March 18th Lessons

9:00am DiscipleLand

1st-2nd grade 
Special Passover Lesson

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9:00am DiscipleLand

3rd-4th grade 

Valiant Voyagers Lesson 2—Riot!

Acts 19

 The Holy Spirit sets people free from idolatry and helps them turn to Jesus.

Verse: “It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.” -- Galatians 5:1

Focus:

~After repenting, people receive the Holy Spirit by faith in Jesus.

~Seeing the power Jesus makes people turn away from sorcery.

~The power of the Gospel in Ephesus changed people’s lives and reduced idolatry.

Missionary Biography 2: George Mueller—A Huge Change 

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10:45am TRU 1st-4th grade 

Main Focus: Jesus Seeks and Saves

(Zacchaeus--Luke 19:1-10)

Anticipate: What Do You See?

Zacchaeus’ story is very simple and yet it clearly shows us how God wants us to live. First off He wants us to SEE the world as He does. Sometimes we live as if everything around us isn’t real, or the people around us are just stage props in our lives. Thank goodness that’s not how God sees us!

Worship with singing:  Youth Band
Memory Verse:

"Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts.  See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting." --Psalm 139:23-24

After Jesus healed the 2 blind beggars, everyone who heard about Him wanted to see Him.  On this day when Jesus was passing through Jericho, a short man, named Zacchaeus also wanted to meet Jesus.  However, because he was the chief tax collector who cheated people to pay more than they were asked to pay, he was a hated man.  He could not see and had no one to help him get to the front.  So he claimed on a Sycamore tree to see Jesus.  Jesus looked up, called Zacchaeus by name, asked him to come down and told him He was going to his house.  Because Jesus sought him out, and offered His love and acceptance to Zacchaeus, he repented by repaying those whom he had cheated.  Jesus then proclaimed that salvation had come to Zacchaeus and his household.  Jesus sought and saved Zacchaeus.  He still seeks and saves those who are willing to repent and follow Him today.

RESPOND: Seeking and Saving/Wordless Bokk

SEEING people is only the first step in living as God desires. We also need to SEEK people out.  This is harder to train ourselves to do, it means we have to not only notice people and things we need to analyze what we see. We don’t have to KNOW what to do, but we need to recognize that something should be done. In Zacchaeus’ story, what did Jesus see? What did He seek? How did he save?

Bless:

May our children know the God who seeks after each of them.  May our children learn from Jesus to see, seek and bring the lost to God who saves.