Seminary
Matthew 11–12; Luke 11

Matthew 11–12; Luke 11

Overview

The Savior testified that we can better come to know Heavenly Father by studying the example of His Son. During His ministry, He taught a higher law and publicly healed. He taught that if we come unto Him, He will ease our burdens and give us rest. He offered insightful teachings about the Sabbath day and about prayer.

Prepare to Teach

The following information provides teachers with ideas of what may need to be prepared in advance for each lesson.

Matthew 11:27; John 5:19, 30; John 8:18–28

Lesson purpose: This lesson can help students better understand what Heavenly Father is like and how He feels about them.

  • Student preparation: Invite students to think about their relationship with Heavenly Father and how they can strengthen it.

  • Materials for students: Study journals or a piece of paper for each student

  • Videoconference teaching suggestion: At the end of the lesson, invite students to use the chat feature to share something they wrote about Heavenly Father. Select a student who posted in the chat to share more about their comment. After this student shares, invite them to select a different classmate’s comment and have that student share.

Matthew 11:28–30

Lesson purpose: This lesson can increase students’ confidence that the Lord will help them with their challenges and burdens.

  • Videoconference teaching suggestion: Consider displaying a picture of a stick figure and using a collaborative tool, such as the whiteboard tool, to enable students to write words or draw pictures around the stick figure to represent burdens and challenges they face.

Doctrinal Mastery: Matthew 11:28–30

Lesson purpose: This lesson will give students an opportunity to explain their understanding of doctrine by applying principles of acquiring spiritual knowledge to a scenario similar to experiences they may have in their own lives.

  • Student preparation: Invite students to practice memorizing the doctrinal mastery reference and key scripture phrase for Matthew 11:28–30 (or the entire passage if students are able). Ask them to think about how they can apply what they have learned about Jesus Christ’s ability to lift their burdens if they come to Him.

  • Content to display: The brief matching activity

  • Materials for students: Pieces of paper that students can write on and exchange with one another

  • Videoconference teaching suggestion: Consider using the screen-sharing function to display the Doctrinal Mastery app and showing students how to access the app. Do a memorizing activity together as a class.

Mark 2:23–3:6

Lesson purpose: This lesson will help students better understand the purpose of the Sabbath and how to more fully invite the Lord’s blessings into their lives.

  • Student preparation: Invite students to think about a favorite way that they draw closer to the Savior, individually or with their families, on the Sabbath day.

  • Handout: “The Sabbath Day”

  • Video: “Share Your Sabbath” (0:53)

  • Videoconference teaching suggestion: Consider using the chat function to allow students to ask questions they may have about the Sabbath day. Seeing each other’s questions may encourage them to respond to each other and ask further questions.

Luke 11:1–13

Lesson purpose: This lesson can help students make their prayers more meaningful.

  • Student preparation: Invite students to reflect on what they have done to make their prayers more meaningful.

  • Content to display: A horizontal line drawn on the board, with the phrase Prayer is easy on one end and the phrase Prayer is hard at the other

  • Videoconference teaching suggestion: As part of the activity at the beginning of class, consider doing a poll to ask students if they think prayer is easy or hard.