Temptations To Take Dangerous Risks (Luke 4:1-14)

Scripture

Luke 4:1-14

Summary

Students will be challenged to recognize the danger of taking risks, and learn how to combat Satan’s temptations to take dangerous risks.

Materials Needed

• Several Stacks of Index Cards
• Pencils
• Masking Tape (tear off 6′ strips for each team)
• Bible (of course!)

Activity

1. After everyone has arrived, have students form teams of four
2. Hand each team a stack of index cards, a pencil, and a 6′ strip of masking tape.
3. Say: “Each team will make a ‘chain’ of dangerous risks that could hurt you or someone else. Make this chain by listing as many risks as you can on index cards, writing one risk per card. Then stick the cards to the masking tape, creating a chain of index cards. I challenge you to be the team with the longest chain. Ready? Go!”
4. After two minutes, have teams hold up their chains and read the risks they thought of. Then determine which team came up with the most risks. Have teams discuss these questions:
   1. What similarities do you see in the risks listed on your chains? Differences?
   2. What makes taking risks attractive?
   3. Which risks are you most prone to take? Explain.
   4. What’s the most dangerous risk you’ve ever been tempted to take? Did you take it? Why or why not?
5. Instruct each team to wrap one member in the index-card chain. (Make extra tape available in case teams need it.)

Read Scripture (Luke 4:1-14)

1. Explain what’s going on (Satan’s tempting Jesus to take risks that could hurt Him, even kill Him).
2. Say: “When someone challenges us to do something, we like to take the challenge, don’t we? But just as some of you are bound by a paper chain of risks, experimenting with risky behaviors can bind us, even hurt us. We might not understand how until we’re already too far gone. And that’s exactly the way the devil wants it. Satan has a plan for your life, and without your knowledge, he can encourage you to try things that will hurt you.
3. Look at the scripture again.
   1. Did Jesus accept Satan’s risks? (no)
   2. How did Jesus combat Satan’s temptations? (countered with scripture/Truth)

Have teams pray together that God will open their eyes to Satan’s schemes for enticing them away from God and closer to himself, and that He will also remind them of Scripture to combat Satan’s temptations.

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