Alive-O 6 Term 1: Lesson 10 Loving God

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Alive-O 6Term 1 Lesson 10Loving God

• Advent
• What am I trying to do? To introduce the
  commandments of Jesus.
• Why? So that the children may be better able to
  respond to the command of Jesus to Love God as
  they prepare for Christmas.

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Jesse Tree
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• The Jesse Tree derives its name from Jesse,
• the father of king David.
• It is the family tree of the family of God as it
• tells the stories of Gods faithfulness to the
  His
• people as they waited for the Saviour.
• One of the people who was called by God to
• guide the people on their journey closer to Him
• was Moses.

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Bible Search

• Isaiah 111-3
• Matthew 11-6

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Moses and the Ten Commandments

• After Moses led his people out of slavery in
• Egypt, they wandered around in the desert for
• A long time. They began to lose faith and trust
• In God. They began to burn incense and sing
• sacred songs to other gods the gods of water
• and fire and stone.

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• They didnt treat one another as they
• should, and they began to care more
• about gold and possessions that they did
• about Yahweh or about one another.

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• One day God spoke to Moses and told him to
• cut two pieces of stone and bring them to
• Mount Sinai the next day. Moses did as God
• asked and the next morning, early, he went
• onto the mountain.

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• I am making a covenant with people, Moses,
• God said. I will be their God. I will do
• marvellous things for them. I will look after all
  
• their needs. They will become a very special
• people and they will bring the name of God to
• all the people of the earth.

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• They will be a very special people to me. Now
• the peoples part in this covenant will be this
  
• they will live according to my commandments
• Or laws. Then God said to Moses Write these
• commandments down so that the people may
• live faithfully by them.

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• Moses hurried back to tell the people the good
• news of Gods covenant. Moses had been a
• Long time on the mountain with God and while
• He had been away the people decided to make
• A god of their own, just like the gods the
• Israelites had.

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• The made a golden calf and called it God and
• admired its beauty and gave it great value.
• They lit fires before it and sang sacred songs to
  
• it and carried it high, in front of them.

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• Then Moses saw what they had done and
• became very angry. He smashed the stone
• tablets on which were written the
• commandments. You are not worthy of
• Yahweh, our God, he said. The people
• lowered their heads in shame.

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• The Moses led them in prayer. He went back up
• the mountain again and prayed to God to
• forgive the people for what they had done.
• After another long time he returned from the
• mountain with two new stones on which the
• commandments of God were written.

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• The people received them joyfully and said,
• Whatever God wants us to do we will do.
• We want to be part of Gods covenant.

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Ten Commandments in Hebrew

• The people lived faithfully by the commandments
  as they continued on their journey to the
  Promised Land.

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The First Commandment

• I am the Lord your God, you shall not
• have strange gods before me.
• Did the people break this commandment?
• Which commandment do you think is most
• important?
• What do you need to do to follow the first
  commandment more closely as you prepare for
  Christmas?