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God displays His greatness by giving us Jesus. Jesus, the very Son o God, has Gods
ull ability to heal. He also has Gods ull ability to orgive sins. Our bodies, wracked
by sin, are decaying. We need healing, but healing is temporal. What we ultimately
need is healing rom sin, orgiveness. This took place on the cross when Jesus
conquered sin and death. We can now rightly worship and obey Him as Lord.
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Dear Sunday School Teacher,
Your ministry as a teacher or our Lord has eternal value! When we view our ministry in light o
eternity, we see its importance and the privilege that God has entrusted to us. In Psalm 78, the
Bible also reminds us o this great calling: One generation commending the Gospel to the next.
Treasuring Christ Curriculum:The ministry resource that you hold in your hand is produced
and shaped by the local churchThe Bride o Christ. We have three primary strategies thatguide us. First, we desire to produce a Gospel-centered curriculum that allows every child, babies to
high school students, to study the same Scripture passage each week. Second, we seek to equip
parents to thrive in their God-given role as their childs primary discipler. We want this resource,
thereore, to connect the church and the home by providing the Connecting Church and Home
resource within the curriculum. Third, we want to respond to the
desperate need or curriculum resources around the world. We
desire to bless the nations with a tool that will help them reach
the world with the Gospel o Christ.
Quarter One: God on Display
Every relationship begins with an introduction. God introducing Himsel to us is the heartbeat o
this study.
God on Display is a major theme that runs throughout all o Scripture. Gods desire to have com-
munion with those He created is seen rom cover to cover o the Bible. In the rst ew pages, we see
God communing in the Garden o Eden with Adam and Eve. The theme o communion continues
to be seen through the role o the Old Testament tabernacle and temple. In the New Testament,
God became incarnate in Jesus, God with us. Ater Jesus, the Father gives the Holy Spirit to believers
and institutes the Church. Fellowship in the Church breeds community, both with God and othersmade in His likeness. As believers, we are guaranteed that we will spend eternity in communion
with God, dwelling in His presence.
God is on display: everywhere; in the past, present and uture; and in our lives as believers. Let us
live continually to display Gods greatness and love.
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OVERVIEW 4FOR YOUR EDIFICATION 5-12
EARLY CHILDHOOD 13-17
ELEMENTARY 18-21
PRE-TEEN/MIDDLE SCHOOL 22-25
HIGH SCHOOL 26-31
CONNECTING CHURCH AND HOME 32
RESOURCES 33
Through the Roof
QUARTER THEME | GOD ON DISPLAY Mark 2:1-12
W E E K T E N
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OVERVIEW
EARLY
CHILDHOOD
ELEMENTARY PRE-TEEN/
MIDDLE SCHOOLHIGH SCHOOL
Treasure Verse Psalm 103:2-3 Psalm 103:2-3 Psalm 103:2-5 Psalm 103:2-5
Treasure Point
God
orgives sins.
Jesus
orgives allo our sins.
Jesus is God
and has thepower to healand orgive sins.
Jesus, as God,
has the powerto orgive our sinsthrough His
nished work onthe cross.
Teaching Activities
Soap balls,Miniature mats,
Acting time(optional),
Blessings mural,Song time
Building houses,Acting time(optional),
Blessings mural,Song time,
Writing letters
4D experience Friendship video
Supplies Needed
Wax paper, soap
fakes (like Ivory),ziplock sandwich
bags, bowls owater, Mat
coloring sheet,crayons, popsiclesticks, index cards,
pencils, glue,butcher paper,marker, tape,
CD and CD player
Building
materials such asgraham crackers
and marshmallows,Legos, Lincoln Logs
or ake bricks;props such as asheet or step-
ladder; butcherpaper; marker;
tape; CD and CDplayer; notebookpaper and pens
Blindolds, props
such as a sheetand stepladder
Laptop
OVERVIEW
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Enter the Story
Friends. We all need them in lie. They help us
move our urniture to new homes, share meals
with us and let us borrow clothes or tools or
money. They supply us with that much-needed
random git or the oces White Elephant
Christmas party. They are there when milestone
achievements happen in our lives or when
lie-changing moments occur in the lives o our
amilies. Some riendships last only or a short
amount o time; others last a lietime. Some live
next door and you see them every day; others
you may never see again on this side o heaven.
An unlikely riendship ormed between Jesse
Owens, a black man rom America and Luz
Long, a German. Both were competitors in the
Summer Olympics o 1936. A year prior to the
Olympics, Owens jumped 26 eet, 8 1/4 inches
at a competition (a record that would even-
tually stand or 25 years). But at the Olympics
in 1936, Owens noticed a tall, blue-eyed, blond
German taking practice jumps in the 26-oot
range. Owens naturally elt nervous because
he was acutely aware o the Nazis desire to
prove Indo-European superiority, especially
over blacks. Yet instead, the tall German walked
over to Owens, introduced himsel as Luz Long,
and said, You should be able to qualiy withyour eyes closed (reerring to two competi-
tions taking place that day at the Olympics).
And or the next ew moments, the black son o
a sharecropper and the Indo-European model
o Nazi manhood chatted.
In the nals, Owens set an Olympic record
and earned the second o our gold medals
he would win. The rst person to congratu-
late him was Luz Longin ull view o a dis-
approving Adol Hitler. Owens never again
saw Long, who was later killed in World War II.
Later he wrote o his riend, You could melt
down all the medals and cups I have, and they
wouldnt be a spot on the 24-carat riendship
I elt or Luz Long.
In this weeks Treasure Story, we read o our
riends who had the persistency to bring
their riend to Christ. It wasnt easy. Their aith
was visible, strong and ended up being
lie-changing or their paralytic riend. We all
need riends who will tell us the truth, go the
extra mile or us and bring us to Jesus. Are you
that type o riend?
He [Jesus] saw Himself as a
doctor who could heal and purify those who
were unclean. Sinners do not dele Him. On the
contrary, He cleanses and transforms sinners.
Thomas Schreiner, New Testament Theology,
pg. 619
Jesus remained ully man andfully God during His incarnation, and He main-
tained all of His divine attributes and did avail
Himself of them upon occasion, such as to
forgive human sin, which God alone can do.
