Object: Gun, knife, robe, bottle of poison.

Note: This lesson may only beappropriate for older children not the children who typically come forward for the Moments With The Children during a Sunday service. Use your judgement here.

Good morning, boys and girls. How many boys and girls think that they have ever hated someone? I mean really hated? [Let them hold up their hands.] Can anyone tell me about the time he really hated someone without telling me the person's name? [See if you can get a few stories.] How did you feel when you hated them? Did you feel good and wish that you could find somebody else to hate as much as you hated that person? Would you like to have a whole lot of people to hate, a dozen or more? [Let them answer.] You wouldn't? You don't like to hate?

Has anyone ever …