Living for Jesus

Living for Jesus

Wednesday, May 22nd & Sunday, May 26th

Key Passage: Ephesians 4: 20-24

Basic Truth: God wants us to know Him.

Memory Verse: I will give them a heart to know me, that I am the Lord. They will be my people, and I will be their God, for they will return to me with all their heart. Jeremiah 24:7

Think about it:

“But whatever was to my profit I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. ⁸What is more, I consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ ⁹and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ—the righteousness that comes from God and is by faith. ¹⁰I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, ¹¹and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead.

 ¹²Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. ¹³Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, ¹⁴I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.  (Philippians 3:7-14)

Ask it:

All Levels

Q: How can you tell if you have a heart to know God?

A: You will want to spend time with God, praying and reading His Word and worshiping Him.

Grade 1-2

Q: What does God want us to do until He takes us to heaven?

A: God wants us to continue to learn more about Him and continue to grow to be more like Jesus.

Q: God doesn't take us to heaven because we try to be good! Why does God take us to heaven?

A: if we trust Jesus to forgive our sins He will allow us to be in heaven with Him...forever!

Q: Why does God want us to know Him better? 

A: Because Jesus is our Savior, He wants us to grow to be more and more like Him, because He is perfect and He should be glorified. 

Grade 3-4

Q: Why does God want us to know Him?

A: Knowing God's love and grace changes our hearts so we will want Him as our God.

Q: God loves you and wants you to love Him. What will cause us to love Him? 

A: 1 John 4:19, knowing His love for us and what He did will cause us to love Him. 

Q: How do we keep on getting to know God?

A: Read the Bible...pray...talk with others about God...

Grade 5-6

Q: Why do we need to continue seeking to know God?

A: Knowing God is a lifelong process that transforms our lives, causing us to live for Him and willingly fulfill the purpose for which He created us. 

Q: What will cause us to live the kind of life Jesus wants us to live? 

A: knowing Him!

Q: Who notices when we do what's right, and what will happen?

A: Unbelievers notice Christians who are willing to live for Jesus and do what's right, and this will by glory to God!

Family Activities:

1) Make a commitment and a plan to have a summer study partner

2) Talk about ways to keep God as the central, most important thing in your family. (How can you help each other to worship God?)