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God has displayed Himsel to us; He is THE GOD. God does not share His glory 

with any other. He has commanded us to honor Him as the only God, to love

Him, and to obey Him. However, we do not listen and do not obey. Jesus, God’s

only Son, had to come and remedy our sin or us. We can now live in restoration

with the One God because o the death and resurrection o Jesus.

Written by: Kimberly Daidson & Stee Wright

Graphic Design by: Michele Castillo | www.sonscapecommunications.com

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Editor: Jennier Sharpe

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means for prot via electronic, mechanical, recording or any other – except for brief quotations in printed reviews, without the prior permission of the publisher. All Scripture quotations

are from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version, copyright 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

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Dear Sunday School Teacher,

Your ministry as a teacher or our Lord has eternal alue! When we iew our ministry in light o 

eternity, we see its importance and the priilege 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.”

Treri Crit Crric: The ministry resource that you hold in your hand is produced

and shaped by the local church—“The Bride o Christ.” We hae three primary strategies thatguide us. First, we desire to produce a Gospel-centered curriculum that allows eery child, babies to

high school students, to study the same Scripture passage each week. Second, we seek to equip

parents to thrie in their God-gien role as their child’s primary discipler. We want this resource,

thereore, to connect the church and the home by proiding 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.

Qrter Oe: God on Display 

Eery 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. God’s desire to hae com-

munion with those He created is seen rom coer to coer o the Bible. In the rst ew pages, we see

God communing in the Garden o Eden with Adam and Ee. 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 gies the Holy Spirit to belieers

and institutes the Church. Fellowship in the Church breeds community, both with God and others

made in His likeness. As belieers, we are guaranteed that we will spend eternity in communion

with God, dwelling in His presence.

God is on display: eerywhere; in the past, present and uture; and in our lies as belieers. Let us

lie continually to display God’s greatness and loe.

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  OVERVIEW 4

FOR YOuR EdIFICaTIOn 5-11

  EaRlY ChIldhOOd  12-15

  ElEmEnTaRY  16-20

  PRE-TEEn/mIddlE sChOOl  21-23

  hIgh sChOOl  24-28

COnnECTIng ChuRCh and hOmE  29

  REsOuRCEs 30-36

Go Is O Go

QuaRTeR Theme | GOd On dISplay  Deuteronomy 6:4-9

W E E K F I v E

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Go Is O Go Deuteronomy 6:4-9

OVERVIEW

EaRlYChIldhOOd

ElEmEnTaRY PRE-TEEn/mIddlE sChOOl

hIgh sChOOl

 Treasure verse Deuteronomy 6:5 Deuteronomy 6:4 Deuteronomy 6:4-9 Deuteronomy 6:4-9

 Treasure Point

God tells us

to loe Him.

God is the only God,

and He tells us

to loe Him.

God is the only God.

We loe Him and

obey His commandsbecause o this truth.

God is the only God.

He is jealous or

our loe anddeotion to Him.

 Teaching Actiities

Open Bible draw,

Mezuzah, Morning

and Eening

worksheet, Song

time, Collages

Decorating boxes,

Collages,

24 worksheet,

Mezuzah picture,

Obeying God

actiity, Song time,

Phylacteries

actiity

Create a T-shirt,

 This Is Your Lie

Jewish customs

ideo, Bible

illustration ideo,

Street signs

Supplies Needed

Open Bible

resource page,

crayons, Mezuzah

resource page, string,

tape, Morning and

Eening worksheet,

CD and CD player,

precut pictures or

magazines, kids’

scissors, glue sticks,

construction paper

Small box

or each child,

markers, precut

pictures or

magazines, kids’

scissors, glue sticks,

construction paper

(hal sheets and

whole sheets), 24

worksheet, pencils,

Mezuzah resource

page, CD and CDplayer, string, tape,

leather pieces

 T-shirt resource page,

pens or markers, This

Is Your Lie resource

page, highlighters

Laptop/DvD player,

Street Signs

resource page,

pencils

OVeRVIeW

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FOR YOuR EdIFICaTIOn

Eter te story

I a stranger walked into your home, what

could he learn about you just rom seeing

what is on the other side o your ront door?

What is important to you? Is it moies or a

fat-screen teleision? Would he be able to tell

what college or proessional sports team you

root or? Is it books, art and culture that line

the walls in your den or media room? Is it the

ancy gadgets that make their home atop your

granite counters? Is it the latest styles that ll

your cedar closets? Is it hunting trophies that

hang oer the mantle or couch? Is it expen-

sie, model urniture that people can’t een sit

on or ear o getting it dirty? Is it pictures o 

all the children and grandchildren? All these

communicatie possessions refect the hidden

intensities o the heart.

In the home o a deout Jew, both 3,000 years

ago and today, one would nd items that

pointed to God. Our Treasure Story passage—

the Shema, Deuteronomy 6:4-9—is the anchor

passage o the Jewish aith and heritage. The

Jews could hae chosen other passages to be

central to their aith, but this one stands out

rom all others. The Shema helps shape e-

erything that a Jewish amily does and een

aects the décor o their homes. The mezuzah

(pronounced muh ZOO zuh), which means

doorpost, reers to small scrolls inscribed with

the Shema and a linked passage, Deuteronomy

11:13-21. Mezuzahs are attached to the ront

door o Jewish homes, almost like a wreath

we would place on our doors today. These

mezuzahs show remembrance o the rst

Passoer (Exodus 12).

  The Shema passage instructs us to lie our

lies deoted to the one true God. Jesus also

proclaimed this truth to His disciples. He said

the greatest commandment was to loe the

Lord your God with all your heart, soul and

mind (Mark 12:28-30). The ocus is on our

hearts, not our homes. Our entire lies should

model that deotion and loe and whole

hearted aection. While we may not hang

scrolls on the doorposts o our homes, do our

hearts and lies refect that we treasure Christ

aboe all else?

 

“Shema: The Hebrew word that means ‘hear.’ The main statement of the Jewish

law that says God is the one true God and His

people are commanded to love and obey Him.”

