Key Verse

2 Corinthians 5:17

Additional Verses

Romans 12:2; Galatians 2:20; 1 John 1:9; Psalm 51:10-12

Materials Needed

• Baby doll with diaper

Object Lesson

(Hold the doll while you talk.)

Do you guys spend very much time with babies or little toddlers?  Raise your hands if you have a baby brother or sister.  Raise your hand if you have a baby cousin?

Well, I really love babies.  They are so cute and fun to play with and they make a lot of goo-goo-ga-ga sounds.  Let me hear your best baby sounds (allow for response).

Now, as fun as babies are and as much as we love them, they do something that I do not like very much.  They poop!  Yup, they make a mess in their diapers.  Now when baby has a dirty diaper, their mom and dad still loves them right?  They still accept that baby no matter how stinky it is, but do they leave their baby with a dirty diaper?  No, of course not!  What do they do? They change them into a clean diaper.

That reminds me of the verse in the Bible, 2 Corinthians  5:17 which says “This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun!” You see God loves and accepts us no matter how we come to him, even if we have stinky sin in our lives.  Even if we’ve lied, or cheated on a test or stole something, God still loves us and He wants us to come to him to be saved.  However, through Christ, God want us to become a new person so that we are not the same anymore.

If you were lying, he wants you to stop lying.  If you’ve been using bad language, he wants you to clean up your words.  God is a good Father and he wants us to change for the better, so we can become more like Jesus.  So the next time you are around a little baby and you start to smell something funny, I want you to remember that you are a new creation in Christ you are not the same anymore.