Grades 3-6 Lesson 29 Handout for Sunday School
The Promised Messiah       

 Memory Verse:

“For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.”  Isaiah 9:6

Key verses for this week: 

“And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.”  Genesis 3:15

“For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.”  Romans 5:19

“He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.”  Isaiah 53:3

“And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name Jesus; for he shall save his people from their sins.”  Matthew 1:21

Fill in the Blanks

1. Every person is credited with                    sin.
2. Every person can be credited with                    righteousness.
3. God predicted that Satan would one day bruise Jesus’                .
4. God promised Satan that one day Jesus would bruise his                 .
5. Jesus’ earthly parents,                 and               , received the last prophecy of the Messiah’s birth.

True or False

1. God’s plan to credit us with Adam’s sin was fair. 

2. Jesus was the Messiah that God had promised in The Old Testament. 

3. Jesus fulfilled the Jews’ expectations of their promised Messiah. 

4. An angel explained to Mary and Joseph that Mary’s baby was the promised Savior of the world. 

5. Isaiah prophesied that the Messiah would be strong and handsome.

Devotional Poem:  Unexpected Messiah

He wasn’t what they expected,

But surely was prophesied;

Not welcomed as Messiah

By those with blinded eyes;

But to the ones who understood,

The Babe was God in man;

He was the One they’d waited for,

Their sacrificial Lamb.