BAD GIRLS ~ THEN & NOW

BAD GIRLS ~ THEN & NOW
This lesson is designed to help students gain a better understanding of biblical stories and mankind’s long term struggle with evil.

Skit I
(You will need a white board and marker.) Male student comes in dressed as a scientist. (Possibly wearing a white coat, glasses and using a pointer.)
Scientist: (Addressing the students in a serious yet excited tone) A new chemical element has recently been discovered. Here for the first time is a description of the properties.
(Scientist then writes the following on the white board.)
Element Name: WOMAN
Symbol: WO
Atomic Weight: #@!!#&#
(The Scientist then shares the following with the class)
Scientist: The Physical Properties of this new element are: generally curved in form. It boils at nothing… yet may freeze at any time. However it melts whenever treated properly. But is very bitter if not used well.
The Chemical Properties of this new element are showing that it is: very active and highly unstable. Strangely enough, this new element possesses a strong affinity to gold, silver, platinum and precious stones. We must use caution with this new element because it has been known to become violent when left alone. Placing this element next to a better specimen will many times cause it to turn green in color.
Uses for this new element are varied. It is highly ornamental yet is a good catalyst for the dispersion of wealth. It may well be the most powerful income reducing agent known to man.
Caution is advised due to the fact that this element has been known to become highly explosive in inexperienced hands.
Scientist: There will be a review of these findings at the end of this class. Students are advised to listen carefully. If your findings are different than this highly scientific discovery, you may take your differences to God who is the creator of the recently outlined element. Thank you.
(Scientist then erases the board and walks out of the room)


Lesson & Biblical References
How many women in the room agree with the “scientific” findings? How many young men agree?
Let’s do a historic review of some not-so-well-behaved biblical women. To do that, maybe we should first define what makes up a really bad woman.
A. A heart hardened against God
B. Evil, not just mean
C. Unwilling to change…bad to the bone
Perhaps we could put these “bad” women into three categories.
A. Bad to the bone
1. Nothing about them was ever good
B. Bad when forced to make a choice
1. Good vs. evil ~ choose evil
C. Bad but not forever.
1. Choose to change when offered a choice.
I. Does anyone know the story of Potiphars wife?
A. Joseph and the coat of many colors
1. Jealous brothers
2. Sold into slavery
3. As a slave, Joseph found favor with Potiphar
B. Potiphars Wife
1. Spoiled, bored, self-indulgent
2. Liked to play around behind Potiphar’s back
3. Wanted Joseph….young and good looking
C. Joseph ~ Young ~ Good Looking but also Godly
1. Gen. 39:6
2. Refused her advances
3. Made her angry
4. Nothing worse than a woman scored
5. She lied to Potaphar about him
6. Joseph goes to prison
D. Joseph in Prison
1. Potipher knows Joseph is innocent
2. Saves face
E. Joseph in Charge
1. Interprets Pharoah’s dreams
2. Saves Egypt from famine
3. Saves his brothers from famine
F. How does Potipher’s wife rate?

Let the class vote after you tell them the story. (Bad ~ Bad to the Bone ~Bad but not forever)

II. Lot’s Wife
A. Sodom is evil
B. There weren’t even 10 people worth saving
C. Tried to molest angels
D. God will destroy
E. Strict instructions Gen 19: 14
1. Don’t look back
F. What did she do?
G. What happened?
1. Turned into a pillar of salt
2. Was God kidding?
H. How does Lot’s wife rate?

Again, let the students vote. (Bad ~ Bad to the Bone ~Bad but not forever)

III. The Sinful Woman – Luke 7:36
A. Jesus invited to Pharisees house for dinner
1. Pharasees are sinners and pampas Jews.
2. Jesus came for sinners
a. Jesus is popular
b. Miracles
3. In walks a prostitute
a. Everyone knows her
b. She falls at Jesus’ feet
c. She weeps…not cries
d. Wipes his feet with her hair
e. Hair is a woman’s crown….feet are considered dirty
1. Dirty Feet
4. She Kisses His feet
5. Pours expensive perfume over his feet.
1. Perfume is rare and has great value to a prostitute
2. Luke 7: 37, 41-44
3. Truly sorry for her sins

Students vote. (Bad ~ Bad to the Bone ~Bad but not forever)

IV. Sapphira
A. New Testament
B. Everyone’s joining the New Church
C. Annias and Sappira
1. Want to join the commune
2. Want to be important
3. Acts 2:44 – 45; Acts 5:1
D. Promised to donate all their proceeds from their property
E. Kept back part of the money
1. Lied to the disciples
2. Acts 5:3-5; 8-10
F. Sapphira makes a bad decision.
Students vote. (Bad ~ Bad to the Bone ~Bad but not forever)

V. Jezebel
A. What does this name represent…even now?
B. Husband was Ahab – King of Israel
1. Professes to be Godly but isn’t
2. Prostitution
3. Sacrificing children
4. Sexual immorality
C. Ahab turns his head and lets Jezebel rule
D. Jezebel is evil and worships Baal
E. Elijah tries to warn Ahab
1. Ahab wimps out
2. Jezabel gets to rule
3. Ahab pretends not to know
F. Elijah warns again
1.1 Kings 21:19; 23
G. Ahab repents/Jezebel refuses
1. 2 Kings 9:33

Students vote. (Bad ~ Bad to the Bone ~Bad but not forever)

How are women/ girls bad today?
Vanity?
Where in the bible do you find that it’s important to have a tanned perfectly toned body?
Is vanity a sin?
Is preoccupation with our bodies a sin?
Is the way we dress a sin if it causes others to sin?
When we worship our bodies and give more attention to them than we do to God…then we fall into sin

CCC
324 The fact that God permits physical and even moral evil is a mystery that God illuminates by his Son Jesus Christ who died and rose to vanquish evil. Faith gives us the certainty that God would not permit an evil if he did not cause a good to come from that very evil, by ways that we shall fully know only in eternal life.

1759 "An evil action cannot be justified by reference to a good intention" (cf. St. Thomas Aquinas, Dec. praec. 6). The end does not justify the means.
1760 A morally good act requires the goodness of its object, of its end, and of its circumstances together.
1761 There are concrete acts that it is always wrong to choose, because their choice entails a disorder of the will, i.e., a moral evil. One may not do evil so that good may result from it.
Songs

“Kindness” by Chris Tomlin
“I Believe” by Wes King
“Delirious?” by Gravity