Mark Driscoll, Doctrine, pg. 232
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Forgiveness implies deliverancefrom the penalty due to sin. The wrath of God
is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness;
and when men become sensible of the danger to
which they are exposed, deliverance from the
impending wrath becomes an object of intense
solicitude. Hence arises an anxious desire to ob-
tain forgiveness. To persons in this state of mine,
the doctrine that there is forgiveness with God,
is most welcome. John Dagg, A Manual of
Theology, pg. 262
The message o the Gospel isthis: God can forgive you, and He is willing to do
so. Sinclair Ferguson, By Grace Alone, pg. 57
Story Outline
This story takes place in Capernaum, a city
where Jesus spent much time during His
years o earthly ministry. Jesus had already
started to attract crowds wherever He went as
He preached the Word. In this Treasure Story,
He was preaching in a home in Capernaum,
and it was packed. Many listeners, both people
who were eager to hear and those eager to
condemn, gathered to listen to what He had
to say.
Mark 2:1-2: And when He returned toCapernaum ater some days, it was reported
that He was at home. And many were gathered
together, so that there was no more room, not
even at the door. And He was preaching the
Word to them.
Four men had a riend who was in desperate
need o Jesus healing powers, but they couldnt
even get to the door. So, they ound a way to
climb up on the roo o the house. Details are
not given about how they got up there (while
carrying their riend on a mat), but it could not
have been an easy task. Their tenacious deter-
mination was ueled by desperation and ur-
gency or their riend. Once on top o the roo,
they then had to make an opening, probably
using their bare hands to break through. The
roo was likely fat and made o clay tiles.
Imagine what it would have been like to have
been standing in that house. There you are,
pushed up against people, no air condition-
ing, standing room only. Then all of a sudden,
in the middle of Jesus teaching, dirt and sticks
and mud start falling on your head. What? The
ceiling is caving in? Would you begin to panic?
Be annoyed? Then, if that wasnt enough, these
men begin creating a lot of noise as they came
through the roof (carrying a mat).
Mark 2:3-5: And they came, bringing to Him
a paralytic carried by our men. And when they
could not get near Him because o the crowd,
they removed the roo above Him, and when
they had made an opening, they let down
the bed on which the paralytic lay. And when
Jesus saw their aith, He said to the paralytic,Son, your sins are orgiven.
And when Jesus saw their aith . . . Jesus saw
living, active, mat-carrying aith by these our
riends and their paralytic riend. He gave the
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riend this imperative statement, Your sins are
orgiven. Why didnt Jesus tell the paralytic the
statement the man probably wanted to hear:
You are healed? Jesus, being God, knew that
the more crucial need o this man was that his
sins be orgiven. This orgiveness was more
costly to Jesus because it would require dying
on a cross. This orgiveness was also eternal and
not temporal (like the healing alone would be).
It was not uncommon in theancient world for illness to be seen as punish-
ment for sin. Jesus worked within this way of
thinking, knowing well the connections that His
audience would make. Regardless of popular
opinion, however, the sick man, like all of us,
needed forgiveness of sins, even if sin was not
the immediate cause of his paralysis. John and
Kim Walton, The Bible Story Handbook, pg. 280
The scribes were also in the home. Scribes were
a group o Jewish leaders who copied the law
o Moses, interpreted the law, and were experts
in cases where people were accused o break-ing the law(Holman Illustrated Bible Dictionary
or Kids, pg. 170). Picture them with their arms
olded, scowls on their aces, waiting to catch
Jesus in saying something that was wrong, ac-
cording to the law o Moses.
Jesus, without hesitation, has a reply or their
questioning hearts. He gives the scribes,
the paralytic, his riends, and the entire crowd
evidence o His deity by saying to the man,Rise, pick up your bed, and go home.
Mark 2:6-9:Now some o the scribes were sit-
ting there, questioning in their hearts, Why does
this man speak like that? He is blaspheming!
Who can orgive sins but God alone? And
immediately Jesus, perceiving in His spirit that
they thus questioned within themselves, said
to them, Why do you question these things
in your hearts? Which is easier, to say to the
paralytic, Your sins are orgiven, or to say, Rise,
take up your bed and walk?
What is the response o the lame man?
Worship. Imagine him hopping up, stretch-
ing his legs because he hadnt used them in
so long, marveling at what had just happened
to him. The man takes his bed in obedience.
Visualize the people watching Jesus speak the
words and the man being healed. Considerthe wonder o those in attendance who had
known the paralytic or years, now witnessing
him standing up and walking. What is their
response? They stand in amazement and
worship. These are appropriate responses to
having an encounter with Jesus.
Mark 2:10-12: But that you may know
that the Son o Man has authority on earth to
orgive sinsHe said to the paralyticI say toyou, rise, pick up your bed, and go home. And
he rose and immediately picked up his bed and
went out beore them all, so that they were all
amazed and gloried God, saying, We never
saw anything like this!
The only hope or sinners isforgiveness. To put it even more forcefully, the
only hope for sinners is that the One whos in
charge of the universe is a God of forgiveness.The bottom line is this: if God is unwilling to for-
give, we are doomed. But Hes willing! The story
that winds its way across the pages of the Bible
is a story of Gods active willingness to forgive.
Paul David Tripp, Whiter Than Snow, pg. 136
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In this Treasure Story, Jesus reveals Himsel
as God, with the God-ability to orgive sins.
The Apostle Paul said, For in Him [Christ]
the whole ullness o deity [being God]
dwells bodily (Colossians 2:9). Empha-
sizing this same truth, pastor and author
John Piper noted, Christ is glorious so that
rich or poor, sick or sound, we might be
satised in Him (Seeing and Savoring Jesus
Christ, pg. 27).
Another attribute o God dwelling bodily in Christ is omniscience. This means that Jesus, being
God, knew everything. Jesus displays this in the Treasure Story by going straight to the paralytics
deepest need and in questioning the unspoken thoughts o the scribes. The prophet Jeremiah
said, The heart is deceitul above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it? I the
LORD search the heart and test the mind, to give every man according to his ways, according to
the ruit o his deeds (Jeremiah 17:9-10).
This Treasure Story tells o a crippled man who is unable to get up o his mat. All humanity is in need
o healing because we are unable to save ourselves. We are unable to do anything on our own to
bring us health, lie or heaven. Scripture tells us that we are dead in our sin (Ephesians 2:1). We are
this man. We are crippled, unable to do anything or ourselves, in need o a Savior to heal usnot
just physically, but also to heal our relationship with God the Father.
