Year One/Week Nine

General Theme: Redemption- God prepares a people for Godly self-government and liberty.

Theme Focus: Moses – leader of God's people

Leading Idea: God thoroughly prepared Moses to help free the Israelites.

Principle: God uses individuals to fulfill His plan.

Scripture Passage: Ex. 2-4

Statement of Theme : Ex.3:7-8

Copy work: Ex.3:7-8

Exodus 3:7-8 (King James Version)

7And the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows;

8And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites.

Day One

1. Read Ex.2 Moses and Basket

Moses, the deliverer was born! Parents hid him but all too soon, another plan had to be made. Plan itself had no merit! God's higher hand was present. He was rescued by, of all people, the Pharaoh's daughter! He never forgot he was a Jew. Raised in high Egyptian culture, he found himself feeling deeply for the Jews. He didn't have self-government that day when he killed an Egyptian who ill-treated his fellow-Jews...

2. Some questions:
a) Was it a coincidence that the Pharaoh's daughter took a bath just as the basket with Moses floated past her? If not, what was it?

b) Why did Moses kill the Egyptian? What did that action reveal about his character?

c) Why did Moses become a fugitive?
d) Why did Moses do when the shepherds bully the daughters of Jethro? What did that show about Moses' character?
e) Why did Jethro invite Moses to his house?
f) What events took place after that?
g) What's the significance of verse 23?
h) Did God hear the the Jews' cries?

3) Some craft/coloring/puzzle

Day Two

1. Read Ex. 3 (40 years have passed). Show illustration.

2. Ask questions
a) What was special about the bush Moses saw at Mt. Horeb?
b) What was Moses' response?
c) What was the first lesson Moses learned about God?
d) How do you think Moses felt when God spoke in verse 8?
e) What was Moses' response to God's instruction in verse verse 10?
f) What did God say to Moses' lack of confidence? (Ex. 3:12)

(Depending on my daughter's response and understanding, I may or may not probe further....lots more questions can be asked!).

3. Copy-work Ex. 3:7-8

4. Give her some materials to make a picture of “The Burning Bush”. Maybe a puzzle or two as well.

Day Three

1. Read Ex. 4: 1-9

2. Ask questions
a) What was Moses' objection/excuse in Ex.4:1?
b) What was God's response?
c) How did the sign strengthen Moses' faith?
d) What was the other sign God gave Moses?
e) How do you think the signs helped Moses?
f) God also gave Moses the ability to perform yet another sign. What was it?

3. Coloring pages/puzzles

Day Four

1. Read Ex.4:10-17

2. Ask questions

a) Moses came up with yet another objection. What was it?
b) What was God's response?
c) What was verse 13 all about?
d) God, out of kindness, provided him with Aaron, but Moses was still the leader. How does this reflect the principle of individuality?

3. Craft/Game/Puzzle

Day Five

1. Read Ex. 4: 18-30

2. Some questions. I will do more explaining here than asking questions.
a) Why do you think what God said in Ex. 4:21a was comforting to Moses?
b) what happened in verses 27 and 28?
c) How do you think Moses felt in verse 31?

3. Notebook: State in your own words how God had prepared the people for godly self-government and liberty up to this stage of history.