Dead Man Lives! - Easter stories
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Assignment 1: Good? Friday
Assignment 2: Dead man lives!
Welcome!
Welcome. I’m glad you’re here!
This book isn’t just for reading; it’s for having fun, being part of a team and discovering some useful things to help you be successful.
Before we start there’s something you need to know – GI stands for Grammy’s Investigators. Can you remember that? Otherwise you might wonder what it’s all about when you come across I Spy GI.
I’m Grammy, and my Investigators are going to spy on some of the people in the Bible. Then we make video clips just for fun.
You might be surprised what Grammy’s Investigators find out!
Some of you may have heard these stories lots of times, for others they’ll be quite new.
My suggestion is that you go to an Assignment and read the story, the I Spy GI Report and then the I Spy GI Life App for that story (read the what? - you’ll find out!).
Then the fun begins for those who want to take up the I Spy GI Challenge.
Write a script, make a video clip - but we'll get to all that soon.
After each Assignment you can take a break and come back some other time for more (unless, of course, you want to read it all at once!).
If you already know the other Investigators,
and you know what the I Spy GI Challenge is,
you may want to go straight to the First Assignment.
Meet Grammy’s Investigators
Grammy: Hi, I’m the one who’s put this all together. I love kids, and I love Jesus. I hope you’ll have great fun as we work on this together. By the way, I live in Australia, so if you live somewhere else in the world a couple of words might be spelt differently, or I might say things differently, but I’m sure you’ll work it out.
Gramps: Gramps is a very wise man. That’s partly because he is nearly seventy (actually by the time you read this he might be seventy or more!). Gramps loves Jesus too – he used to be a church pastor. He has some assignments for you and our team of Investigators.
This is Grammy’s team of Investigators:
So far we have nine Investigators - well, ten if we count you too. Let’s meet the others (you’ll notice they each have code names). By the way, their ages are how old they were when I started all this – they could be older now.
Moo: Moo is 11. She used to do hip hop but now she does cheer leading. She plays guitar and she loves making video clips with her iPod. She’s very clever.
Noremac: Noremac is also 11. He’s another one who’s pretty good at school. He’s very kind. He plays soccer and he swims and plays musical instruments.
FireRing: FireRing is another 11 year old. He’s an excellent swimmer – in fact he’s good at most sports and has won lots of medals. He’s just started playing Aussie Rules football – he used to play soccer.
Jessa: Jessa is 9 years old. She’s very lively. She plays tennis and swims and she also does surf lifesaving in the summer.
Lozens: Lozens is the next 9 year old. She’s good at netball and she likes singing. She’s in the school choir and they do well in competitions.
Flipper: Flipper is also 9 (there are four 9 year olds in our team). Flipper is also good at sports. He’s a good swimmer and has lots of medals. He plays basketball well too.
PoppyPop: PoppyPop is the last of our 9 year old investigators. PoppyPop is very good at gym. She has won lots of competitions. She spends a lot of time training, but she loves it.
TopDog: TopDog is a special friend of Gramps. He’s probably just a bit older than you are. He’s quite clever and he loves Jesus. TopDog is a special investigator. Gramps has asked him to help us with the I Spy GI Life Apps.
EyeSpy01: EyeSpy01 is our I Spy GI inspector. He’s just turned 10. He reads these pages for me to look for mistakes I make. I’m glad he is such a good helper.
You: We need more help with our investigations. We’re hoping you’ll become one of our investigators too. Will you join the team? We need you. Maybe you’d like to use a code name too.
So that’s the team. What exciting things are coming up? I can’t wait to find out!
I Spy GI Report
After each story we pretend to step back into time to when the story took place. You’ll find an interview with someone who might have been there - and we ask them to tell us what happened. One of Grammy’s Investigators is the interviewer, and another is the character we’re pretending to interview.
I Spy GI Life Apps
Gramps: Apps are things that we use to help us. Sometimes life is easy, sometimes it’s hard. Did you know that in his Word, the Bible, God gives us lots of clues about how to be happy and successful?
I Spy GI Life Apps will help us uncover those clues. After each story I ask Special Investigator TopDog to report to me on the things he thinks we can learn from these stories. I hope it will help you.
