Deep Down Detectives Unit 9:
Jesus, Immanuel, God with Us
Unit 9 Overview
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What Did Jesus Come to Do? Jesus Came to Bring Us to God! Here’s why.
In the beginning, God created the world perfect. What a wonderful, special closeness people enjoyed with Him! Yes, it was “Perfect Wonderfulness” knowing God and living in His world. It could have stayed that way forever… but it did not. All of this perfection was broken when people disobeyed God. The big Bible word for disobeying God is “sin.”
When we look around us we can see the sadness that sin brought into God’s good world. So much in this world is not perfect or wonderful anymore! We’ve lost the special closeness with God, too. Yes, when sin came into the world, it spoiled so many things.But would all this sin and sadness last forever? People certainly deserved for it to. After all, they had turned away from God. Now people deserved His punishment, not His love.
But God treats us so much better than we deserve! From the beginning, He had an amazing plan to bring sinful people like us back to Himself. How? He promised to send a Savior. That Savior was Jesus, God’s own Son. Jesus lived a perfect life, then He gave it up as the full payment for sins as He suffered and died on the cross. On the third day, Jesus rose from the dead, showing He had really done it–He had beaten sin and death for God’s people! We can become God’s people, too, when we turn away from our sins and trust in Jesus as our Savior. Then, we will get to know God in our hearts; and one day, we will get to go live with God and enjoy all of His Perfect Wonderfulness forever! We will learn 6 truths about Jesus in this unit.
Bible Truths Included in Unit 9 Curriculum
(3 lessons available for each Bible Truth. You can choose to do 1,2 or 3 lessons.)
What Did Jesus Come to Do? Jesus Came to Bring Us to God…
- Bible Truth 1: He Left His Home in Heaven to Save Us
- Bible Truth 2: He Never, Ever Disobeyed God
- Bible Truth 3: He Taught about God and Did Amazing Things
- Bible Truth 4: He Died on the Cross for the Sins of God’s People
- Bible Truth 5: He Rose from the Dead
- Bible Truth 6: He Went Up to Rule in Heaven
Looking just for bits and pieces of Unit 9, instead of whole curriculum downloads? Go to Bits and Pieces!
TIPS FOR USING THIS CURRICULUM:
Here are some tips that will really help you fit our curriculum to your needs.
1. This is the Works:
This section contains FULL DOWNLOADS of curriculum, just like the hard copies available through amazon.com. Looking for just a story or a particular, single resource? Go to Deep Down Detectives Bits and Pieces.
Few other churches choose to use all of the curriculum as we use it at Capitol Hill Baptist Church, because we have created enough curriculum to stretch 3 hours each Sunday (Sunday School and Church). You may feel easily overwhelmed.
2. Take the Tour:
Look at this section from the Praise Factory Curriculum Tour to get a good sense of what is offered in this curriculum and how it is structured, were you to use it as the lesson plans suggest (structure of every class is the same… learn it, once and you’ve got it down.) Deep Down Detectives Tour
3. Follow the Stars:
Also, notice that within the lesson plan, there is a simple, basic lesson mapped out for you with stars next to these key elements. Many people using the lesson plan have found the stars just what they need.
4. Use Bits and Pieces Instead:
I would strongly encourage you to choose Bits and Pieces a la carte downloads instead of these full curriculum downloads. Bits and Pieces allows you to download just what you need. If for some reason you find you want to use most of the curriculum as ordered in our lesson plan, then these full unit downloads may be useful to you. Bits and Pieces has instructions about how to helpfully choose what you need. I would suggest looking at that first. Go to Deep Down Detectives Bits and Pieces.
Unit 9 Downloads/Hard Copies
ESV Resources for Unit 9 (You will use all four)
1. Deep Down Detectives Unit 9 ESV Core Curriculum
(overview, lesson plans, stories, sheet music, take-home sheets, crafts, etc.)
2. Deep Down Detectives Unit 9 ESV Simple Story Scenes
(Bible truth overview sheets, story scenes for each Bible truth story, and take-home sheets)
3. Deep Down Detectives Unit 9 ESV Visual Aids Packages:
(Bible truth key concept signs, stories, and pictures that illustrate them)
3A. Deep Down Detectives Unit 9 ESV Visual Aids with Simple Story Scenes
3B. Deep Down Detectives Unit 9 ESV Visual Aids with Large Storyboard Figures
(with large format storyboard pictures, for boards AT LEAST 36″ x 48″)
3C. Deep Down Detectives Unit 9 ESV Small Format Visual Aids
(with small format storyboard pictures, for boards 24″ x 36″ to 36″ x 48″)
4. Deep Down Detectives Unit 9 ESV audio mp3’s (download only)
Core Curriculum Resources (Amazon or dowmload):
Lesson plans, stories, activities,song lyrics and sheet music for the Bible Truths.
Visual Aids Book (Amazon or dowmload): All of the colorful signs and storyboard pics used in the each of the four Bible Truths. I highly suggest you purchase these through amazon rather than downloading them. A lot of ink!
About the pdf files: Each of the pdf files are large files and are bookmarked for easy reference. However, the bookmarks will not show up until you actually download the file onto your computer. When it opens for viewing on the website, you will only see the pages to the document (no bookmarks). FORMATTED FOR DOUBLE SIDED PRINTING
Audio mp3s (Zipped files or live play from this website)
The audio mp3 files: Each audio mp3 file is a zipped file. That means you need to download it onto your computer and then unlock the file by “extracting” the individual files. This process varies with computer software, but is very simple and usually only requires a “right click” with your mouse and choose “extract all.”
NIV Resources for Unit 9 (You will use all four)
1. Deep Down Detectives Unit 9 NIV Core Curriculum
2. Deep Down Detectives Unit 9 NIV Simple Story Scenes
(Bible truth overview sheets, story scenes for each Bible truth story, and take-home sheets)
3. Deep Down Detectives Unit 9 NIV Visual Aids Packages:
(Bible truth key concept signs, stories, and pictures that illustrate them)
3A. Deep Down Detectives Unit 9 NIV Visual Aids with Simple Story Scenes
3B. Deep Down Detectives Unit 9 NIV Visual Aids with Large Storyboard Figures
(with large format storyboard pictures, for boards AT LEAST 36″ x 48″)
2B. Deep Down Detectives Unit 9 NIV Small Format Visual Aids
(with small format storyboard pictures, for boards 24″ x 36″ to 36″ x 48″)
4. Deep Down Detectives Unit 9 NIV audio mp3’s (download only)