05/28/2026
This week’s K-5 lesson is “God’s Tricky, Hairy, Blessed People” from Genesis 25; 27
Our weekly Memory Verse is:
“Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples from within you shall be divided; the one shall be stronger than the other, the older shall serve the younger.” Genesis 25:23
Our Big Truth is:
God blesses His people even when they keep getting things wrong.
Our Gospel Connection is:
The Biggest Story isn’t about God’s people getting it right, as much as it’s about God blessing His people even when they get things wrong. Abraham’s family tree is a twisted mess. There is Abraham’s clueless son (Isaac), his sneaky daughter-in-law (Rebekah), and the twins—foolish Esau and sneaky Jacob. God blesses the people of His promise. He makes even this twisted tree grow into something beautiful. Do you know how the New Testament begins? It begins with Jesus’s family tree! “Abraham was the father of Isaac, and Isaac the father of Jacob” (Matt. 1:2). From that trunk comes over forty more names.
And the final names listed? “Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom Jesus was
born” (1:16). The Snake Crusher came from sinners like Rebekah and Jacob.
And He came, the Bible tells us, to “save His people from their sins” (1:21). In fact, do you know what the name Jesus means? “Savior!” What a perfect name, for Jesus is our perfect Savior. Through Jesus, God chooses to save and bless people like you and me, even though we sin and get things wrong. Just like Jacob. Isn’t that beautiful?