Think about the stories yourself. You can probably come up with your own good ideas as well. There’s a lot to learn!
I Spy GI Challenge
Do you like a challenge? Gramps has some challenges for you and the team.
Gramps: OK everyone, are you ready? In each assignment there’s a challenge for you. Good luck.
There are three levels of challenge. Which one are you up to?
Challenge Level 1: Act out the I Spy GI report
Find someone who’ll act out the I Spy GI report with you. It might be a friend, or a brother or sister, or even your mum or dad. You can do it, it’s fun!
The scripts are repeated at the end of the book to make them easier to print if you want to use them.
Challenge level 2: Write your own I Spy GI report
Read the story and then think of your own character who might have been alive when the story happened. You can make them up; they don’t have to be real.
Think of some questions you could ask that character about what happened. Write out your story like an interview, with one person asking questions and your made up character answering them.
Because you’re using your imagination it could be anyone, or anything (even a mouse!). Write out a script using your questions and answers. You might even have better ideas than the ones we used - I wouldn’t be surprised!
If you take up this challenge we’d love to see your report. If you want to, you can email it to us - see the contact information at the end of the book.
Then I hope you can find someone near you who’ll do the interviews with you.
Challenge level 3: Make a video clip
The real fun bit, for those who like this sort of thing, is to get someone to make a video clip of you acting out a script. You can use the one we used or your own script if you wrote one.
You can use a camera, video recorder, webcam, iPod or phone – anything that can make video clips.
You can see a sample video clip on Photobucket. We’ll tell you how to find it in the contact information at the end of the book.
When you’ve made your video clip you can upload yours to Photobucket too - if you’re allowed to. But more of that later, let’s get on with the story!
Assignment 1
Good? Friday
The Story
You can read this story in a Bible. Look in Matthew chapters 26 & 27 (you will also find it at the end of Mark and Luke and John).
Last week all the people had welcomed Jesus as he rode into town on a donkey. They waved palm branches and cheered.
Now Jesus was dead. It was a cruel death and everyone was very sad about it all. They didn’t understand that this was actually a show of power. They hadn’t read the end of the story – it hadn’t even happened yet! They wouldn’t know that for a couple more days. It was all part of God’s great plan to save you and me. This is what happened:
Each year the Jewish people celebrated how they had escaped from Egypt with Moses. They always had that special meal, just as God had told them to.
Jesus and his friends had got together for the meal, and then they went out into the gardens nearby.
A large crowd of soldiers turned up to arrest Jesus. They carried clubs and spears in case he got violent.
Jesus told them that, if he wanted to, he could call out to God and God would send thousands of angels to rescue him – but he didn’t, because he knew that it was all part of God’s great plan.
They took Jesus away and were mean to him. They took off his clothes and put a purple cloak on him and made a pretend crown out of prickly thorns and jammed it on his head. Ouch. They pretended he was a king, but then they beat him with sticks.
When they had finished they put his own clothes back on him and made him carry his cross. It was very big and heavy.
In the end they made someone else carry it for him.
They nailed Jesus up on the cross and left him to die.
They put a sign above him on the cross. It said “This is Jesus, the king of the Jews”.
People who passed by yelled at him. They made fun of him.
The Jewish leaders made fun of him too. “He said he could save others but he can’t even save himself” they said, and “He trusts God, let God rescue him now”; and they laughed at him. They didn’t know that it was all part of God’s plan.
For three hours in the middle of the day everything went dark. Then Jesus died.
That was God’s plan. Jesus had never done anything wrong but he died so we wouldn’t have to be punished by God for the things that we do wrong.
Jesus’ dead body was taken and placed in a rock tomb.
A big stone was rolled in front of it and soldiers were put in place to guard it. The soldiers thought it was a bit of a joke to guard a dead man; but it was really so the disciples couldn’t steal the body and then say that Jesus was alive.
But God had other plans.
I Spy GI Report
Gramps: Have you got any interview ideas?
I’ve asked Moo and FireRing to do this interview. Here it is.
Moo: I’m going to interview the disciple John. He was there when the things we have read about happened. But we decided we would find him a year later, because by then he knew what happened next, and by then he could understand what happened better. So welcome John.
John (FireRing): I’m glad to be here.
