New Testament LESSON 18
Teaching Primary & Home – Come Follow Me just got easier with our activities for APRIL (week #5)
Theme: “I Am the Good Shepherd”
John 7-10
YOU WILL FIND:
• SCRIPTURE SCHOLARS to get them reading.
• Then scroll down to find Lesson-Match Interactive Activities to match the CFM curriculum
TEENS
See our new SUNDAY SCHOOL interactive activities for this month RIGHT HERE
Lesson 18 Scripture Scholars
Week’s Scripture Scholars BOOKMARKS & scripture POP-UP Includes:
• BOOKMARKS with Come, Follow Me scriptures to read and discuss topics for Primary and Individuals and Families. Also, for Sunday School (teens).
• POP-UP to glue in scripture binding next to scripture you underline.
EXTRA ITEMS (not included) … THERE’S MORE:
• STAMP. Award readers with a STAMP for the week’s scripture reading. See below to find matching STAMPS.
• STAMP KEEPER. These can be placed on the STAMP KEEPER (see below) where you can collect 50 stamps for the year
Lessons 14-18 Scripture Scholars
April’s BUNDLE of BOOKMARKS, POP-UPs, and STAMPS. Glue STAMPS onto the STAMP KEEPER (to download separately, below).
APRIL STAMPS $1.50
Stamps for weeks 1-5 Scripture Scholars Lessons 14-18 – New Testament – Included in the BUNDLE
STAMP KEEPER (1-53 stamps) $3.00
This is included in the January BUNDLE (or, download it below)
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. . . COMMANDMENTS BUILD TESTIMONY . . .
Keeping the commandments will help me know they are true.
Jesus taught that we can gain a testimony of the truths He shared as we live them. The peace we feel when we obey the commandments helps us know they are true. Consider how you might teach the children this truth.
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Summarize John 7:17 in words the children will understand. Help them know that obeying the commandments helps us feel closer to Jesus Christ. For example, you could sing together a song like “Keep the Commandments” or “Choose the Right Way” (Children’s Songbook, 146–47, 160–61).
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Share an experience when you gained a testimony that a commandment was from God because you lived that commandment, such as paying tithing or forgiving someone who was unkind. Invite the children to think of an experience they had when they obeyed a commandment. Ask them to share how they felt when they obeyed.
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Ask the children to draw pictures of themselves obeying a commandment. (Help them think of examples.) Invite them to share their pictures with each other and talk about the happiness they get from obeying that commandment.
OLDER CHILDREN
You and the children you teach may have had experiences living gospel truths and learning that they are true. How can you build on those experiences as you teach?
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Write each verse of John 7:14–17 on different pieces of paper, and display them in random order. Ask the children to put them in the correct order and check John 7:14–17 to see if they are right. Invite the children to split into pairs and share their understanding of each verse with their partner. How has obedience to God’s commandments helped them know the commandments are true?
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Share examples from the scriptures showing how people were blessed for living gospel truths, such as Daniel (see Daniel 6)
DOWNLOAD Daniel and the Lions’ Den drama scene (HERE or below) or Elisabeth (see Luke 1:5–14). What blessings have we been given for obeying commandments? -
A few days before class, invite one of the children to write about a time when he or she gained a testimony of a commandment by living it. During class, ask the child to share what he or she wrote.
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ACTIVITIES FOR:
Keeping the commandments will help me know they are true.
POST-AND-PRESENT ACTIVITY. COLOR MY LIFE WITH THE GOSPEL Happy Crayons Game. Youth can know that the gospel principles lived will bring happiness. This way we can show our “true” colors as we live the commandments, e.g., tithing repentance, prayer, gratitude, and Sabbath (each matching the Ten Commandments). READ MORE
AGES 1-5 ACTIVITY. DANIEL AND THE LIONS’ DEN drama scene. Children will be guided by Daniel’s story on faith to know Heavenly Father listens and hears their prayers. Like Daniel, they can pray to Heavenly Father and know that as they make good choices like Daniel, He will protect them and help them know what to do (Daniel 6). Have them … READ MORE
CHILDREN’S LESSON ACTIVITY. WORD OF WISDOM CHOICES voting match. Children can see the whole picture as they put into the slots their vote of what’s good and bad to put into their bodies. Commandments given in God’s law of the Word of Wisdom (D&C 89) tell children that they can be healthy and happy if they put into their bodies good food. Or, they can get sick … READ MORE
AGES 8-11 POSTER ACTIVITY. TITHING TALES “EGGS AND COINS” stories and discussion. Youth will learn about “tithing eggs” and potatoes that earned money where 10% was paid for tithing. This boy was a future Prophet. The activity illustrates the story cards that note how TITHING HELPS: spread the gospel of Jesus Christ, brings families together through family history, provides teaching materials, and builds churches and temples. READ MORE
SONG VISUALS. “KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS” song visuals. Youth will know from this song that God sends blessings to His children when they choose the right. Write the words on the cue cards (in your language) to place on the back of the visuals. For example, “Keep the commandments … In this there is safety; In this there is peace. …” READ MORE
SINGING ACTIVITY. “CHOOSE THE RIGHT WAY” song visuals. Learning this song will help youth know “There’s a right way to live and be happy; It is choosing the right ev’ry day.” As they learn the teachings of Jesus they will help them and show them the way. Through prayer, faith, repentance, and obedience they can “truly be happy each day.” READ MORE
. . . HONORING PARENTS . . .