 – Holman Illustrated Bible Dictionary for Kids,

 pg. 175

“This verse [Deuteronomy 6:4] isone which the Jews write upon their phylacter-

ies because of its awesome expression of divine

truth. The words are also used both morning

and evening to begin their daily liturgy.”  – The

 Baptist Study Bible, notes on Deuteronomy 6:4,

 pg. 256 

“We lay greater stress on thetraining of the children than on anything else,

and regard observance of the Law and a corre-

sponding godly life as the most important of all

duties.” – E. Johnsen, Paul of Tarsus, pg. 20

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Go Is O Go Deuteronomy 6:4-9

story Otie

  The Shema isn’t a suggestion that God gae

the Israelites to obey. These six erses are the

crux o the Jewish aith. They are spoken eery

day in the home, and children are raised know-

ing and memorizing this passage. The Shema

is not to be orgotten, but treasured aboe

the rest o lie. One o the ways people o the

Jewish aith treasure the Shema is by wear-

ing a tellin. A tellin is a set o small, cubic

leather boxes painted black, containing scrollso parchment inscribed with erses rom the

  Torah, with leather straps dyed black on one

side and worn by obserant Jews during week-

day morning prayers. There is one tellin that

is placed on the upper arm, and the strap is

wrapped around the arm, hand and ngers.

Another one is or the head, placed aboe the

orehead with the strap going around the head

and oer the shoulders. Deout ollowers o Yahweh take His writings seriously.

  The whole o the passage is rooted in the

opening erse: “Hear, O Israel: The Lord our

God, the Lord is one” (Deuteronomy 6:4). This

statement is declaratie and leaes no room

or discussion or debate. It is accepted as act

and truth rom the mouth o the liing God

and Creator o the unierse. Moses (writer o 

the book o Deuteronomy) would not haequestioned the Lord on this statement.

 The word “hear” in this erse has the intent o 

hearing to obey. Oten we hear without the

ollow-through. We say to our children, “Are you

listening to me?” What parents oten mean by

that question is i their children not only heard

what they said but then are they going to obey

what they heard. God commands us the same.

He wants us to hear in such a way that we will

lie our lies in radical obedience to what will

ollow the command.

Wise instructions ollow Deuteronomy 6:4 and exhort us to do the ollowing:

lOVE ThE lORd YOuR gOd WITh all YOuR

hEaRT, sOul and mIghT (Deuteronomy 6:5).

  This holistic approach speaks o the total-

ity o who we are. We can compartmental-

ize our lies and keep God to a Sunday-only

relationship. Compartmentalizing is not the

kind o loe and deotion that God, the

soereign King, commands rom His ollowers.

He desires a wholehearted, abandon-eery-

thing kind o loe that requires eerythingwe are.

“Loving God is not a meredecision. You cannot merely decide to love clas-

sical music or country western music, much less

God. The music must become compelling. If you

don’t love it, something must change inside you.

That change makes it possible for the mind to ex-

perience the music with a compelling sense of its

attractiveness. So it is with God . . . Love for God

is not essentially behavior but affection—not

deeds but delight . . . We begin to prefer above

all else to know Him and see Him and be with

Him and be like Him.” – John Piper, What Jesus

 Demands from the World, pgs. 77-78

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Go Is O Go Deuteronomy 6:4-9

ThE COmmands shall BE On OuR

hEaRTs  (Deuteronomy 6:6). O course, Mo-

ses is not indicating the physical need to

open one’s chest caity and insert the writ-

ten law on the physical heart. Instead, this

heart is representatie o eerything a man

is—his emotional being and his physical, psy-

chological and spiritual sel. There is no room

or dichotomy. The instruction ound in the

Shema is to infuence eerything we say,

think and do. The strong erb usage o “shall”indicates an actie erb. Obedience o this

erse will require action by us.

YOu shall TEaCh ThEm (Deuteronomy 6:7).

 This passage is primarily written to athers, but

the command is or any belieer. (Hint: This

should be one o the main reasons you are

inoled in teaching children and students

in the local church.) We should talk about the

Scriptures all the time. Colossians 3:16 helpsus to see the indwelling nature o the Word o 

God and how it should always be in our hearts

and on our tongues. The Shema tells us where

we are to speak o these truths: sitting in our

homes, walking, lying down and getting up. Ba-

sically, all the time. 24/7.

ThEY aRE TO BE VIsIBlE REmIndERs 

(Deuteronomy 6:8-9). People o Jewish aith

wear the erses o the Shema on their arms

and oreheads. They also post them on the

doorposts o their homes. The closest resem-

blances we hae in our aith is WWJD brace-

lets, Christian T-shirts, billboards or decora-

tie rames with Scripture written on them.

We may not put a tiny scroll on our doorpost,

but we can hae Scripture posted around our

homes, on a post-it note on our mirrors, onan index card taped to our dashboards, on a

rerigerator magnet or repeated in the songs

on our playlists. More importantly, our hearts

should refect the truths ound in the Scrip-

tures. Our hearts should refect the Lordship

o Christ, how we treasure Him and the Gospel.

“To the strict Jew, only one way 

existed for a child to go: the way of his fa-

ther and his father’s father. Theirs was the

responsibility to direct the child in that familiar

way . . . The words of Deuteronomy 4:7-9 had

been rehearsed in the ear of every faithful Jew

from the time of Moses.” – Beth Moore, To Live

 Is Christ, pgs. 13-14

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Go Is O Go Deuteronomy 6:4-9

Eerything we learn about God in Deuteronomy 6:4 stirs us and motiates us in obeying the rest

o the Shema passage. God makes a declaratie statement. God is one God. There is no other:

“The Source and End o all things is One. This reality—God, Yahweh, Elohim, Theos—the central

subject o all Jewish-Christian Scripture, is one, not sixteen. Any polytheistic [religion with many

gods] conception is by denition inadequate” (Thomas Oden, The Living God , pg. 56).

