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Kufesa Mbewu ya Yesu - Gawo #7

(Text to be translated into Chichewa)

MATERIALS:
Weeds, branch, green cloth, bunch of flowers. A weed with a long root and flower. Wheat sheaves. Hat, fork. Black cloth. Blue & white cloth, red cloth. Bible Verse Card, crayons. Cut several lengths of green cloth about 2 foot long. A plant with a flower, Moringa plant. Parent Moringa Educational handout.

AS KIDS ARRIVE PRIOR TO THE LESSON: (10 minutes)
Get 1 child to colour the Bible Card prior to the lesson.
Examine the Moringa plants ensure there are no weeds today we will teach you how to plant your Moringa plant at home.

1. GUESSING GAMES: (5 minutes)
Hold your hand behind your back ask “which hand am I holding a weed in” guess a few times before moving on to the team game.

2. TEAM GAMES: (10 minutes)
Divide the class into two teams. Give each team paper with two column headings WEEDS and FRUIT. Have the children write examples of the "weeds" or sins in their lives and the "fruit" good things in their lives. See which team can come up with the most ideas.

Prayer: "Dear Jesus, please take away the weeds in our life, so that we can grow into the person that you have made us to be. Amen."

5. TEACHING:
a. “Back Track” Review
Remember last week we learnt God wants us to grow Spiritually.

Divide the group into two, one with wheat sheaves, one with weeds.

Get the wheat group waving saying “When the wheat sprouted and formed heads”

Get the weed group will wave their weeds and say “then the weeds also appeared”

Both groups say together “Matthew 13:26”

Shout it out, whisper it, stand up and say it, kneel and say it etc

c. Teach the Lesson (15 minutes)

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To grow Spiritually we need to weed the sin out of our lives.

Bondage of sin skit:

Sin is anything we think, say, do or don’t do that displeases God.

Object Lessons:
1. Weeds are like sins in our life, but these are weeds you can’t see, they are inside us. (Having cut several lengths of green cloth long enough to be draped over your shoulder take one strips out.) I have a pretend weed, and I’m going to call it, ‘worry’. Yes, it is a sin to worry. I may worry how I look. (Drape that weed over your shoulder.) I may worry I am fat, (Drape that weed over your arm.) I may worry I am going to fail my tests. (Drape that weed over your head) The weeds could be called various things, such as stealing, yelling at your parents, not listening to the teacher, hating someone, making someone cry etc. The weeds in my life have changed me, look at me, you can hardly see who I am. Some people may think I’m just a big nasty green weed. There is good news. Jesus can take away the weeds in our life. Every time you pray to Jesus to forgive you, He takes away a weed. (Ask for forgiveness for each of the sins that you named eg ‘yelling at your parents’, as you do so - peel off the strips of paper weeds, using different examples.)

2. The roots of weeds go deep and choke out the life of other plants. It takes hard work to keep weeds down. Sin is like weeds and it tries to grow and choke out our Spiritual growth.

3. Farmer, wearing a hat and carrying a fork or hoe comes out and says, “I just over heard what you were saying and I was thinking that this weeding tool also teaches an important lesson. Jesus is our tool to remove weeds of sin from our hearts.

Some Christians try to just mow over the weeds so no one sees them, but that doesn't' get rid of the sin. Jesus gets rid of sin at the root. He died on the cross so our sins could be forgiven.

4. (Bring out a weed that has a flower. Bring out a flower.) Let’s compare the two. Both have flowers, but one is very deceiving. It might look beautiful but it is really destructive. It will kill everything around it by choking out the life of the other plant. Sin is like that too. It might seem fun, harmless but it destroys peoples lives. Sin creeps in and before long it takes over just ike weeds take over a garden.

Discussion Questions:
1. What are weeds like? (Sin)
2. What is sin? (Sin is anything we think, say, do or don’t do that displeases God.)
3. What tool will remove sin? (Jesus.)

6. APPLICATION / ENCOUNTERING GOD:
Close with a time of worship. Place the black cloth on the floor. Open the alters for those children who want to ask Jesus to forgive their sins. We can try to just get rid of what people see, but that isn't good enough. We need to get rid of sin completely.

CLOSING PRAYER:
Thank you Father, for sending your son Jesus to die for our sins, we are sorry for doing wrong and we ask you Jesus to forgive us our sins. Amen.

TAKE HOME PAGE/ACTIVITY:

Take home their planted Moringa seed, remember to water it a little each day you may want to keep it somewhere shaded and warm.

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