Adventurers with Jesus: July- September 2022

By R.H. Boyd Publishing Corp.

Adventurers with Jesus (Ages 9-11) is an age-appropriate Christian quarterly lesson guide. Lesson presentations are easily taught and understood and show students how to find salvation through Jesus Christ.

• Language: English
• Publisher: R.H. Boyd Publishing Corporation
• Release date: Jun 1, 2022
• ISBN: 9781681679563

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Seeking God’s Guidance

Suggested Opening Exercises

1. Usual Signal for Beginning

2. Prayer (Closing with the Lord’s Prayer)

3. Singing (Songs to be Selected)

4. Scripture Reading: 1 Chronicles 16:8–15 (KJV)

Director: Give thanks unto the LORD, call upon his name, make known his deeds among the people.

School: Sing unto him, sing psalms unto him, talk ye of all his wondrous works.

Director: Glory ye in his holy name: let the heart of them rejoice that seek the LORD.

School: Seek the LORD and his strength, seek his face continually.

Director: Remember his marvellous works that he hath done, his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth;

School: O ye seed of Israel his servant, ye children of Jacob, his chosen ones.

Director: He is the LORD our God; his judgments are in all the earth.

All: Be ye mindful always of his covenant; the word which he commanded to a thousand generations.

Recitation in Concert:

Philippians 1:2–8 (KJV)

2 Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

3 I thank my God upon every remembrance of you,

4 Always in every prayer of mine for you all making request with joy,

5 For your fellowship in the gospel from the first day until now;

6Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:

7 Even as it is meet for me to think this of you all, because I have you in my heart; inasmuch as both in my bonds, and in the defence and confirmation of the gospel, ye all are partakers of my grace.

8 For God is my record, how greatly I long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ.

Closing Work

1. Singing

2. Opening Sentences: Proverbs 3:3–10 (KJV)

3 Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart:

4 So shalt thou find favour and good understanding in the sight of God and man.

5Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.

6 In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.

7 Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from evil.

8 It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones.

9 Honour the LORD with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase:

10 So shall thy barns be filled with plenty, and thy presses shall burst out with new wine

3. Dismissal with Prayer

Lesson #1

July 3, 2022

In the Beginning

Lesson Passage: John 1:1–14

NRSV

IN the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

2 He was in the beginning with God.

3 All things came into being through him, and without him not one thing came into being. What has come into being

4 in him was life, and the life was the light of all people.

5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overcome it.

6 There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.

7 He came as a witness to testify to the light, so that all might believe through him.

8 He himself was not the light, but he came to testify to the light.

9 The true light, which enlightens everyone, was coming into the world.

10 He was in the world, and the world came into being through him; yet the world did not know him.

11 He came to what was his own, and his own people did not accept him.

12 But to all who received him, who believed in his name, he gave power to become children of God,

13 who were born, not of blood or of the will of the flesh or of the will of man, but of God.

14 And the Word became flesh and lived among us, and we have seen his glory, the glory as of a father’s only son, full of grace and truth.

Today’s Lesson Story

Today’s scripture takes us to a time that is as far back as anyone could imagine when, in the very beginning, Jesus was already in existence! In John 1:1, Jesus is called logos, the Greek word meaning message, speaking, or words. Jesus came to earth as a man to save us; but as the Word, He communicated the very nature of God. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God (v. 1). How do you communicate an important message to another person? Although we use certain body language to enhance our communication, we generally communicate by doing more than holding our mouths a certain way, gesturing with our hands, or grunting. We talk with the use of words. Likewise, God needed to communicate His message of salvation to mankind, so Jesus became the Word by which the Father could talk to His children!

When we look at verse 1, it is pretty simple. The first phrase In the beginning was the Word simply means that at the very beginning of time, Jesus was present. The second phrase and the Word was with God means that at the very beginning of time, God the Father and Jesus the Son were both present, together. The third phrase and the Word was God means that both the Father and Son were present, but together, as one-and-the same. Remember the Trinity? God is one holy being who is made of three parts: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Each of the three parts is separate, but there is only one God, altogether.

We know that God is the Creator of all things and