Scripture: for teacher background: Isaiah 6
Making
contact:
Talk
about nice dreams that we have.
Don’t get too involved with long stories.
Explain that a vision is a dream, but you are wide-awake, and it is from God to
tell you something.
Lots of people in the Bible had visions and today people
still get messages from God like this.
Exploration:
Isaiah
was one of Judah Judah
Prophets
were quite unpopular because they spoke out against sin and people didn’t like
their sin to be pointed out!
Not only did he speak about the things that
were happening then in Judah
He spoke about when the Saviour Jesus would
come and die for our sins. We have a record of all those words he spoke. They
are written in the book called Isaiah.
Read
to the children these verses from
Isaiah
7 “Therefore the Lord will give you
a sign – The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son and will
call him Immanuel.”
Isaiah
9 “The people walking in darkness have seen a great light……….for to us a child
is born, to us a son is given, and the government shall be upon his shoulder
and he will be called Wonderful Counsellor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father,
prince of Peace.”
Isaiah
53
“We
despised him and rejected him, he endured suffering and pain…but he endured the
suffering that should have been ours…because of our sins he was wounded, beaten
because of the evil we did. We are healed because of the punishment he
suffered, made whole by the blows he received. All of us were like sheep that
were lost, each of us going his own way………..He was treated harshly, but endured
it humbly, and he never said a word. Like a lamb about to be slaughtered……….He
was arrested and sentenced and led off to die. He was put to death for the sins
of our people. He was buried with the rich…he will bear the punishment of
many.”
One
day Isaiah was in the temple and he had a magnificent vision.
He saw the Lord
on a high, raised throne and the hem of his gown reached down into the temple.
All around him were angels and they were saying very loudly “Holy, holy, holy,
is the Lord God of the universe; the heavens and the earth are full of His
glory."
The angels were flying with 2 wings, with 2 wings they covered their
feet and 2 wings covered their faces. When he saw this vision, Isaiah felt
terrible.
He felt so sinful and he cried out that he was lost, yet he had seen
the glory of the Lord. When he prayed this, one of the angels flew towards him
with a burning coal. He touched Isaiah’s lips with it. Isaiah understood that
he was now ready to speak God’s message.
When he heard God’s voice saying,
“Whom shall I send? Who will go for me?” Isaiah replied “Here I am Lord, Send
me.”
What
do we usually say when someone asks who should they send?
We say, “Send someone
else! I am too busy, too tired, too small, too fat, too lazy, too nervous, too
young, too old………..etc.”
When
God asked Moses to go back to Egypt
.
Are
you going to wriggle or say: “Yes, send me.”
It
helped that Isaiah had seen that amazing vision of God. Maybe we will be more
willing to serve God if we get to know Him better and love Him more.
Is
God calling you to serve Him in some way? Ask Him what He’d like you to do.
There
is a worksheet with a picture of God on the throne and baby Jesus at the bottom
with the prophecy from Isaiah 9:6. There is a prayer to fill in and a memory
verse.
“I
saw the Lord. He was sitting on His throne, high and above and His robe filled
the temple.” Isaiah 6:1
Print
the memory verse on cards with pictures of angels.
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