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Lesson 16: We Can Show Our faith by Being Obedient

“Lesson 16: We Can Show Our Faith by Being Obedient,” Primary 3: Choose the Right B, (1994),75

Purpose To help the children understand that they can show their faith in Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ by obeying the commandments.

OUR OPENING PRAYER WILL BE GIVEN BY

(Enter Name Here)

Attention Activity Let’s sing the song “Faith” In the first verse you can do the hand actions also.

Faith

Faith is knowing the sun will rise, (arms form a halfcircle over head) Lighting each new day. (arms slowly drop to shoulder level) Faith is knowing the Lord will hear (cup hands behind ears) My prayers each time I pray. (place hands together as in prayer) Faith is like a little seed: (cup left hand and pretend to plant a seed in it with right hand) If planted, it will grow. (right hand imitates a plant growing from the cupped left hand) Faith is a swelling within my heart. (place hands over heart) When I do right, (point right index finger upward) I know. (touch right index finger to head)

Faith

Faith is knowing I lived with God before my mortal birth. Faith is knowing I can return when my life ends on earth. Faith is trust in God above; In Christ, who showed the way. Faith is strengthened; I feel it grow Whenever I obey. Words: Beatrice Goff Jackson, b. 1943. (c) 1978 IRI Music: Michael Finlinson Moody, b. 1941. (c) 1978 IRI

Attention Activity When Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ ask us to do something, it is called a commandment. When we obey the commandments, we show Heavenly Father and Jesus that we trust them.

Attention Activity We know they love us and would never ask us to do anything that would hurt us. We show our faith when we obey.

Attention Activity Believing in Heavenly Father and Jesus means that we have faith. Although we may not have seen them during our earthly lives, we have faith in the testimonies of others who have seen them.

Attention Activity We also believe that the Holy Ghost is real and that he does not have a body of flesh and bones but is a personage of spirit in the form of a man.

Attention Activity Let’s try saying / memorizing the first article of faith. 1 We believe in God, the Eternal Father, and in His Son, Jesus Christ, and in the Holy Ghost.

Attention Activity We are Heavenly Father’s children and can show that we have faith in Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ. In the Book of Mormon, a prophet named Lehi showed his faith in Heavenly Father and Jesus by being obedient. This is what our lesson is about today.

Lesson 16: We Can Show Our faith by Being Obedient

“Lesson 16: We Can Show Our Faith by Being Obedient,” Primary 3: Choose the Right B, (1994),75

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Most of the people living in Jerusalem 600 years before the birth of Christ were wicked. God sent prophets to tell them to repent, but they would not listen.

Lehi was a prophet. He prayed that the people would repent. While he was praying, a pillar of fire appeared.

God told and showed Lehi many things.

Lehi returned home and had a vision. He saw God surrounded by many angels. The angels were singing and praising God.

In his vision Lehi was given a book that told what would happen in the future.

He read that Jerusalem would be destroyed because the people were wicked.

Lehi told the people that Jerusalem would be destroyed. He also told of the coming of Jesus.

The people were angry and tried to kill Lehi, but the Lord protected him.

The Lord was pleased with Lehi and one night spoke to him in a dream.

He told Lehi to take his family and leave Jerusalem. Lehi obeyed the Lord.

Lehi’s family packed food and tents. They left their house and their gold and silver and traveled into the wilderness.

Lehi and his wife, Sariah, had four sons. Their names were Laman, Lemuel, Sam, and Nephi.

After traveling for three days, Lehi’s family camped in a valley near a river.

Lehi built an altar from stones and made an offering to God. He thanked God for saving his family from being destroyed.

► What

did Lehi see in his vision?

► What

did Lehi see in his vision?

 Many things, including the destruction of Jerusalem; (1 Nephi 1:13)

► What

did Lehi see in his vision?

 Many things, including the destruction of Jerusalem; (1 Nephi 1:13)

► How

did Lehi feel after his vision?

► What did Lehi see in his vision?

 Many things, including the destruction of Jerusalem; (1 Nephi 1:13)

► How did Lehi feel after his vision?

 He praised Heavenly Father; he was happy; (1 Nephi 1:14–15)

Telling the people to repent of their wickedness took courage. However, Lehi had faith that Heavenly Father would protect him, so Lehi did as he was commanded. The people would not listen to him and made fun of him and tried to kill him because they didn’t like hearing that they were wicked.

What did Lehi do to show his faith in Heavenly Father? He obeyed and told the people to repent (1 Nephi 1:4, 18)

What did the people do after Lehi told them to repent? They made fun of him and wanted to kill him (1 Nephi 1:19–20)

How do you think Lehi felt when the people wouldn’t listen to him?

Some time later, Heavenly Father spoke to Lehi. As we read this next scripture, listen for what the Lord commanded Lehi to do.

Let’s Read 1 Nephi 2:1–2. 1 For behold, it came to pass that the Lord spake unto my father, yea, even in a dream, and said unto him: Blessed art thou Lehi, because of the things which thou hast done; and because thou hast been faithful and declared unto this people the things which I commanded thee, behold, they seek to take away thy life. 2 And it came to pass that the Lord commanded my father, even in a dream, that he should take his family and depart into the wilderness.

