's Plan
4 More God's Plan
5 God's Choosing
6 More God's Choosing
7 God Created Something Special
8 More God Created Something Special
9 God's Enemy
10 What God's Enemy Did
11 What Happened to The Two People
12 More What Happened to The Two People
13 How the Two People Acted Differently

THE BASIC REVELATION IN THE HOLY SCRIPTURES

(For Younger Children)

Lesson Four God's Plan (Part 2)

Objective:

To impress children that God can get what He wants most (God's good pleasure), a lot of sons that are like Him and show what He's like; only by putting His own life, Himself, into some people so that they can be those sons.

Materials:

  1. Lesson Three in this series.
  2. Large pictures of hand puppets of two quite different creatures in the animal world, e.g., a dog and a bird, a cat and a horse, a cat and a duck, etc.

Review:

  1. ASK what is the thing God wants most of all? And what is His plan to get this?
  2. REQUEST that child/children re-tell story from Lesson 3--why couldn't younger child be like that older child who ran so fast? (Wasn't born to be like that; it wash't inside him/her to grow long legs.)
  3. ASK about the progress of their lima been sprouts.
  4. DISCUSS why the sprouts will never grow peppers.

Implementation:

  1. PRESENT as a story with pictures of each, or as a dialogue between two hand puppets: One of the two creatures wants to be like the other--to make the noise that the other makes, to swim/run/fly, etc. like the other, to do whatever other characteristic things the other does. But of course, every time he tries, he can't do it. After a number of attempts and failures, have that puppet asks the children, "WHY can't I do it?" The answer you're after is that he can't do it because he isn't a duck/dog/whatever--he wasn't born able to do it--it just isn't in him to be able to do that. Why is the other animal able to fly/swim/etc,? Because he was born able to do it--it's in him to be able to do it.
  2. DISCUSS: How can God get some sons to be like Himself? Could the ______(first creature) be like the ______(second creature) just because he wanted to be? No, it just wasn't in him to be like that. Well. for God to have sons like Him, there has to be something inside those sons/people that makes them be able to be like God. What can God put inside people to make them be His owm sons and be like Him? How can He fix them so they can think like Him and love everybody no matter what, like Him? What is His plan to get some people able to do that? He is going to put Himself, His own life, into some people! Just think of that--God's own self, His own life, inside some people so they can be like God and show what He's like! Does this mean they are going to be able to create the Earth, like God? Or that they can be everywhere at the same time? or know everything everyone is thinking everywhere all the time? NO. they won't be like God in that way. God's plan is to put Himself inside of some people so they can love everyone. no matter what, like He does, and never lie. no matter what--things like that. Wouldn't you like to be like that???
  3. SING song from Lesson Three, two or three times.

Gospel Suggestion:

Lessons Three and Four: These lessons about God's plan to get the sons He wants stress that to get those sons, God must put His own life into some people. Would someone like get God's life into him/her right now, and be one of His sons? Ask the child to open his/her heart up to the Lord Jesus and pray as you guide.