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(Soda Pop and Mentos candy give off an explosion to teach
us with Abraham and Lot that friendship with the world is dangerous as they
saw Sodom and Gomorrah destroyed.)
The Lord gave us the blueprint of His Word to architect
our family on Jesus Christ.
Going through the Bible with your family…
Weekly Scripture:
Genesis 19
Story:
“Sodom and Gomorrah”
Application:
Friendship with the world is dangerous.
Summary:
Sodom and Gomorrah were two cities full of wickedness. Lot chose to live
in Sodom when he and Abraham separated. God said He would destroy these
cities because the wicked people were a danger to everybody around. God sent
two angels to warn Lot and his family. The wicked men of Sodom wanted the
two angels for themselves so the angels blinded the evil men. The angels
helped Lot, his wife, and two daughters leave Sodom. They were told to hurry
and not to look behind them. Lot’s wife looked back and turned into a
pillar of salt. God sent fire and brimstone out of heaven to destroy the
cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, as Braham looked from he was in the distance
and watched the smoke. All the wicked in the two cities were destroyed
except Lot and his two daughters. The entire area became a wilderness and is
not the Dead Sea.
Focus:
That our children realize they cannot make friendship with the world,
nor hang out with people abiding in sin, because it will taint them. They
must choose to walk according to God’s way.
Finding Christ:
Abraham is a type of Christ interceding on behalf of the righteous that
judgment and wrath might not come upon them. We see Sodom and Gomorrah
representing the sin in our lives that we are to flee and not look back lest
we turn into a pillar of salt. A pillar of salt has been suggested to
represent several things including the weight of a pillar makes it
immovable, useless. Also salt was poison to fertile ground, to show that
ground would never bear fruit again. So when we look back (desire) our
sinful life, we become infertile and useless.
Live the Lesson:
Time to take a 2 liter bottle of diet lemon lime soda (diet will be much
easier to clean up and won’t attract ants like regular sodas) and make a
new label for it that clearly exhibits the words The World (sin, evil, etc).
Now take a package of Mentos (candy) and tell your children that the mentos
represent their friends that are living in the world and abiding in sin.
Roll up a paper tube with all the candies in it so they will easily all
slide out into the bottle of pop. Tell them that God warns us that bad
company corrupts good morals. God tells us that Friendship with the World is
hostility towards God and you become His enemy. So now step outside with
your children and ask them if they want to hang out with their friends (the
mentos) at the World (the 2 liter bottle of soda) or turn away and move far
back from them?
Now remove the lid from the 2 liter of soda and quickly slide in the
entire package of mentos and then RUN, RUN away quickly. Watch the explosion
from a distance. Explain to your children that even if they think they are
avoiding the world, if they hang out with ungodly friends (the mentos) they
would end up with the world on them, as it explodes with its sinfulness. You
cannot play with evil and not get burned.
Choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve! As for me and my
house, we will serve the Lord.
Memory Verse:
“The Lord is far from the wicked.” Proverbs 15:29
Prayer:
Dear Lord, please help us to choose to abide in You. Help us to forsake
the world and leave behind the ungodliness. Please give us hearts that
choose NOT to look back.
Living the Life:
This week give your children examples of what friendship with the world
is. Explain to them how bad company corrupts good morals.
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