Abraham and Sarah: THE BIBLE Video Workshop

Summary of Lesson Activities:

Watch portions of the 20th Century Fox Dino DeLaurentiis 1966 classic movie The Bible: In the Beginning, now available on DVD, starring George C. Scott and Eva Gardner as Abram and Sarai.

Lesson Objective:

To introduce the story about God’s promise to Abraham, so the children will learn that they can trust God to fulfill his promises to them as well.

Leader Preparation:

• Preview the video.
• Make sure your technology for showing the video is working. (See tips and techniques here.)

Supplies List:

• The Bible video cued to just after story about Tower of Babel – narrator “ten generations after…” Available on Amazon Prime (streaming) and from Amazon and other retailers.
• Bibles
• Popcorn

LESSON

Opening- Welcome and Lesson Introduction:

Greet the children and introduce yourself.

Dig-Main Content and Reflection

Watch portions of the video. Pause the video to discuss as needed

Synopsis:

The Bible video cued to just after story about Tower of Babel – narrator “ten generations after…”
Play Abram and his Father Terah, his wife Sarai, and his nephew Lot leave their home city of Ur of the Chaldees in Mesopotamia.
Arrives in Canaan.
Fast forward through “love scene”
Abram and Lot split up
Lot goes to the plains with cities of Sodom and Gomorrah.
God promises Abram to make his descendants as numerous as the “dust.”
Fast forward through the bloody dream sequence sacrifice.
God tells Abram that he will have a son named Isaac.
Sarai arranges for Abram to take her maid Hagar and have a child.
Fast forward through the 4 warring kings part.
Abram sacrifices another animal to celebrate his victory over the warring kings.
God renames him Abraham and Sarai, Sarah; tells him he will have a son with Sarah.
Circumcision is commanded as a sign of the covenant.
Hagar asks Abraham to bless Ishmael.
Abraham speaks of his faith in God.
Three strangers come; Abraham recognizes them as messengers from God; they are on their way to Sodom; one asks about Sarah and says she will have a son within the year; she laughs and denies it
Abraham asks the messenger to spare the righteous in Sodom (his nephew Lot is there)
Fast forward through the Sodom scenes.
Start video after Lot’s wife is turned to pillar of salt.
Sarah has Isaac.

  – END

Discuss the video and go through the review questions as time permits (below).

Reflection and Closing:

We talk about Abraham being one of the fathers of our faith. Did Abraham always do the right thing?

Abraham did not always do exactly what God wanted him to do, but he tried to trust God and God blessed him. God did not tell him to have a child with Hagar, that was Sarah’s idea and it caused many problems. When Abraham trusted God, things turned out better than when he tried to solve problems on his own.

What sort of promises did God make to Abraham? Did God keep those promises? Did Abraham always trust that God would keep those promises?

Does God make promises to us? What?

End with a prayer for the Holy Spirit to help us have faith in all things.

God’s Covenant with Abraham
Review Questions

NOTE: We use review questions with almost every workshop, children are given tickets for correct answers that they may redeem for prizes on the last Sunday of the month.

What book of the Bible is the story of Abraham found?
1) The Book of Genesis
2) The Book of Abraham

What was Abraham’s name before God changed it?
1) Abdul
2) Abram

What was Abraham’s wife’s’ name?
1) Hagar
2) Sarah

Abraham had two sons, true or false?
1) True
2) False

Abraham was born in what town:
1) Haran
2) Ur

Abraham’s father was named:
1) Lot
2) Terah

Abraham’s father lived 205 years old, true or false:
1) True
2) False

How old was Abraham when God told him to move?
1) 75
2) 99

How old was Abraham when Isaac was born?
1) 75
2) 100

Abraham’s nephew Lot moved to what town:
1) Salem
2) Sodom

How many descendants did God promise Abraham?
1) As many as the stars in the sky
2) As many as sand on the seashore
3) Both 1 and 2

Jesus is a descendant of Abraham, true or false:
1) True
2) False

All Christians and Jews are descendants of Abraham and Sarah, true or false:
1) True
2) False

Did God’s promises to Abraham come true?
1) Yes
2) No

God sent messengers to destroy two cities, which were they?
1) Sodom and Gomorrah
2) Haran and Ur

Abraham always did exactly what God wanted him to do, true or false:
1) True
2) False
The point of the story is that Abraham did not always do exactly what God wanted him to do, but he tried to trust God and God blessed him. God did not tell him to have a child with Hagar, that was Sarah’s idea and it caused many problems. When Abraham trusted God, things turned out better than when he tried to solve problems on his own.

The first part of the memory verse is:
1) God is not a man that he should lie
2) God is not a man, he lies

The memory verse is:
1) Genesis 23:19
2) Numbers 23:19

What was the name of the land God promised to Abraham?
1) Israel
2) Canaan

The name of Sarah’s son was?
1) Ishmael
2) Isaac

What does the name Isaac mean?
1) Son of Abraham
2) Laughter

What does the name Abram mean?
1) Father
2) Nation

What does the name Abraham mean?
1) Blessed by God
2) Father of many nations

What does the name Sarai mean?
1) Sweet
2) Princess

How was Lot related to Abraham?
1) Lot was Abraham’s brother
2) Lot was Abraham’s nephew

Abraham got mad at Lot and sent him away, true or false:
1) True
2) False

Lot’s wife was turned into a pillar of salt, true or false:
1) True
2) False

Who was Hagar?
1) Lot’s wife
2) Sarah’s Egyptian maid

Ishmael loved his little brother Isaac and treated him well, true or false:
1) True
2) False

Abraham was a poor man who lived in a tent because he could not afford a house, true or false:
1) True
2) False
The Bible tells us that Abraham was a very wealthy man, with lots of cattle, sheep, goats, camels and many servants. He lived in a tent because he had to travel to take his animals to grazing land and water.

True or False, King David was a descendant of Abraham:
1) True
2) False

True or False, Sarah laughed when she heard the stranger say she would have a son in a year:
1) True
2) False

Who attacked the cities of the plains and took Lot captive?
1) Warring kings
2) The Egyptians

What did Abraham do when he found out Lot had been captured?
1) Asked God to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah
2) Raised an army of 300 men and defeated the warring kings and released the captives

What did Abraham do to celebrate his victory?
1) Had a big victory feast
2) Built an altar to God

Who was Melchizedek?
1) A king and priest who blessed Abraham
2) A king who attacked Sodom and took Lot captive

What did Abraham give Melchizedek?
1) A tenth of all he owned
2) A tenth of all the goods he captured from the warring kings

A lesson from First Nazarene Church, San Benito, TX  

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