 

“It would be difcult to overstate the signifcance o the monotheistic [there is only one God] declaration of Deuteronomy 6:4. Israel

is summoned to hear and heed. Yahweh is their God. Yahweh is one.” – James

 Hamilton, The Journal of Family Ministry, Fall/Winter 2010, pg. 13

Man was gien commands to lie out in the Shema. The Shema was gien as an umbrella to the rest

o the Law. The Shema was an exhortation gien to the Israelites to loe God aboe eerything and

eeryone else. Howeer, man was unable to keep eery portion o the Law and oten dismissed the

“loe the Lord your God” passage. Man lled his heart with many idols or other seemingly important

“things.” The Israelites tended to orget that God made them to gloriy Himsel. We, today, do the

same. We do that by not obeying Him and not loing Him aboe all other things in this world.

“The claim o the Word o God upon us is absolute:the Word is to be received, trusted and obeyed, because it is the Word of God

the King.” – J. I. Packer, Knowing God, pg. 113

“Fallen men and women—you and I—reject God’sauthority and seek to rule ourselves. Created to worship God, we instead be-

come idolaters and set our hearts on things in this world.” – Jeff Purswell,

Worldliness, pg. 144

Gospel Truths About God

Gospel Truths About Man

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 This command to loe the Lord your God was gi-

en as part o the Law to the Israelites. They were to

ollow these laws and lie them out. Howeer, sin

kept them rom being able to do this. Sinul na-

ture prohibits our ability to lie righteously on our

own merit beore a holy God. Thereore, we will

see Jesus enter the picture later as our redemp-

tion, as our reconciliation to God the Father. He is

our righteousness (2 Corinthians 5:21).

“I God required o Israel that sheshould be holy, even as God is holy, and love the

Lord with all her heart, soul, and might, He also

knew that a people as yet not fully saved could nev-

er achieve that standard. In such a context the idea

of loving God takes on a new signicance that is

governed by God’s grace.” – Graeme Goldsworthy,

Preaching the Whole Bible as Christian Scripture,

 pg. 155

“All sin strikes at the holinessof God, the glory of God, the nature of God, the

being of God, and the law of God.”   – Thomas

 Brooks, A Puritan Golden Treasury, pg. 260

For Your Edication (continued)

• Numbers 15:37-41

• Deuteronomy 6:4-9

• Deuteronomy 6:20-25

• Deuteronomy 11:13-21

• Psalm 19:7-11

• Psalm 119:9-16

• Mark 12:28-29

• Colossians 3:16

• James 1:22-25

nber 15:37-41:  “The LORD said to Moses,

‘Speak to the people o Israel, and tell them to

make tassels on the corners o their garments

throughout their generations, and to put a cordo blue on the tassel o each corner. And it shall

be a tassel or you to look at and remember all

the commandments o the LORD, to do them, not

to ollow ater your own heart and your own eyes,

which you are inclined to whore ater. So you shall

remember and do all my commandments, and be

holy to your God. I am the LORD your God, who

brought you out o the land o Egypt to be your

God: I am the LORD your God.’”

deterooy 6:4-9: “Hear, O Israel: The LORDour God, the LORD is one. You shall loe the LORD

your God with all your heart and with all your soul

and with all your might. And these words that I

command you today shall be on your heart. You

shall teach them diligently to your children, and

shall talk o them when you sit in your house,

and when you walk by the way, and when you lie

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Go Is O Go Deuteronomy 6:4-9

Gospel Truths About Redemption

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down, and when you rise. You shall bind them as

a sign on your hand, and they shall be as rontlets

between your eyes. You shall write them on the

doorposts o your house and on your gates.”

deterooy 6:20-25: “When your son asks

you in time to come, ‘What is the meaning

o the testimonies and the statutes and the

rules that the LORD our God has commanded

you?’ then you shall say to your son, ‘We were

Pharaoh’s slaes in Egypt. And the LORD brought

us out o Egypt with a mighty hand. And the

LORD showed signs and wonders, great and

grieous, against Egypt and against Pharaoh

and all his household, beore our eyes. And Hebrought us out rom there, that He might bring

us in and gie us the land that He swore to gie

to our athers. And the LORD commanded us to do

all these statutes, to ear the LORD our God, or our

good always, that He might presere us alie, as

we are this day. And it will be righteousness or us,

i we are careul to do all this commandment be-

ore the LORD our God, as He has commanded us.’”

deterooy 11:13-21: “And i you will indeed

obey my commandments that I command youtoday, to loe the LORD your God, and to sere

Him with all your heart and with all your soul, He

will gie the rain or your land in its season, the

early rain and the later rain, that you may gather

in your grain and your wine and your oil. And He

will gie grass in your elds or your liestock,

and you shall eat and be ull. Take care lest your

heart be deceied, and you turn aside and sere

other gods and worship them; then the anger

o the LORD will be kindled against you, and He

will shut up the heaens, so that there will be no

rain, and the land will yield no ruit, and you will

perish quickly o the good land that the LORD

is giing you. “You shall thereore lay up these

words o mine in your heart and in your soul, and

you shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and

they shall be as rontlets between your eyes. You

shall teach them to your children, talking o them

when you are sitting in your house, and when

you are walking by the way, and when you lie

down, and when you rise. You shall write them on

the doorposts o your house and on your gates,that your days and the days o your children may

be multiplied in the land that the LORD swore to

your athers to gie them, as long as the heaens

are aboe the earth.”

P 19:7-11: “The law o the LORD is

perect, reiing the soul; the testimony o 

the LORD is sure, making wise the simple; the

precepts o the LORD are right, rejoicing the

heart; the commandment o the LORD is pure,

enlightening the eyes; the ear o the LORDis clean, enduring oreer; the rules o the

LORD are true, and righteous altogether.

More to be desired are they than gold, een

much ne gold; sweeter also than honey and

drippings o the honeycomb. Moreoer, by

them is your serant warned; in keeping them

there is great reward.”

P 119:9-16: “How can a young man keep

his way pure? By guarding it according to your

word. With my whole heart I seek you; let menot wander rom your commandments! I hae

stored up your word in my heart, that I might

not sin against you. Blessed are you, O LORD;

teach me your statutes! With my lips I declare

all the rules o your mouth. In the way o your

testimonies I delight as much as in all riches.