Moo: So now it is the first anniversary of the things that we have been reading about. Do you see things differently now John?
John (FireRing): I certainly do. At the time it was all very confusing.
One week the crowd were all for Jesus, and by the next week it was all over, they’d killed him on the cross.
Moo: You were there when he died?
John (FireRing): Yes, I was there with some of the others.
Jesus asked me to look after his mother Mary for him. Even when he was up there dying he still thought about others. So Mary came to live with me.
Moo: Of course you were all very upset.
John (FireRing): Yes, we thought that the cross was the end of it. We didn’t understand what was going on. We didn’t realise that it was part of God’s plan.
Moo: So, what was going on? Why is it called Good Friday?
John (FireRing): Jesus chose to die. No one made him do it.
At the time we thought it was the end. But it wasn’t!
Moo: Jesus chose to die?
John (FireRing): Yes. Even though it seemed bad at the time it was all part of God’s great plan, and it was good – hard for Jesus, but good for all of us.
Moo: It was God’s plan?
John (FireRing): This might seem strange to you, but that was the only way that we could become friends with God – someone had to take the punishment for all the wrong things we have done.
Moo: But Jesus died!
John (FireRing): Yes, but three days later he was alive again – we all saw him!
Jesus was the winner. And it was good, very good.
A very good Friday for all of us!
Moo: Mm, I don’t think I really understand it; it does sound a bit strange.
John (FireRing): Trust me, it is Good Friday.
Moo: Thank you John, please give our love to Mary.
I Spy GI Life App
Gramps: This is an interesting story TopDog. What can we learn from it?
TopDog: For those of us who believe in Jesus and trust in him it is the best story in the whole world. At least it is when you know the rest of the story, and what God’s plan was.
Gramps: Why is Good Friday good? Because if Jesus didn’t die then we couldn’t get to know God! Let me try to explain why:
Imagine just for now that God is above us, up there in the air.
Now, hold out your hand. That hand is you.
If you put a pile of books on your hand, the books are between you and God.
The books are all the things in our life that are not good, things like not telling the truth, or not obeying our parents, or not loving God and putting him first. Even little things that aren’t very bad go onto that pile.
Because God can’t stand anything bad, (because he is totally good) we can’t get close to him. The bad things are in the way.
On the other hand we have Jesus. So hold out that hand too.
Jesus never did one single thing that didn’t please God. So he could always be with God, nothing was in the way like the books (or bad things) on our hand.
Now, swap the books onto the other hand. Jesus took all the wrong things we do, and he took the punishment for it. That’s why he died on the cross. That was the punishment for sin. It was our sin, so we should have died. But now our hand is the empty one, and we can come to God because there is nothing between us and him. Jesus died instead of us.
But that’s not all.
Jesus didn’t just take away our sins; he also gave us his perfect goodness. That’s a very good swap, don’t you think?
When God looks at you and me he sees the goodness of Jesus - if we have invited Jesus into our life and are living for him.
God’s plan was to save us from our sins so we can be with him for ever.
On Good Friday Jesus did that for us. That’s good news.
1st I Spy GI Challenge
Gramps: Now it‘s your turn. Can you find someone who’ll do the interview with you? It’s much more fun to do things with friends, isn’t it?
Which level of challenge interests you? Do you want to try level 2? Perhaps you can think of a character to interview, and some questions to ask them. Who would you choose?
If not, try Level 1 and use the report Moo and FireRing did. You can change the names to yours. Do you have a code name? I’m sure you can think of a good one.
If possible have a go at Level 3. Make a video clip of you acting it out. Then, if you’re allowed, you can upload it to Photobucket – and then tell your friends to have a look at it – you can be a video star! Have fun.
Instructions for uploading to Photobucket are in the contact information near the end of the book.
Assignment 2
Dead Man Lives!
The Story
You can read this story in a Bible. Look in Luke chapter 24 and Acts chapter 1 verses 9 to 11.
You might remember that the last part of the story went something like this:
Jesus’ dead body was taken and placed in a rock tomb. A big stone was rolled in front of it and soldiers were put in place to guard it. The soldiers thought it was a bit of a joke to guard a dead man; but it was really so the disciples couldn’t steal the body and then say that Jesus was alive. But God had other plans.
