Lesson 8 The 10 Commandments for Bible Club

 Lessons by Jesus 

WHY THIS:   Introducing various Bible Translations or Versions.  Our Memory Verse Sticker is in King James Version.   Keeping older versions helps us keep the Bible accurately  translated.  While learning this valuable lesson on loving God we will also teach more about the Bible itself.

VISUAL Tools:
Wordless Book: Black Page of the
    Bible: Mark 12:30  
   Visual Tools
PRINT Book Marks from lesson plan back & front on CARD STOCK 

Mark 12:30 Sticker ITEM # IN-36/2178 2.25 per roll of 100







OPENING Song:  God’s Top Ten

Use hand sign page to teach the club leaders before meeting starts so they can do motions as students arrive at club.

Club Officer/Helper

1.    Learn & Practice Song
2.    Prayer & Devotional Time
3.    Choose Tasks

Start:

1.  Call Students & Start song
2.  Encourage them to do the motions
3.  Stop Song, Welcome students
4.  Introduce volunteer Prayer leader
5.  Invite everyone to bow heads and pray
6.  Student prays then thank them as they go

Welcome to bible club:

1.   Introduce yourself & Adult Volunteers
2.    Where to get permission slips for others to join
3.    Tell them about the 5th grade helpers
4.    What time to be at club (Don’t skip breakfast)
5.    What they can expect this year

Opening Prayer  \
This is a good time to say short, one sentence statements that teach about prayer.

·   Introduce a student volunteer to pray.

"We pray to tell our love to God, to bless others and our selves"

Closing Prayer 
(You, a student volunteer, or guest)
"Thank you Lord Jesus for your words in the Bible that teach us that we show love with our Heart Mind Soul and Strength.  Help each of us remember do this for you and others all day, in school and at home."

HandOuts:
Scripture Bookmarks, Mark 12:30 Sticker

"We need to Hide the Word in our heart.  So when we keep them in our memory it marks a place in our heart for God just like these book marks will mark a place in our Bibles"

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 Memory Verse - Mark 12:30 
Give out the Bible page bookmark with the six scripture place holders. They can collect 5 more scripture memory verse stickers they can keep in their own Bible. (This is the only time to get a book mark). This week you will use the Club time to teach Jesus 1st and greatest commandment from Mark 12:30 The sticker uses the King James Version K.J.V. 



About Bible Translations:
This is a good time to introduce that there are various Translations or Versions of the Bible. 
SAY: Our Memory Verse Sticker is in King James Version. 

USE ASL SIGN LANGUAGE FOR THE 4 Ways to Love God to help them memorize it. 
SAY:  "Last time we learned what Jesus said was the 1st and greatest Commandment. Do you remember what He said? It tells us we have four ways to show our love. The Bible has it recorded in 3 places. One of those places is in the Gospel written by MARK. Mark chapter 30 Chapter 12:30 is the address to find one of those places. Say it with me, MARK chapter 12 verse 30. You may read it on your sticker. This is what it says, "And thou shalt Love the Lord Thy God with all thy heart with all thy Mind, with all thy soul and with all thy strength." Let's say it together and listen for what the 4 ways to love God are,

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 "And thou shalt Love the Lord Thy God 

1. with all thy heart 
   
2. with all thy Mind, 
   
3. with all thy soul and 
   
4. with all thy strength." 

That's the way your sticker says it. It is old English from the King James Version of the Bible. We don't use some of those words anymore. We you instead of Thou and Thy. We say shall instead of 'shalt'. Our English language is a little different today than it was when the Bible was Translated into English By King James. Did you know the Bible was not written in English?
 
The Bible was originally written in the languages that were spoken by the Jewish people. The main language in the Old Testament Is Hebrew and in the New Testament is Greek and Aramaic.

 When people who speak different languages than the original put the Bible in their own language it is called a translation. 

When there are several translations in one language they are called VERSIONS. This Version was written over 450 years ago in 1611. That’s two times longer than the United States has been a nation. 

This version uses old English words that we don’t use any more so we need to stop and learn what they mean. Keeping very old translations useful, helps us know if new translations are accurate.  


It is fun to see how languages change. But what the Bible meant to say must never change.  So that is why people today still go back to the very first handwritten scrolls to read them in the original Greek & Hebrew languages from very long ago and compare what we have to what they say to new translations and versions.   

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1. All your heart, That's what you feel, 
   
2. All your Soul, That's what you Honor, 
   
3. All your Mind That’s what you think,
   
4. All your Strength, That's what you do. 
   

Now play a memory Verse Learning game. Write verse out on cut out shapes. 
Hand them to student leaders and have the group unscramble them. 
Then recite the verse hiding one part at a time. Say the verse again and have them repeat it with you Then leave out the Key Words and let them try to say it without you. only a few Key words to help them as they try to say it alone. Help them remember "Love the Lord YOUR GOD" Heart, Soul, Mind & Strength' 
Now say it jumbles up with the wrong words and ask them if what you said is right and let them tell you what you said wrong... example... 
"And thou shalt Love to please yourself, with all your heart..." 
Or .... is it... "Love the Lord thy God with my Pop TART, With all diamond, all eye stores, and all buy tents" ???  

A peek into 

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