I will meditate on your precepts and x my eyes

on your ways. I will delight in your statutes;

I will not orget your word.”

mrk 12:28-29: “And one o the scribes

came up and heard them disputing with one an-

other, and seeing that He answered them well,

asked Him, ‘Which commandment is the most

important o all?’ Jesus answered, ‘The most im-

portant is, “Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the

Lord is one.’”

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Go Is O Go Deuteronomy 6:4-9

My Mission As Teacher:

• What does your life reect that you treasure? Does it reveal that you treasure God, the Gospel and

His Word? Or does it reeal that you treasure this world aboe Him?

• How can you encourage others this week to know and seek the One God of the universe?

Prayer Points:

• Pray for opportunity (and active obedience) to speak the truth of the Scriptures into someone’s life

this week.

• Pray for your students this week. Pray that their eyes and ears would be open to hearing the truth

ound in God’s Word. May they understand how these truths and commands are or their good

and blessing and or God’s greater glory in the world.

“A fxed, constant attention to the Promises, and a frm belie o them,would prevent solicitude and anxiety about the concerns of this life. It would keep the mind quiet and com-

posed in every change, and support and keep our sinking spirits under the several troubles of life . . . Christians

deprive themselves of their most solid comforts by their unbelief, and forgetfulness of God’s Promises. For

there is no extremity so great, but there are Promises suitable to it, and abundantly sufcient for our relief in

it.” – J. I. Packer quoting Samuel Clark, Knowing God, pg. 115

God has displayed Himsel to us; He is THE GOD. God does not 

share His glory with any other. He has commanded us to honor 

Him as the only God, to love Him, and to obey Him. However,

we do not listen and do not obey. Jesus, God’s only Son, had 

to come and remedy our sin or us. We can now live in restora-tion with the One God because o the death and resurrection

o Jesus.

Cooi 3:16: “Let the word o Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in

all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankulness in your hearts to God.”

 Je 1:22-25: “But be doers o the word, and not hearers only, deceiing yourseles. For i anyone is ahearer o the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural ace in a mirror. For

he looks at himsel and goes away and at once orgets what he was like. But the one who looks into the

perect law, the law o liberty, and perseeres, being no hearer who orgets but a doer who acts, he will

be blessed in his doing.”

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Go Is O Go Deuteronomy 6:4-9

Ery Cioo

engage

Ery arriv activity: (15 minutes or until you are ready to begin)

Pass out the Open Bible resource page (see resources) as the children come in the door. Encourage

them to color the Bible while they are waiting or their riends to arrie.

Supplies Needed: Open Bible resource page, crayons

“Each Israelite is to consider these commands[The Shema], to interpret the world in light of these commands, to regu-

late emotions by these commands, and to have desires that are shaped by

these commands.” – James Hamilton, The Journal of Family Ministry,

Fall/Winter 2010, pg. 14

discoverExplain to the children that Jewish amilies put something called a mezuzah on the doorrame o 

their house to show their deotion and obedience to God. Tell them that they are going to make

one too, or the doorrame o the classroom. Pass out copies o the Mezuzah resource page (see

resources) and ask them to color it. Then instruct them to roll it into a scroll (may need to demon-strate) and help the students tie it together with string. When eeryone is nished, tape the minia-

ture mezuzahs to the outside doorrame o your classroom. Share with your students that when

people walk by and see the scrolls on the door, they will know that the people in this room know

and loe God.

Supplies Needed: Mezuzah resource page, string, tape, markers or crayons

Trere story:  Deuteronomy 6:4-9

Trere Vere:  “You shall loe the LORD your God with all your heart and with allyour soul and with all your might” (Deuteronomy 6:5).

Trere Poit: God tells us to loe Him.

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Bibe story Tie: (15 minutes)

 Teacher Note: Make sure the children see you reading the Treasure Story, Deuteronomy 6:4-9, rom

God’s Word. Explain the importance o God’s Word being the ery words God speaks. The Bible istruth and used to help us know God better.

go i oe go (Deuteronomy 6:4). He is the only God. There is no other God but Him.

Bece of ti trt (tt go i oe go), he to to ove hi wit of or ert,

i tret.

How do we love God with our hearts? Can we hug God or wrap our arms around Him? How can we

show God and others that we love Him (through obedience, worship, praying, giving, serving)? 

How do we love God with our minds? The Bible tells us to think about good things, to think on things

that are true.

Piippi 4:8: “. . . Whateer is true, whateer is honorable, whateer is just, whateer is pure,

whateer is loely, whateer is commendable, i there is any excellence, i there is anything wor-

thy o praise, think about these things.”

Cooi 3:2: “Set your minds on things that are aboe, not on things that are on earth.”

How do we love God with all o our strength? Does it take a lot o eort and strength to love God? Is

it like liting heavy objects? 

Hae all the children fex their muscles.

We re to tk tik bot go t tie—when we get up in the morning, when we go to

bed at night, when we walk and when we sit. That coers eerything, doesn’t it?

Gie children the Morning and Eening worksheet (see resources). They can color the sun and the

moon as you talk about ways they can think about God in the morning and in the eening.

Morning:  Thank God or a good night’s sleep. Thank God or another day to lie. Thank God or

the sky and the sun. Thank God or a bed to sleep in and a roo oer your head. Pray that He

would gie you a good day. Pray that you would be obedient today.

Evening:   Thank God or a good day. Thank God or the ood you ate and the times you

got to learn and play today. Thank God or a bed to sleep in and pajamas. Thank God or

rest and sleep. Pray that He would gie you a good night’s sleep. Pray that you wouldn’t

hae nightmares.

Supplies Needed: Morning and Evening worksheet, crayons

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Trere Vere leri activity: (5 minutes)

Repeat Deuteronomy 6:5 to the children seeral times. Then say it emphasizing dierent words:

LOvE, LORD, HEART, SOUL, MIGHT. Each time you stress a certain word, hae them say the erse

back to you and also stress that word. Children can also come up with actions that mimic these

words: sign language or LOvE (crossing arms oer chest), point to heaen or LORD, fexing their

muscles or STRENGTH, etc.

so Tie: (10 minutes)

“Loe, Loe, Loe” is this quarter’s theme song. This song can be ound on the Treasuring Christ

website: www.treasuringchristonline.org.

