YOUTH GOAL ACTIVITY. GIFTS OF RESURRECTION & ETERNAL LIFE gift package. Prophets foretold of Jesus Christ coming to bring these gifts. Create these gift packages to hold treats: #1 Gift of Resurrection (a free gift given to all men). #2 Gift of Eternal Life to live with God again (a gift we must earn through living God’s commandments).
See references of the Atonement (to the Old Testament) below*.
For Come Follow Me lessons, Children and Youth goals, Primary, Sunday School, and family night and devotionals
LESSON LIFESAVER Activity
Gifts of Resurrection & Eternal Life gift package
OBJECTIVE: Create a gift package to enclose a Rice Krispies Treat to describe two gifts from Jesus’ gift of the Atonement: Gift of Resurrection and Gift of Eternal Life. Alma 11:42–43 (the gift of resurrection) and Alma 11:40 (the gift of eternal life).
Tell the youth that they can earn these gifts given to them by Jesus by earning the gifts through obeying all of God’s commandments.
Lesson-Treat. Enclose the following Rice Krispies Treat and shape into an hourglass shape by tying two different strings tightly in a bow in the center of the treat.
Recipe: Melt 3 tablespoons margarine and a 10-ounce package of marshmallows (40 regular or four cups miniature) in a microwave, cooking two minutes, and stir. Repeat until melted smooth. Stir mixture into six cups of Kellogg’s Rice Krispies cereal. Butter a 12x9x2-inch pan and place treat in the pan. Cut warm treats into 6×2-inch bars and wrap them in clear plastic wrap.
TO MAKE Print activity in color or black and white to color. Cut out, on the outside edge leaving the center part or bottom of the card. Fold the bottom. Pull together top pieces of the card back to back and punch two holes at the top where indicated. Thread a ribbon through holes and tie a bow.
MUTUAL NIGHT OR FAMILY NIGHT ACTIVITIES
TURN OUR FACES TOWARD THE SON: To encourage youth to feel the warmth that can come from having Jesus Christ in their lives and to see things clearly with His light, begin by setting up a room with a sun lamp. Talk about repentance and the Atonement. Turn out the lights and talk about Satan’s plan. Tell how some people see physically (the light) but do not see spiritually (the light of Christ). Blindfold the youth, and talk about how some don’t see physically, but they can see spiritually (with their hearts through the Spirit).
SOURCE YW 1.2
THIS ACTIVITY CAN BE USED FOR Come Follow Me:
• JANUARY Lesson 3 “Why is Jesus Christ important in my life?”
• FEBRUARY Lesson 1 “What is the plan of salvation?”
*References to the Old Testament of the Atonement
- Isaiah 53:4: “Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows”.
- Isaiah 53:5: “He was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed”.
- Isaiah 53:8: “For the transgression of my people was he stricken”.
- Isaiah 53:11: “He shall bear their iniquities”.
- Psalm 22:1: “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?” (the words Jesus spoke on the cross).
- Psalm 22:16: “They pierced my hands and my feet”.
- Psalm 22:18: “They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture”.
- Isaiah 25:8: States that God “will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord God will wipe away tears from off all faces”.
- Isaiah 26:19: Refers to those who “live again” or are raised from the dead.
- Psalm 16:10: Declares, “For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell [Sheol]; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption”. This is interpreted as a direct prophecy that the Messiah’s body would not corrupt in the grave but would be raised.
- Job 19:25–26: Job testifies of his Redeemer, saying, “For I know that my redeemer liveth… yet in my flesh shall I see God”.
- Hosea 6:2: States, “After two days he will revive us; on the third day he will raise us up, that we may live before him”, which is seen as a foreshadowing of the Resurrection on the third day.
- Animal sacrifice: From Adam and Eve onward, sacrificing animals without blemish was a “similitude of the sacrifice of the Only Begotten of the Father”.
- The Passover Lamb: The lamb sacrificed during the Passover in Egypt, whose blood on the doorposts saved the people from death, prefigured Christ as “the Lamb sacrificed for the sins of the world”.
- The Day of Atonement: The rituals of the Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur) in Leviticus 16, where priests made atonement for the people’s sins, all looked forward to Jesus Christ’s ultimate Atonement.
- The brass serpent: As Moses lifted up the brass serpent in the wilderness so that those who looked upon it might live, so would the Son of Man be lifted up (crucified) that those who believe in Him might have eternal life (Numbers 21:9; John 3:14–15).
YOUTH CAN TEACH
So, please let them teach as it helps them learn the gospel and grow their testimony as they share it.
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