Old Testament LESSON 21
Teaching Sunday School or Seminary, Come Follow Me just got easier with our activities for MAY (week #4)
Theme: “Beware Lest Thou Forget the Lord”
Deuteronomy 6-8; 15; 18; 29-30; 34
YOU WILL FIND:
• SCRIPTURE SCHOLARS to get them reading.
• Then scroll down to find Lesson-Match Interactive Activities to match the CFM curriculum
SCRIPTURE SCHOLARS is not only for SUNDAY SCHOOL youth but also for Primary, and for Individuals and Families.
If you want the STAMPS & STAMP KEEPER (go HERE to download for the month of MAY)
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 18-22 Scripture Scholars
May’s BUNDLE of BOOKMARKS, POP-UPs, and STAMPS. Glue STAMPS onto the STAMP KEEPER (to download separately, below).
Click on the weekly lesson posters (below) to find interactive activities:
. . . 5 LESSONS & 34 ACTIVITIES . . .
Step 1 CHOOSE LESSON
Step 2 CHOOSE ACTIVITY
Step 3 CLICK ON POSTER
Step 4 DOWNLOAD ACTIVITY
. . . OUR HEARTS LOVE GOD . . .
Deuteronomy 6:4–7, 20–25; 8:2–5, 11–17; 29:18–20; 30:6–10, 15–20
The Lord wants us to love Him with all our hearts.
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Throughout Deuteronomy, there are passages that can prompt us to think about the spiritual condition of our hearts. To help class members share their thoughts about these passages, you could draw a heart on the board. Then divide the following scriptures among class members: Deuteronomy 6:4–7, 20–25; 8:2–5, 11–17; 29:18–20; 30:6–10, 15–20. Invite class members to write the reference inside the heart if it teaches about something we should have in our hearts or to write the reference outside the heart if it teaches something we should avoid. What does it mean to devote our whole hearts to Heavenly Father?
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How do we explain to our family and others why we obey God’s commandments? After pondering this question, class members could read Deuteronomy 6:4–7, 20–25 or the statement in “Additional Resources” and share their thoughts. How do these insights affect the way we feel about commandments or covenants?
- See INDEX “JESUS CHRIST” for more activities.
. . . GOD CAN GUIDE OUR TEACHING . . .
“Teach [the Lord’s words] diligently unto thy children.”
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Sometimes it helps to hear ideas about ways others are teaching and learning the gospel in their homes. Discussing how class members are following the counsel in Deuteronomy 6:4–9, 20–25 can give your class an opportunity to learn from each other. What do we do to teach and “talk of” (verse 7) the word of God as these verses describe? What experiences can we share in which the Lord guided us in our efforts?
- See INDEX “TESTIMONY” “MISSIONARY SERVICE” for more activities.
Youth can share these activities and more with the Primary to practice teaching the gospel.
MUTUAL NIGHT, SUNDAY SCHOOL, SEMINARY, FAMILY HOME EVENING ACTIVITIES
MISSIONARY DISCUSSIONS WITH YOUTH:
Have the missionaries in your area or a returned missionary give the discussions to all youth (over several evenings). Offer discussions #1-6 found in the Uniform System for Teaching the Gospel booklets. (1) The Plan of Our Heavenly Father, (2) The Gospel of Jesus Christ, (3) The Restoration, (4) Eternal Progression, (5) Living a Christlike Life, and (6) Membership in the Kingdom.
SHARE THE GOSPEL BRAINSTORM:
Have the full-time missionaries come and talk to the youth as a group about those in the area they wish to fellowship. Have youth prepare questions, ideas, and concerns. Assign youth to fellowship certain nonmember youth or to encourage youth who are not coming out.
FRIENDSHIP SEMINAR:
As youth learn how to be a friend and to make friends, this will help them to become better missionaries. Have them separate into different workshops with different youth or leaders sharing ideas on being a friend. Encourage them to place questions about being a friend and find friends in a question box. Have everyone do this and then read them aloud. Have the other youth and leaders respond to answer the questions.
Subjects to Discuss: How to Make a Friend:
• How to Keep a Friendship Going
• How to Know If That Person Wants to Be a Friend
• What If You Don’t Like a Person
• How Do You Converse with a Friend
• How Do You Share the Gospel with a Friend
. . . WE ARE NEEDED TO HELP THE NEEDY . . .
Helping the needy involves generous hands and willing hearts.
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We haven’t yet arrived at the day “when there shall be no poor among you” (Deuteronomy 15:4), so the principles about helping the poor in Deuteronomy 15 are still valuable, even if the particular practices regarding debts and servants have changed. You could invite class members to review verses 1–15 and find principles about helping the poor and needy that they would like to discuss. Questions like these could help the discussion: What does it mean to “open thine hand wide” to those in need? (verses 8, 11). What role does our heart play in helping others? (see verses 7, 9–10). What can we learn about helping the needy from the Lord’s example? (see verse 15).
. . . CHOOSE “LIFE AND GOOD” . . .
The Lord invites us to choose between “life and good, and death and evil.”
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It might be interesting to compare Moses’s words in Deuteronomy with some of Lehi’s final teachings to his family in 2 Nephi 1–4. Perhaps class members could find similarities and differences between these passages: Deuteronomy 29:9 and 2 Nephi 4:4; Deuteronomy 30:15–20 and 2 Nephi 2:26–29. How did Lehi expand on what Moses taught? Why are words like life and death a good way to describe our choices to “keep” or “turn away” from God’s commandments? (Deuteronomy 30:16–17). Class members could share what they find in these passages that inspires them to “choose life” (Deuteronomy 30:19).
See INDEX “COMMANDMENTS” for more activities.
. . . LOVING GOD & COVENANTS . . .
We keep our covenants because we love God.
President Linda K. Burton taught:
“Of all the reasons we ought to be more diligent in our covenant keeping, this reason is more compelling than all—love. …
“‘If we fully appreciated the many blessings which are ours through the redemption made for us, there is nothing that the Lord could ask of us that we would not anxiously and willingly do’ [Joseph Fielding Smith, “Importance of the Sacrament Meeting,” Relief Society Magazine, Oct. 1943, 592]. According to this statement by President Joseph Fielding Smith, covenant keeping is one way to express our love for the incomprehensible, infinite Atonement of our Savior and Redeemer and the perfect love of our Father in Heaven” (“The Power, Joy, and Love of Covenant Keeping,” Ensign or Liahona, Nov. 2013, 114).
