Serve God Sunday School Lesson Activity

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Into the Lesson

Say, "Sometimes we can get a false sense of se-curity about our daily environment." To illus-trate this point, ask your students to rank-orderthese creatures according to how many peoplethey kill each year in the United States: bears;cougars; dogs; insects and spiders; sharks: andsnakes. (This activity is also in the student book.)Answers are: 1. insects and spiders (50 to 150deaths per year, not counting deaths from ill-nesses borne by mosquitoes); 2. dogs (about 15deaths per year); 3. snakes (10 to 12); 4. sharks (2);5. bears (fewer than 1); 6. cougars (fewer than 0.5).After you have discussed their answers, say,"Sometimes the things we may fear the most,such as sharks and bears, are far less dangerousto us than things we take for granted, such as in-sects or dogs. Today's lesson deals with Judah'sfailure to realize the danger of their shallow reli-gious routines."

Into the Word

Deliver a brief introductory lecture from theLesson Background to help your students under-stand Jeremiah's ministry. This will set the stagefor the passages they will be studying.

Next, distribute copies of the following true-false statements (or direct your students to theirstudent books, where this quiz is also found).Tell your students to read Jeremiah 7:1-4, 8-15,and 2 Kings 23:36, 37 to find the answers to thisquiz. (Answers are provided in parentheses, butdon't distribute those.)

1. God told Jeremiah to preach in the gate ofSolomon's temple in Jerusalem (true, Jeremiah7:1); 2. God ordered the Jews to amend theirways (true, v. 3); 3. Jeremiah instructed the Jewsto chant the phrase "the temple of the Lord"(false, v. 4); 4. Jeremiah accused the Jews of

burning incense to the false god Dagon (false, v.9); 5. God accused the Jews of making the templea den of robbers (true, v. 11); 6. God said that Hehad set His name (located His tabernacle) first atShiloh (true, v. 12); 7. God warned Judah that Hewould destroy the temple, just as He had de-stroyed the tabernacle at Shiloh (true, v. 14); 8.God also warned that He would remove Judahfrom the land, just as He had removed Ephraim(true, v. 15); 9. Jehoiakim was 30 years old whenhe became king of Judah (false, 2 Kings 23:36);10. Jehoiakim was a great religious reformer likehis father, Josiah (false, v. 37).

When your students have completed the quiz,review the correct answers and discuss themeaning of the text. Use the following questionsfor discussion:

1. Why would Jeremiah stand in the gate ofthe temple to deliver his message? 2. What offerdid God make to the Jews if they changed theirways? 3. How were the people given a false senseof security by the existence of the temple? 4. Ofwhat specific sins were the Jews guilty? 5. Hosehad the Jews made the temple a den of robbers?(Remember that Jesus leveled the same charge;Mark 11:15-17.) 6. What punishment did Godthreaten against Judah? 7. How would they knowGod's threat was genuine? 8. Who was Jehoi-akim? What happened to him?

Into Life

Reproduce this chart to give to your students:Judah's SinsOur Sins

1.Trust in the temple

2.Theft

3.Murder

4.Adultery

5. False gods

Ask your students to note one or two sinscommon today that are comparable to the sins ofJudah. For example, they could list tax _fraud inplace of theft or abortion in place of murder.Next, instruct your students to turn to 1 Corin-thians 6:9-11 and 1 John 1:8-2:2 to see what Godexpects as to do about such sins today. Ask themto write a brief summary of God's instructions.Discuss the fact that God still offers forgivenessfor people who return to Him through Christ.

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