Gospel Truths About God
FOR YOUR EDIFICATION
The centrality and distinctivenessof Jesus is featured in His forgiveness of sins. He heals
the paralytic in order to demonstrate that He possesses
the authority to forgive sinners . . . Jesus pronounce-
ment of forgiveness also points to the cross as the basis
of the forgiveness given. Thomas Schreiner, New
Testament Theology, pgs. 188-189
Gospel Truths About Man
The Christian lives through orgiveness. This is what justifcationby faith is all about. We could have no life or hope with God at all, had Gods Son not borne the penalty
of our sins so that we might go free. J. I. Packer, Praying the Lords Prayer, pg. 77
We can ace that we are sinners and rest because we know thatGod really does exist and that He is a God of mercy, steadfast love, abundant mercy. Because He is, there
is hopehope of forgiveness and new beginnings. Yes, we really can fully acknowledge our sin and failure
and yet be unafraid. Paul David Tripp, Whiter Than Snow, pg. 54
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The ocus o this lesson is not that Jesus heals diseased, broken and decaying bodies. It is not on the
importance o riends. The heart o this lesson is that Jesus, who is the Son o God, has the power to
orgive sins. He knew the only way the paralytics sins would be orgiven, and ours too, was through
His broken body on the cross and His powerul resurrection rom the tomb.
Gospel Truths About Redemption
FOR YOUR EDIFICATION
These miracles (such as healing the paralytic) were intended todisplay our Saviors power and authority as that man who is Jehovahs Servant, that man who is God,
to show that He has power and authority by virtue of who He is and by virtue of the sacrice He made
in eternity and was about to make at Calvary, to forgive sins. Don Fortner, Discovering Christ in
All the Scriptures, pg. 360
That is why Christ suered and died. In Him we have redemptionthrough His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses (Ephesians 1:7). Forgiveness costs us nothing.
All our costly obedience is the fruit, not the root, of being forgiven. Thats why we call it grace. But
it cost Jesus His life. That is why we call it just. Oh, how precious is the news that God does not
hold our sins against us! And how beautiful is Christ, whose blood made it right for God to do this.
John Piper, Fifty Reasons Why Jesus Came to Die, pg. 37
When you were stuck in your old sin-dead lie, you wereincapable of responding to God. God brought you alive. All sins forgiven. As far as sunrise is from
sunset, God has separated us from our sins. Eugene Peterson, Not a Day Goes by Without His
Unfolding Grace, Day 12
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For Your Edication (continued)
Leviticus 24:10-23
Numbers 15:30-31
Psalm 51:1-4
Psalm 103:2-5
Isaiah 33:24
Jeremiah 17:9-10
Luke 5:17-26
Ephesians 1:7
1 John 1:8-10
Whiter Than Snow by Paul David Tripp
Leviticus 24:10-23: Now an Israelite womans
son, whose ather was an Egyptian, went out
among the people o Israel. And the Israel-
ite womans son and a man o Israel ought
in the camp, and the Israelite womans son
blasphemed the Name, and cursed. Then they
brought him to Moses. His mothers name was
Shelomith, the daughter o Dibri, o the tribe o
Dan. And they put him in custody, till the will o
the LORD should be clear to them.
Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, Bring
out o the camp the one who cursed, and let all
who heard him lay their hands on his head, and
let all the congregation stone him. And speak
to the people o Israel, saying, Whoever curses
his God shall bear his sin. Whoever blasphemes
the name o the LORD shall surely be put todeath. All the congregation shall stone him.
The sojourner as well as the native, when he
blasphemes the Name, shall be put to death.
Whoever takes a human lie shall surely be
put to death. Whoever takes an animals lie
shall make it good, lie or lie. I anyone injures
his neighbor, as he has done it shall be done tohim, racture or racture, eye or eye, tooth or
tooth; whatever injury he has given a person
shall be given to him. Whoever kills an animal
shall make it good, and whoever kills a person
shall be put to death. You shall have the same
rule or the sojourner and or the native, or I
am the LORD your God. So Moses spoke to the
people o Israel, and they brought out o the
camp the one who had cursed and stoned him
with stones. Thus the people o Israel did as theLORD commanded Moses.
Numbers 15:30-31: But the person who
does anything with a high hand, whether he is
native or a sojourner, reviles the LORD, and that
person shall be cut o rom among his people.
Because he has despised the Word o the LORD
and has broken His commandment, that person
shall be utterly cut o; his iniquity shall be
on him.
Psalm 51:1-4: Have mercy on me, O God,
according to your steadast love; according
to your abundant mercy blot out my transgres-
sions. Wash me thoroughly rom my iniquity,
and cleanse me rom my sin! For I know my
transgressions, and my sin is ever beore me.
Against you, you only, have I sinned and done
what is evil in your sight, so that you may be justied in your words and blameless in your
judgment.
Psalm 103:2-5: Bless the LORD, O my soul,
and orget not all His benets, who orgives all
your iniquity, who heals all your diseases, who
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redeems your lie rom the pit, who crowns you
with steadast love and mercy, who satises
you with good so that your youth is renewed
like the eagles.
Isaiah 33:24: And no inhabitant will say,
I am sick; the people who dwell there will be
orgiven their iniquity.
Jeremiah 17:9-10:The heart is deceitulabove all things, and desperately sick; who can
understand it? I the LORD search the heart and
test the mind, to give every man according to
his ways, according to the ruit o his deeds.
Luke 5:17-26: On one o those days, as He
was teaching, Pharisees and teachers o the
law were sitting there, who had come rom
every village o Galilee and Judea and rom
Jerusalem. And the power o the Lord was
with Him to heal. And behold, some men were
bringing on a bed a man who was paralyzed,
and they were seeking to bring him in and
lay him beore Jesus, but nding no way to
bring him in, because o the crowd, they went
up on the roo and let him down with his bed
through the tiles into the midst beore Jesus.
