Primary Four Religious Education

LESSON 1

THEME: CHRISTIANS WITH THE SAVIOUR.

UNIT: God’s continuing love for his people

• Learners will explore the special place of human beings in God’s plan.
• Develop gratitude foe God’s love as seen in Jesus’ coming as in John 3:17 and the following.

The order & importance of creation and importance of each

• The story of creation is found in the book of genesis written by Moses.
• Genesis means the beginning.
• To create is to bring some thing new in to existence.
• The process of creation took six days and God rested on the sventh day.
• He made this day Holly (Sabath ) for people to worship him.
• Sabbath means total rest.
• Creatures are living things created by God.
• Creations are all things created.

THE ORDER OF CREATION. ( Gen 1 and 2 )

• Learners shall read the order of creation from day one to day six.

EVALUATION.

1. What is to create?
2. In which book of the Bible is the story of creation?
3. Who wrote the book of Genesis?
4. In how many days did God create the universe?
5. How was man’s creation different from that of other creatures?

LESSON 2

God’s continuing love for his people.

• Learners will explain the different things God created on different days.

SECOND DAY

God created the sky (clouds)

Importance of the sky

The sky protects us from direct sun rays

THIRD DAY

God created several things on this day

• Water bodies.
• Land
• Commanded the earth to produce both grain and fruit producing plants.

FOURTH DAY

God created the sun, moon, stars.

FIFT DAY

God created all water animals and birds.

SIXTH DAY

God created all kinds of animals on land

• He lastly created man (Adam) Adam was created last because he was the must import created.
• He was created to take control over creations.
• Adam was created in God’s image; this makes him unique from other creatures.
• It also makes him (Adam) similar to God.

LESSON 3

God’s continuing love for his people.

ADAM

Adam was most loved by god, because of these reasons.

• God created him in his own image.
• God gave him control over the garden of Eden.
• God gave him power to control other creations

The story of creation was completed in six days.

THE SEVENTH DAY

• God rested on this day.
• He made it special by blessing it.
• He named this day special and named it Sabbath.
• Sabbath means total rest from work.

EVALUATION

1. What did God create on the following days;

1^st day____, 2^nd day ____, 3^rd day ____, 5^th day _____, 6^th day ____.

2. State the importance of the sky in the story of creation?
3. What did God create on the last day?
4. Why was Adam created last?
5. Why was Adam created according to the story of creation?
6. How is man different from other creatures?
7. In which one way is man similar to God?
8. State two indicators that man loved man must.
9. How did God make the Sabbath day special?
10. What does the word Sabbath mean?

LESSON 4

God’s continuing love for his people

• Learners will state / out line people’s responsibilities towards God’s creation.

Our responsibility for God’s creation.

• After creation ,God gave man the responsibility of controlling rand caring for all the other creations.
• God wanted people to use all the earthly resources wisely.

These are forests. Water bodies air, animals, bird and safe.

• We are likely to suffer if we misuse the environment.
• These are some of the ways we may suffer.
• Reduce rain fall
• Lack fire wood.
• Get diseases
• Get floods
• Lose soil fertility.

Ways people have misused their bodies.

• Un controlled cutting down of trees.
• By pollution
• Poor disposal of wastes.

Ways have misused their bodies.

• Through prostitution.
• Drunkenness
• Drug abuse

All these result in to disease and death

LESSON 5

1. Write down 3 ways how people have misused the environment.
2. How have people misused each of the resources below?
3. Vegetation ——————————-
4. Wild animals——————————-

• Land ——————————-

1. Water bodies ——————————-
2. List some of the things God gave us to look after
3. What happens to us if we misuse our environment?
4. Why is the cutting down of trees bad?
5. Why should we look after our soil?
6. State two ways of looking after our soil?

LESSON 6

THE STORY OF ADAM AND EVE

• The first man to be created by God was Adam.
• The name Adam means “mankind”
• He lived in the garden of Eden
• After creating Adam. God got a rib from him while he was a sleep.
• He created a woman out of the rib and named her Eva.
• The name Eva means “mother of mankind.”
• God put both Adam and Eva in the Garden of Eden.
• They were told to eat all fruits in the garden a part from the fruit from the tree in middle of the garden that gives knowledge of what is good and bad.
• The snakes / serpent tempted Eva in to eating the fruit that she would become as wise as God, and would be able to tell what is good and bad.
• After eating, she gave some to Adam and, this separated them from God.

EVALUATION

1. What do these names mean

Adam

Eve

2. How did Adam and Eve sin against God?
3. What separated man from God?
4. What was the first sin to be committed on earth?

LESSON 7.