Supplies Needed: CD player, CD

activity: (10 minutes)

Create Morning and Eening collages. Collect child-appropriate magazines or bring in a collection

o cutout pictures that would t this actiity. Let the children choose rom the pictures to make a

collage (some will only do three to our pictures and others will coer the page). On one side o the

paper, ask the children to nd pictures o “things we do in the morning.” On the other side, includepictures o “things we do at night.” Morning pictures might include breakast (eggs, orange juice,

cereal), getting dressed (clothing), etc. Night pictures could be brushing your teeth (toothbrushes

or toothpaste), taking a bath or going to bed (beds or pajamas).

 Teacher Note: I you are working with younger children, hae the pictures already cut out and help

them use the glue sticks.

Supplies Needed: Precut pictures or magazines, kids’ scissors, glue sticks,

construction paper 

Pyro Tie: (15 minutes)

 

Center play or ree play is an eectie use o time i there is no playground aailable or i the weather

is not conducie to playing outside.

sck Tie: (10 minutes)

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treasure

Trere Poit:  God tells us to loe Him.

My Mission: (10 minutes)

• How can we love God with our hearts? souls? minds?

Prayer Time: (5 minutes)

Pray aloud or your children or hae the older children pray aloud or the group:

• Pray they would love the Lord more than anything else in the world and that their actions

would show this loe to others.

• Pray they would love the Word early in life and see it as God’s Word that they can obey and

be blessed by it.

 

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Eeetry

engage

Ery arriv activity: (10-15 minutes or until all the children arrie)

Gie each child a small box as they enter (the size o a jewelry git box or playing card box, slightly

bigger than a matchbox). Hae them decorate it. You will use these boxes later in class.

 

 Teacher Note: Explain to the children that these boxes and the practice o wearing them show the

world a Jew’s deotion and loe to his One God. A Jew is a ollower o Yahweh.

Supplies Needed: Small box or each child, markers

Trere story: Deuteronomy 6:4-9

Trere Vere: “Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one” (Deuteronomy 6:4).

Trere Poit: God is the only God, and He tells us to loe Him.

“Does not this [Deuteronomy 6:5] show what is the very nature of God? There was never an earthly prince or king, whom I have heard of, in

whose statute book it was written, ‘Thou shalt love the king.’ No; it is only in the statute

book of Him who is the Lord of life and love that we read such a command as this. To

my mind it seems a very blessed privilege for us to be permitted to love One so great as

God is. Here it is we nd our heaven. It is a command, but we regard it rather as a lov-

ing, tender invitation to the highest bliss.” – Charles Spurgeon, Devotional Thoughts on

the Bible, pgs. 188-189

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Itroctio: (10 minutes)

Create Morning and Eening collages. Collect child-appropriate magazines or bring in a col-lection o cutout pictures that would t this actiity. Let the children choose rom the pictures

to make a collage (some will only do three to our pictures and others will coer the page) On

one side o the paper, ask the children to nd pictures o “things we do in the morning.” On the

other side, include pictures o “things we do at night.” Morning pictures might include breakast

(eggs, orange juice, cereal) or getting dressed (clothing). Night pictures could be brushing your

teeth (toothbrushes or toothpaste), taking a bath or going to bed (beds or pajamas).

Supplies Needed: Precut pictures or magazines, kids’ scissors, glue sticks,

construction paper 

discoverBibe story Tie: (15 minutes)

 Teacher Note: Make sure the children see you reading the Treasure Story, Deuteronomy 6:4-9, rom

God’s Word. Explain the importance o God’s Word being the ery words God speaks. The Bible is

truth and used to help us know God better.

go i oe go (Deuteronomy 6:4). He is the only God. There is no other God but Him.

Bece of ti trt (tt go i oe go), he to to ove hi wit of or ert,

i tret.

How do we love God with our hearts? Can we hug God or wrap our arms around Him? How can

we show God and others that we love Him (through obedience, worship, praying, giving, serving)? 

How do we love God with our minds? The Bible tells us to think about good things, to think on

things that are true.

Piippi 4:8: “. . . Whateer is true, whateer is honorable, whateer is just, whateer is pure,

whateer is loely, whateer is commendable, i there is any excellence, i there is anythingworthy o praise, think about these things.”

Cooi 3:2: “Set your minds on things that are aboe, not on things that are on earth.”

How do we love God with all o our strength? Does it take a lot o eort and strength to love God? Is

it like liting heavy objects? Have all the children fex their muscles.

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We re to tk tik bot go t tie —when we get up in the morning, when we

go to bed at night, when we walk and when we sit. That coers eerything, doesn’t it?

Gie children the 24 worksheet (see resources). Hae the children ll in the inside o the num-

bers with ways they can know, loe, learn about, obey and hae un with God eery hour o 

eery day.

Examples: Eating ood, sleeping, getting clean, being obedient, obeying your parents, playing

with riends in a way that is pleasing to God, doing your homework, etc. Encourage the chil-

dren to be specic in their answers.

Supplies Needed: 24 worksheet, pencils

Trere Vere leri activity: (5 minutes)

Pass out copies o the Mezuzah resource page (see resources) to the children.

 Teacher Note: Reer back to the For Your Edication section and explain to your children about

the mezuzah. Hae them write Deuteronomy 6:4-5 on the inside o the mezuzah. They can take

this paper home with them and hang it on the outside o their door to their room or een theront door o their home.

Supplies Needed: Mezuzah resource page, pencils

Reiforceet activity: (10 minutes)

Gie children a hal sheet o construction paper and a marker. Hae the children write these

words on their papers: LOvE, LISTEN, TALK, WALK, SLEEP, AWAKE. Remind them o the lesson

as you talk through these words. Encourage them to write one thing they can do this week to help them obey these words that the Lord commands them to do. For example: SLEEP, say

a prayer beore they go to bed or LISTEN, play a CD o the Bible being read aloud or someone

singing Scripture songs.