And when He saw their aith, He said, Man,
your sins are orgiven you. And the scribes
and the Pharisees began to question, saying,
Who is this who speaks blasphemies? Who
can orgive sins but God alone? When Jesus
perceived their thoughts, He answered them,
Why do you question in your hearts? Which
is easier, to say, Your sins are orgiven you, or
to say, Rise and walk? But that you may know
that the Son o Man has authority on earth to
orgive sinsHe said to the man who wasparalyzedI say to you, rise, pick up your bed
and go home. And immediately he rose up
beore them and picked up what he had been
lying on and went home, gloriying God. And
amazement seized them all, and they gloried
God and were lled with awe, saying, We have
seen extraordinary things today.
Ephesians 1:7: In Him we have redemption
through His blood, the orgiveness o our tres-
passes, according to the riches o His grace.
1 John 1:8-10: I we say we have no sin, we
deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. I
we coness our sins, He is aithul and just to
orgive us our sins and to cleanse us rom all
unrighteousness. I we say we have not sinned,
we make Him a liar, and His Word is not in us.
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God displays His greatness by giving us Jesus. Jesus, the very
Son o God, has Gods ull ability to heal. He also has Gods
ull ability to orgive sins. Our bodies, wracked by sin, are
decaying. We need healing, but healing is only temporal.
What we ultimately need is healing rom sin, orgiveness.
This took place on the cross when Jesus conquered sin and
death. We can now rightly worship and obey Him as Lord.
FOR YOUR EDIFICATION
My Mission As Teacher:
In the Treasure Story, these men had great faith in bringing their paralytic friend to see the only One
who could heal him. Jesus healed because o their great aith. In what areas does your aith need
strengthening? Ask God to strengthen them; He will.
How can we bring our friends to Christ this week? We cant lower a friend through the roof of a
house in Capernaum, but we can bring our riends to Christ in prayer or by sharing the Gospel with
them. Do any o your riends need Jesus?
Prayer Points:
Pray that God would give you specic encounters this week with friends who need Jesus: either for
salvation, or healing, or hope or or strength.
Pray that your students would understand with great clarity that their deepest need is salvation byorgiveness through Christ alone. Everything else in lie is secondary.
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EARLY CHILDHOOD
Early Childhood
engageEarly Arrival Activity: (15 minutes or until you are ready to begin)
Create soap balls. Give each child a piece o wax paper. Pour some soap fakes on each piece. Have
bowls o water set up in the middle o the table and instruct the children to sprinkle water (using
their ngers) over the soap fakes. They can then orm balls o soap using their hands. Give each child
a plastic bag and ask them to put their soap balls in their bag. Explain to the children that soap can
get our bodies clean and help us smell good. But only God can clean the inside o us rom the bad
things we do (sin).
Supplies Needed: Wax paper, soap fakes (like Ivory), ziplock sandwich bags,
bowls o water
Treasure Story: Mark 2:1-12
Treasure Verse: Bless the LORD, O my soul, and orget not all His benets, who orgivesall your iniquity, who heals all your diseases (Psalm 103:2-3).
Treasure Point: God orgives sins.
Jesus looked at the sick man, and He saw something thatnobody else could see. He saw that the mans heart was sad because of sin. Marian
Schoolland, Leading Little Ones to God, pg. 77
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discover
Mat Activity: (15 minutes)
Create mats to go along with the story.
Younger Children Option: Pass out the Mat coloring sheet (see resources) and have the children
color the sheet beore you begin telling todays Treasure Story.
Supplies Needed: Mat coloring sheet, crayons
Older Children Option: Have the children build their own miniature mats. Give each child an
index card and ask them to write WALK on it. Then instruct them to glue our popsicle sticks
together so that they orm a rectangle. Glue the index card on top o the rectangle to create
their own mat.
Supplies Needed: Four popsicle sticks per child, one index card (3 X 5 size),
pencils, glue
Bible Story Time: (15 minutes)
Teacher Note: Ask the children to sit in the designated reading/Bible story area. Tell them that
this is Gods Word, the Bible, the way He speaks to us. It is true, and we need to listen to God.
Be sure they see you reading Mark 2:1-12 out o the Bible and not out o the curriculum guide.
Have the older children ollow along in their own Bibles.
This outline will help you as you teach the story. Read the designated Bible passages as they
are included. When teaching older children, consider asking them to act out the scenes rom
this passage.
EARLY CHILDHOOD
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In a city called Capernaum, Jesus was preaching the Word, and people were gathered around
closely to listen to Him. To act out the story, ask one young boy to stand at the ront o the class,
holding a Bible, pretending to be Jesus. Instruct him to say things about God. Mimic the settingby asking all the children to sit closely together and close to you. Ask them to imagine the people
tightly gathered around Jesus as He taught.
Mark 2:1-2: And when He returned to Capernaum ater some days, it was reported that He was
at home. And many were gathered together, so that there was no more room, not even at the
door. And He was preaching the Word to them.
So many people had come to hear Jesus, but there was no more room. They were even stand-
ing outside the door, wanting to hear His every word. The people had heard about what Jesus was
doing: healing the sick and preaching the Gospel. Now they wanted to hear or themselves what He
had to say.
Four friends arrived with their friend who couldnt walk. Ask the children these questions: Have
you ever had a broken oot or leg that made it dicult to walk? Have you ever been sick (with a cold,
fu, etc.)? This man couldnt walk. He needed someone to make him better.
Mark 2:3-4: And they came, bringing to Him a paralytic carried by our men. And when they
could not get near Him because o the crowd, they removed the roo above Him, and when they
had made an opening, they let down the bed on which the paralytic lay.
These friends came in through the roof. Instruct our children to stand up on chairs as thoughthey were trying to climb to the top o a house. (I you are working with small children, have the
children line up in a single line, and one at a time take turns climbing on the chair while a helper
holds their hand.)
Jesus told the man his sins were forgiven: And when Jesus saw their aith, He said to the para-
lytic, Son, your sins are orgiven (Mark 2:5). But the scribes (men who ollowed the Law o Moses)
did not like that very much because they didnt know Jesus was the Son o God. These men were not
very nice to Jesus, and they were trying to catch Him in a lie.
Mark 2:6-7:Now some o the scribes were sitting there, questioning in their hearts, Why doesthis man speak like that? He is blaspheming! Who can orgive sins but God alone?
Jesus knew their hearts just like He knows all of our hearts.The Bible says our hearts are bad
(Jeremiah 17:9). What do you think Jesus would see in your heart?