God certainly did have other plans. Now that Jesus had taken our punishment by dying in our place God wasn’t about to leave him dead.
Early next morning the women went to the tomb. They were going to put special spices on the dead body, but when they got there, the body was gone.
There was quite a bit of confusion. Two men in gleaming white clothes (I suppose they were angels) told them that Jesus was not there because he was alive again – just like Jesus had said!
Jesus had tried to tell them about this before he died, but it didn't make sense until after it happened.
When the women ran back and told the other disciples that Jesus was alive, they thought the ladies were talking nonsense. But when they checked it out by going to the tomb themselves, sure enough it was empty.
Jesus actually spoke to his friend Mary Magdalene. She was standing outside the empty tomb crying. She was very upset. They all were. At first she thought Jesus was the gardener, but when he looked at her and spoke her name she recognised that it really was him.
A bit later a couple of men were walking along the road and they were talking about all the things that had happened. Jesus walked with them and talked with them along the way.
Another time most of the disciples were locked in a room because they were still scared they might get arrested next.
Suddenly Jesus himself stood among them. He told them not to be afraid.
At first they thought they were seeing a ghost, but Jesus asked for something to eat. They gave him some fish and he ate it. Ghosts don’t eat solid food! Jesus was alive.
One of the disciples wasn’t there when Jesus came. His name was Thomas. He said he wouldn’t believe unless he saw Jesus for himself and touched him. Do you know that right to this day if someone doesn’t believe something they are sometimes called a “doubting Thomas”? Have you heard of that? Poor Thomas got a bad reputation over that. It wasn’t really fair because the others had had their doubts too.
Anyway, Jesus came back again when Thomas was there. Then Thomas believed too. Jesus said that anyone who believed without actually seeing him was very special. I guess that makes us special if we believe.
Jesus continued to visit with his friends. He taught them lots of things about God’s kingdom. One time some of them had gone fishing, and he told them where to catch the fish. I think Gramps would like some information like that when he goes fishing - would you?
Lots of people saw Jesus alive. The Bible tells us that one time five hundred people saw him at once. It would be pretty hard for that many people to be making it up wouldn’t it.
One day Jesus was talking to his friends out on a hillside. After he had spoken to them Jesus rose up into the clouds and was gone. He’d gone back to heaven to be with God. They watched him go - up, up, up - until he was out of sight.
One of the last instructions that he gave them was to go to Jerusalem and to wait until the Holy Spirit came to them. He had promised them that when he got back to his Father, God, he would send the Holy Spirit to help them. He said it would be even better than having him right there with them.
He also told them that one day he would come back again, just the way they had seen him go. Now that will be a special day, won’t it!
I Spy GI Report
Gramps: Hello, PoppyPop and Jessa are taking up the challenge to interview someone for us. Can you guess who they have chosen?
PoppyPop: I’m going to interview a reporter from the Jerusalem Times.
She was given the job of finding out exactly what happened.
Good evening Cassia.
Cassia (Jessa): Good evening.
PoppyPop: I believe you had to do a bit of running around to check all this out. It’s not every day people claim someone is alive again after they’ve been dead three days. Who did you find to interview first?
Cassia (Jessa): Actually the first person I interviewed was one of the soldiers who had been guarding the tomb. He was quite happy to show me in the empty tomb. There wasn’t much there, only a small pile of folded clothes that were supposed to have come off the dead body.
PoppyPop: What did the soldiers tell you?
Cassia (Jessa): They said that the friends of Jesus had come and stolen the body.
That sounded a bit suspicious to me because if they had let someone steal the body they would have been in big trouble.
When I questioned them a bit more I found out that the Jewish leaders had paid them quite a lot of money to tell people that.
PoppyPop: Who did you catch up with next?
Cassia (Jessa): Mary was the next one I spoke to. She claimed she had actually seen Jesus alive, and he had spoken to her.
Next I went to find the other friends of Jesus and do you know what? They thought that Mary was imagining things because she was so sad about Jesus dying.
PoppyPop: They didn’t believe Mary?
Cassia (Jessa): They didn’t for a start; but next thing I know they all came looking for me. They were really shaken this time. They said they had been locked in a room and Jesus had turned up. They had all seen him.