SIN SEPARATES MAN AND GOD. (Gen3:14-24)

• After Adam and Eve eating the forbidden fruit, they already committed the first sin.
• It was called original sin because it was the first sin to be committed on earth.

A sin is an act of disobeying God / an act against God’s will.

Results of sin

• Shame                         – punishment
• Curses                         – suffering
• Death                           – diseases.

GOD’S PUNIOSHMENT TO ADAM, EVE AND THE SNAKE

• The immediate punishment was going out of the Garden of Eden.

ADAM

• To get food through sweat.
• To die
• To live in enmity with the snake

EVE

• Give birth in pain / hard labour
• To die
• To live in enmity with the snake.

THE SERPENT / SNAKE

• To eat dust.
• To move on its belly.
• To bite the off springs of man.
• To be crushed to death.

LESSON 8

GOD’S PEOPLE AND THE LAW

EVALUATION

1. What do you understand by the term original sin?
2. Why were Adam and Eve sent out of Eden?
3. What is a sin?
4. Give one reason why sinning is bad.
5. What was the immediate sin given to Adam and Eve?
6. What separated Adam and God?
7. Name the animal blamed for the down fall of man.
8. Who committed the original sin?
9. State four results of sin.
10. How did Adam break his relationship with God?
11. How did God reconcile with man kind?
12. State one reason for the coming of Jesus Christ.
13. What punishment did God give to the following after disobeying him?
14. Adam
15. Eve
16. The serpent / snake

LESSON 9

ASKING GOD FOR FORGIVENESS WHEN WE DO WRONG

PARABLES

• Parables are short stories teaching a spiritual truth.
• Jesus used parables in his teaching for people to believe in him as a messiah.
• He also used them for people to understand him.

Examples of parables used by Jesus

• The lost son
• The ten virgins.
• The rich fool
• The good Samaritan
• The sower
• The vine yard
• The lost sheep

THE LOST SON (Luke 15:11-32)

In the story of the lost son, a man had two sons; the young son was greedy and asked his father to give him his share of the property .The father agreed and shared his property among his sons. The young sold his property and went to a foreign land and spent all his money on everyday thing a miserable life of slavery until he started eating left over

After much suffering, he realized he had done something wrong, he got up, went to his father and asked for forgiveness.

His father felt pity for him and h//e too, forgive him and made a great feast for him.

LESSON 10

ASKING FOR FORGIVENESS FROM GOD WHEN WE DO WRONG.

• Learners will answer the following questions.

1. What are parables?
2. Why did Jesus use parable when teaching?
3. Give four examples of parables used by Jesus.
4. State three lessons we learn from the parable of the prodigal son.
5. When is God ready to forgive us?
6. Match list A with list B

Seeds on good soil                                                produced no grain

Seeds on rocky soil                                                          eaten by birds.

Dried up

Seeds in thorny bushes                                         Grew up and multiplied

Seed by the way side                                             a hundred times.

LESSON 11

THE PURPOSE OF THE COMING OF JESUS

THE MISSION OF JESUS.

Through the sin of Adam and Eve committed, all human beings fell short of God’s glory.

No human being was righteous enough to please God.

There was need for a savior.

A savior is some one who is able to get some one out of danger.

God sent his only son Jesus Christ to save us from our sins. In doing so, God reconciled with man.

The name Jesus means savior and Christ means the anointed.

So, Jesus Christ means the Anointed savior.

Through Jesus Christ death, our sins were washed away by this blood.

Ways how Jesus showed love for his people.

• Healed the sick
• Fed the hungry
• Gave sight to the blind
• Cast demons out of people
• Died for their sins.

EVALUATION

1. Who is a savior?
2. Why did man need a savior?
3. What did Jesus do in order to save us?
4. Name any sinner that Jesus visited.
5. Identify any four ways how Jesus showed love for people.

LESSON 12

JESUS MEETS ZACHAEUS.

When Jesus was going to Jericho, he met a rich tax collection called Zachaeus who was not liked by many people because he was a cheat.

Zachaeus was a very short man and could not see Jesus, so, he climbed a sycamore tree in order to see Jesus. When Jesus reached the tree, he called Zachaeus down and he (Zachaeus) said, “j will give half of my belongings to the poor and pay back four times to those I cheated “ he said this when Jesus visited his house. Jesus responded to this by saying, “salvation has come to this house”, by saying this, he meant Zachaeus had been forgiven of all the sins he had committed.

EVALUATION

1. Name the sinner Jesus visited.
2. Where was Jesus going when he met Zachaeus?
3. Why did Zachaeus climb a sycamore tree?
4. “I ‘will give half of my belonging to the poor and pay back four times to those I cheated”. Who said these words?
5. Write down the words Jesus said in response to the phrase in no. 4 above.
6. What did Jesus mean by those words?