Mark 2:8: And immediately Jesus, perceiving in His spirit that they thus questioned within
themselves, said to them, Why do you question these things in your hearts?
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He then told the man who couldnt walk to get up and walk: Which is easier, to say to the
paralytic, Your sins are orgiven, or to say, Rise, take up your bed and walk? (Mark 2:9) The man
immediately started walking around, praising God. Instruct the students to stand up and dance,
jump, holler and to praise God! This is what the man who couldnt walk did when Jesus told him
to get up and walk. This is why Jesus healed the man: so people would praise Him and give God
the glory.
Mark 2:10-12: But that you may know that the Son o Man has authority on earth to orgive
sinsHe said to the paralyticI say to you, rise, pick up your bed, and go home. And he rose and
immediately picked up his bed and went out beore them all, so that they were all amazed and
gloried God, saying, We never saw anything like this!
Treasure Verse Learning Activity: (5 minutes)
Make a blessings mural. Hang up a large piece o butcher paper on the wall in the classroom. Write
the Treasure Verse at the top o the page. Ask the children to name everything that God has blessed
them with. Write what the children say on the piece o paper. This will be a visual reminder in coming
weeks (as you keep it displayed in the classroom) o the blessings God gives us.
Supplies Needed: Butcher paper, marker, tape or other adhesive to hang up the paper
Song Time: (10 minutes)
Love, Love, Love is this quarters theme song. This song can be ound on the Treasuring Christ
website: www.treasuringchristonline.org.
Supplies Needed: CD player, CD
Playground Time: (15 minutes)
Center play or ree play is useul here i there is no playground or i the weather is not conducive toplaying outside.
Snack Time: (10 minutes)
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treasure
Treasure Point:God orgives sin.
My Mission: (10 minutes)
Use this time to review all the ways God has shown His power in previous lessons. Remind the
children o how God protected Daniel rom the lions (Lesson Nine), sent down re rom heaven
(Lesson Eight), made the wall o Jericho all (Lesson Seven), etc.
Prayer Time: (5 minutes)
Pray that your children would even now (at their young age) know their need or a Savior. Pray
also that they would have compassion or the hurt, sick, and those who need Jesus.
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Elementary
engageEarly Arrival Activity: (10-15 minutes or until all the children arrive)
Instruct the children to build houses. Break up the children into teams and have dierent building
materials available or them. Materials might include graham crackers and marshmallows, Legos,
Lincoln Logs, ake bricks, etc. Be creative. These houses can be used as an illustration later in the
telling o the Treasure Story.
Supplies Needed: Building materials such as graham crackers and marshmallows,
Legos, Lincoln Logs or ake bricks
Introduction: (10 minutes)
Use this time to have a contest or the houses the children built. Whose house is the prettiest? Whose
house is the sturdiest? Who built a house and orgot to include a door? This last question is a great
segue into the Treasure Story.
discoverBible Story Time: (15 minutes)
Teacher Note: Have the children sit in the designated reading/Bible story area. Tell them this is Gods
Word, the Bible, the way He speaks to us. It is true, and we need to listen to God. Be sure they see you
reading Mark 2:1-12 out o the Bible and not out o the curriculum guide. Have the older children
ollow along in their own Bibles.
ELEMENTARY
Treasure Story: Mark 2:1-12
Treasure Verse: Bless the LORD, O my soul, and orget not all His benets, who orgivesall your iniquity, who heals all your diseases (Psalm 103:2-3).
Treasure Point: Jesus orgives all o our sins.
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The ollowing outline will help you teach the story to the children. Read the designated Bible
passages as they are included. For the older children, ask them to act out the scenes in this pas-
sage. Props would also be useul when telling this story, such as a stepladder, planks o wood, anold sheet, etc.
Supplies Needed: Sheet, stepladder, planks o wood
Jesus was preaching the Word of God, and people were gathered closely around to listen
to Him. To act out the story, ask one young boy to stand at the ront o the class, holding a
Bible, pretending to be Jesus. Encourage the child to have his Bible open to the Treasure Story
passage. Mimic the setting by asking all the children to sit closely together and close to you as
you share the story. Ask them to imagine the people gathered around Jesus as He taught in a
tight space inside someones home.
Mark 2:1-2: And when He returned to Capernaum ater some days, it was reported that He
was at home. And many were gathered together, so that there was no more room, not even
at the door. And He was preaching the Word to them.
So many people had come to hear Jesus, but there was no more room. They were even
standing outside the door, wanting to hear His every word. The people had heard about what
Jesus was doing: healing the sick and preaching the Gospel. Now they wanted to hear or them-
selves what He had to say.
Four friends arrived with their friend who couldnt walk. Ask the children these questions:
Have you ever had a broken oot or leg that made it dicult to walk? Have you ever been sick
(with a cold, fu, etc.)? This man couldnt walk. He needed someone to make him better. How
do you think it would be to not be able to walk at all? When talking about these our riends,
also ask the children to talk about their best riends and what they like to do together or un.
Mark 2:3: And they came, bringing to Him a paralytic carried by our men.
These friends came in through the roof. Have our o the children stand up on chairs as though
they were trying to climb to the top o a house. Have they ever helped their dad or a riend by
hammering or building something? What did they build? Did they use tools? These men prob-ably had no tools to get through the roo o this house, yet they kept digging until they made a
hole in the roo. This roo wasnt easy to get through. It was made o clay tiles and branches, and
it was thick.
Mark 2:4: And when they could not get near Him because o the crowd, they removed the
roo above Him, and when they had made an opening, they let down the bed on which the
paralytic lay.
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Jesus told the man his sins were forgiven:And when Jesus saw their aith, He said to the para-
lytic, Son, your sins are orgiven (Mark 2:5). But the scribes did not like that very much because they
didnt know Jesus was the Son o God. These men were not very nice to Jesus, and they were tryingto catch Him in a lie. They knew the Law o Moses (rom the Old Testament), but what they didnt
know was that Jesus was the Son o God. When Jesus said to the man that his sins were orgiven,
they thought He was blaspheming (telling lies against God). Only God can orgive sins, and they
thought Jesus wasnt God. Jesus IS God!
