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#4 Keep His Day Holy


Posted by: Buffalo Dream Center

Topic: God's Top Ten

Verse: Let us not give up meeting together. Hebrews 10:25

Props:

Map
One-way sign
Stop sign
2 buckets/large bowls
Healthy food
Bible


Instructions:



Discussion:

A. Introduction: God created the weeks.
1. Creation
-In the beginning God created the whole world in just six days.
-On the seventh day, the Bible tells us that God rested.
-This first week in which God created the world is the pattern of time in which we live by today.
2. Did you know?
-Many years ago in a country called France the ruler of that country passed a silly law. The law stated that France would have ten-day weeks instead of seven-day weeks.
-The people of France would work for nine days and then get one day off. The ruler thought he could get more work out of his people this way.
-However, it did not work. People did not do good work under this schedule. They were too tired.
-Therefore, the ruler went back to a seven-day week.
3. Sundays
-When God created the world he knew just what man needed. He created a day each week for us to rest and to worship Him.
-Today, most of us have forgotten what Sunday is all about.
-Many people do not even go to church on Sunday nor do they relax.
-It is important for us to go to church on Sunday.
- It is also important for us to spend time with God everyday of the week. This is how we can live for God and keep his Cool Rules.

B. Illustration: We get direction from God's Word at Church
-Why do people go to a gas station?
-One reason people go to the gas station is to get directions. When they are lost, people usually pull into a gas station to ask for directions to their destination. They might have passed their exit or gotten off at the wrong exit.
-Your church helps you grow as a Christian by providing direction
-At church, you find out the way to go to heaven (hold up the one way sign), and you learn how to please God.
-There might be something in your life that you are doing wrong. You might not know this until you go to church. Then you learn you need to stop doing what you are doing wrong. (Hold up the stop sign)
-It is important for us to go to church as often as possible. We need to be thankful we can go to church because it provides direction for our lives (hold up the one way sign).

C. We need God's Word everyday.

1. We need God's Word to be a better Christian, just like we need healthy food to grow strong and healthy.
-What if all you ate was junk food?
-What if you never ate or drank anything?
2. What you put inside your body is very important.
-Add healthy foods to the first bucket/bowl.
-If we are going to be healthy, feel good and have strength, we must eat healthy.
-Sometimes children die of malnutrition because of a lack of healthy food in their diet.
3. Do you know what is more sad than dying of starvation?
-It is people who have not taken any of God's Word and put it into their body.
-Put the Bible into the second bowl.
4. How do you eat God's Word?
-Every time you read it, it goes into your body through your eyes.
- Every time you listen to the Bible being read, it goes through your ears.
- When you speak the memory verses, the Bible goes through your ears and into your body.
-It doesn't just go to your brain, as words in other books do. It goes right down into the inside of you. It is like taking medicine.
-When God's Word goes inside of us, it builds up immunity or a protection against sin.
-Good health repels sickness. When you are strong and healthy, it is hard to get sick.
-When you have God's Word, you are not attracted to sin. It becomes ugly and nasty and you want to stay away from it.

Conclusion:
-Review why it is important to go to church
-Emphasize how we need God's Word everyday