Now they all believed that Jesus was alive.
PoppyPop: Did anyone else see him, or did they see him again?
Cassia (Jessa): They say that they saw him a number of times.
There are stories going around that more than five hundred people actually saw him at once.
It’s hard to believe isn’t it, but they all seemed quite sure they had seen him.
PoppyPop: So, if Jesus was really alive again what happened to him?
Did he die again or what?
Cassia (Jessa): I interviewed Doctor Luke about what happened next, because he had researched it already.
After Jesus had been around for about forty days he was talking to his friends one day, and after he finished talking to them apparently he was taken up to heaven in a cloud. They watched him go up; then they kept looking at the sky. No doubt they were wondering what was going to happen next.
PoppyPop: This story gets stranger and stranger. Where had he gone?
Cassia (Jessa): Doctor Luke told me that they were still standing there looking up at the sky when suddenly two men in white clothing were standing beside them. The men asked them why they were standing looking at the sky. The men told them that Jesus had gone back to heaven, and that one day he would come back again – the same way they saw him go. So that’s the story.
PoppyPop: Thankyou Cassia. I’m sure your report was very interesting. Thank you for speaking to them all for us.
Cassia (Jessa): Thank you.
You can look at PoppyPop and Jessa doing this interview on Photobucket. Follow the link in Contact Information.
I Spy GI Life App
Gramps: What do you think might help us today? TopDog is here with his ideas.
TopDog: I think there are a number of things.
One is that Jesus really is alive. So he really was the winner in all of this.
Good Friday is good, and so is Easter Sunday, because that’s the day we celebrate that Jesus is alive.
When things aren’t looking good (like how it seemed to the disciples when Jesus died) we can still trust God, because he is working out his good plans, even if we can’t see why things are going the way they are.
Gramps: That’s right. God has promised that he will never leave us, and Jesus sent the Holy Spirit to help us. We’re on the winning side.
Jesus is alive, the Holy Spirit is always there to help us if we ask him to, and God loves us. It can’t get much better than that.
Why don’t you take a minute right now to say thank you to God, and to ask him to help you today, and every day.
2nd I Spy GI Challenge
Gramps: Last turn for this book. Have you tried any of the challenges?
Level 1: Have you found a friend to do the interview with you? If your friends have fun they might even want to get a book for themselves.
If you’re stuck for someone to do interviews with why not ask your mum to help? If she’s not too busy, you could have fun together. Or even your grandparents might be worth a try.
Level 2: Who might have been around when this story happened? Who would you like to interview, and what questions would you ask them?
Or do you want to use the one Jessa and PoppyPop did?
Level 3: When making a video clip we found it was better to keep it fairly simple – it’s supposed to be fun! Take a look at how the other investigators did it. You’ll find the link just below in the contact information.
I do hope you’ve enjoyed the challenges. If you haven’t tried any yet, have a think about it. You can do it! It’s great to share a challenge, so try to find someone to do it with you.
Thanks for being part of the team.
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Contact Information
Look at a video clip from this book online at Photobucket:
You’re important!
Would you like to share how you got on with the I Spy GI Challenge?
We would like to read your I Spy GI reports.
The Club email address is: ispygiclub@hotmail.com
We’d also love to see your videos on Photobucket
To upload your video to Photobucket is quite easy. Just go to:
http://photobucket.com/dead-man-lives and enter ispygi as the password.
Click on the upload button. When you are asked for a user name and password enter ispygi for both, then click ‘select photos and videos’, find your file on your computer and upload it. If you prefer you can use your own Photobucket user name and password if you have one. After you have uploaded your video clip simply click on ‘direct link’ and it will copy the link address for that video clip. Go to a word document and paste it and then use the link to give to those you would like to view the clip. Because we don’t want other rubbish being uploaded Photobucket will email me for acceptance of the clip. I will accept your video clip as soon as I can.
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Last Words
Grammy: Thank you for taking the time to read these stories. I hope that you enjoyed the challenge. God's word has some amazing lessons for us.
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I Spy GI Reports below for printing
Good? Friday I Spy GI Report
Moo: I’m going to interview the disciple John. He was there when the things we have read about happened. But we decided we would find him a year later, because by then he knew what happened next, and by then he could understand what happened better. So welcome John.
