Jesus Drives Out an Evil Spirit in the Synagogue
Use this children’s Sunday School lesson to teach kids about serving
Jesus out of thankfulness.
Needed: Bibles, a soft ball, brightly colored pieces of paper
Intro Game: Thanks Toss
Students stand in a circle and randomly toss a ball back and forth. Whenever someone catches the ball, they have to name one thing God or Jesus has done for them or given to them they’re thankful for, but it can’t be anything anyone else has said.Lesson
(Read Luke 4:31-34.)
In the synagogue, what they called a church
back then, there was a man with an evil spirit inside of him. What is an evil
spirit?
An evil spirit is a demon. A demon is a bad
spirit that works for the devil and tries to get people to do bad things. It
can even get inside of someone who doesn’t believe in God and take control of
them.
An evil spirit can’t get inside of someone who
does believe in God because if you believe in God, you have the Holy Spirit
living inside of you and the Holy Spirit protects you from the demons. But the
man in the story had a demon living inside him.
(Read Luke
4:35.)
What did Jesus do to the evil spirit? (He made
it come out of the man.)
And one day, when Jesus comes back, He will
make all of the demons go to Hell and stay there so that they won’t be able to
bother anyone ever again.
(Read Luke
4:36-39.)
Simon’s (that’s Peter’s) mother-in-law was
sick in bed. She had a fever, and Jesus’ disciples asked Him to help her. What
did Jesus do? (He made her better so that she wasn’t sick anymore.)
After the woman felt better,
what did she do? (She waited on them, probably cooking them some dinner or something.)
That shows us what we should do. When Jesus
helped the woman, she was so thankful to Jesus for helping her that she wanted
to do something for Him. Because Jesus helps us by forgiving us for our sins
and answering our prayers, we should be thankful to Him and should do things
for Him too, such as doing the right things that God wants us to and not sinning and helping other people.
Game: Serving Jesus
Before students arrive, hide brightly colored pieces of paper around your room. You’ll need at least 5 pieces per team.
When it’s time to play, divide students into
two or more teams. Each team will need a team captain. That person will be
“Jesus.” The rest of their team spreads out around the room, standing still and
pretending to be sick. When you say “Go!” the team captain from each team runs
to tag all of their teammates.
The team captain then returns to their
starting point while their teammates gather 5 brightly colored pieces of paper.
The first team to gather 5 pieces of paper and bring them back their team
captain wins.
Afterward, explain that the team captain was
like Jesus when they healed everyone on their team from being sick. The rest of
the teammates then served them by finding and bringing them the papers, just as
we’re supposed to serve Jesus.
Have students close their eyes and re-hide the
papers to play again. Choose another team captain for each team. Play as long
as time allows.
Lesson continues...
(Read Luke 4:40-44.)
The story says that Jesus went off early in
the morning by Himself. What do you think He was doing by Himself?
The Bible doesn’t say, but I think Jesus was
taking some time to be alone with God and to pray to God.
Do you take time to pray to God?
When do you pray?
We should all take a little bit of time every day
to pray to God.
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