Big Idea
Beginning of the end for Israel and a new beginning for us. Will you follow the footsteps or create your own path?
Key Verses
2 kings 17 6-14
6 In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria, and he carried the Israelites away to Assyria and placed them in Halal, and on the Harbor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes. 7 And this occurred because the people of Israel had sinned against the Lord their God, who had brought them up out of the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods 8 gand walked in the customs of the nations whom the Lord drove out before the people of Israel, hand in the customs that the kings of Israel had practiced. 9 And the people of Israel did secretly against the Lord their God things that were not right. They built for themselves high places in all their towns, i from watchtower to fortified city. 10 They set up for themselves j pillars and Asherim on every high hill and under every green tree, 11 and there they made offerings on all the high places, as the nations did whom the Lord carried away before them. And they did wicked things, provoking the Lord to anger, 12 and they served idols, of which the Lord had said to them, “You shall not do this.” 13 Yet the Lord warned Israel and Judah every prophet and every seer, saying, “Turn from your evil ways and keep my commandments and my statutes, in accordance with all the Law that I commanded your fathers, and that I sent to you by my servants the prophets.14 But they would not listen, but were stubborn, as their fathers had been, who did not believe in the Lord their God.
Isaiah 49:16
16 Behold, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands; your walls are continually before me.
Discussion Questions
Highs and lows?
Any goals for this year?
What are some of greatest temptations for kids your age in school? Things that you don’t think align with scripture or God?
Do you find it easy or hard to not conform to what every one else is doing at school or life? Why
What does it look like for you to say good bye to the old and begin to live in a new way?
What do you need prayer for this year?