He can do it!
Children's sermon
Object:
two identical pictures of the Temple in Jerusalem
Good morning! Once, when Jesus was in Jerusalem, he went to
the Temple. Now the Temple was the place where the people
worshiped God, so it was a holy place. What he found there was a
bunch of people selling animals and changing money and doing all
sorts of things that were not respectful of this holy place. So
he made a whip and he chased them all out of the temple. Do you
think that made them upset? (Let them answer.) Yes, it surely
did! They got very angry and they asked him if he could give them
some kind of sign that showed he had the authority to do this.
Here's what he said to them; "Destroy this Temple and in three
days I will raise it up again."
Now they thought he was talking about this temple. (Show the
first picture.) They had been working on this temple for 46
years, and they didn't think he could build it in three days.
Let's tear this up into pieces. (Let them tear up the picture.)
That's pretty well destroyed. Do you think Jesus could put it
back together? (Let them answer.) He certainly could if he wanted
to. He could make it look just like this again. (Show the second
picture.)
But, Jesus wasn't really talking about that temple. He was
speaking about his own body. He meant that they could kill him,
but he would rise again from the dead after three days. Did that
happen? Was Jesus killed and put into a grave and then he arose
on the third day? (Let them answer.) Yes, he certainly did and in
just four weeks we will be celebrating that wonderful event. What
do we call the day that Jesus rose from the dead? (Let them
answer.) Yes, we call it Easter. That's what the whole church is
getting ready for in this season we call Lent. Aren't you looking
forward to Easter? (Let them answer.)
Let's thank Jesus for being our Savior and dying on the
cross to pay for our sins.
Dear Jesus: We know that you have the power to do anything and we
know you could have put that temple back together in three days.
But we are happy that you did something much more important than
that when you rose from the dead. Amen.
the Temple. Now the Temple was the place where the people
worshiped God, so it was a holy place. What he found there was a
bunch of people selling animals and changing money and doing all
sorts of things that were not respectful of this holy place. So
he made a whip and he chased them all out of the temple. Do you
think that made them upset? (Let them answer.) Yes, it surely
did! They got very angry and they asked him if he could give them
some kind of sign that showed he had the authority to do this.
Here's what he said to them; "Destroy this Temple and in three
days I will raise it up again."
Now they thought he was talking about this temple. (Show the
first picture.) They had been working on this temple for 46
years, and they didn't think he could build it in three days.
Let's tear this up into pieces. (Let them tear up the picture.)
That's pretty well destroyed. Do you think Jesus could put it
back together? (Let them answer.) He certainly could if he wanted
to. He could make it look just like this again. (Show the second
picture.)
But, Jesus wasn't really talking about that temple. He was
speaking about his own body. He meant that they could kill him,
but he would rise again from the dead after three days. Did that
happen? Was Jesus killed and put into a grave and then he arose
on the third day? (Let them answer.) Yes, he certainly did and in
just four weeks we will be celebrating that wonderful event. What
do we call the day that Jesus rose from the dead? (Let them
answer.) Yes, we call it Easter. That's what the whole church is
getting ready for in this season we call Lent. Aren't you looking
forward to Easter? (Let them answer.)
Let's thank Jesus for being our Savior and dying on the
cross to pay for our sins.
Dear Jesus: We know that you have the power to do anything and we
know you could have put that temple back together in three days.
But we are happy that you did something much more important than
that when you rose from the dead. Amen.
