Jim Batterton - That night, January 9, 1989, I paced around my room. All of the memory verses I had ever learned were racing through my mind. I knew I really needed to be saved, and as I became increasingly more upset, I was realizing that I really didn’t know how to be saved...
Memory Verse: Proverbs 27:12 Memory Verse Text: The simple pass on and are punished.
Activity
Review game - Bingo cards and 10 plagues dice to review the 10 different events that occured in Egypt leading up the the Exodus.
Lesson Content Suggestions
Point 1: Consider how the plague of hail (and the final plague, death of the firstborn) differed from all the rest; Egypt was warned of God and provided with a way of escape. Point 2: Another division now existed between Pharaoh's servants that feared the word of the Lord and those that didn't (Ex. 9:20). Those that feared had to take action; if they stayed as they were, they would receive the coming judgement. God's judgement included THUNDER, HAIL, LIGHTNING, and BLOOD, what a combination! Point 3: Once again, the Lord's people were spared from this most severe judgement (Ex. 9:26). Pharaoh, also desiring to be spared, sent for Moses and said, "I have sinned this time" (Ex. 9:27). He knew that God could withhold the judgement if he sincerely repented (Ex. 9:28). Warn the class against incomplete and insincere repentance. Point 4: Moses testified to Pharaoh, "The earth is the Lord's" (Ex. 9:29). However, when danger is passed in Ex. 9:34, Pharaoh "sinned yet more and hardened his heart." Perhaps this is a good point at which to give a warning against stubborness.
Jim Batterton
