By George Nielsen
This week we covered Lesson 3 from Bible Adventures, “We Will Praise The LORD!” which starts with a description of King Hezekiah’s call to celebrate the Feast of Passover, although it was one month late, and his invitation to those people who were Israelites living in the Northern Kingdom to come and join in the celebration. The Bible passage studied was from 2 Chronicles, chapter 30 (verses 1 -- 27). This was a renewing of the practice of celebrating this Feast, as commanded by the Lord, after many years of not celebrating it.
The Passover lamb was slaughtered and the meal called for in God’s Word was eaten. Some of the people eating the meal were ceremonially unclean, and by law, they should not have eaten. However, Hezekiah prayed to God, asking for forgiveness and mercy for those people. God heard his prayer, and did grant those people forgiveness. Next, the people continued for seven days, celebrating the Feast of Unleavened Bread. They gathered at the Temple and they sang, played musical instruments, listened to a message from the Word of God, gave offerings, and were happy and joyful. They wanted to show their love for God, and their commitment to turn away from sin and unfaithfulness to the commands in God’s Word.
There was great joy among the people, in Jerusalem, and the leaders of the people brought many more of their animals for sacrifices of worship and for meals. They decided to continue their joyous worship and celebrating for an extra week. A great blessing resulted from all of this.
Our Lesson Focus is one spiritual truth that we emphasize, that the kids can take away from class as the application of what was taught, for them. We want them to understand the lesson content, to build Biblical literacy, and we also want the students to take away a truth-statement that will help them in achieving our major learning objectives for 5th grade.
Today’s Lesson Focus is: We Can Choose to Praise God.
The Commitment Learning Objective that they can take from this is that Young Disciple of Jesus express love for the Lord and thankfulness through praise, with singing, dance/movement, the use of musical instruments, and with their giving. Adults do this too. As an example of what joyous praise might have been like in Jerusalem, at the time our lesson took place during the reign of King Hezekiah, a brief explanation then a demonstration of the Jewish song “Hava Nagila” (‘Let us rejoice’) was given in class (sung a’capella). [To see a copy of the lyric to Hava Nagila, click here .]
The Memory Verse assigned this week is 1 Chronicles 16: 29.
29 Ascribe to the Lord the glory due his name. Bring an offering and come before him; worship the Lord in the splendor of his holiness.
This week we have also made the assignment of the first Emphasis Memory Verse, Acts 10: 38 (NKJV). This verse can be recited for at least the next three weeks, or perhaps longer.
38 how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with Him. --- Acts 10: 38 (NKJV)
In today’s class, we gave the students more details about the 5th grade Special Bible Reading program that will start June 24th (this week) and continue throughout the Sunday School year to May, 2014. The details will be published in the next Parents Newsletter and also are given in the Class Blog post about the program, which was published on June 28th. ( Click Here to go to that Blog Post. )
The 5th grade special Bible Reading program is focused on two New Testament books and three Psalms: the Gospel of Luke, Acts of the Apostles, Psalms 51, 23, and 24. It has both a reading component and a writing component. Students are permitted to receive help from parents on the written work.
You can read the class summaries and other information about our class by following our Class Blog at the address rcc5gr.blogspot.com
Weekly Blog posts will be made.
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