This week’s destination Sexual Immorality: The Place of Temptation

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MATERIALS: Laptop and sound system to play music. Multimedia projector and screen to show the PowerPoint. Photocopy: Teacher Notes/Handout. Bible Verse Visual Aids and student take home ‘Sword Play Memory Verse Track’. Activity books for youth. Seven SOAP Daily Devotional Journals photocopy a set of seven for each teen to take home.

Download and print PowerPoint notes

Download and print Leadership Handout

Download Visual Aids

AS YOUTH ARRIVE PRIOR TO THE LESSON:
Welcome Teacher/Trainers and students. Get a youth to colour the Bible Verse Visual Aid.

Download Bible Memory Verse Visual Aid

1. ACTIVE PRAISE CHORUS: (10 minutes)

Self Control

Self Control, Gotta have some Self Control,
Self Control, Gotta have some Self - Control,
Self Control, Gotta have some Self Control,
Self Control, Gotta have some Self - Control,

When you are angry and you wanta shout
When you are angry and you wanta pout
When you are mad and you are feeling bad
When you are sad and you are not feeling glad

Download Praise Music and lyrics

2. INTIMATE WORSHIP: (5 minutes)
Let us be self-controlled believers

Download Worship Music and lyrics

3.TEACHING:
a) Review
1. What was last week’s Memory Verse? (Numbers 32:23b ‘Be sure your sin will find you out.’)
2. Last week we played a whispering game what were we guarding? (Your heart and your mouth)
3. What sort of heart were we asking God to create in us? ("Create in me a clean heart, O God" )

b) Sword Play
Ready…Swords up… Proverbs 7:1… CHARGE!
My son, keep my words, And treasure my commands within you.

Download Bible Memory Verse Visual Aid

Download and give out the Sword Play Memory Verse Tracks one for each youth to take home to help them learn the Memory Verse

c) Teaching the Lesson - The Place of Temptation
Set up the Laptop connected to the sound system to play the Faithbuilder MP3 The Place of Temptation

Download Pastor Jerry Dirmann's audio The Place of Temptation

Set up the Multimedia projector and screen to show the PowerPoint.

Download The Place of Temptation PowerPoint

Use the Teachers Notes to assist with managing the PowerPoint (already downloaded and printed)

• Review and discuss the seven SOAP BibIe Study Devotional Journals from last week

4. APPLICATION/ENCOUNTERING GOD:
Set up the Laptop connected to the sound system to play soft worship music to set the atmosphere.

Have the youth sit on the floor in a circle and have a time of sharing
Remember Jesus fought temptation

(Get someone to read Luke 4:1-13)

The Bible says Satan tempted Jesus for forty days. During this time, Jesus did not eat. Satan tempted Jesus with food, power and the opportunity to show off His power and to honour Himself instead of God.

When Satan tempted Jesus, Jesus used Bible verses to tell Satan why He wasn’t going to do what he asked Him to do. Jesus was full of the Holy Spirit, which means God helped him be self-controlled and resist temptation.

It is the same for you and I. If we try to fight Satan and temptation on our own, it is difficult, and perhaps impossible. If we ask God to fill us with His Holy Spirit to help us fight Satan we can be strong and victorious like Jesus.

Questions for discussion:
1. Have you ever been really hungry? (Share)
2. How badly did you want to eat? (Share)
3. Can you imagine how hungry Jesus must have been after not eating for 40 days? (Discuss)
4. Jesus had all the power in the world and Satan tempted him to show it off, but Jesus didn’t. How did Jesus resist temptation? (He used the Word of God against Satan)

Optional: Download and watch the Jesus Temptation video for Senior Youth

Optional: Download and watch the Jesus Temptation video for Junior Youth

Close with a time of worship. Open the alters for those young people who want to ask God to give them the strength that they need to resist temptation.

CLOSING PRAYER: Heavenly Father help us to say “No” to ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright and godly lives. Dear God, I am having trouble controlling my tongue. I say unkind things without thinking. Please help me to be full of Your Holy Spirit so I think before I speak. I am having trouble not looking at things on the internet I should not be looking at, help me to make a covenant with my eyes not to look at anyone lustfully. Father I am having trouble not being swayed by my friends at school, help me to choose godly friends. Father I am having difficulty reducing my media time, and having the desire to listen to secular music, may I put a guard on my ears. Amen.

TAKE HOME MATERIAL:
Optional: Download a set of seven SOAP Bible Study Devotional Journals- one for each youth

Optional: Download the ‘Take Home Quiz Activity Books’ for the youth, give out at the end of this session

Optional: Download the ‘Sword Play Memory Verse Track’ one for each youth to take home.

Information sourced from Pastor Jerry Dirmann Founder and Senior Pastor of The Rock
Visit his website for more great resources www.jerrydirmann.com/

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