Wednesday, March 13, 2019

Worship Lesson 1 : Old Testament Connections and Old vs. New Covenant Part One

Review:  Old Testament- what’s included.  (history, law, prophets) Cycle – of sinful people…God’s design- 
Law- those who followed God, those who ignored Him, didn’t hear His Word, etc.
Prophets and their role, those who followed/honored God, and worshipped him (and how- psalms, song, sacrifice, service, teaching, obedience…)
Content: 
Review the cycle that develops in the OT:
God promises/blesses, man obeys, but then forgets, or disobeys- God sends BIG signs (fire, His glory, temple,…) but man forgets—OT ends with God silent
Activity Options:
Israel rejected God as Their King Coloring
Color versions of OT characters- who loved God, who forgot? Who brought the law?  For showing and making the kids think about their own knowledge of the big people that were mentioned.
God’s Design Circle
Review the OT big picture story bible- disobey/sin/broke/believe-
Color the missing items prophets page & kid/heart- discussing what does God look at? He looks at the heart. 
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I printed and made three sets of the bible characters from our OT lessons. So they can think about who fits under each question-- 

It may be that we tell them the answers- it may be that they have great memories-- but the idea is to grasp that WE don't remember what God expects of us? We can't live under the law? we fail and the OT shows that people are broken by sin.... and God knows that the law won't work.  

My plan is to:
explain God's circle--

ask the kids to remind me- what types of books are in the OT. (History, Law, Prophets)
Ask them why does God give us His WORD as History? (so we learn from others mistakes and successes), law? (because He is holy, and can't be in the presence of sin- a sacrifice needed to be made- and this explains the standard)? What are prophets?  Why did He send them?  What did they tell people?  

Then say- we met a bunch of people in the OT - I am going to split you into groups and as we review- can you show us the character and be ready to tell the group- how this person lived?  
Which people struggled to trust/believe/wait for God? How? 
When did people praise God? 
When did people forget God? 

What were the people to remember? (God's plan, directions, rules) How well did they remember it? 
What hints of Jesus were given in the OT? by who? 
What did the prophets say or do to get people to remember that a new King was coming?  


Review and Connections
What did God give to His People in the Old Testament?
1.       Good things- creation, promises, provision
2.        
How did people respond to God’s love and care?
Obedience, Sin/Disobedience, praise, forget,
How did OT people atone for sins (make payment)
Blood Sacrifice
What types of books are in the Old Testament?
History, Law, Prophecy
What does the Old Testament teach us about God?
God is holy, just, loving, above all, powerful

We saw in the OT stories- men of God- do this- Abraham, Moses, King David, … often worship was done with an offering or sacrifice to God.  Other times it was by serving God and honoring Him, or praising Him in Psalms.  To worship God- you must know Him- and Jesus modeled this by meeting with men who knew God well and His Word, and learning/talking with them about Who He is.  (we can do that, Jesus showed he was human in this way, but also showed he was God with His understanding and amazing the men with his knowledge!) 


Just talk about the Old Covenant- the law- and sabbath worship, 10 commandments, tithe,…
 Theme is moving from Old to New.  Reviewing the Old Covenants- and realizing that we are entering into the New Testament with Jesus- and being sure that the concepts we need to show as NEW in this half of our biblical literacy.  
So a stronger connection to sin- disobedience cycle while God wanted to bless, love, redeem His people.   And He knew and planned to send His Son- to create a new covenant (different from Noah, Abrahams, Moses, ...)  
Printed and used: 

Just the Left Side
OLD   Covenant
Sacrifices
Sabbath worship
Clean/unclean
THE LAW

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