Mark 2:6-7: Now some o the scribes were sitting there, questioning in their hearts, Why does
this man speak like that? He is blaspheming! Who can orgive sins but God alone?
Jesus knew their hearts, just as He knows all of our hearts. He knew the hearts o the scribes and
He knew the aith o the our riends who brought the man to see Him. The Bible says our hearts arebad (Jeremiah 17:9). What do you think Jesus would see in your heart?
Mark 2:8-9: And immediately Jesus, perceiving in His spirit that they thus questioned within
themselves, said to them, Why do you question these things in your hearts? Which is easier, to
say to the paralytic, Your sins are orgiven, or to say, Rise, take up your bed and walk?
He then told the man who couldnt walk to get up and walk. The man immediately started
walking around, praising God. Instruct the students to stand up and dance, jump, holler and to praise
God! This is what the man who couldnt walk did when Jesus told him to get up and walk. This is
why Jesus healed the man: so people would praise Him and gloriy God.
Mark 2:10-12: But that you may know that the Son o Man has authority on earth to orgive
sinsHe said to the paralyticI say to you, rise, pick up your bed, and go home. And he rose and
immediately picked up his bed and went out beore them all, so that they were all amazed and
gloried God, saying, We never saw anything like this!
Treasure Verse Learning Activity: (5 minutes)
Hang up a large piece o butcher paper on the wall in the classroom. Write the Treasure Verse on
the top o the page. Ask the children to name everything that God has blessed them with. Create
a blessings mural by having the children take turns writing the ways God has blessed them on the
butcher paper. This will be a visual reminder in coming weeks (as you keep it displayed in the class-
room) o the blessings God gives us.
Supplies Needed: Butcher paper, marker, tape or other adhesive to hang up the paper
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Playground Time/Center Activities/Free Play: (15 minutes)
Song Time: (10 minutes)
Love, Love, Love is this quarters theme song. This song can be ound on the Treasuring Christwebsite: www.treasuringchristonline.org.
Supplies Needed: CD player, CD
Closing Activity: (5 minutes)
Have each child write a letter to someone they know who is sick or absent rom class today.
Supplies Needed: Notebook paper, pens
treasure
Treasure Point:Jesus orgives all o our sins.
My Mission: (10 minutes) Allow time or sharing.
Has God ever healed you or someone you know o something? Have the children talk about these
happenings. Praise God or them ater each story.
Prayer Time: (5 minutes)
Pray over the people who will be receiving the letters rom the students.
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Pre-Teen/Middle School
engage
Group Fellowship Time: (10 minutes)
discover
Bible Story: (30 minutes)
Challenge your students to have a 4D experience with todays Treasure Story. Have one person be
the narrator. This student will read the Treasure Story ound in Mark 2:1-12 as this story is acted out
by the rest o the class. Blindold all the people in this story except or the person who plays Jesus.
4 students will be the friends
1 student will be Jesus
1 student will be the man on the mat
2 students will be the scribes The rest will be the crowd listening to Jesus.
For the mat, either use a sheet or a lightweight chair.
To enact getting to the roof, use a small stepladder or stepstool that the four friends will
have to go over blindolded.
Treasure Story: Mark 2:1-12
Treasure Verse: Bless the Lord, O my soul, and orget not all His benets, who orgives allyour iniquity, who heals all your diseases, who redeems your lie rom the pit, who crowns youwith steadast love and mercy, who satises you with good so that your youth is renewed likethe eagles (Psalm 103:2-5).
Treasure Point: Jesus is God and has the power to heal and orgive sins.
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Grant that whether rich or poor, sick orsound, we might be transformed by Him and become an
echo of His excellence in the world. John Piper, Seeing
and Savoring Jesus Christ, pg. 32
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Have the students change parts and re-enact the story. As they act out dierent parts, the stu-
dents will begin to have dierent viewpoints o the story. By being blindolded, they will be orced
to use their imaginations as they picture the story taking place. This 4D experience will help the
students use all their senses and gain a more complete understanding o the Bible story.
Supplies Needed: Blindolds, props such as a sheet and stepladder
Teacher Note: The ollowing outline will assist you as you tell this weeks Treasure Story. Have the
students read the Scriptures listed with each part o the story.
Todays Treasure Story takes place in Capernaum, a city where Jesus spent a lot o time while Hewas on earth. Jesus had already started to attract crowds wherever He went as He preached the
Word. Many listeners, both people who were eager to hear and those eager to condemn, gathered
to listen to Him preach.
The friends you have in your life are important.
Four men had a riend who desperately needed Jesus, but they couldnt even get to the door.
So, they ound a way to climb up on the roo o the house. Details are not given about how they
got up there (while carrying their riend on a mat), but it could not have been an easy task. Their
tenacious determination was ueled by desperation and urgency or their riend. They pickedtheir way through the roo, ignoring the thickness o it, probably using their bare hands. This roo
would have been made up o thick, clay tiles.
Yet think what it would have been like to have been standing in that house. There you are, pushed
up against people, no air conditioning, standing room only. Then all o a sudden, in the middle o
Jesus teaching, dirt and sticks and mud start alling on your head. What? The ceiling is caving in?
Would you have started to panic? Been annoyed? Then, i that wasnt enough, these men begin
creating a lot o noise as they came through the roo (carrying a mat). Who were they to try to
sneak in?
Think back to the 4D experience we just did in class. How did certain roles make you eel?
Mark 2:3-4: And they came, bringing to Him a paralytic carried by our men. And when they
could not get near Him because o the crowd, they removed the roo above Him, and when they
had made an opening, they let down the bed on which the paralytic lay.
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Jesus is more important than your friends.
Friends cant save you. Each o us has to make a commitment to Christ in aith on our own. Only
Jesus has the power to heal and orgive sins. There is no one else who can save you and give you
eternal lie other than Jesus.
Mark 2:5: And when Jesus saw their aith, He said to the paralytic, Son, your sins are orgiven.
And when Jesus saw their aith . . . Jesus saw living, active, mat-carrying aith by these our
riends and their paralytic riend. He gave the riend this imperative statement, Your sins are or-
given. Why didnt Jesus tell the paralytic the statement the man probably wanted to hear, You
are healed? Jesus, being God, knew that the more crucial need o this man was that his sins be
orgiven. This orgiveness was more costly to Jesus because it would require dying on a cross. This
orgiveness was also eternal and not temporal (like the healing alone would be).
