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Deuteronomy 30 · For teachers and parents

Answer Key: Choose Life

Answers here are a guide. Welcome any answer that shows a child is thinking about the story, and celebrate their effort. Talk About It questions are open, so they have no set answers.

PreschoolGod's Word Is Near

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Coloring and finding page: any careful coloring is a win. Help your child point to and name each picture above.

KindergartenChoose Life

HEART → picture 4PATH → picture 3WORD → picture 2LIFE → picture 1

Grade 1The Word Is Near

God will change your heart. → picture 3The word is very near. → picture 5Choose the way of life. → picture 2It is not up in the sky. → picture 4It is not over the sea. → picture 1

Order:

1. Return to God2. God will change your heart3. The word is very near4. Choose life

Grade 2Choose Life!

  1. What will God do if they turn back to Him? Bring them home (circle)
  2. Is God's word too hard? No (circle)
  3. Where is God's word? In your mouth and in your heart
  4. What did Moses tell them to choose? Life (circle)
  5. Who is your life? God (circle)
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Grade 3Life Set Before You

  1. What would God do if they returned to Him? Gather them and bring them back to the land
  2. What would God do to their hearts? Circumcise them so they would love Him
  3. Where was the word? In their mouth and in their heart
  4. Who did Moses call as witnesses? Heaven and earth
  5. What three things does choosing life mean? To love God, obey His voice, and cling to Him
1: Return to God2: God will change your heart3: The word is very near4: Choose life

Grade 4A Changed Heart and a Clear Choice

  1. What would God do inside them? Circumcise their hearts so they could love Him fully
  2. Where does Paul quote this passage? Romans 10
  3. What is the word near you, according to Paul? The message of faith about Jesus
  4. What did life mean? Loving God, obeying Him, and clinging to Him

Word bank: 1. God; 2. heart; 3. near; 4. Life; 5. Choose

Think About It: answers will vary. Look for answers that connect to the passage.

Grade 5Choose Life, That You May Live

  1. Where could Israel return to God from? Among the nations, even the farthest parts under heaven
  2. What new covenant passages does the heart promise anticipate? Jeremiah 31 and Ezekiel 36
  3. How does Paul apply the word is near? To the gospel: confess Jesus as Lord and believe in your heart
  4. Why is choosing life relational? It means to love Yahweh, obey His voice, and cling to Him.
  5. What made the choice possible? God's grace
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Think About It: answers will vary. Look for answers that connect to the passage.

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