Sunday School - 3rd Grade

Reading Portion: Luke 8: 26 - 35

Vocabulary:
Demon possessed–a bad spirit taking control over a person
Tomb – a place where dead people are buried.

Lesson:

1. Jesus and his disciples were sailing and arrived at a place called Gadarenes. When Jesus stepped onto land, a demon possessed man came to him. This man was completely naked and lived in tombs.

2. Jesus began to order the bad spirit out of the man.

3. The man shouted, “What do you want with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I beg you, don't torture me!"

4. Jesus asked man what his name was. The man replied, “Legion.” Legion means that multiple bad spirits (or demons) have gone into him.

5. These demons in the man all began to beg Jesus not to let them go to hell.

6. Nearby, a bunch of pigs were grazing and the demons asked Jesus to send them into the pigs instead. And once the demons went into the pigs, the pigs went crazy and drowned in the lake.

7. The man who had the demons no longer had demons in him. He was fully clothed and wasn’t so crazy anymore.


Moral: Though a person may be bound by many devils for several years, if he comes to Jesus, perfect deliverance can be experienced.

Memory Verse: John 8: 36; Ephesians 6:11