Supplies Needed: Hal sheets o construction paper, markers

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Pyro Tie/Ceter activitie/Free Py: (15 minutes)

so Tie: (10 minutes)

“Loe, Loe, Loe” is this quarter’s theme song. This song can be ound on the Treasuring Christ

website: www.treasuringchristonline.org.

Supplies Needed: CD player, CD

Coi activity: (10 minutes)

Explain to the children that phylacteries (pronounced h LAK tuh rees) are small boxes with Old

 Testament erses enclosed in them: “Jews strapped them to their oreheads and let arms when

they prayed” (Holman Illustrated Bible Dictionary or Kids, pg. 144). Tell them that young Jewish men

today still wear these boxes. Gie the children a piece o yarn, shoestring, or leather to represent

the part they would wear on the let arm. Hae them wrap it around their arm. Tie a string around

the box the children decorated earlier (with tape or glue) and tie it around their oreheads.

Supplies Needed:  Small box rom earlier in lesson, string, scissors, glue, tape, leather 

 pieces or arm

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Pre-Tee/mie scoo

engagegrop Feowip Tie: (10 minutes)

Hae the students get in groups o three or our and pass out copies o the T-shirt resource page

(see resources). Instruct them to design a T-shirt that would tell the world that they loe Jesus. Be

creatie. When the students are done, tell them that Jewish teenagers hae other things they wear

to show the world their belies. Their belies are ery important to them.

Supplies Needed: T-shirt resource page, pens or markers

Opei activity: (10 minutes)

Pass out copies o the This Is Your Lie resource page (see resources) to students. Hae them circle

or highlight the statements that stand out to them as the most important. Ater they explain their

answers, tell them that they will be learning a passage today that is “LIFE” or Jewish teenagers their

age. Jewish children would hae been quoting these erses by the time they started kindergarten.

 This passage (the Shema) holds lie’s most important teachings in it. This passage is their lie.

Supplies Needed: This Is Your Lie resource page, pens or highlighters

Trere story: Deuteronomy 6:4-9

Trere Vere: “Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one. You shall loe theLORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. Andthese words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach themdiligently to your children, and shall talk o them when you sit in your house, and whenyou walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. You shall bind themas a sign on your hand, and they shall be as rontlets between your eyes. You shall writethem on the doorposts o your house and on your gates” (Deuteronomy 6:4-9).

Trere Poit: God is the only God. We loe Him and obey His commands becauseo this truth.

“I Yahweh alone is Israel’s God, and i Israel owes Him whole-hearted life-pervading devotion, then Yahweh’s

commands will be on their hearts, which is exactly what Deuter-

onomy 6:6 stipulates.” – James Hamilton, The Journal of Family

 Ministry, Fall/Winter 2010, pg. 14

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“Lord, don’t let us dream too small about our lives.Don’t let us limit Your power by what we see in the mirror . . . We surrender

all wordly claims on our lives. Come. Make us useful for the glory of Christ.”

 – John Piper, Life as a Vapor, pg. 76 

discoverBibe story Tie: (30 minutes)

Hae the students read Deuteronomy 6:4-9 aloud to the class (take turns or hae one student

read the entire passage).

 Teacher Note: You may want to ask students to read who hae dierent ersions/translations

o the Bible. This actiity will help gie a broader picture to the Shema passage. Explain that by

a young age, Jewish boys and girls would hae that memorized this Scripture passage. These

children would hae it repeated in their homes twice a day and more on special holidays.

What does this passage tell us about God? 

go i oe go (Deuteronomy 6:4). He is the only God. There is no other God but Him.

What “gods” are there in your lie or in the lies o your riends (sports, relationships,

academics, haing un, being popular)? How do these gods take away rom your time and at-

tention that is supposed to be or the only God?

What are we commanded to do as Jesus ollowers? 

Bece of ti trt (tt go i oe go), he to to ove hi wit of or

ert, i tret.

How do we love God with our hearts? How can we show God and others that we love Him

(through obedience, worship, praying, giving, serving)? 

Discuss this quote: “Each Israelite is to consider these commands, to interpret the world

in light o these commands, to regulate emotions by these commands, and to hae de-

sires that are shaped by these commands” (James Hamilton, The Journal o Family Ministry,

Fall/Winter 2010, pg. 14).

How do your desires line up with God’s? 

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How do we love God with our minds? The Bible tells us to think about good things, to think on

things that are true.

Piippi 4:8: “. . . Whateer is true, whateer is honorable, whateer is just, whateer is pure,whateer is loely, whateer is commendable, i there is any excellence, i there is anything

worthy o praise, think about these things.”

Cooi 3:2: “Set your minds on things that are aboe, not on things that are on earth.”

How should these truths change the way we read, watch television and movies, and how we spend 

time with our riends? 

How do we love God with all o our strength? Does it take a lot o eort and strength to love God? 

Is it like liting heavy objects? 

What do you put the most time and energy into? What do you spend most o your waking hours

doing? How does this show what is “god” in your lie? 

We re to tk tik bot go t tie—when we get up in the morning, when we go

to bed at night, when we walk and when we sit. That coers eerything, doesn’t it?

treasure

My Mission: (10 minutes) Allow or group discussion.

“At the beginning and end o the day, and at eery opportunity throughout it, God’s Word is to be

repeated, pondered, explored, explained, and celebrated.” – James Hamilton, The Journal o Family 

Ministry, Fall/Winter 2010, pg. 15

• How would your life look differently if you adhered to the above quote, which is a good para-

phrase o the Shema, Deuteronomy 6:4-9?

• How can you be a light in your classroom or neighborhood for Christ by living out the Treasure

verse? Do you need to wear phylacteries or hae mezuzahs on the doorpost to let others know

o your deotion to God?