Jesus deserves our worship.
What is the response o the lame man? Worship. Imagine him hopping up, stretching his legs be-
cause he hadnt used them in so long, marveling at what had just happened to him. The man takes
his bed in obedience. Visualize the people watching Jesus speak the words and the man being
healed. Consider the wonder o those in attendance who had known the paralytic or years, now
witnessing him standing up and walking. What is their response? They stand in amazement and
worship. These are right responses to seeing Jesus.
How would your lie look dierently i it was lived in total worship to Jesus?
Mark 2:10-12: But that you may know that the Son o Man has authority on earth to orgive
sinsHe said to the paralyticI say to you, rise, pick up your bed, and go home. And he rose and
immediately picked up his bed and went out beore them all, so that they were all amazed and
gloried God, saying, We never saw anything like this!
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treasure
Treasure Point:Jesus is God and has the power to heal and orgive sins.
My Mission:(10 minutes) Allow time or group discussion.
Faith. Where is your faith? Have you put your faith in Christ for salvation? Or have you just
known Jesus a little while and your aith needs to be strengthened? Is your aith really
strong? I so, how can you encourage others in their aith?
Friends. Do you have friends who need to be brought to Jesus like the paralytic? Do you
have a personal story o your aith that you can use to share with others the hope and
orgiveness that Jesus brings?
Prayer Time: (5-10 minutes)
Break up into pairs and pray or these riends (by name) who are in need o Jesus.
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High School
engage
Introduction: (20 minutes)
Watch this our-minute skit on riendship: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eM5KOIvtbk
What are the needs you see in your riends lives?
How do you respond to those needs?
Supplies Needed: Laptop
Teacher Note: The ollowing story rom a musician, David Meece, will illustrate the point in the Trea-
sure Story that Jesus knows what is in our hearts. This story about Meeces experience can lose its
impact i this point does not connect well with the students. Jesus knows all that is in our hearts and
cannot be ooled or misled. For an example o Meeces music, show the students this video clip:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRIEcammskA
HIGH SCHOOL
Treasure Story: Mark 2:1-12
Treasure Verse: Bless the LORD, O my soul, and orget not all His benets, who orgives allyour iniquity, who heals all your diseases, who redeems your lie rom the pit, who crownsyou with steadast love and mercy, who satises you with good so that your youth isrenewed like the eagles (Psalm 103:2-5).
Treasure Point: Jesus, as God, has the power to orgive our sins through His nished workon the cross.
That we might be delivered rom the penalty due to oursins, it was necessary that Christ should bear it for us. Hence it is true, that without the
shedding of blood, there is no remission; and hence, in the teachings of Scripture, the
forgiveness of sins stands connected with redemption by the blood of Christ. John
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One o those rules my mother had to do with the kind o music youd listen to. My mother didnt want
anything but classical music in the house. She didnt want any o this rock stu with that beat . . . not
gonna have that in my house, not gonna have any o that county/western garbage either. For yearsI thought that was the name o the music: country/western garbage, you know. A guy said he liked
country/western music [and] I said, Oh, you like garbage. And I got my jaw handed to me. We didnt
even have any religious records in the house, or Gospel music, unless it was written by Bach, Brahms
or Beethoven.
Course you could always tell when my mother let the house because she had a bad mufer.
And were not just talking your average, everyday bad mufer either. Were talking a bad mufer. I
mean walls would shake, buildings would collapse, [and] mothers would take [their] children o the
streets.
You see, Id be in there practicing my Mozart . . . and Id hear my mother driving o . . . [and then start to
play music rom] Sgt. Pepper [an album o the Beatles]. And my brotherd come in and say, Is mama
gone? I said, I wouldnt be singing this i she was here. So we sat down and wed sing together, til
wed hear her coming back, you know. . . Shed always say, What a nice young man, look at my broth-
er and say, Why cant you be more like your little brother? And hed always say, I am.
And you see, I tell you that story to make a point: unortunately there are a lot o people that try to
run their Christianity the way my brother and Id try to run our music. Oh, you know what Im talkingabout, you know the people: they act one way when theyre around one group o people, and then
they get around another group o people and they become someone else. They talk dierently, they
act dierently; its almost like weve got a world ull o schizophrenic Christians, running around loose
all over the place.
Well, o course theres only one big problem with all that: you see, God does not have a bad mufer.
And whether youre willing to admit it or not, Hes with you every moment o every day, seeing the
good things and the bad things. And while you may be ooling your riends or a while, your parents
or a while, your teachers, your brother, your sister, your husband, your wie, maybe even ooling your-sel, youre not ooling God. There is no such thing as a part-time Christian. You either are one or you
arent one, and theres nothing in the middle. And I didnt really understand that mysel until I was hal-
way through school, halway through college. Thought Id been a Christian all my lie, and I came ace
to ace with the realization that Christianity involved a relationship: something you do moment to
moment, day to day. Its not something you do once a week and then orget about, you know? When
I realized that it made all the dierence in the world in my lie.
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discoverBible Story: (30 minutes)
Teacher Note: Since many o your students are probably amiliar with the story o the para-
lytic man, the Treasure Story or today, have them tell you the story. Use the outline o the
story in the For Your Edication section and Mark 2:1-12 in your Bible to ollow along as the
students share.
Talk with the students about how they may know the story, but do they understand why
orgiveness is so important? Wouldnt it have been equally as important and wonderul and
miraculous i Jesus had just instructed the man to get up and walk? Thats why the man was
coming to Him anyway, to be healed. He wanted to walk again. But Jesus knew the mans
deeper need.
Why is orgiveness important? How should living in orgiveness and the work o Christ on the
cross change our lives?
Forgiveness starts with a right view of God. God is holy.
1 Peter 1:14-16: As obedient children, do not be conormed to the passions o your
ormer ignorance, but as He who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct,
since it is written, You shall be holy, or I am holy.
Matthew 5:48: You thereore must be perect, as your heavenly Father is perect.
