Leader Guide
Object Lesson
- Product container with an expiration date such as empty medicine bottle, food, or beverage
- Advertisement special offer or coupon with an expiration date
- Bible—a physical copy with pages that a child can turn
- Bibles or Superbook Bible App
Who can say today’s SuperTruth?
Yes, let’s all say it together: “God’s Word never fails.”
As we discussed earlier in our teaching, everything on Earth will eventually fail.
Hold up the product container with the expiration date on it. There is a date on this container. Can someone say what that date is called? The expiration date.
Yes, it is an expiration date. After this date, some products such as aspirin or cough syrup may lose some of their strength and not be as effective. Some food products may spoil or lose their flavor. So, we could say that all of these products eventually will fail.
Hold up a special advertisement or coupon and point to the expiration date. I think most of us are familiar with these. These coupons may be on the Internet, or come in the mail, or be in a newspaper or magazine. Perhaps you have even sold coupon books for your school or a club fundraiser. Almost all coupons have an expiration date. That means that the special price or service is only valid or good through a certain date. After that, the coupon is useless! You can just tear it up and throw it out, because it has no value anymore.
Hold up the physical copy of the Bible and give it to a child. Ask them to look for an expiration date written on the front or back pages of the Bible.
No, just as I thought; you did not find an expiration date! God’s Word never loses strength or power; it never fails. Hebrews 13:8 says that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever. God’s promises that were given to people like Noah and Abraham in the Old Testament will not expire. All of God’s promises are still effective and apply to us today!
Read 1 Peter 1:23–25a:
For you have been born again, but not to a life that will quickly end. Your new life will last forever because it comes from the eternal, living word of God. As the Scriptures say, “People are like grass; their beauty is like a flower in the field. The grass withers and the flower fades. But the word of the Lord remains forever.”
Isn’t that awesome? When we are born again, our new life lasts forever. Why? Because it comes from the eternal, living Word of God! Yes, things on Earth will wither and fade, yet our salvation is secure in God; the Word of the Lord lives forever!