📖

They Forgot God

The Judges Cycle

Day 112of 180
Week 23of 36
25Minutes
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🎯 What You'll Learn

Learning Objectives

1

Understand that Israel repeatedly forgot God and worshiped other gods

2

Recognize the importance of staying faithful to God

3

Learn how disobedience separates us from God's protection

📖 Scripture Connection

Judges 2:11-13

“The children of Israel did evil in Yahweh's sight, and served the Baals. They abandoned Yahweh, the God of their fathers, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods of the peoples who were around them, and bowed themselves down to them. They provoked Yahweh to anger.”

— Judges 2:11-13 (WEB)

Demonstrates Israel's repeated pattern of forgetting God and turning to idols

📦 Materials Needed

  • World English Bible
  • Cycle wheel diagram from BibleMouse Resource Guide
  • Colored paper
  • Crayons or markers
  • Scissors (child-safe)
📚 Step-by-Step

Lesson Plan

1Opening (3 min)

In today's BibleMouse lesson, we'll explore how the Israelites sometimes forgot about God's love

💭 Review Question: What did we learn yesterday about the people's choices?
2Teaching (8 min)

Let's read from our World English Bible about how the people forgot God

📌 Key Talking Points:
  • God had been so kind to the Israelites
  • They started worshiping other gods called Baals
  • God was sad when they stopped listening to Him
💬 Discussion Questions:
  • Why do you think the people forgot God?
  • How do we remember God's love today?
3Activity: Faithful Heart Wheel (10 min)
craft

Create a spinning wheel showing good and bad choices

📝 Instructions:
  1. Take two paper circles
  2. Draw good choices on one side (praying, loving others)
  3. Draw bad choices on the other side (being mean, forgetting God)
  4. Attach circles with a brass fastener to create a spinning wheel
🔄 Variations:

Simpler: Parent helps with cutting and drawing

Challenge: Child writes simple words describing choices

4Closing (3 min)

Review our lesson about staying close to God

📝 Review Questions:
  • What did we learn about following God?
  • How can we show God we love Him?
🙏 Prayer:

Dear God, help us always remember Your love and stay close to You

Coming up: Tomorrow we'll learn what happens when people forget God

💎 Memory Verse

Judges 21:25

“In those days Israel had no king; everyone did as they saw fit.”

— Judges 21:25 (WEB)

🎯 Activity: Memory Verse Dance: Create simple hand motions for each key word, practice while moving around the room

👨‍👩‍👧 For Parents

Teaching Notes

📚 Background:

The book of Judges shows a cycle of disobedience, punishment, and rescue

💡 Teaching Tips:
  • Use simple language about God's love
  • Emphasize God's forgiveness
  • Make the lesson interactive
🤔 Common Struggles:

Young children may have trouble understanding abstract concepts of faithfulness

👀 Signs of Understanding:

Child's engagement and understanding of basic concept of choosing to follow God

🚀 Want More?

Extension Activities

  • Use BibleMouse Printables Library coloring page about judges
  • Sing a worship song from BibleMouse Song Collection about God's love

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