Where there is no law, no just standard, no legitimate
expectation, no normative way of relating to God and man, there can be noforgiveness. John Piper, sermon preached on November 25, 1990
Forgive: to reuse to punish someone who has hurtyou or sinned against you . . . Gods forgiveness of sin comes at a great cost
Jesus death on the cross. Holman Illustrated Bible Dictionary for Kids, pg. 62
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Forgiveness starts with a right view of man. Man is sinul and our hearts are evil. There is nothing
good in us. We all short o the perection that God calls us to have. We are dead in our sin, and we
cannot do anything on our own that is good or that can save us. We need Jesus.
Isaiah 64:6-7: We have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous deeds are like
a polluted garment. We all ade like a lea, and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away. There is
no one who calls upon your name, who rouses himsel to take hold o you; or you have hidden
your ace rom us, and have made us melt in the hand o our iniquities.
Jeremiah 17:9-10:The heart is deceitul above all things, and desperately sick; who can
understand it? I the LORD search the heart and test the mind, to give every man according to his
ways, according to the ruit o his deeds.
Romans 3:21-23: But now the righteousness o God has been maniested apart rom the law,although the Law and the Prophets bear witness to itthe righteousness o God through aith
in Jesus Christ or all who believe. For there is no distinction: or all have sinned and all short o
the glory o God.
Ephesians 2:1-3: And you were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you once walked, ol-
lowing the course o this world, ollowing the prince o the power o the air, the spirit that is now
at work in the sons o disobedienceamong whom we all once lived in the passions o our fesh,
carrying out the desires o the body and the mind, and were by nature children o wrath, like the
rest o mankind.
Our only hope and answer is the work of Christ on the cross.
Ephesians 2:4-7: But God, being rich in mercy, because o the great love with which He loved
us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christby grace you
have been savedand raised us up with Him and seated us with Him in the heavenly places in
Christ Jesus, so that in the coming ages He might show the immeasurable riches o His grace in
kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.
Romans 5:6-11: For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died or the ungodly. For
one will scarcely die or a righteous personthough perhaps or a good person one woulddare even to die but God shows His love or us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died
or us. Since, thereore, we have now been justied by His blood, much more shall we be saved
by Him rom the wrath o God. For i while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the
death o his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by His lie. More
than that, we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now
received reconciliation.
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Therefore, let us live in the light and truth of that forgiveness and reconciliation. The Gospel
is the basis o orgiveness and reconciliation. It reconciles us to God and makes us agents o
reconciliation. What did the paralytic man do when Jesus told him to get up and walk? His healing
and orgiveness led him to worship Jesus. Our orgiveness should lead to worship o Jesus as well.
Romans 6:1-14: What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? By
no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it? Do you not know that all o us who have
been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? We were buried thereore with Him
by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised rom the dead by the glory o the
Father, we too might walk in newness o lie. For i we have been united with Him in a death like
His, we shall certainly be united with Him in a resurrection like His. We know that our old sel was
crucied with Him in order that the body o sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no
longer be enslaved to sin. For one who has died has been set ree rom sin. Now i we have diedwith Christ, we believe that we will also live with Him. We know that Christ, being raised rom the
dead, will never die again; death no longer has dominion over Him. For the death He died He died
to sin, once or all, but the lie He lives He lives to God. So you also must consider yourselves dead
to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus. Let not sin thereore reign in your mortal body, to make you
obey its passions. Do not present your members to sin as instruments or unrighteousness, but
present yourselves to God as those who have been brought rom death to lie, and your members
to God as instruments or righteousness. For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not
under law but under grace.
We should not continue to sin. What i that paralytic man had said, No thank you, Jesus, I would
rather stay here on my mat and be a paralyzed man or the rest o my lie? He would never have said
that! Why should we stay in our sickness and death when we have been saved by the blood o Jesus?
We cannot continue in sin because we have died to sin. When Christ was raised rom the dead, we (as
Christians) are raised with Him, and we are no longer enslaved to sin. We are to WALKcontinually,
every day, habituallyin lie in Christ.
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Treasure Point:Jesus, as God, has the power to orgive our sins through the nishedwork on the cross.
My Mission: (15 minutes)
How do you live your life in such a way that minimizes the glory of God?
In what areas have you not asked for forgiveness? What would happen to your life, your heart
and your actions i you allowed orgiveness to wash over these areas?
Prayer Time: (10 minutes)
Divide into groups o our and ask or prayer or some o your personal answers to the rstquestion (in the My Mission section). Help your students be more accountable with ollowing
through on their answers and the application o this lesson.
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God has set eternity into the heart o man (Ecclesiastes 3:11). This eternal truth constantly empha-
sizes, empowers and validates our privilege as parents. Eternity is written into the hearts o our
children as well. This is why Jesus said, Unless you turn and become like children, you will never
enter the kingdom o heaven (Matthew 18:3). Why are parents commanded to talk to their chil-
dren about spiritual truths? The message o the Bible is eternal, and God gave parents a great role
to play in speaking that message into their childrens lives. John Angell James, a pastor rom the
mid-1800s, said, Recollect what a solemn thing it is to be a parent, and what a weighty responsi-
bility attaches to those who have the immortal souls o their children committed to their care!
Delia Halverson, a well-known Christian education specialist, said, To share your aith with your child
is an opportunity that cannot be equaled elsewhere. The home is the most important infuence in
the childs lie. Beore there were churches, Sunday School programs, children ministries and youth
groups, God entrusted parents with the privilege to teach their children (Deuteronomy 6).
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This week, your child(ren) will study the eagerness o our men who brought their riend to Christ
(Mark 2:1-12). Their riend was a paralytic, but this was not his greatness need. In Mark 2:5, Jesus metthis mans greatest need. Perhaps this week you can lead your amily in a discussion concerning their
greatest need and how Christ through the Gospel meets this need. Share your testimony with your
amily. Also ask your children this question: How can each o us engage our riends with the Gospel
o Christ?
Treasure Verse: Bless the LORD, O my soul, and orget not all His benets, who orgives all your
iniquity, who heals all your diseases, who redeems your lie rom the pit, who crowns you with stead-
ast love and mercy, who satises you with good so that your youth is renewed like the eagles
(Psalm 103:2-5).
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It is not a single event, but a lietime o interactionthat is based on Gods revelation. We are promised that our teaching will bear
fruit in our childrens lives. We must actively teach our children, and live the
reality, that God denes life. Tedd Tripp, Instructing a Childs Heart, pg. 19
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