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Judas and Jesus - Week 2

April 13-14, 2019 |

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Why would a perfect person take the punishment for a bunch of people who mess up? That sounds like nonsense! This four-week, video series at Eastertime shows kids that the only way something that crazy made sense was love. Silly videos of “nonsense” situations introduce a captivating story of the gospel and what it means for us.

ASK YOUR KID

What did the soldier say when Jesus died?

BIBLE VERSE

“But here is how God has shown his love for us. While we were still sinners, Christ died for us," Romans 5:8.

 

GROUP Q&A
  1. What did Judas do to betray Jesus? (Judas, for some money, showed the soldiers where Jesus was so they could arrest him.)
  2. What did the soldier say when Jesus died? (Surely this is the Son of God.)
  3. Why did it kind of feel like nonsense that Jesus died? (Jesus was perfect and people were not.)
  4. Why did it actually make sense for Jesus to die? (Love! Someone needed to take the punishment for people’s mistakes, so God sent Jesus.)
  5. When you hear that Jesus died for you, how does that make you feel? (Discuss.)
PARENT BIBLE STUDY

Read: John 19-20, Mathew 27, Acts 9

There’s a sweet children’s book written from a child’s perspective filled with rhymes about taking all different kinds of transportation. Throughout the book, there is a repeating line “but the best is the bus, the bus is for us!” The point is that the bus is the greatest way to get anywhere because it’s for everyone.

That’s the gospel. It’s the best news. It’s for all of us. That truth makes the gospel so sweet and at the same time so scandalous. The good news of forgiveness in Jesus, the forgiveness that makes friendship with God possible again, is for every single person. Everyone. No exceptions.

In this series we will look at the gospel through the eyes of four very different people who reveal the truth that the gospel is for all of us. The broken, hurting, and desperate. The liars, cheaters, and betrayers. The criminals and the convicts. For people who think they have it all together and people who can’t find their worth. The gospel wouldn’t be good news at all if it weren’t for everyone.

But the best is the gospel, the gospel is for us.

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The gospel was for Judas, the betrayer. After Judas collected his payment for handing Jesus over to the Roman officials, he said, “I have sinned by betraying innocent blood.” But here’s what Judas didn’t know: Jesus’ innocent blood had the power to pay for his sin, too.

We’ve all had a moment like Judas. A moment where we realized the devastating fallout of our sin and how it hurt someone else. Judas hanged himself because he couldn’t handle the shame, but we can look to the cross and trust the promise of total forgiveness. It makes no sense, but it’s the love of Jesus – real and tangible – and it’s for us.

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