Teaching

The Bible is filled with true stories of how God uses ordinary people like you and me to accomplish extraordinary things! The Superbook adventures show us how God used people like Paul, Noah, Rahab, Esther, and Gideon. When God asked them to do something, they said “Yes.” They obeyed God and trusted in His mighty power.

If God gives us a job, should we worry about how important it seems?

No, we should just do our part and trust Him to work out His plan.

The Bible tells how people in a church were arguing about who was most important—the Apostle Paul, or another teacher named Apollos. Some people in the church said, “I follow Paul!” Let’s have everyone on this side of the room shout that: 

"I follow Paul!”

Other people in that church said, “I follow Apollos!” Let’s have everyone on the other side of the room shout that: 

“I follow Apollos.”

You may have both groups shout back and forth a couple of times.

As you can see, this would cause a huge problem in the church! So Paul wrote a letter to this church that we can still read today, called 1 Corinthians.

Display Slide 6: Seed and Watering Can

Paul explained that he had planted the seed—meaning that He preached the Word of God so that many people believed in Jesus. And Paul said that Apollos watered the seed—meaning that Apollos helped the new Christians grow in their faith. Can seeds grow without water? 

No.

Can water grow plants if no seeds are planted? 

No.

Optional: Have everyone look up 1 Corinthians 3:6. Paul wrote,

I planted the seed in your hearts, and Apollos watered it, but it was God who made it grow.

Neither man was more important—they both obeyed God and did what He called them to do. So who is most important? 

God!

Yes, God is most important of all—and He wants to use each of us in His plan! Now you may think, I’m too young, or too small, for God to use me. Is that true? 

No!

Or you may look at other people and think, “Well, if I were only like that person—then God could use me.” Is that right? 

No!

God made you just the way you are, and He has a special purpose for your life. When we become Christians, we all become part of the body of Christ. Think about it! Jesus is up in heaven, yet He says that we are His body here on Earth! We are His eyes, looking around us to see who needs His love. We are His ears, listening to others share their hurts and fears so we can encourage them. We are His arms, reaching out to hug lonely people. We are His hands, serving the poor. We are His feet, going out into the world to share the Gospel.

Each of us plays a very important part in the body of Christ, so we shouldn’t be jealous of what some people do, or look down on other people for what they do in God’s kingdom. We all need each other to fulfill God’s plan.

The Apostle Paul wrote about this in that same letter to the Corinthian church. Let’s read 1 Corinthians 12:14–18.

Optional: Have everyone look up the scripture and ask several children to take turns reading the verses.

¹⁴ Yes, the body has many different parts, not just one part. ¹⁵ If the foot says, “I am not a part of the body because I am not a hand,” that does not make it any less a part of the body. ¹⁶ And if the ear says, “I am not part of the body because I am not an eye,” would that make it any less a part of the body? ¹⁷ If the whole body were an eye, how would you hear? Or if your whole body were an ear, how would you smell anything? ¹⁸ But our bodies have many parts, and God has put each part just where He wants it. 

Display Slide 7: Chris and Joy

Imagine if Chris didn’t have a regular body but was made of one big ear—how would he see or talk?

Or what if Joy was made of one big eye—how would she hear or walk?

God is our Creator, and He made our bodies in a wonderful way. He gave each of us a head with eyes, ears, nose, and mouth. He gave us arms with hands, and legs with feet. He gave us stomachs to digest food so we have energy. He gave us hearts that beat, and lungs that breathe to keep us alive. Isn’t our Creator amazing?

In the same way, God gives each of us special talents and abilities to serve Him. He also asks us to do certain jobs or tasks in His kingdom. Some people may preach or teach, while others may serve or pray. Some of these jobs get more attention than others, but all of them are equally important in God’s eyes. The key is that we must listen to what God tells us to do, then obey Him! That’s how we are an important part of His plan, just like our SuperTruth says!

Big or small, every job in God’s kingdom is important! And God wants to use each of us to do His work in the world. Raise your hand if you want to be part of God’s plan!

Yes, I think all of us do! And here is what the Bible says is the most important work we can ever do.

Display and read Slide 8: John 6:29 (nkjv)

Jesus answered and said to them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in Him whom He sent.”

Who did God send? 

Jesus.

So the most important work we can ever do is to believe in Jesus. How do we do that?

We admit we have sinned and ask God to forgive us. Jesus paid the price for our sins by dying on the cross, so we ask Him to come into our hearts and be our Savior. We also ask Him to be our Lord, which means that He is our master and our boss! So, if He asks us to do something, we want to obey Him so we can be part of His wonderful plan!

Let’s worship God by singing The Salvation Poem. The first time it’s sung on the video, the song is in many different languages to show how children all around the world love to watch Superbook! The second time, we can join and sing in our own language to thank God for His gift of Salvation through His Son, Jesus!

Play Video 7A: (Song) The Salvation Poem Multilingual: 39 Languages (5 minutes)