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Session Outline
Goals and Objectives
Materials and Prep
Focus and Connect
Explore, Apply and Respond
Insights from Scripture
RESPOND: (5–10 minutes)
Choose one or both of these options, depending on what you feel will work best with your class:
1 - Hand out paper and pens. Ask students to think about the following question and write a response to it on their paper. Assure them that they will not be sharing their answers. Are you more concerned about pleasing God or pleasing others? What do you think God is saying to you today about giving in to pressures in your life?
2 - Divide the class into pairs. Ask students to pray with each other, naming specific pressures if they feel comfortable doing so, and promising to keep each other in prayer during the coming week.
Conclude by reading the key verse together. Optional: have students print it on a note card to take home with them.
Teacher Tip: It should be made clear during the lesson that God still loves us even when we do give in to pressures that separate us from God. Even though we can be unfaithful to God, God is always faithful to us, and will give us the strength and courage to overcome those pressures.

INSIGHTS FROM THE SCRIPTURE:
In 610 B.C., Judah became a vassal to Egypt at the Battle of Megiddo. Thus the fate of Judah became tied to the future of Egypt. Later in 605 B.C. at the Battle of Carchemish, Egypt and Judah were defeated by King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon and became a vassal to Babylon. The Israelites were disobeying God, but God had compassion on them and sent prophets to lead the people to repentance. They didn’t listen to the prophets and continued to sin. In the third year of Jehoiakim’s reign as king of Judah, God allowed Judah to be taken captive by King Nebuchadnezzar—he took Jehoiakim and some treasures from the temple and brought them to Babylon.


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