Key Verse

1 John 1:9

Additional Verses

Isaiah 43:25; Matthew 6:12; Psalm 103:12

Materials Needed

• Magic Thumb Tip
• White tissue paper
• Magic Marker

Preparation

Make sure you practice this in advance. Using a thumb tip is easy, but it does take a little practice to master. Practice in front of a mirror to begin and then friends and family, until it becomes natural.

Object Lesson

Have you ever done anything wrong before? Maybe you told a lie, or swore? Maybe you disobeyed your parents or took something that didn’t belong to you? These things are called sins. A sin is anything that goes against what pleases God.

(Take out the tissue)

Let’s say that this nice white tissue represents your life. It is all nice and clean. But one day you tell a lie.

(Write Lie on the paper.)

What is another sin that you may have done?

(Wait for responses and then write them down on the tissue.)

As you can see this piece of paper is full of sins now. It doesn’t look very clean anymore does it? There is nothing that we can do that can make these things go away. In 1 John 1:9 it says that if we confess our sins to God he will remove the sins for us! That sounds like a pretty good deal doesn’t it? In Psalm 103:12 it says God will take our sins and move them as far as the East is from the West!

(Begin pushing the tissue of sins into your closed hand containing the thumb tip)

Although you can’t remove the sins on your own, we serve a God that is faithful to remove them for us. We just need to ask him. We need to repent of the sins we have committed and follow Jesus.

(Push the final bit in with your thumb, and remove the thumb tip from your hand and show your hands are empty)

When God removes our sins he takes them completely away so far that we can never find them again. Let us ask God to forgive our sins today!

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