Jesus obeyed His Father.
Jesus Christ always did things that pleased His Father in Heaven. How can you help the children find ways to follow His example?
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Help the children repeat what Jesus said about Heavenly Father in John 8:29: “I do always those things that please him.” Ask them to share things Jesus did that made Heavenly Father happy. Show them some pictures from the Gospel Art Book to give them ideas.
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Ask the children what makes them happy. Or invite a parent of one of the children to share an experience when the child did something that made the parent feel pleased, or happy. What can we do to make Heavenly Father happy? Invite the children to draw pictures of themselves doing those activities to take home and remind them.
POSTER ACTIVITY. ARE YOU HONOR OFF? Honor Parents vote to cast. Youth can look forward to honoring their parents knowing the promise (Exodus 20:12) “thy days may be long upon the land.” Vote ON or OFF to actions on situation cards. READ MORE
. . . LIVING THE GOSPEL . . .
The truth can make me free.
Some people think that living the gospel restricts them. How can you use John 8:31–36 to help the children understand that living the gospel actually makes us free?
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Invite the children to read John 8:31–36 and share what they think it means to be a servant of sin. How do the teachings of Jesus help us be free?
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Show a lock to represent sin and a key to represent how truths of the gospel can make us free. For example, knowing about the Savior’s Atonement can give us freedom to repent and be forgiven of our sins. Or knowing about the Word of Wisdom can give us freedom to avoid addictions.
POST-AND-PRESENT ACTIVITY. BUTTERFLIES ARE FREE Repentance Garden. Youth can play in teams or two players to climb to the top. They can choose from a deep container a flower (right choice) or a rock (wrong choice). Read the situation. If a rock, they place their butterfly under the rock (to show the heavy weight of sin), until they say how they can right the wrong. Then, place their butterfly onto a flower, climbing each time until the first to make it to the top wins. READ MORE
. . . FOLLOW JESUS . . .
Jesus is like a shepherd to me.
As you study the parable of the good shepherd, look for truths it teaches about our relationship with the Savior. How will knowing these truths bless the children?
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Write good shepherd and hireling on the board. Explain that a hireling is someone who is hired to do a job for money. Ask the children to list differences they find in John 10:1–18 between a good shepherd and a hireling. Why would you want to follow the good shepherd rather than the hireling? How is Jesus like a shepherd to us?
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Draw or show a picture of a door. Read together John 10:7–9, and ask the children how Jesus is like a door. According to verse 9, what blessings come to those who “enter in” the door? How do we enter the door that Jesus Christ provides us?
YOUTH LESSON ACTIVITY. JESUS IS THE GOOD SHEPHERD tent-card and match game – John 10:4. Youth can spotlight events in Jesus Christ’s life with the focus on #8 “Jesus is Our Shepherd.” Read all of John 10 to learn that Jesus loves and cares for us as a good shepherd and cares for his sheep. READ MORE
. . . JESUS WANTS US SAFE . . .
Jesus knows me and loves me.
The parable of the good shepherd can help the children understand that Jesus loves them and knows who they are.
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Give the children pictures that represent something in the parable of the good shepherd, like sheep, a shepherd, or a wolf. Select some verses from John 10:1–16 to read to the children, and ask them to hold up their pictures when they hear you read about the things in their pictures. Help the children think of ways Jesus is like a shepherd to us. Bear your testimony that the Savior loves us and will guide us back to Him.
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Show the picture of Jesus and the lambs in this week’s outline in Come Follow Me—For Individuals and Families. How do we know Jesus loves the lambs? How can we tell that the lambs love Jesus? How can we show Jesus that we love Him?
POST-AND-PRESENT ACTIVITY. KEEP INSIDE THE FENCE Commandments Keep us Safe quiz. The prophet today leads us to keep God’s commandments. They tell us how to be safe from spiritual and physical dangers. Like the sheep inside the fence, we can be safe from the dangerous wolves, rocks, rivers, and pits. If we sin we can repent and go back inside the fence by keeping the commandments and being safe. READ MORE
CHILDREN’S LESSON ACTIVITY. FIND THE LITTLE LOST LAMB picture puzzle. Children can know like the little lost lamb, they too are important to Jesus who loves them. The parable of the lost sheep that Jesus told tells all of just how much He loves us. Our Savior doesn’t want one sheep (child of God) lost. They can search this puzzle for a sheep wearing a tennis shoe, a necktie, a baseball hat, a bell, a bow tie, and more. They are told to “Color the lost lambs as soon as ‘ewe’ find them.” READ MORE
SUMMARY OF SUBJECTS FOR:
NEW TESTAMENT
John 7-10
APRIL (week 5)
Lesson 18: April 24-30, 2023
“I Am the Good Shepherd”
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