God’s Promises MERCY K.N. 7/15/20

MAIN THEME:

God shows us his mercy by offering us forgiveness for our sins.

He asks us to always be merciful and forgiving towards others.

Opening Prayer / Last Week – God’s Promises… COURAGE Joshua 1:9

Tonight’s Verse: Psalm 145:8

The Lord is merciful and compassionate, slow to get angry

and filled with unfailing love. Psalm 145:8

Q #1 What does it mean to show mercy? Give me an example

Q #2 How did God show his mercy for us? Romans 5:8

But God showed his great love for us by sending

Christ to die for us while we were still sinners.

Remember that nothing we do can save us from the punishment we deserve.

God sent his Son to earth to die for our sins because he loves us. He asks us to

return that love by worshiping him and obeying his commandments. God shows

his mercy to those who are merciful to others.

JESUS TELLS A PARABLE - THE UNMERCIFUL SERVANT

Q #3 Do you remember the question Peter asked at the beginning?

How many times should you forgive your brother? 77 times

REMEMBER

There are going to be times in our lives when people make mistakes or are mean

to us. We need to show them mercy when they make mistakes or hurt us.

Showing mercy means we forgive them for the mean things they do or say.

Someday, we may need someone to show us mercy as well!

REMIND KIDS TO: Share the story with their friends.

CLOSING PRAYER – NEXT WEEK: God’s Promises KINDNESS Ephesians 4:32

PASS OUT - TODAY I LEARNED … Say Bible memory verse and color picture!

The Parable of the Unmerciful Servant

A parable is a story Jesus tells to help people understand what he is saying.

This whole parable begins because of a question Peter asks Jesus.

Who is Peter? One of the twelve apostles. A fisherman called by Jesus to

follow Him. Walked on water (a short time) after seeing Jesus on the water.

Big hearted; loud mouth sometimes got him in trouble

The question went something like this: "Lord, how many times should I forgive

my brother or friend when he does something mean to me? Up to seven times?"

Jesus answered him, "I tell you, seven times is not enough but forgive them as

many as seventy seven times."

Then Jesus told this parable to explain.

The kingdom of heaven is like a king who wanted all his servants to pay him

back. These servants had borrowed money from the king and the king wanted it

back.

As he was going down a list of servants who needed to give him money he came

to one that owed him millions of dollars. Does anyone know how much a million

dollars is? It's a lot of money, probably enough to buy 2 really nice houses or

one big fancy castle...

I'm surprised the king even loaned that much money to one person! I think the

servant was surprised too, because he didn't have the money to pay the king

back.

So the king decided that the servant and his wife and children should all be sold

to pay for the money they owed him. This would mean that they would be sold

to someone who would make them all slaves (even the kids).

The servant knew this would be terrible, so he fell on his knees and begged the

king, "Be patient with me and I will pay back everything."

The king had MERCY on him and told him he didn't have to pay it back, and let

him go. Wow! He didn't make him pay anything back and he let him go!

You won't believe what happens next! The servant left the king and decided to

get his servant to pay him back for the money he owed him.

When he found his servant who only owed him a few dollars he grabbed him and

began to choke him. "Pay back what you owe me!” he yelled.

Then his servant did the same thing that he had just done. He fell on his knees

and begged, "Be patient with me, and I will pay you back."

But he said, "No way!" Instead, he had the man thrown into jail until he could

pay the money back.

People heard what had happened and told the king about the unmerciful

servant. So the king called the servant in. "You wicked servant, he said, "I

canceled all that you owed me because you begged me to. Shouldn't you have

had mercy on your servant just as I had on you?"

The king immediately threw the servant into jail until he should pay back all the

money he borrowed.

Jesus ended the story with this final statement. "This is how your heavenly

Father will treat each of you unless you forgive your brother with all your

heart".

Psalm 145:8 God’s Promises

MERCY

MEMORIZE THIS!

God’s Promises

36. MERCY

LISTENERS:

PLEASE CHECK OFF WHEN COMPLETED

SAY IT EXPLAIN IT

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3 rd - 5 th grade

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God’s Promises

36. MERCY

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PLEASE CHECK OFF WHEN COMPLETED

SAY IT EXPLAIN IT

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PreK-Kindergar ten

MEMORIZE THIS!

God’s Promises

36. MERCY

LISTENERS:

PLEASE CHECK OFF WHEN COMPLETED

SAY IT EXPLAIN IT

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1 st - 2 nd grade

TODAY I LEARNED…

God shows us �� by offering us forgiveness. He asks us to always be merciful towards others.

MEMORY VERSE:

QUESTIONS TO EXPLORE WITH YOUR CHILD:

NEXT WEEK: KINDNESS Ephesians 4:32

Seventy Seven times!

July 15, 2020

* My child recited this week’s bible verse! (please sign)

TODAY I LEARNED…

God shows us �� by offering us forgiveness. He asks us to always be merciful towards others.

MEMORY VERSE:

QUESTIONS TO EXPLORE WITH YOUR CHILD:

NEXT WEEK: KINDNESS Ephesians 4:32

Seventy Seven times!

July 15, 2020

* My child recited this week’s bible verse! (please sign)