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4TH & 5TH GRADE DIGGER DEEPER WITH JESUS WEEK 3 — April 21

WEEK THREE APRIL 21

Bottom Line: What does Easter mean to you? The BIG IDEA: Hope-Believing that something good can come out of something bad. Bible Story Passage: Crucifixion and Resurrection — John 18, John 19, John 20 Our Memory Verse: “In this world you will have trouble. But be encouraged! I have won the battle over the world.” —John 16:33, NIrV Basic Truth: I can trust God no matter what.

PRAY IT OUT 1. Please ask if there are any prayer requests or answered prayer. 2. When a request is shared, please ask someone in the group to pray for that specific request. 3. THE BEST PART!! Pray together as a small group.

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SEARCH IT OUT • •

Recite the verse together. See if anyone has it memorized and would like to say it out loud for the group. Reward with two coins.

April Memory Verse: John 16:33 “In this world you will have trouble. But be encouraged! I have won the battle over the world.” March Memory Verse: Psalm 139:14 “How you made me is amazing and wonderful. I praise you for that. What you have done is wonderful. I know that very well.” February Memory Verse: Mark 9:35 “Jesus sat down and called for the 12 disciples to come to him. Then he said, ‘Anyone who wants to be first must be the very last. They must be the servant of everyone.’” January Memory Verse: 2 Peter 1:3a “God’s power has given us everything we need to lead a godly life.” December Memory Verse: John 3:16 “God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son. Anyone who believes in Him will not die but will have eternal life.” November Memory Verse: Ecclesiastes 4:9 “Two people are better than one. They can help each other in everything they do.” October Memory Verse: Luke 12:15 Then He said to them, "Watch out! Be on your guard against wanting to have more and more things. Life is not made up of how much a person has." September Memory Verse: Colossian 3:23a “Work at everything you do with all your heart. Work as if you were working for the Lord.” August Memory Verse: James 1:5a “If any of you needs wisdom, you should ask God for it. He will give it to you.” July Memory Verse: Philippians 1:6 "Being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus." June Memory Verse: Psalm 27:13 "I remain confident of this: I will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living." May Memory Verse: Proverbs 10:9 “Anyone who lives without blame walks safely. But anyone who takes a crooked path will get caught.”

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SEEK IT OUT Bible Story Passage: Week 3 Crucifixion and Resurrection — John 18, John 19, John 20

WRITE IT OUT & TALK IT OUT Any kids who complete these questions will earn 5 coins today! Complete the devotions at the back of this booklet and earn 10 coins! 1. Read John 19:1-6. What happened to Jesus?

2. Read John 19:16-18. How would you have felt if you were one of the disciples?

3. Read John 20: 1-10. Describe how you would have felt if you were Mary or John or Peter that morning?

4. What does Jesus’ resurrection mean to you?

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LEADING SOMEONE TO JESUS Read these verses together and pray a simple prayer inviting Jesus to be the boss of your life, asking Him to forgive you for your mistakes and sins and tell Him you believe He died and was raised to life again for you! •

Read Romans 5:8. “But here is how God has shown His love for us. While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”



Read Romans 10:9. “Say with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord”. Believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead. Then you will be saved.



Read Romans 10:13. “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”

Certificates and Parent letters available for students who accept Jesus. Please write their names and sign your name on the certificate. Please write their name and contact information so we can contact them! Thank you!

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DAY 1 READ JOHN 19-20:18 In your Bible, circle the white space between John 19 and John 20. This space represents the time between Jesus’ death and His resurrection. There is likely no more hopeless day in history than the day between Jesus’ death and when He rose to life. The disciples must have questioned everything. Was Jesus who He said He was? Did this mean everything He said was untrue? Had God left them?

DAY 2 Often when we pray, we are asking God for help with something. And that’s not a bad way to pray—God wants you to “Turn all your worries over to him. He cares about you.” (1 Peter 5:7, NIrV) There’s another reason we should pray too, and that’s to show gratitude to God for all the ways He has provided for us and taken care of our needs. But no matter what, when we pray—whether asking for help or offering thanks—we should remember Jesus is alive. That will allow us to pray with boldness knowing that the God we are praying to has already conquered death. He can conquer anything!

The world must have seemed so . . . dark.

So even when we face things that are hard, we can take comfort in the fact that even death couldn’t hold Jesus down.

And yet, light was right around the corner. For Sunday was coming. The stone was rolled away. Jesus was alive! Everything He said was true; including who He claimed to be!

Try praying with that in mind today. As you ask God for help for yourself or others, end each request with “I am thankful Jesus is alive!”

The disciples could believe everything Jesus ever said or did, because He. Was. Alive. And so can we. Whatever happens, remember Jesus is alive.

HEAR FROM GOD

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There are a lot of different authors of the different books of the Bible, and each of them have a different way of expressing the same truths about Jesus’ death and resurrection.

WHAT DOES EASTER MEAN TO YOU?

Look up these three different takes on the same truth. John 11:25-26 1 Peter 1:3 Romans 6:23 Each of these authors used their own words to tell their different audiences the same truth: Jesus died for our sins, and He rose again, and when we believe that truth, we can live with God forever!

Easter means . . . Jesus is alive! We don’t have to pay the price for our sins. We can have a relationship with God now and forever. God can be trusted no matter what. We can have hope. We can have hope because of what God has done. And that hope is a living, active hope as we trust God and His plan for our lives. And it gets even better because He made two other promises to us:

This “living hope” in Jesus, as Peter describes it, is something EVERYONE should know about. Who in your life needs to hear this good news?

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Here’s something cool: whoever it is that needs to hear this news, God has put you in their life for a reason. He will give you the right words to use to tell the people in your life this most amazing truth: that Jesus is live!

Since He kept His promise of coming back to life, we know we can trust His other promises too!

Take a minute to talk to God and ask Him to provide opportunities to share the hope of Easter with someone today. Ask Him to give you the right words to say to help that person know that we can have hope no matter what because Jesus is alive.

He would send the Holy Spirit to help us One day Jesus Himself will return and make all things right in the world

Have you ever had to eat something you really didn’t like, but you kept eating it because your parents promised you dessert at the end? Or maybe you did like it, but you still ate it super fast because you knew the best was yet to come? That’s what this life is like for those of us who put our trust in Jesus. We can believe that no matter how hard life gets (or how great it is!), that there is something much better to come. Ask your parent if you can have one of your favorite desserts tonight or sometime soon (or maybe some Easter candy!). While you eat it, share with everyone at the table what Easter means to you.

TALK WITH GOD

LIVE

FOR GOD

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