This week was a very important week for your children in 123 Go! Today your children heard the story of how Jesus died on a cross for their sins and how that gives all of us a choice. On stage, Kit and Andi’s journey got off to a great start as they discovered the “cross stone” puzzle right away. Also, Kit was in a good mood after picking a beautiful flower. Andi realized that the flower was actually an endangered species, meaning it was against the law to pick one. The punishment for picking one of these rare flowers is life imprisonment. Kit quickly panicked, but Andi made a generous offer. Andi offers to take Kit’s punishment and go to prison instead. When asked why, Andi responds that, “someone did that for me once.” Andi proceeds to tell the Bile story.
In previous weeks we learned about Adam and Eve and how they disobeyed God and committed the first sin. Since they were the first humans, their sin flows into you and me. Since God is perfect, our sin separates us from Him. We also learned that the wages of sin is death (Romans 6:23a) This sin problem is serious, and God knows that. He had a plan to help us with our sin, that’s why He sent His Son, Jesus. Jesus came to this world lived a perfect life and died on a cross to take the punishment for you and me. Because Jesus took our place, we now have a chance to have forgiveness and a relationship with God. This forgiveness is called salvation, because we are saved from an eternity separated from God. However, we will only receive this gift if we choose to. God places the decision to accept Jesus in our hands. Your children learned that accepting this gift is as simple as A,B,C. Each of these letters stands for a word. A stands for “admit.” We admit to God that we have sinned. B stands for “believe.” We tell God that we believe in Him and His Son Jesus. We believe that Jesus died on a cross for our sins. And C stands for “choose.” We choose to ask for forgiveness, we choose to accept Jesus into our lives and follow Him. Kit prays and receives salvation and Andi explains that Kit has just found the greatest treasure ever. We also learn that Andi misread the manual and the flower that was picked is not endangered after all. No one will have to go to prison. Kit learned that even though they had found the greatest treasure, the story of Jesus isn’t over. They have one more stone to find.
The message your children received today was the most important one they could ever hear. It is the story of how Jesus took their punishment so that they could be forgiven and have salvation. Next week we celebrate Good Friday, please take the opportunity to talk with you children about how Jesus died for their sins, and they can be saved!
You can read the Bible Story together this week:
The crucifixion and burial of Jesus (Matthew 27:32-61)
This Week's Memory Verse:
“But God showed his great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still
sinners.”Romans 5:8(NLT)
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