Sunday School - 3rd Grade

Reading Portion: Exodus 5; 6:1-13; 7:10-13

Lesson:

1. After talking to the people, Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and told him to let God’s people go that they may worship God in the desert.

2. Pharaoh refused and made the Israelites work harder. Before, the Israelites were given straw to make bricks. Now, the Israelites had to find their own straw and make the same amount of bricks as they had when they were given straw. The people were getting hurt by the slave masters because they couldn’t make the same amount of bricks. They began to get mad at Moses and Aaron.

3. Moses cried out to God and God said that He will use His great power against Pharaoh – so much so that Pharaoh will actually let the people go. God encouraged Moses and told him to go again to Pharaoh and tell him to let the Israelites go.

4. Moses told God: “The Israelites wouldn’t listen to me, so surely the king will not listen to me either. I am not a good speaker.” But God told Moses to tell Aaron to throw down his walking stick in front of the king. And Aaron threw down his rod and it became a snake.

5. The king called his magicians and asked them to do it. And they threw down their sticks and their sticks turned into snakes, also! Aaron’s stick that was turned into a stick ate up all the other snakes. Even then, Pharaoh refused to let God’s people go.

6. But God wasn’t done with Pharaoh yet.


Moral: Just as God sent Moses to deliver His people out of affliction, He sends His servants to help us when we call upon Him.

Memory Verse: Psalm 34:17