LESSON LIFESAVER Activity
The Teachings of Jesus are a great Treasure! bookmark
OBJECTIVE: Youth can go on a treasure hunt to find this bookmark (you can include some yarn to weave through the punched holes). Bookmarks can be placed in their scriptures to remind them that every time they read the scriptures they are on a treasure hunt to find words of wisdom from Jesus or the prophets.
TO MAKE:
1. Using cardstock, print, color, and cut out the bookmark for each child.
2. Punch holes around the border. Weave yarn through holes and tie a bow at the top.
ACTIVITY: Tell the youth they can place this bookmark in their scriptures to remind them that “The teachings of Jesus are a great treasure!” Each time they read the scriptures it’s like going on a treasure hunt.
Buzz on over to learn what the scriptures will do for you
In John 13:17 we learn, “If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them.”
DISCUSSION POINTS (Scriptures, Jesus Christ)
• Jesus called together 5,000 people to give them His Sermon on the Mount.
• Jesus told His disciples to bring the children to Him. He taught and blessed them.
• To get to heaven, Jesus told the rich man to give to the poor.
• Jesus taught us how to pray.
• Jesus wants us to forgive others or we would not be forgiven our “trespasses.”
• Jesus taught us to fast with happy, not sad faces.
• Jesus wants us to put our hearts into heavenly treasures that will last.
BIBLE SCRIPTURES TO UNDERLINE:
Matthew 6:9 -13 (The Lord’s Prayer)
“After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. . . .”
Matthew 6:14-15 (Forgive Others)
“For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you:
But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.”
Matthew 6:16-18 (Fasting)
“Moreover when ye fast, be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance: for they disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward. . . .”
Matthew 6:19-21
“Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:
But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:
For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.”
Matthew 7:12
“Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.”
Mark 10:13-16 (Blesses the Children)
vs. 14 “Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God. . . .”
Mark 10:17-25 (Inherit Kingdom of God)
“Good Master, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life? . . . Go go thy way, sell whatsoever thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, take up the cross, and follow me. And he was sad at that saying, and went away grieved: for he had great possessions. . . . “Jesus answereth . . . how hard is it or them that trust in riches to enter into the kingdom of God! It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.”
John 14:17
“If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them.”
MORE ACTIVITIES on The Teachings of Jesus
TONS MORE SCRIPTURES ON TREASURES
From the TOPICAL GUIDE:
— they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Ex. 1:11.
— ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me, Ex. 19:5.
— shall open unto thee his good treasure, Deut. 28:12.
— all that was found in his treasures, 2 Kgs. 20:13 (Isa. 39:2).
— Lord hath chosen Jacob … his peculiar treasure, Ps. 135:4.
— Treasures of wickedness profit nothing, Prov. 10:2.
— In the house of the righteous is much treasure, Prov. 15:6.
— Better is little … than great treasure and trouble, Prov. 15:16.
— getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity, Prov. 21:6.
— There is treasure to be desired, Prov. 21:20.
— He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied, Eccl. 5:10.
— fear of the Lord is his treasure, Isa. 33:6.
— thou that dwellest upon many waters, abundant in treasures, Jer. 51:13.
— they have taken the treasure and precious things, Ezek. 22:25.
— he shall have power over the treasures of gold, Dan. 11:43.
— when they had opened their treasures, Matt. 2:11.
— lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, Matt. 6:20 (Luke 12:33).
— Ye cannot serve God and mammon, Matt. 6:24.
— out of the good treasure of the heart, Matt. 12:35.
— kingdom of heaven is like unto treasure hid in a field, Matt. 13:44.
— if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul, Matt. 16:26.
— give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven, Matt. 19:21 (Mark 10:21; Luke 18:22).
— did cast in of their abundance, Mark 12:44.
— layeth up treasure for himself, Luke 12:21.
— we have this treasure in earthen vessels, 2 Cor. 4:7.
— In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom, Col. 2:3.
— reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures, Heb. 11:26.
— have heaped treasure together for the last days, James 5:3.