TOPICAL QUESTIONS FOR C.R.E P.4

1. What is co-creation?

It is to bring new things in to existence by man.

2. Which book in the bible talks about the story of creation?

Genesis

3. Who wrote the above book? Moses.
4. In how many days did God create the universe? Six days.
5. What did God create on these days?

1^st day – light and darkness

2^nd day – sky (clouds)

3^rd day – water, earth, land and sea, plants

4^th day – sun, moon and stars.

5^th day – animals and birds.

6^th day – man

6. State the importance of the sky in creation.

It protects us from direct sun rays.

7. What did God create on the last day? Man.
8. Why was Adam created last? To look after other creatures.
9. Why did God make the Sabbath? Because he rested on this day.
10. What does the word Sabbath mean? It means total rest from work.
11. When do Christians go for general prayers? On Sabbath.
12. Write down three ways how people have misused the environment.
13. In controlled cutting of trees.
14. Poor garbage dumping

• Pollution of air and water.

1. Swamp drainage.
2. How have people misused each of the resources below,
3. Vegetation – bush burning, deforestation, swamp drainage
4. Wild animals- poaching

• Land – pollution

1. Water bodies – pollution
2. List some of the things God gave us to look after.

Land, water bodies, animals, vegetation.

5. What happens to us when we misuse the environment?
6. Lack rainfall
7. Shortage of firewood.

• Increase in diseases.

1. Floods
2. Loss of soil fertility
3. Why is the cutting down of trees bad?
4. Leads to soil erosion.
5. Reduce rainfall
6. How do people misuse their bodies
7. Through prostitution, drug abuse, alcoholism
8. State any two results of misusing our bodies.
9. Can lead to death.
10. One can get diseases

• Self neglect

9. Why should we look after our soil?
10. To conserve soil fertility.
11. To reduce soil erosion.
12. How can we look after our soil?
13. By mulching, land farrowing, applying fertilizers.
14. What do these names mean?
15. Adam – mankind
16. Eve – human being.
17. What separated man from God? Sin.
18. What is the original sin? It was the first sin committed on earth.
19. Why were Adam and Eve sent out of Eden? They disobeyed God.
20. What is a sin? It is an act of disobeying God.
21. Give one reason why sinning is bad.
22. It can bring shame, diseases, punishment, death, hatred, and suffering.
23. What immediate punishment was given to Adam and Eve?

They were sent out of the Garden of Eden

8. Which animal / creature is blamed for the down fall of man?

The snake / serpent.

9. Who committed the original sin? Adam and Eve.
10. State four results of sin.
11. Shame, death, suffering, hatred, punishment
12. How did Adam / man break his relationship with God?

By eating the forbidden fruit.

2. How did God reconcile with man kind?

By sending his only son Jesus Christ to dies for man.

3. State one reason for the coming of Jesus. To save man from sin.
4. What punishment did God give to the following for disobeying him?
5. Adam get food from sweat.
6. Eve produce in hard labour

• The serpent eat dust, crawl on its belly.

5. What are parables? They are short stories told by Jesus in his teachings.
6. Why did Jesus use parables in his teaching?

To confuse his enemies, for people to understand him well, for his followers to understand he was son of God.

7. Give any four examples of parables Jesus used in his teaching.
8. The sower
9. Ten virgins,

• Prodigal son

1. Rich fool
2. Unforgiving servant.
3. State any four lessons we learn from the prodigal son.
4. Avoid greed
5. Ask for forgiveness

• Being king

1. Being patient
2. Forgiving one another
3. When is God ready to forgive us? When we repent.
4. Match list A with list B.
5. Good soil                                                          produced no grain
6. Rock soil                                                           eaten by birds.
7. Thorny bush                                                    dried up.
8. Way side                                                           multiplied a hundred times.

1. Who is a savior? He is some one who can get others out of trouble.
2. Why did we need a savior? Because we had run short of God’s glory.
3. What did Jesus do in order to save us? He died on the cross for our sins.
4. Name any one sinner Jesus visited. Zachaeus.
5. Give two ways through which Jesus showed love to his people.
6. Healed the sick , made the blind see,
7. Made the crippled walk,

• Fed the hungry.

1. He died for their sins.

6. In which town did Jesus meet zachaeus? In Jericho.
7. Why did Zachaeus climb the sycamore tree? He wanted to see Jesus.
8. Who said, “I will give half of my belongings to the poor and pay back four times to those I cheated.” Zachaeus.
9. To whom were these words said? To Jesus.
10. What did he mean by these words? He had repented his sins.