Scripture: for teacher background:
Hebrews 11:3 Job 38,39, 40, 41; Psalm 65:6-13 Ps 97:1-6 Ps 104 Ps
136:1-9 Galatians 4:6
Making contact:
Hand out play dough and ask the children to
make a person or animal with it. Talk about the fun they had in deciding how to
form their shapes.
They could decide how long the tail must be and how tall
etc.
Now ask if all the boys will please make a house and if all the girls will
bake a cake.
If they look around for ingredients tell them there aren’t any –
they first have to conjure up bricks, cement flour eggs and icing. This is
impossible.
Get them thinking about how God made the
world from nothing.
Exploration:
In the beginning God……………
That is all there was – God. He then made
light and the universe, the planets, the animals and people, plants and water
all out of nothing.
We wonder how people who don’t believe in
God even think it could have all begun with a big bang or something like that.
I would rather know that there is Someone wonderful and wise at the start of
everything and at the controls now.
In London
you can go down to Greenwich
I
find it easy to believe God created the world because I have already seen other
things that He does today in my life and around the world.
It’s like having a wonderful Daddy at home
who provides the roof over your head and money for food and education and
clothes and then someone comes along and says they don’t believe your Daddy
exists and they don’t believe he bought the house you live in.
You would just
laugh because you know your Daddy, talk to Him every day and love him with all
your heart, and you never go hungry or sleep on the streets.
In the Bible it says that it is by faith
that we understand that the universe was created by God’s Word so that what can
be seen was made out of what cannot be seen. (Hebrews 11:3)
God is so creative.
People keep trying to
find out about all the things that He has made and they study the stars, the
plants, insects, and the weather etc.
Imagine making 6 thousand kinds of
beetles. God did!
No two blades of grass are the same, no two snowflakes, two 2
clouds, and no two grains of sand.
Science is right in so many ways and has
been good for our world in countless ways.
But you have to decide whether to
fully believe in Science only or in God, because there are areas where Science
goes against God.
There have been and still are wonderful scientists who
believe in God and the Bible. Sir Isaac Newton was one of the greatest
scientists who took the Bible very seriously. He wrote books about the Bible.
I think the problem is that Science hasn’t
caught up with God yet, and the more Science learns, the more it will lead them
to the truth.
In the meantime it is difficult because you
might be the only one in your class at school who, for instance, doesn’t
believe in evolution. You might need to stand up for what you believe.
By the way, you can read a lot about
dinosaurs in the Bible in Job 40 and 41 - the behemoth – land dinosaurs and the
leviathan, the sea types.
In fact in the book of Job, written in 2000
B.C. there are at least 15 scientific facts suggested there that were only
“discovered” recently.
People believe in evolution and other
theories like Big bang, because if you don’t believe in God then you have to
hold on to something else and they hold on to these beliefs.
This
is so that they can live as they want and not listen to God. They don’t want
there to be a God who made the world because they want to be in charge of their
own lives.
If you didn’t believe in your parents and
didn’t believe they provided your home and everything else then you wouldn’t
have to listen to them when they tell you to go to bed and brush your teeth.
Some people don’t want a Heavenly Father
and don’t believe He created the world.
What do you believe?
Read
through some of the glorious verses about God being Creator. Choose verses from
Job 38,39 Psalm 65:6-13 Ps 97:1-6 Ps 104 Ps 136:1-9
(Depending on the age of the children, you
can adapt and cut out some of this lesson and focus more on the Scriptures from
Job. Little children don’t need to know the whole evolution debate but older
children will need this. You will need to decide the level of your children and
just use what is appropriate.)
Application If your church focuses on Father's Day, this lesson is rather appropriate.
We are very grateful today for our heavenly
Father who made a beautiful world and amazing universe. We are also grateful
for our Daddy’s. Even if they have died, we say thank you today for all fathers
and grandfathers.
Challenge to Mission
Don’t be shy to speak up that you believe
God created the world.
You don’t have to prove it!
But one day you might need
to testify that you believe it. When you stand up and speak for God, Jesus
stands up on your behalf and speaks up for you.
“I
will honour those who honour Me, and I will treat with contempt those who
despise Me.” 1 Samuel 2:30
“If a person is ashamed of me and of My
teaching in this godless and wicked day, then the Son of Man will be ashamed of
him when he comes in the glory of His Father with the holy angels”. Mark
8:38.
Consolidation
Worksheet with memory verse and other
Scriptures.
Memory Verse
“It is by faith that we understand that
the universe was created by God’s Word.” Hebrews
11:3
Belief Statement
We believe that God is the Father and Creator of the world
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