Friday- Program 5- Pick Kindness
Speaker 1: Good morning (or afternoon) guys! Well, today is our last day at the Son Harvest Fair Week of Prayer! We have had a really good week!
Speaker 2: Yes, we have! Let’s review. What fruit did we talk about on Monday? How about on Tuesday? And on Wednesday? To whom did these first three fruits really direct themselves? That’s right! It was our responds to God for His awesome love!
Speaker 2: And yesterday we started the 2nd group of three fruits with what fruit? And to who do these fruits direct themselves? That’s right, these fruits are about how we relate to others.
Speaker 1: I think that I have been seeing some fruit in the lives of the students. Don’t you think so teachers?
Speaker 2: I have too, just yesterday ______(tell of someone who showed patience).
Speaker 1: Yap, just like our bean plants have been growing in the back of the room, so we have been growing as the Holy Spirit has been working in us!
Speaker 2: That’s right! Now let’s add another fruit today. As pour patience grows, we’ll find it easy to act it out- in kindness. God shows us his patience through his kindness. The more he’s kind to us, the more we want to pass it on.
Speaker 1: Boys and girls, would any of you be able to tell of a time when someone was kind to you? (Call three or four up one by one to tell of the kindness into the microphone.)
Speaker 2: These sure are arts of kindness. When these kids were asked,” How can you be kind?“they said this.(show clip)
But did you know that the fruit of kindness is even more?
Speaker 1: Really, ______?
Speaker 2: Yes! The fruit of the spirit kindness is consistently, purposefully kind!!
Speaker 1: It’s consistently, purposefully kind?
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Speaker 2: So I can see from that video that real kindness is when I plant love and let it grow in me to create more love. Colossians 3:12 says “You are holy and dearly loved. So put on tender mercy and kindness as if they were your clothes!”
Speaker 1: I like that comparison. I mean, I wouldn’t go around naked, would you? So I shouldn’t go around without wearing kindness. It’s being considerate of people’s feelings, being polite, going out of your way to encourage and reach out.
Speaker 1: 2 Timothy 2:24 says “Be kind to everyone”. Let’s look at this video clip of a boy named Tyler Page. He sure wanted to be kind to kids he didn’t even know. Watch!
Speaker 2: Wow! I like that example. Tyler and all is friends are practicing kindness. Real kindness is an all-the-time thing. Kindness never gives up on people.
Speaker 1: “God is kind to people who are evil and are not thankful. So have mercy, just as your Father has mercy” (Luke 6:35-36). So when we have the fruit of kindness, we are even kind to the unkind!
Speaker 2: That would be kindness! Kind to the unkind!
Speaker 1: The Bible has a great story about kindness, maybe boys and girls you have heard this one before. It goes like this:
Speaker 2: Luke 10: 25-37 Once there was a young lawyer who had gotten really good grades in school. He wanted to test Jesus so he asked him, “What must I do to be saved?”
Speaker 1: And Jesus looked him right in the eye and answered, “What do the scriptures say? How well do you understand them?”
Speaker 2: The young lawyer answered, “The scriptures say I should love the Lord with all my heart, mind, and strength, and then also love my neighbor as much as I love myself.”
Speaker 1: “Right!” Jesus responded. “You sure do know the scriptures! Good Job! Now keep doing this and you will have eternal life!”
Speaker 2: But the young lawyer was not satisfied with this answer because there were just some people he didn’t love and would like to get out of having to show them love and kindness. So he asked, “Teacher, how can I know who my real neighbor is?”
Speaker 1: Jesus thought he’d help the young lawyer understand better and longer if he told him a story. I know I learn better with a story. So he started the story with….”Once there was a man from Jerusalem who left his town to go to Jericho on business. While he was traveling he came to a isolated spot in the canyons. While he was there, a gang of thieves jumped out and attached him taking his money, clothes, and leaving him lying in the desert sun half dead.”
Speaker 2: Wow!! That story would get my attention! Let’s see…what happened next? (pause rubbing head.) Right. While the man was lying there in the desert sun half dead, a Jewish priest happened to be traveling that same road on his way to Jerusalem. When he saw the half dead man on the road, he decided not to touch him because priests are unclean if they touch dead bodies and they can’t work in the temple for awhile. He also thought the man might be a Gentile, so there was no need to help that kind of man. So he kept going.
Speaker 1: Later another man came by who was a Levite and often they worked in the temple too. When he came to the half dead man, he did stop and looked, but seeing the man’s condition and thinking he was dead, he also decided not to make himself unclean with touching a dead body. Now the Levite did recognize that the half dead man was a Jew just like him. But, he too, went on his way.
Speaker 2: Hard to believe such a sad story, isn’t it. Seems like the Priest and the Levite did not have the fruit of the kindness. The kindness that is consistent and purposeful! The kindness that God asks us to have for everyone! I sure hope that we wouldn’t walk by and be so unkind.
Speaker 1: Remember, ______, and boys and girls, that the young lawyer is listening to this story too as Jesus tells it. He must be thinking about those whom he doesn’t find easy to love or be kind too.
So Jesus goes on with the story and says, finally a third man comes by who is of the Samaritan race. Though they too are part Jew, they are hated by the Jews. Really hated!
Speaker 2: Remember boys and girls, fruit of the spirit kindness is kindness to the unkind. So here we have two men who are suppose to be enemies and maybe some Jews have been unkind to the Samaritan man and he could have reason not to want to be kind to the half dead Jew by the road in the desert sun.
Speaker 1: He could! But his kindness is the real thing! The God produced kindness in the heart of a man by the Holy Spirit!
Speaker 2: Right! So the Samaritan when he saw the half dead man felt sorry for him and decided to help him, even though he could tell that he was a Jew. Kind of like Tyler feeling sorry for those boys and girls in Africa and deciding to help them.
Speaker 1: The Samaritan sooths the Jews wounds with salve and helps him on his donkey. Then he takes the man to the nearest inn on the outskirts of Jericho where he cared for him all through the night---consistently and purposefully!
Speaker 2: The next morning before he left, he gave the manager of the place abut two day’s wages and said, “I’d like you to take care of this man until he’s well enough to go on. If it cost more than this, I’ll pay the rest when I stop here next time.
Speaker 1: Wow!!! I hope the young lawyer is getting this. I hope you are too!
Speaker 2: Then Jesus turned to the young lawyer and asked, “Which of the three men do you think acted as a neighbor with kindness to the wounded man?”
Speaker 1: Duh!!! He better get this right!
Speaker 2: The lawyer answered, “The one who cared for him.”
Speaker 1: Then Jesus replied, “Anyone who needs help is your neighbor. Be ready to what this Samaritan did. Be kind consistently and purposefully!”
Speaker 2: “Always try to be kind to each other and to everyone else.” 1 Thessalonians 5:15
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Speaker 1: We’ve really had a good time with you at the Son Harvest County Fair! It’s been great learning how all the fruits are really just love and we get that from hanging out with God! So keep hanging out with Him and your fruits will continue to grow and ripen toward perfection! You will be sweet and juicy!
Speaker 2: Let’s kneel for prayer.
Dear God,
Thank you so much for this special week of hanging out with you. Father, when we hang out with you, your spirit is at work in us and all these wonderful things start happening in us. We just growing love, sprouting joy and planting peace toward you and with you. And then Father, we begin to produce the patience and pick the kindness with our families and our classmates. God, you are just so awesome! Thank you! Please continue to grow us!
In Jesus’ name,
Amen.