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The Wise and Foolish Builders
Key Verse
Matthew 7:24-27
Materials Needed
- Building blocks
- Brick
- Sand bucket full of wet sand
- Trays
- Water pitcher full of water
Preparation
Fill the bucket with wet sand so that when you flip the bucket upside-down and remove it, the sand will retain its shape. Put this sand onto a tray and put the brick on a tray.
Object Lesson
In Matthew 7:24-27 Jesus tells a story about two people who were going to build some houses. There was a wise builder and a foolish builder.
(Have a couple helpers come up and help build some houses).
In verse 24 Jesus says “Anyone who listens to his teaching and obeys it is wise Like a person who builds his house on solid rock.”
(Have one person start building a block house on the rock and one person start building a block house on the sand)
Verse 26 says “Anyone who hears my teaching and doesn’t obey it is foolish like a person who builds his house on sand.”
Jesus is saying that we need to build our lives on the solid foundation of God’s Word. We need to not only listen to it but do what it says.
The verse tells us that once the houses are built a storm comes. A lot of times in life storms will come and try to knock us down.
(Pour the water on both houses. The one on the rock should stand and the other one should collapse.)
We need to listen to God’s Word and also do what it says. Doing this is building out lives on the firm foundation of God’s Word.
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Is It Wise?
Key Verse:
James 1:5
Additional Verses:
Proverbs 2:2, Proverbs 3:13, Proverbs 3:15, Proverbs 4:5, Proverbs 4:7-11
Materials needed:
Preparation:
You can download the wise or unwise flashcards here. You can choose to either print them out onto sheets of paper to show to the class or display them on an iPad or on a TV monitor, or using them in PDF format with the help of the soda pdf software, which would be really useful for this.
Object Lesson:
Every day in life we face all kinds of decisions. Wisdom is the ability to know the right thing to do and then having the sense to do it. Some people don’t know the right thing to do and they just go along with anything. Other people know the right thing to do but they don’t have the sense to actually follow through with it.
I’m going to show you some flash cards and I want you to tell me if you think this is wise advice or this is foolish advice.
(Hold up the first card and have a child read it aloud.)
Do you think this advice is wise or foolish? (Allow the kids to answer.)
(Continue through all of the flashcards giving the kids opportunity to answer.)
The Bible says in James 1:5 that if we don’t have wisdom we can ask God for and he’ll give it to us. He will give us good advice and help us to know what the right thing to do is.
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