Prayer Time: (5 minutes)

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 hi scoo

engage

grop Feowip Tie: (10 minutes)

Opei Vieo: (10 minutes)

Use this three-minute ideo to show that the Jewish customs taught in the Bible (specically in the

 Treasure Story, Deuteronomy 6:4-9, 20-25) are still ollowed and strictly adhered to today. Encourage

discussion ater watching the ideo.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?=twdt-2Ilw&eature=related

discoverBibe story: (30 minutes)

 Teacher Note: Read Deuteronomy 6:4-9, 20-25 out o the Bible or let the students take turns reading

the erses rom this chapter.

Trere story: Deuteronomy 6:4-9, 20-25

Trere Vere: “Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one. You shall loe the LORDyour God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. And these wordsthat I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to yourchildren, and shall talk o them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way,and when you lie down, and when you rise. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, andthey shall be as rontlets between your eyes. You shall write them on the doorposts o yourhouse and on your gates” (Deuteronomy 6:4-9).

Trere Poit: God is the only God. He is jealous or our loe and deotion to Him.

“These laws can only be ulflled by thosewho are dominated by the reality that Yahweh alone is God,

consumed with a love for Him that nds expression in desire to

please Him, commitment to obeying Him, and the constant oc-

cupation of mind, heart, and imagination with the wonder of who

He is.” – James Hamilton, The Journal of Family Ministry, Fall/ 

Winter 2010, pg. 18

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 deterooy 6:4-9 i te cor pe

of te Jewi fit bece of te trt it

exci bot go: He is the One True God.

 This truth is not just ound in Deuteronomy, but

throughout the Bible. Look up these passages

to see the cohesieness o the Word o God:

1 Tioty 2:1-6: “First o all, then, I urge

that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and

thanksgiings be made or all people, or kings

and all who are in high positions, that we may

lead a peaceul and quiet lie, godly and digni-

ed in eery way. This is good, and it is pleasing

in the sight o God our Saior, who desires allpeople to be saed and to come to the knowl-

edge o the truth. For there is one God, and

there is one mediator between God and men,

the man Christ Jesus, who gae Himsel as a

ransom or all, which is the testimony gien at

the proper time.”

1 Coriti 8:1-6: “Now concerning ood

oered to idols: we know that ‘all o us possess

knowledge.’ This ‘knowledge’ pus up, but loebuilds up. I anyone imagines that he knows

something, he does not yet know as he ought

to know. But i anyone loes God, he is known

by God. Thereore, as to the eating o ood

oered to idols, we know that ‘an idol has no

real existence,’ and that ‘there is no God but

one.’ For although there may be so-called

gods in heaen or on earth—as indeed there

are many ‘gods’ and many ‘lords’—yet or us

there is one God, the Father, rom whom are allthings and or whom we exist, and one Lord,

Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and

through whom we exist.”

Exo 20:1-6: “And God spoke all these

words, saying, ‘I am the LORD your God, who

brought you out o the land o Egypt, out o 

the house o slaery. ‘You shall hae no other

gods beore me. ‘You shall not make or your-

sel a cared image, or any likeness o anything

that is in heaen aboe, or that is in the earth

beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.

You shall not bow down to them or sere them,

or I the LORD your God am a jealous God,

isiting the iniquity o the athers on the

children to the third and the ourth generation

o those who hate me, but showing steadast

loe to thousands o those who loe me and

keep my commandments.’”

Ii 45:14-18: “Thus says the Lord: ‘The

wealth o Egypt and the merchandise o Cush,and the Sabeans, men o stature, shall come

oer to you and be yours; they shall ollow you;

they shall come oer in chains and bow down

to you. They will plead with you, saying: “Sure-

ly God is in you, and there is no other, no god

besides Him.’” Truly, you are a God who hides

Himsel, O God o Israel, the Saior. All o them

are put to shame and conounded; the makers

o idols go in conusion together. But Israel is

saed by the Lord with eerlasting salation;you shall not be put to shame or conounded

to all eternity. For thus says the Lord, who cre-

ated the heaens (He is God!), who ormed the

earth and made it (He established it; He did not

create it empty, He ormed it to be inhabited!):

‘I am the Lord, and there is no other.’”

Yo Jewi cire were expecte to

ve te se pe eorize t

very ery e. how i tey o tt?  They had it repeated to them twice a day

and it was constantly talked about in their

homes. The Apostle Paul, who was raised Jew-

ish, would hae memorized Deuteronomy

6:4-9 soon ater his sixth birthday. “Far more

impressiely, he also memorized Psalms

113-118!” explains Beth Moore in To Live Is

Christ, “Imagine all six o these psalms being

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seared into your soul in childhood! Being a

Hebrew was not just a religion; Judaism wasn’t

een just a way o lie. Being Hebrew dened

who you were, how you thought, what you elt

. . . [Paul] had little choice but to ‘meditate on

the law both day and night’ just to prepare or

the ollowing day’s lessons” (pg. 16).

I te eco Trere story pe, wy

oe it y tt we re ive tee tetio-

ie, ttte re? (Gie students time to

answer. I they need help, the answer is located

in Deuteronomy 6:24.)

Testimony Time: What can you brag on God 

about this week? How has God provided or you,

come through or you, revealed Himsel to you,

surprised you? 

P 19:7-11: “The law o the LORD is perect,

reiing the soul; the testimony o the LORD

is sure, making wise the simple; the precepts

o the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart; the

commandment o the LORD is pure, enlight-ening the eyes; the ear o the LORD is clean,

enduring oreer; the rules o the LORD are

true, and righteous altogether. More to be

desired are they than gold, een much ne

gold; sweeter also than honey and drippings

o the honeycomb. Moreoer, by them is your

serant warned; in keeping them there is

great reward.” The ollowing descriptions are

actions the Word says the Word o God does and

what our response should be.– Reies the soul– Makes wise the simple– Rejoices the heart– Enlightens the eyes– Endures oreer– Is the truth and is righteous altogether– Desire the rules o the Lord– Keep them– Receie great reward

I you hae time, show this two-minute ideo

that illustrates these erses.

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Wt i go wt to o wit tee w

(deterooy 6:24)? First, obey the com-

mandments. Second, we are to ear our God.

What does it mean to ear God?

 Jo 14:15: “I you loe me, you will keep my

commandments.”

