Exploring God's Word for Kids
Week 5 / Lesson 1
1. Common Ground - Prepares Students to Learn God's Word on their level.
2. Read Word - Insert the Bible Story
3. Like Jesus - How Can I Be Like Jesus through this Story?
4. Questions - Review the Story and Ask Questions.
5. Interactive Exercise
2. Read Word - Insert the Bible Story
3. Like Jesus - How Can I Be Like Jesus through this Story?
4. Questions - Review the Story and Ask Questions.
5. Interactive Exercise
Tower of Babel: The Origin of Languages
Lesson 1 Plan
Theme: Tower of Babel
IBLE PASSAGE: Genesis 11:1-9
MEMORIZE: Genesis 11:6 "And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do."
LIKE JESUS: Be Thankful Not Prideful
Questions
Interactive Exercises
Theme: Tower of Babel
IBLE PASSAGE: Genesis 11:1-9
MEMORIZE: Genesis 11:6 "And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do."
LIKE JESUS: Be Thankful Not Prideful
Questions
Interactive Exercises
Common Ground
(Ask) I want to start this lesson with a question. How many languages do you think there are in the world? (Let your child guess) There are around 6,500 languages! The most popular language is Mandarin Chinese.
Can you guess the official language of each of these countries?
Spain - Spanish
South Africa - English
Mexico - Spanish
So why are there so many languages? Let's read our Bible passage for today and find out!
Can you guess the official language of each of these countries?
Spain - Spanish
South Africa - English
Mexico - Spanish
So why are there so many languages? Let's read our Bible passage for today and find out!
Read the Word
Genesis 11:1-9 (ERV)
There was a time when the whole world spoke one language. Everyone used the same words. 2 Then people began to move from the East. They found a plain in the land of Babylonia and stayed there to live. 3 Then they said to each other, “Let’s make some bricks of clay and bake them in the fire.” Then they used these bricks as stones, and they used tar as mortar.
4 Then the people said, “Let’s build ourselves a city and a tower that will reach to the sky. Then we will be famous. This will keep us together so that we will not be scattered all over the earth.”
5 Then the Lord came down to see the city and the tower. 6 The Lord said, “These people all speak the same language. And I see that they are joined together to do this work. This is only the beginning of what they can do. Soon they will be able to do anything they want. 7 Let’s go down and confuse their language. Then they will not understand each other.”
8 So people stopped building the city, and the Lord scattered them all over the earth. 9 That is the place where the Lord confused the language of the whole world. That is why it is called Babel. And it was from there that the Lord caused the people to spread out to all the other places on earth.
4 Then the people said, “Let’s build ourselves a city and a tower that will reach to the sky. Then we will be famous. This will keep us together so that we will not be scattered all over the earth.”
5 Then the Lord came down to see the city and the tower. 6 The Lord said, “These people all speak the same language. And I see that they are joined together to do this work. This is only the beginning of what they can do. Soon they will be able to do anything they want. 7 Let’s go down and confuse their language. Then they will not understand each other.”
8 So people stopped building the city, and the Lord scattered them all over the earth. 9 That is the place where the Lord confused the language of the whole world. That is why it is called Babel. And it was from there that the Lord caused the people to spread out to all the other places on earth.
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Like Jesus
Explain to your kids that pride is giving ourselves the credit for something that someone else did. Just like the people who built the tower were trying to make a name for themselves. They were trying to do what they wanted to do instead of what God wanted them to do. Did you know that people still try to do things their way instead of God's way? If we are proud, we might thing we do not need God or know better than He does. But God, just like our parents, knows what's best for us. It's OK to feel happy when we do something good. But always remember that God gave us the ability to do those things. So we should always give him glory and praise for them.
Questions
How many languages are in the world today? Around 6,500
Why did the people after the flood want to build a tower? To be famous.
God knew that they could do anything as long as they did what? Worked together
What did God do to make them stop working? Changed their languages
What is the tower now called? The Tower of Babel
Why did the people after the flood want to build a tower? To be famous.
God knew that they could do anything as long as they did what? Worked together
What did God do to make them stop working? Changed their languages
What is the tower now called? The Tower of Babel
Interactive Exercise
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