John (FireRing): I’m glad to be here.
Moo: So now it is the first anniversary of the things that we have been reading about. Do you see things differently now John?
John (FireRing): I certainly do. At the time it was all very confusing.
One week the crowd were all for Jesus, and by the next week it was all over, they’d killed him on the cross.
Moo: You were there when he died?
John (FireRing): Yes, I was there with some of the others.
Jesus asked me to look after his mother Mary for him. Even when he was up there dying he still thought about others. So Mary came to live with me.
Moo: Of course you were all very upset.
John (FireRing): Yes, we thought that the cross was the end of it. We didn’t understand what was going on. We didn’t realise that it was part of God’s plan.
Moo: So, what was going on? Why is it called Good Friday?
John (FireRing): Jesus chose to die. No one made him do it.
At the time we thought it was the end. But it wasn’t!
Moo: Jesus chose to die?
John (FireRing): Yes. Even though it seemed bad at the time it was all part of God’s great plan, and it was good – hard for Jesus, but good for all of us.
Moo: It was God’s plan?
John (FireRing): This might seem strange to you, but that was the only way that we could become friends with God – someone had to take the punishment for all the wrong things we have done.
Moo: But Jesus died!
John (FireRing): Yes, but three days later he was alive again – we all saw him!
Jesus was the winner. And it was good, very good.
A very good Friday for all of us.
Moo: Mm, I don’t think I really understand it; it does sound a bit strange.
John (FireRing): Trust me, it is Good Friday.
Moo: Thank you John, please give our love to Mary.
Dead man lives I Spy GI Report
PoppyPop: I’m going to interview a reporter from the Jerusalem Times.
She was given the job of finding out exactly what happened.
Good evening Cassia.
Cassia (Jessa): Good evening.
PoppyPop: I believe you had to do a bit of running around to check all this out. It’s not every day people claim someone is alive again after they’ve been dead three days. Who did you find to interview first?
Cassia (Jessa): Actually the first person I interviewed was one of the soldiers who had been guarding the tomb. He was quite happy to show me in the empty tomb. There wasn’t much there, only a small pile of folded clothes that were supposed to have come off the dead body.
PoppyPop: What did the soldiers tell you?
Cassia (Jessa): They said that the friends of Jesus had come and stolen the body.
That sounded a bit suspicious to me because if they had let someone steal the body they would have been in big trouble.
When I questioned them a bit more I found out that the Jewish leaders had paid them quite a lot of money to tell people that.
PoppyPop: Who did you catch up with next?
Cassia (Jessa): Mary was the next one I spoke to. She claimed she had actually seen Jesus alive, and he had spoken to her.
Next I went to find the other friends of Jesus and do you know what? They thought that Mary was imagining things because she was so sad about Jesus dying.
PoppyPop: They didn’t believe Mary?
Cassia (Jessa): They didn’t for a start; but next thing I know they all came looking for me. They were really shaken this time. They said they had been locked in a room and Jesus had turned up. They had all seen him.
Now they all believed that Jesus was alive.
PoppyPop: Did anyone else see him, or did they see him again?
Cassia (Jessa): They say that they saw him a number of times.
There are stories going around that more than five hundred people actually saw him at once.
It’s hard to believe isn’t it, but they all seemed quite sure they had seen him.
PoppyPop: So, if Jesus was really alive again what happened to him?
Did he die again or what?
Cassia (Jessa): I interviewed Doctor Luke about what happened next, because he had researched it already.
After Jesus had been around for about forty days he was talking to his friends one day, and after he finished talking to them apparently he was taken up to heaven in a cloud. They watched him go up; then they kept looking at the sky. No doubt they were wondering what was going to happen next.
PoppyPop: This story gets stranger and stranger. Where had he gone?
Cassia (Jessa): Doctor Luke told me that they were still standing there looking up at the sky when suddenly two men in white clothing were standing beside them. The men asked them why they were standing looking at the sky. The men told them that Jesus had gone back to heaven, and that one day he would come back again – the same way they saw him go. So that’s the story.
PoppyPop: Thankyou Cassia. I’m sure your report was very interesting. Thank you for speaking to them all for us.
Cassia (Jessa): Thank you.