Case File 17
PART 5: The Ten
Commandments
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PART 5: The Ten Commandments
Notes from Your Team Leader:
Main Idea
Commandment 5 starts our look at how we can love others. Commandment 5 starts with
examining our love, obedience and honor to our parents.
Key Scriptures
Exodus 20:12
Ephesians 6:1-3
Memory Verse
Ephesians 6:1
Materials Needed
For Large Group
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 Any materials needed for the games planned
 Snack, one per student
 Pens, one per student
 Clue Bag
o A plate
o A trash bag
o Wax lips
o Glasses (reading glasses or some other glasses)
 The Poky Little Puppy by Janette Sebring Lowrey and Gustaf Tenggren, one copy
 Copies of Handout 2*, one per student
 A blank poster board, tape (to mount it on the wall) and marker to write the students’
answers
 A detective notebook for each student (any 3-ring binder)
*This needs to be 3-whole punched.
For Each Small Group
 Copies of Handout 1, one per student and leader
 Bibles, one per student
 Pens, one per student
Session Schedule
SNACK, CHECK IN & WELCOME (10 minutes)
As students arrive, welcome them at the door. Take attendance and collect any permission slips
that they have brought back. Distribute a snack to each student who wants one. After they have
finished eating snacks, gather them together for games.
GAME TIME (20 – 30 minutes)
Choose your game(s) from the www.crossroadsgames.com site or the printable games
handbook available on that site.
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LARGE GROUP, PART 1 (10 – 20 minutes)
Remind the students that they have been discovering how God wants us to honor him. God’s
laws are summed up in two commands: to love him and to love other people. He has also given
us ten commandments that elaborate on these. Commandments one through four all talked
about how to love God. Today, we are going to look at the fifth commandment. This is the first
one that has to do with loving other people. It tells us about God’s design for the relationship
between children and their parents. Say:
Before jumping into this though, let’s read a story that most of you probably know: The
Poky Little Puppy.
Read the story aloud and then ask the students to discuss the relationship between the puppies
and their mother. If they were humans, would their relationship honor God? Why or why not?
Say:
Today we are going to discover what God expects of children in relationship to their
parents. That’s our case. Before we get on that case, let’s check out our clues for today.
Take out the garbage bag. Say:
A plain garbage bag. Weird. What could this have to do with our relationship with our
parents? Any ideas, detectives? (Accept the students’ ideas freely.)
Take out the plate or dish. Say:
A plate. Hmm. What could this be doing in here today? Do you have any ideas? (Again,
accept the students’ ideas freely.).
Take out the wax lips. Say:
Wax lips. These sure are silly. What could they have to do with how we relate to our
parents? (Again, accept the students’ ideas freely.)
Finally, take the glasses out of the bag. Say:
Glasses. Any ideas what this might be doing in our clue bag today? (Take all answers.)
Well, it looks like we have a lot more questions than answers right now. Why don’t you go
to your investigation teams to get more information about our case today and begin
working on solving it? But first, let me pray for you.
Pray with the group and dismiss them to small groups.
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SMALL GROUP (“Investigation Teams”) (15 – 20 minutes)
Sit in the corner of the room with your back to the wall. Ask the children to sit around you in a
semi-circle so that they are facing you and the wall and cannot easily see the children in other
groups. Go around the circle student-by-student and ask them to share their high and low point
from the previous week. The students may each share anything that they would like or they
may pass. Be sure that when a student is sharing, the rest of the group is listening. Say:
This is an extremely important case. How many of you have parents?
Right! So, knowing how God wants us to treat our parents would be pretty important in
our lives, wouldn’t it? Let’s check out our case file for today, shall we?
Open up the case file folder, which inside will have copies of Handout 1 (one per student). Read
the questions on the handout aloud with the students. Remind the students that the Bible is a
place where we can look for answers to some of the most important questions in life. Together
with the students, look up and read the passages listed by each question.
Question-by-question discuss the answer(s) that the Bible gives. Make some notes based on the
students’ observations from the biblical text. (You may also ask the students to make some
notes if they are capable of doing so.) The notes can be written directly on this handout.
LARGE GROUP, PART 2 (“Solving the Case”) (20 – 30 minutes)
Gather the students together in one place. Ask them to share what they found in the Bible
question-by-question. After discussing a question, lead the group to come up with an answer
that is concise and accurate, based on the Bible, and on which they can all agree. Write this
answer on a poster board where the students can all see it. Ask them to write the answer down
in their Detective Notebook page (Handout 2, which will go into a loose-leaf binder). Go
through each of the questions in this way so that the whole group has agreed upon a formal
answer for each question and has copied these answers into their Detective Notebooks.
Ask the students to put their notebook page (Handout 2) into their Detective Notebook and
then to get a partner and to practice asking and answering these questions plus the ones from
the previous lessons.
Regroup the students together again. Re-visit each of the clues and talk about what each has to
do with today’s case:
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o GARBAGE BAG AND PLATE/DISH→ Explain that these go together and represent
chores around the house. God wants us to obey our parents by doing whatever
chores they give us—even washing dishes or taking out the trash—cheerfully and
quickly.
o WAX LIPS→ These lips remind us that we need to honor our parents with what we
say: no back talk, no put downs. Only respectful speech for our parents should
come out of our mouths.
o GLASSES→ Say: This is a little trickier, but the glasses represent that we should be
on the lookout for ways to serve and help our parents. We should not wait to be
asked, but we should look for ways to help and then we should do those things.
This is an important way that we can honor our parents.
Close the group in prayer.
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For Leaders’ Eyes Only
POSSIBLE ANSWERS
Q. What is the fifth commandment?
A. “Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long
in the land the Lord your God is giving you.”
Q. What does the fifth commandment tell us to do?
A. To love, respect, and obey our parents
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CASE FILE #17: THE TEN COMMANDMENTS, PART 5
DETECTIVE NOTES
Collect evidence by using your Bible. Answer the questions below.
1. What is the fifth commandment? (Exodus 20:12)
2. What does the fifth commandment tell us to do? (Ephesians 6:1–3)
Lesson 17, Handout 1
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CASE FILE #17: THE TEN
COMMANDMENTS, PART 5
FILE FACTS
CLUE #1
1.
What is the fifth commandment? (Exodus
20:12)
2.
What does the fifth commandment tell us to
do? (Ephesians 6:1–3)
CLUE #2
CLUE #3
Lesson 17, Handout 2
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