FBkids: Easter 3 - Jesus' Sacrifice

Jesus' Sacrifice

Hi boys and girls! I am praying you all are having a good week. We really miss seeing you all at church. We can’t wait until we can get together again and worship God at church! Until then, I hope you are enjoying our online lessons.

This week we are going to talk about a very sad day in history that lead to the greatest day in history.

Do you remember what we learned about last week? We learned how Jesus’ friend betrayed Him. Judas turned Jesus over to the religious leaders of the time who didn’t believe that He was the son of God. They were jealous of the attention He was getting and decided to get rid of Him. They plotted to have him arrested and then crucified.

Do any of you know what you want to be when you grow up? I bet some of you want to be doctors, teachers, mechanics, police officers, or lots of other things. Did you know that Jesus was born for a very specific purpose? He was born to die on the cross to pay the price for our sins. His death did more than just that though. When a sinner trusts Jesus for salvation, the righteousness of Jesus is credited to him. In God’s sight those who trust Christ are righteous.

If you are on a sports team, what happens when a player gets hurt? Someone else plays for them, don’t they? They substitute. A substitute is someone who does something that you are unable to do, in your place and on your behalf. This is what Jesus did for us. He gave His own life to save ours. He died so that we could be right with God. Because of His sacrifice our sins can be forgive and we can have a right relationship with God.

So, Jesus was brought to Pontius Pilate, who was the governor at that time. He asked Jesus if He was the king of the Jews. Jesus said, “Yes, I am.” This made the religious leaders angry. Pilate couldn’t find any reason to punish Jesus, but the crowds demanded He be crucified. Pilate finally told the people to do what they wanted with Him.

They led Him to a hill called Golgotha. When they reached the top they nailed Jesus to the cross and placed it between to other prisoners. After so much suffering, Jesus called out, “It is finished!”, and he died.

This seems like a sad story, but it is actually one of the greatest events in history. Jesus died knowing that you and I would do things wrong, that we would sin. Even all those years ago, as He was dying on the cross, He knew what we were going to do in our lives.

He died for our sins. So now when we ask God to forgive us, and we are truly sorry for what we’ve done, God forgives us. He forgets it even happened! He loves us that much!

What an amazing gift from an amazing savior!