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Children’s Messages
Advent 1, December 3, 2006
Blessed Is the King Who Came!
*Text:* Luke 19:28–40
*Visuals:* stick horse, small wooden rocking horse, or picture of colt; clothes the leader or children can place on colt and on ground.
*Summary:* Jesus came—twice—to die.
Kay L. Meyer, president
Family Shield Ministries, St. Louis, Missouri
Hello, boys and girls.
How many of you have ever watched, or been in, a parade?
/Allow children to raise their hands./
Parades have music, singing, and lots of people riding horses, in cars, on decorated floats, and walking.
Parades are celebrations!
Today’s Bible story reminds me of a parade.
Jesus tells two of his disciples to go to a nearby village and bring back a colt for him to ride.
/Show the horse or picture./
The disciples find the colt and bring it to Jesus.
They put some of their clothes on it.
/Allow children to place clothes on the horse./
Jesus sits on the colt and rides it.
The people spread their clothes on the ground in front of him.
/Spread other clothes.
/This was their way of showing respect and honor to Jesus.
The Bible reading tells us that the disciples praised God joyfully with loud voices as Jesus rode the colt!
They said, “Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the Lord!
Peace in heaven and glory in the highest!” (v 38).
Those are exciting words, aren’t they!
Do they sound like anything you’ve heard any other time?
Listen to that last part again: Glory in the highest!
Peace!
In just a few weeks we’re going to hear angels saying that: “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace” (Lk 2:14).
When did the angels say that?
/Receive responses.
/Right!
When Jesus was born.
Christmas is coming, and that’s /very /exciting, isn’t it!
In just twenty-two days we’re going to celebrate Jesus coming—just like we’re celebrating Jesus coming today.
On the day he rode the colt into Jerusalem, everybody praised him coming as the King.
At Christmas he came as a baby.
But both times, he really came for the same reason.
He came to die.
That’s right.
He came to earth as a baby to grow up and die.
He came to Jerusalem on a colt to die.
And you know why he came to die, don’t you?
His death on a cross took away our sins.
Now since our sins are forgiven, we will be with him forever in heaven.
That’s why Jesus came—and that’s reason to celebrate his coming, isn’t it?
Say this with me: Blessed is the King who /came/!
Glory in the highest!
Peace!
\\ Advent 2, December 10, 2006
The Word of God for Me!
*Text:* Luke 3:1–14 (15–20)
*Visuals:* Make a small paper scroll using two pencils, an 8½ x 11-inch piece of paper, and scotch tape.
Write Acts 3:19 on the paper; then tape the edges to the sides of the pencils, and roll the paper over both pencils.
*Summary statement:* God’s Word assures us that Jesus blots out our sins.
Kay L. Meyer, president
Family Shield Ministries, St. Louis, Missouri
Hello, boys and girls.
Anyone know what this is?
/Hold up the scroll./
That’s right.
A scroll.
Long ago, Bibles, God’s Word, looked like this.
Today’s third Bible reading, the Gospel, says, “The word of God came to John the son of Zechariah in the wilderness” (v 2).
This was John the Baptist.
When he was growing up, he lived off in the wilderness, in wild country, but even out there he probably did a lot of reading with scrolls like this to find out what God’s Word said.
In fact, some famous scrolls that go way back to around the days when John lived have been found in that wilderness.
Now John came and preached what God’s Word said to people—that they should repent and be baptized for the forgiveness of sins.
A sin is something we do or say or think that’s wrong.
God’s Word gives us the Ten Commandments.
They help us recognize our sins.
We try to follow the Commandments, but often we don’t do what they say.
We feel bad about doing wrong things, don’t we?
When we repent of our sins, we say we’re sorry.
We want to stop doing them.
It’s like we turn away from those sins—we don’t want to look at them anymore.
We don’t want to see them or do them.
We ask God to forgive us and help us.
God’s Word that John preached /(hold up the scroll)/ told us about our sin and told us to repent.
But John also said someone greater than he was coming who would take away those sins.
You know who that was!
Of course!
Jesus!
Jesus came to die on the cross to take away our sins.
Now that Jesus has done that, listen to what else God’s Word says.
/Open up the scroll and read the verse./
Acts 3:19 says, “Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out.”
Our sins are blotted out, washed away, because of Jesus.
Just like John said.
Just as God’s Word says!
Let’s pray: Lord, thank you for loving me and for giving me your Word.
Thank you for washing away my sins.
Help my faith to grow.
In Jesus’ name.
Amen.
\\ Advent 3, December 17, 2006
It’s Hard to Wait!
*Text:* Luke 7:18–28 (29–35)
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