Good morning! I’m so glad you’re all here! Connect Question: What’s your favorite activity when you have free time during your day? Have kids ask a neighbor, and then call on a few to share answers with the group.

We have a NEW Remember Verse to start practicing this week! Let’s read it together a few times. If they want to brag, they should brag that they understand and know me. They should brag that the L ORD acts out of love, righteousness, and justice. This kind of bragging pleases the L ORD. -Jeremiah 9:24

Invite two kids to the front. Explain that one child should hand the other child as many ping-pong balls as she can hold in one minute. At the end of a minute, count to see how many they have. Maybe they can carry more than they thought! Keep asking if they think they have enough, or if they want more.

Today we’re going to hear about how God is enough for His people. Whenever I point to you, you can say “enough” as loud as possible. Let’s try it. Practice with the children. Good job! Let’s invite God to help us learn more about Him today. Lead the children in a Prayer of Release. Tech: After Prayer, Cue Timeline Video

Who remembers what we talked about last week in The Big God Story? Interact with responses. God brought Joseph through many difficult situations because He had a big plan for his life. Invite kids to read Genesis 50:20 together aloud. (Tech: Cue Slide) “You planned to harm me. But God planned it for good. He wanted to save many lives!”

In fact, God planned to use Joseph to save many lives. We heard how God kept His promises and provided for His people. He provided (point to children) ENOUGH to save the family line of the promised Redeemer.

For about 400 years, the Israelites cried out to God for freedom from slavery. So God raised up a man named Moses to help free them. Even after they’d been freed, the Israelites found themselves being chased by the Egyptian army. Tech: Cue Egyptian Army slide.

God had so much more for His people, so He divided the Red Sea (Tech: Cue Red Sea slide.) so they could cross the sea and escape from the army. Then God closed the sea and washed the Egyptian army away. Again, God provided (point to children) ENOUGH to care for His people.

In the wilderness, God took care of His people. He made a covenant, or everlasting promise, to be their God and make them His people. He gave them the Ten Commandments to guide their lives and help them be set apart for Him, as His own people. Tech: Cue Ten Commandments slide.

Read Exodus 20:2–3 (Tech: Cue Slide) “I am the L ORD your God. I brought you out of Egypt. That is the land where you were slaves. Do not put any other gods in place of me.” This was the very first commandment, and very important.

The Israelites had lived in Egypt for 400 years, and the Egyptians worshipped many false gods. Tech: Cue Egyptian Gods slide. But these false gods couldn’t save them from the plagues. They couldn’t divide the seas. They had no power. They were not (point to kids) ENOUGH.

These false gods weren’t just powerless. They couldn’t be in relationship with the people who worshipped them. God wanted so much more for the Israelites. He longed to be in relationship with His people. He led His people to the Promised Land, a place where they could freely worship the one true God. He’d promised to make them His special people. He did this to show the world the love between God and His people.

The Israelites were so completely blessed to have the God of the universe choose them as His holy people. He began to transform them into His holy people. Invite kids to read Exodus 20:23 together aloud. (Tech: Cue Slide) “Do not put any other gods in place of me. Do not make silver or gold statues of them for yourselves.”

He required that His people recognize no other god—especially “gods of silver or gods of gold” they made with their own hands. This is the kind of thing the Egyptian people did, and God wanted His people to be different and set apart. He wanted them to understand that He is (point to kids) ENOUGH; they didn’t need anything more.

When their earthly leader, Moses, went to be with God on the mountain for 40 days, the Bible says God came upon the mountain in the form of a dense cloud and fire. The people lost their confidence. Tech: Cue Fiery Mountain slide. Moses was gone for too long and they feared God wasn’t (point to kids) ENOUGH for them.

The mountain was smoking. It shook as if there was a mighty earthquake. This scared the Israelite people. In their fear, they did exactly what God had commanded them not to do. They gathered up their gold jewelry, melted it down, and formed it into the image of a calf they could worship!

Though this might seem to us like a really weird thing to do, remember that the Israelites were used to seeing the Egyptians worship false gods. That was familiar to them. But this made god very sad! In fact, God was so upset that His people had disobeyed His first law that He wanted to just start over with a new group!

But Moses asked God to spare the people He’d brought out of Egypt—the people who were the children of Abraham, the man to whom He’d made an everlasting promise. God heard Moses’ prayers and, in His mercy, did not destroy the Israelites. Yet, they still faced consequences for their actions.

When Moses came down the mountain and saw what the Israelites were doing, he threw down the tablets on which the Ten Commandments were written. Tech: Cue Ten Commandments slide. Then he took the calf they had made and burned it in the fire. He poured the ashes in water and made the Israelites drink it!

The Israelites realized the great sin they had committed and they turned away from their sins. God rewrote the Ten Commandments on new tablets. Once again He promised He would go with them into the Promised Land. Next week we’ll hear more about their journey in the wilderness and how God is in control of everything.

This part of The Big God Story is a sad reminder of how easy it can be to not trust God when things get hard. God called His people to worship Him, the one true God, who is (point to kids) ENOUGH for them. Today, God still calls us to worship Him only. Though it may be difficult to worship a God whom we can’t see or touch, and to choose God over everything else, we know God is (point to kids) ENOUGH.

We can trust Him. This means living life with God is so much better than living life any other way! As we put our faith in God, we learn what it means to trust and obey Him—even when it’s hard. No matter what we face, He is with us. God will give us everything we need to live a life of faith. Through difficult times we can learn to depend on Him.

Let’s take a few minutes to talk with God today. You can pray about an area where you need His help or thank Him for being enough. Perhaps you want to confess to Him about not trusting Him. You can do that now.

Allow for some quiet moments of reflection. When you’re ready, you can take a ping-pong ball and a marker and write about an area in your life where you need God to provide you with enough right now. Maybe it’s a new friend, a job for your parents, health for someone in your family. Then you can bring it to the bowl and place it in the bowl to share that you trust God and you want His help in your life.

Once each child has finished their ping pong ball, they can return to their seat. After everyone is seated, dismiss children by grade.