Sunday School Lesson on Disadvantages of Disobedience Activity

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Sunday School Lesson on Disadvantages of Disobedience

Into the Lesson

Display the following four scrambled words asyour class assembles: AAOPSSTY: CIIRSS;ACEEENNPRT; ACDEEEILNRV. Also displaya poster board circle, 12" in diameter, that is cen-tered and attached by a paper fastener to a posterboard circle that is 2W in diameter. On thesmaller circle have an arrow pointing from cen-ter to edge. Work the attached circle until it ro-tates easily.

As class members decipher the four scrambledwords (apostasy, crisis, repentance, deliverance),write each respectively at the 12 o'clock, 3o'clock, 6 o'clock, and 9 o'clock positions on thelarger circle. Make a short statement based onthe lesson writer's comments on the cycle of de-struction from the lesson Introduction.

Into the Word

As today's text pictures the foolish sinfulnessof the people of Israel, it also reveals the grandcharacteristics of God. Display each of the shortaffirmatives about Gout below, but don't revealthe verses and thoughts that are in italics. (Thiscan be done wills simple paper strips, with anoverhead transparency, or as a PowerPoint. pre-sentation.) As each affirmation is revealed, askyour class, "How and in what verses is this at-tribute of God revealed in today's text?"

Sample verse numbers and explanations aregiven here, but accept other reasonable and in-sightful responses. (Though listed in a verse-by-verse sequels., the statements should bedisplayed randomly.)

(1) "God is a moral God"(vv. 11, 12 affirm that God sees evil and it angersHint);

(2) "God is not bound by time or space" (vv.11, 12 affirm His relationship with previous gener-ations and His presence in Egypt is a given);

(3)"God can decide not to impose His will overhuman choice" (v. 13 indicates that He can be ig-nored, at least temporarily);

(4) "God will demon-strate His justice and wrath" (v. 14 pictures Hispunishment of His wayward nation);

(5) "God con-trols the destinies of all nations" (v. 14 indicatesGod's use of pagan nations as His agents);

(6)"God loves His people" (v. 16 reveals that thejudge-deliverers were God's loving idea);

(7) "Godexpects His people to obey His commandments"(v. 17);

(8) "God will support individual leaders tofulfill His purposes" (v. 18 stales that God waswith the judge He called forth to service);

(9) "Godstays the same; His expectations and His mercydo not vary" (see v. 18);

(10) "God deals with peo-ple individually, one generation at a time" (v. 19pictures the failure of succeeding generations andindividuals to remain consistent to God's truth);

(11) "There is a limit to God's patience with sin-fulness" (vv. 20, 21 describe God's decision aboutHis sinful people);

(12) "God will test the faith ofHis people" (v. 22 indicates God's plan to proveHis people by allowing sinful nations to continuealongside them);

(13) "God can intervene on be-half of His people, or He can choose not to" (v. 23affirms God's decision not to intervene, not to overwhelm Israel's enemies).

A similar activity is included in the studentbook.

Into Life

As adults, your class members need to take anactive role in the Christian education of theirown children, grandchildren, and other childrenof your church and community. "Faithful untodeath" should be each generation's goal. But allgodly parents will look beyond their own genera-tion to help the next generation to gain a faiththat will last a lifetime.

Ask your class to make a list of the variousways that they can participate in the godly nurture of your church's children and teens. Whenthe list is complete, indicate that you will makecopies and distribute them next Sunday. Theneach class 'limber can choose one way to en-large his or her presence in the lives of the nextgeneration

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