Blog 6- Keeping the Lord's Day

After 4 straight days of physical labor, we’re taking God’s law of the Sabbath seriously. My body was so sore, that I could barely turn my neck this morning. I’m thankful that I’m just sore and not hurt. Today, We were able to help teach Sunday School to 60 kids, grades 7^th – college. Since Pastor Seemoon was going to preach on hypocrisy of the Pharisees, we wanted to teach something on that subject as well but from a different angle. We started with a game of “Simon Says” since we wanted to focus our attention to following rules. Ploy, one of the college girls helped us lead the game and changed it to “Ploy says.” After the game, we started to teach on the good traits of what a Pharisee should have been and the way God intended them to serve the people and we used Nicodemus as our example. We had two essential themes in our lesson. The first was about how rules are setup for our good, our protection and well-being. The second was about good and bad questioning.

The Pharisees were suppose to guide the people to obey the law in love, but chose to do so in fear to increase their power over the people. The rules (10 commandments) are setup to guide us to love God (first four commandments) and love people (last six). These commandments help us love in a harmonious community filled with love and respect for each other, but many of us see rules as something that takes away our fun, our freedom and our rights. God intends just the opposite.

John 3:1-21 is when Nicodemus questions Jesus about eternal life because he wants to know more. This was a good example of questioning. Matthew 16:14 is when the Pharisees question Jesus to perform a miracle in front of them, but Jesus saw that their hearts were already wicked and hardened to want to believe even if they saw something. This was a bad example of questioning because they were trying to test Jesus without even being open minded to what he was going to say or do.

We continue to thank God for His goodness and opportunities for us to interact with the kids whether it’s teaching or working side by side.