  Jo 14:21: “Whoeer has my command-

ments and keeps them, he it is who loes me.And he who loes me will be loed by my

Father, and I will loe him and maniest mysel 

to him.”

 Jo 15:10: “I you keep my commandments,

you will abide in my loe, just as I hae kept my

Father’s commandments and abide in His loe.”

P 25:12: “Who is the man who ears the

LORD? Him will he instruct in the way that Heshould choose.”

P 34:11-14: “Come, O children, listen to

me; I will teach you the ear o the LORD. What

man is there who desires lie and loes many

days, that he may see good? Keep your tongue

rom eil and your lips rom speaking deceit.

  Turn away rom eil and do good; seek peace

and pursue it.”

P 86:11: “Teach me your way, O LORD, that

I may walk in your truth; unite my heart to ear

your name.”

Proverb 1:7: “The ear o the LORD is the be-

ginning o knowledge; ools despise wisdom

and instruction.”

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Proverb 3:5-7: “Trust in the LORD with all your

heart, and do not lean on your own understand-

ing. In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He

will make straight your paths. Be not wise in

your own eyes; ear the LORD, and turn away

rom eil.”

Wy re we ive tee w (deterooy

6:24)? For our good. Rules are not meant to be

a hindrance to our reedom, but an opportunity

or us to treasure Christ, to pursue Him, and to

be blessed.

deterooy 5:28-33: “And the LORD heard

your words, when you spoke to me. And the

LORD said to me, ‘I hae heard the words o this

people, which they hae spoken to you. They are

right in all that they hae spoken. Oh that they

had such a mind as this always, to ear me andto keep all my commandments, that it might go

well with them and with their descendants or-

eer! Go and say to them, “Return to your tents.”

But you, stand here by me, and I will tell you the

whole commandment and the statutes and the

rules that you shall teach them, that they may do

them in the land that I am giing them to pos-

sess.’ You shall be careul thereore to do as the

LORD your God has commanded you. You shall

not turn aside to the right hand or to the let.

You shall walk in all the way that the LORD your

God has commanded you, that you may lie, and

that it may go well with you, and that you may

lie long in the land that you shall possess.”

deterooy 8:1-10: “The whole command-

ment that I command you today you shall be

careul to do, that you may lie and multiply,

and go in and possess the land that the LORD

swore to gie to your athers. And you shall re-

member the whole way that the LORD your

God has led you these orty years in the wilder-

ness, that He might humble you, testing you

to know what was in your heart, whether you

would keep His commandments or not. And

He humbled you and let you hunger and ed

you with manna, which you did not know, nor

did your athers know, that He might make you

know that man does not lie by bread alone,

but man lies by eery word that comes rom

the mouth o the LORD. Your clothing did not

wear out on you and your oot did not swell

these orty years. Know then in your heart that,

as a man disciplines his son, the LORD your Goddisciplines you. So you shall keep the command-

ments o the LORD your God by walking in His

ways and by earing Him. For the LORD your God

is bringing you into a good land, a land o brooks

o water, o ountains and springs, fowing out in

the alleys and hills, a land o wheat and barley,

o ines and g trees and pomegranates, a land

o olie trees and honey, a land in which you will

eat bread without scarcity, in which you will lack 

nothing, a land whose stones are iron, and out

o whose hills you can dig copper. And you shall

eat and be ull, and you shall bless the LORD

your God or the good land He has gien you.”

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treasure

Trere Poit:  God is the only God. He is jealous or our loe and deotion to Him.

My Mission: (10 minutes)

 Tell the students that they are going to hae a driing test today. Pass out copies o the Street Signs

resource page (see resources). Do they know what the street signs mean? Hae them write out

what the signs instruct us to do.

• How do these street signs keep you safe?

• How are God’s rules intended to do you good, bless you, and not be a “kill joy” or deterrent to

your happiness?

Supplies Needed: Street Signs resource page, pencils

Prayer Time: (10 minutes)

 

Diide the students into small groups. Encourage them to pray the ollowing requests or

each other:

• For them to repent and let go of the sins that are keeping them from loving God with all their

heart, mind and strength.

• For them to show love to others in their classrooms, neighborhoods, places of employment,

sports teams, etc.

• For them to memorize and love more deeply God’s Word, to embed it in their hearts and lives.

 Teacher Note: Encourage the students to start accountability groups where they can memorize the

Word together.

 

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connecting church and home

  John Angell James said, “Here fx your center; here 

direct your aim; here concentrate your efforts, your energies, and your prayers.Remember, their religious education is your business. Whatever aids you call in

from ministers or teachers, you never must, you never can, you never should,

delegate this work. God will hold you responsible for the souls of your children.”

As you open up God’s Word, who do you nd that God has put in place to be the primary discipler o 

children? God gae parents the primary discipleship role. The peak o this teaching is called the Shema

and is ound in Deuteronomy 6:4-9. To this day, Jewish amilies quote this passage twice daily. Beore

there were churches, Sunday School classes, and youth groups, God entrusted parents with the prii-

lege to teach their children. This command hasn’t changed. There is no Shema version 2.0. Teaching our

children about the Lord is our priilege and responsibility as parents.

connectGod’s plan is or parents to disciple and train up their own children in the Word o God and ways o 

God. This is a command with a promise. Psalm 78:5-7 says, “He established a testimony in Jacob and

appointed a law in Israel, which He commanded our athers to teach to their children, that the next

generation might know them, the children yet unborn, and arise and tell them to their children, so

that they should set their hope in God and not orget the works o God, but keep His command-

ments.” One o the promises o this erse can be ound in Proerbs 22:6: “Train up a child in the way

he should go; een when he is old he will not depart rom it.” One way to teach your children the

ways o God is by sharing your testimony with them. Hae your children heard your testimony?

I not, then perhaps today would be a great time to share it.

Trere Vere:  “Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one. You shall loe the LORD

your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. And these words that I com-

mand you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk 

o them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when

you rise. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as rontlets between your eyes.

You shall write them on the doorposts o your house and on your gates” (Deuteronomy 6:4-9).

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