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We used this in Buffalo Rock State Park with 6
adults and 6 children around a picnic table.

Opening Prayer

JAMES 2:10 For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in
one point, he is guilty of all....

2:14 What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith,
and have not works? can faith save him?

....

2:17 Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.

2:18 Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew me
thy faith without thy works, and I will shew thee my faith by my
works.

2:19 Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils
also believe, and tremble.

2:20 But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?

2:21 Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had
offered Isaac his son upon the altar?

2:22 Seest thou how faith wrought with his works, and by works was
faith made perfect?

2:23 And the scripture was fulfilled which saith, Abraham believed
God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness: and he was called
the Friend of God.

2:24 Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by
faith only.

  Prayer of confession. "Now let us each think of our sins this past
week and silently confess them."

Hymn: take requests. Jesus  Loves Me

GENESIS: Act it out. Abraham. Isaac. Donkey. Two young men. Sheep.
Angel.

22:1 And it came to pass after these things, that God did tempt
Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham: and he said, Behold, here I am.

22:2 And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou
lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for
a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.

22:3 And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his ass,
and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and clave
the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went unto the place
of which God had told him.

22:4 Then on the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the
place afar off.

22:5 And Abraham said unto his young men, Abide ye here with the ass;
and I and the lad will go yonder and worship, and come again to you.

22:6 And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering, and laid it upon
Isaac his son; and he took the fire in his hand, and a knife; and they
went both of them together.

22:7 And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said, My father: and
he said, Here am I, my son. And he said, Behold the fire and the wood:
but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?

22:8 And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a
burnt offering: so they went both of them together.

22:9 And they came to the place which God had told him of; and Abraham
built an altar there, and laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his
son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood.

22:10 And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay
his son.

22:11 And the angel of the LORD called unto him out of heaven, and
said, Abraham, Abraham: and he said, Here am I.

22:12 And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou
any thing unto him: for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou
hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me.

22:13 And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold behind
him a ram caught in a thicket by his horns: and Abraham went and took
the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering in the stead of his
son.

22:14 And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovahjireh: as it is
said to this day, In the mount of the LORD it shall be seen.

22:15 And the angel of the LORD called unto Abraham out of heaven the
second time,

22:16 And said, By myself have I sworn, saith the LORD, for because
thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only
son:

22:17 That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will
multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is
upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his
enemies;

22:18 And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed;
because thou hast obeyed my voice.

Prayer of supplication: Go around in a circle and each person says a
short prayer.

ROMANS 3:31 Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid:
yea, we establish the law.

4:1 What shall we say then that Abraham our father, as pertaining to
the flesh, hath found?

4:2 For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to glory;
but not before God.

4:3 For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was
counted unto him for righteousness.

4:4 Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but
of debt.

4:5 But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth
the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.

4:6 Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto
whom God imputeth righteousness without works,

4:7 Saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose
sins are covered.

4:8 Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin.

Hymn: take requests. "Mercy is falling".

Sermon. Faith v. works, on the three texts above. (4 minutes)

BENEDICTION:

The  grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the
fellowship of the Holy Ghost, be with us all evermore. Amen. (2 Cor.
xiii.)

OR

Everyone says, "THe Lord bless us till we all meet again."

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