We Broke Our Relationship With God
Big Truth:
We Broke Our Relationship With God
Genesis 3:8-9; Psalm 81:11-13; Isaiah 1:1-4; 59:2; Jeremiah 4:22; Romans 3:23
Bible Verse:
For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewed out cisterns that can hold no water.
Big Ideas:
- Our sin causes us to doubt God’s goodness.
- Our sin causes us to choose fear instead of faith.
- Our sin causes us to disobey God’s commands.
Bible Story:
Numbers 13:1-14:45As they reached the Promised Land, the Israelites sent spies into the land to survey the land and the people already inhabiting it. Two spies, Joshua and Caleb, saw the land through the lens of what God could do and had promised to do. Though they tried to encourage the Israelites to obey God’s command to go into the Promised Land and take it because He had given it to them, they would not listen to them or to God. They disobeyed His command and in doing so they broke their relationship with Him.
Story:
Fall
Everything was perfect in the world until we broke it. When humanity chose to sin, the world that was once perfect became messed up and broken. Sin is ultimately a rejection of God Himself. Because of sin bad things happen, we experience all types of pain, and death has come into the world. All of creation groans and wishes that the world be perfect and good like it was before.
Every child should know that:
- We have broken God’s creation and our relationship with God by our sin.
Every child should:
- Seek forgiveness for breaking God’s creation.
Every child should feel:
- Sorrow over breaking God’s creation.
Every child should want:
- To be forgiven for breaking God’s creation and their relationship with Him.
