LESSON ACTIVITY. RESURRECTION FLOWERPOT Easter Quiz. Youth can learn how others felt about Jesus, the first to be resurrected. Was it possible? Activity spotlights: Roman soldiers, Thomas, Mary Magdalene, Peter, Disciples, and Cleopas.
USE FOR: COME FOLLOW ME, Primary and Home (family home evening), Activity Days, Sunday School, Seminary, Bible Study
Little LESSON LIFESAVER Activity
Jesus Gave Everyone a New Beginning
Resurrection Flowerpot Quiz
OBJECTIVE: Help children review events in Jesus Christ our Savior’s resurrection.
ACTIVITY: Resurrection Flower Pot Quiz
Tell children, “The resurrection of Jesus means a new beginning for everyone. Let’s review the events that took place just after Jesus was resurrected, using this flowerpot quiz.”
1. Read the statements on the flowers and guess the answer (A-F) found on the pot. Write the answer in a pencil on the flower box.
2. Check to see if your answer is right by reading the scripture found on the flower.
TO MAKE Print, color, and cut out the flowerpot quiz for each child.
THOUGHT TREAT: Flower cookie. Cut out sugar cookies into flower shapes and bake. Frost and add a gumdrop in the center.
SCRIPTURE CARDS: Help children Search and Ponder this scripture card by filling in the blanks. PRINT this 5 x 7 scripture card from the pdf included with the above activity. You can punch the two holes on the left and tie a ribbon to attach cards or use two metal rings to connect cards.
Source: Sunday Savers Ages 8-11 New Testament 23
LESSON IDEAS & QUOTES:
See SEMINARY Lesson 33 Matthew 27:51-28:20 ⇒
What is the difference between being resurrected and being brought back from the dead?
Will everyone be resurrected?
How knowledge of the Resurrection can bring comfort to those who have lost loved ones.
Invite a student to read aloud the following statement by President Gordon B. Hinckley:
“The miracle of that resurrection morning, that first Easter Sunday, is a miracle for all mankind. It is the miracle of the power of God, whose Beloved Son gave His life to atone for the sins of all, a sacrifice of love for every son and daughter of God. In so doing He broke the seals of death. …
“And just as He took up His body and came forth from the tomb, even so shall all of us enjoy a reunion of body and spirit to become living souls in the day of our own resurrection.
“We rejoice, therefore, as do many, and as should all mankind, when we remember the most glorious, the most comforting, the most reassuring of all events of human history—the victory over death” (“The Victory over Death,” Ensign, Apr. 1997, 4).
RESURRECTION IN THE BIBLE INDEX:
The Resurrection consists in the uniting of a spirit body with a body of flesh and bones, never again to be divided. The Resurrection shall come to all, because of Christ’s victory over death. Jesus Christ was the first to be resurrected on this earth (Matt. 27:52–54; Acts 26:23; 1 Cor. 15:23; Col. 1:18; Rev. 1:5). Others had been brought back from death but were restored to mortality (Mark 5:22–43; Luke 7:11–17; John 11:1–45), whereas a resurrection means to become immortal, with a body of flesh and bone.
All will not be raised to the same glory in the Resurrection (1 Cor. 15:39–42; D&C 76), nor will all come forth at the same time (see 1 Cor. 15:23; Alma 40:8). Christ was first; the righteous have precedence over the wicked and come forth in the First Resurrection, whereas the unrepentant sinners come forth in the last resurrection (Rev. 20:5–13).
The New Testament gives ample evidence that Jesus rose with His physical body: He ate fish and honey (Luke 24:42–43); He said He had flesh and bones (Luke 24:39); the people touched Him (Luke 24:39–40; John 20:25–29); the tomb was empty (Luke 24:2–3; John 20:1–10); and the angels said He had risen (Mark 16:1–6).
One of the most fundamental doctrines taught by the Twelve was that Jesus was risen from the tomb, with His glorified, resurrected body, as in Acts 1:21–22; 2:32; 3:15; 4:33. To obtain a resurrection with a celestial, exalted body is the center point of hope in the gospel of Jesus Christ. The Resurrection of Jesus is the most glorious of all messages to mankind.
Latter-day revelation confirms the reality of the Resurrection of Christ and of all mankind, as in Alma 11:41–45; 40; 3 Ne. 11; D&C 76; Moses 7:62.