What did Heavenly Father command Lehi to do? Leave Jerusalem and go into the wilderness.

 The wilderness is usually a place where no one lives and where there are no houses, buildings, or roads.

 Heavenly Father commanded Lehi and his family to leave everyone behind and go to a place where they would have to live by themselves.

 Why was Lehi commanded to take his family out of Jerusalem?  Wicked men were planning to kill Lehi, and the city was going to be destroyed.

 Ask the children to listen to what Lehi did; Let’s read 1 Nephi 2:3–4. 3 And it came to pass that he was obedient unto the word of the Lord, wherefore he did as the Lord commanded him. 4 And it came to pass that he departed into the wilderness. And he left his house, and the land of his inheritance, and his gold, and his silver, and his precious things, and took nothing with him, save it were his family, and provisions, and tents, and departed into the wilderness.

 What did Lehi Do? He packed the things he needed to live in the wilderness and took his family out of Jerusalem.

Although Lehi had lived in Jerusalem for a long time, he promptly obeyed the commandment to leave his home.

Although Lehi had lived in Jerusalem for a long time, he promptly obeyed the commandment to leave his home.

Lehi and his family left their home, their land, most of their clothing, their gold and silver, and other belongings.

They took only food, some clothing, tents, and other necessary items that they may have carried on camels or donkeys. Then they left and went into the wilderness.

• It was not easy for Lehi to leave, but he was willing to obey this commandment.

What did Lehi do that showed he had faith in Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ? He was obedient. He warned the wicked people He left his home and belongings and went into the wilderness because he was commanded to do so.

I want you to pretend you are a member of Lehi’s family. Think about what you would take with you, if you went into the wilderness.

What would want to take and what would you leave behind?

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Lehi’s family could take only a few things.

How do you think you would feel knowing that you wouldn’t see your friends and belongings again? How do you think Lehi’s family felt?

Obeying Heavenly Father by leaving Jerusalem took great faith.

Lehi and his family received blessings because they were obedient.

What does “C T R” stand for?

Choose the Right

Choosing the right means doing what Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ want us to do.

Listen to the following stories. Think about what you would do if this was about you. Think about what Heavenly father and Jesus would do.

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On the way home you and some friends pass your neighbor’s yard. In the yard is a fruit tree covered with juicy fruit. Your friends want you to come with them and pick some of the fruit to eat. They say that there is so much fruit that a few pieces won’t be missed

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What would Heavenly Father and Jesus want you to do? When you choose the right, you are being obedient and are showing faith in Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ.

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You want to play with your favorite toy, but your brother has it.

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What would Heavenly Father and Jesus want you to do?

What would Heavenly Father and Jesus want you to do? When you choose the right, they are being obedient and are showing faith in Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ.

Can you name some of the things that our Prophet, Thomas S. Monson, has asked us to do? By obeying these commandments, we will receive blessings.

Summary Remember to always choose the right. When you choose the right, you are obeying. When you obey, you are showing Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ that you have faith in them.

Testimony I testify to you that when you “Choose the Right” you will be a better person and the type of person Heavenly Father wants you to be. I encourage you to help your friends to choose the right.

OUR CLOSING PRAYER WILL BE GIVEN BY

(Enter Name Here)

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1 Nephi 1:13

13 And he read, saying: Wo, wo, unto Jerusalem, for I have seen thine abominations! Yea, and many things did my father read concerning Jerusalem— that it should be destroyed, and the inhabitants thereof; many should perish by the sword, and many should be carried away captive into Babylon.

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1 Nephi 1:14–15

 14 And it came to pass that when my father had read and seen many great and marvelous things, he did exclaim many things unto the Lord; such as: Great and marvelous are thy works, O Lord God Almighty! Thy throne is high in the heavens, and thy power, and goodness, and mercy are over all the inhabitants of the earth; and, because thou art merciful, thou wilt not suffer those who come unto thee that they shall perish!  15 And after this manner was the language of my father in the praising of his God; for his soul did rejoice, and his whole heart was filled, because of the things which he had seen, yea, which the Lord had shown unto him.

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1 Nephi 1:4, 18  4 For it came to pass in the commencement of the afirst year of the reign of Zedekiah, king of Judah, (my father, Lehi, having dwelt at Jerusalem in all his days); and in that same year there came many prophets, prophesying unto the people that they must repent, or the great city Jerusalem must be destroyed.  18 Therefore, I would that ye should know, that after the Lord had shown so many marvelous things unto my father, Lehi, yea, concerning the destruction of Jerusalem, behold he went forth among the people, and began to prophesy and to declare unto them concerning the things which he had both seen and heard.

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1 Nephi 1:19–20  19 And it came to pass that the Jews did mock him because of the things which he testified of them; for he truly testified of their wickedness and their abominations; and he testified that the things which he saw and heard, and also the things which he read in the book, manifested plainly of the coming of a Messiah, and also the redemption of the world.  20 And when the Jews heard these things they were angry with him; yea, even as with the prophets of old, whom they had cast out, and stoned, and slain; and they also sought his life, that they might take it away. But behold, I, Nephi, will show unto you that the tender mercies of the Lord are over all those whom he hath chosen, because of their faith, to make them mighty even unto the power of deliverance.

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