Object Lesson for Kids - Clean Hands and Hearts

Object Lesson for Kids - Clean
Hands and Hearts
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Here’s another summer outdoor activity that serves as a Bible
Study. In the Bible, the phrase “clean hands and a pure heart”
not only describes someone who is pure both inside and
outside, but it also speaks of what we do (hands) and what we
think (hearts).

What You Need
• Bible
• towels
• mud / dirt and water
• bucket
• water faucet

What to Do
1. Mix dirt and water in a bucket to make thick mud
2. Gather the youth around the bucket of mud and have them
dip their hands in the mud.
3. Have the youth sit down while you read Psalm 51. Fairly
quickly, the mud will dry and become uncomfortable.

Take it to the Next Level
DEBRIEF
• Ask the youth what David was feeling when he wrote this Psalm?
• Ask them to share the circumstances of the Psalm (2 Samuel 11)?
• Ask the youth to compare what the mud feels like to how David was
feeling.
• Ask the youth to join hands and then describe what it is like to hold
a muddy hand.

MAKE IT SPIRITUAL
• Ask youth to share ways that the mud similar to
sin?
• What would happen if we never washed our hands?

MAKE IT PRACTICAL
• How does sin affect us when we come before God?
• How does sin affect how God sees us?
• How does it affect relationships with God and others
around us?
• Use some of the scriptures listed below to discuss sin
and cleansing.

Closing Activity
Bring the youth to a water faucet and help them to wash their hands.
Let them use towels to dry each others hands.
Ask the youth to share how they feel now, and how it feels to not only
hold clean hands, but also to help others get their hands clean. How
does this relate to confession, God’s cleansing, and our mission as
Christians? How does clean hands affect how we live life?

Explain some people think going to church, being nice, doing good
things is all you have to do to remove the sin in your life. Those things
are good but they are seen on the outside we have to also clean
ourselves on the inside. We can wash the dirt off our bodies, but
what can we do about sin which is inside our hearts? Water cannot
remove sin. Only the blood of Jesus can wash away our sins. And once
we are clean before God, we are given the ministry to reconcile
others to God, to help them to find forgiveness in him and also be
cleansed from sin.

MAKE IT PERSONAL
Ask each youth to have some quiet moments with God of
confession, and contemplating what he has done for us and how
they can help others find the cleansing of Christ

Scriptures
Matthew 23:27-28
“Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You
are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but
on the inside are full of the bones of the dead and everything
unclean. In the same way, on the outside you appear to people as
righteous but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness.”

Mark 7:14-15
“Again Jesus called the crowd to him and said, ‘Listen to me, everyone,
and understand this. Nothing outside a person can defile them by going
into them. Rather, it is what comes out of a person that defiles them.’”
Proverbs 20:9
“Who can say, ‘I have kept my heart pure; I am clean and without sin’?”
Romans 3:23
“for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God”

1 John 1:9
“If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will
forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.”
Isaiah 1:18
“Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as
snow; though they are red as crimson, they shall be like
wool.”

Hebrews 10:22-23
“let us draw near to God with a sincere heart and with the
full assurance that faith brings, having our hearts sprinkled
to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and having our bodies
washed with pure water. Let us hold unswervingly to the
hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful.”

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