John 1:1-18 Children's Sermon - Adopted into God's Family - Object Lesson for Kids

This free children’s message and object lesson is taken from the Gospel reading in John 1 verses 1-18. Download the printable teacher notes below and then watch the video teaching example as you prepare to share this children’s sermon with the kids in your church next Sunday.

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Main Objective: One of the beautiful truths of Christ is how He allows us to be part of God’s family. We are adopted as children of the most holy Heavenly king, which is reason to rejoice and be glad! Regardless of blood relations or appearances, we can know we are brothers and sisters in Jesus.

Transcript
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hi there it's Kristin again with
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ministry two children comm I have a
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special guest with me today and the
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children's message that we're going to
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be talking about has to do with families
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and has to do with adoption our gospel
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lesson comes from John one and we
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discussed how the word became flesh and
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how Christ dwelt among us and because of
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that we are able to be adopted into
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God's Holy Family and we can be not only
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children of God but brothers and sisters
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with one another so what you can do as
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you are delivering this message is you
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can start out by asking the students
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among you about their families and how
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their families are now you may want to
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also have with you some sort of maybe if
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you have time a little book about
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adoption or maybe a picture of someone
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who's been adopted I happen to have a
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child with me who has been adopted so it
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works out very well but you can make it
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your own and do whatever works best for
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you and suits your audience and your
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available things that you have so here's
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one possible way you could introduce
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this topic good morning children of God
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so I want to ask you today about your
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families can you tell me something about
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your family who's in your family who
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gets to who gets to live with you and be
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with you and your family I have a
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brother I have a mother and I have a
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father and I am adopted which means that
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my mommy and daddy had chosen to go
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through an adoption agency and they
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placed their name on a list and when a
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mommy who needed to give their baby up
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for adoption needed to go ahead with
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that and our name came up after their
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application was approved and I got to
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come home with my mommy and daddy and
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God had me picked out for my mommy and
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daddy and I get to live with my brother
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who was also adopted from a different
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family than mine was
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so sweet because most of the time my
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brother and I forget that we are adopted
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and when things come up with family
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history and doctor's visits and things
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like that we always say oh I keep
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forgetting I don't know my family
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history with medical stuff so it's a
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really blessing a really big blessing to
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have a loving family who is a true true
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heart with God about their love for me
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so even though you might not be
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blood-related they're just your whole
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family that's right
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that's so special and you know what's
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really special is I have a family too
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and I have mommy and daddy and brothers
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but sometimes I also have really close
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friends that feel like family to me
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because even though God didn't make us a
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blood-related family he still put our
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hearts together and so it kind of feels
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like we're family because we're part of
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God's family and you know what's really
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neat is that we all get to be part of
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God's family and the Gospel of John says
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that Jesus came from God that God came
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down and became a human became one of us
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and that was Jesus who lived among us
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and it says that because of that we get
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to be adopted into gods family that all
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we have to do is believe and believe in
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what Christ did for us and believe in
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God and we can also become sons and
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daughters of God and so the really mean
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thing is that God has chosen to make us
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his family - and that means that we get
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to be part of God's family and we get to
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inherit the good blessings and things he
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has for us and what's also special is
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that because we're all sons and
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daughters of God we can all be brothers
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and sisters with one another with one
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another so maybe you don't have a sister
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or maybe you don't have a brother or
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maybe there's not a mommy or a daddy
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that lives at your house families can
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look all different and that's okay
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because God gives us our families
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and we are all part of God's family too
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so because of Jesus we get to choose to
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be part of God's family we choose to
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have Jesus with us and that means that
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we can choose to accept that God wants
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us and he's already picked us out and
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wants us to be part of his family so no
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matter what your mommies and daddies and
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cousins and brothers and sisters and
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grandmas and grandpas aunts uncles no
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matter what they look like and no matter
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what you look like
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we are all part of God's adopted family
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and that's something very important and
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something that's very special because
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God has given us his son so that we can
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be part of his family so that's
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something that you can remember and
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because of that we can really work hard
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to love and accept and share with one
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another too so why don't we say a quick
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prayer and we will thank God for that
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and we can ask his help in helping us to
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share with one another his family dear
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God thank you for making this part of
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your family thank you for Jesus thank
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you for choosing us help us to remember
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that we are all part of your family help
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us to love one another to serve one
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another thank you for your love we love
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you God thank you for Jesus in his name
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amen have fun have a great week go make
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disciples we'll see you next time

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