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RELIGIOUS EDUCATION 8

Name of Student: __________________________________________________

Year & Section: ____________________________________________________

MS. MAE B. ESTREBILLO, LPT

Teacher

For questions and clarifications you may contact me through this

cellphone number: 0945-973-8796. You may also message me
on my facebook account: Mae Bacus Estrebillo
What’s inside this module?
Getting into the vast context of the Religious Education, requires a number of creative pedagogical
approaches. The teacher tried to design each lesson by combining both traditional and modern
approaches aimed to cater to the needs of the 21 st century learners. The following defines the flow
of each

Introduction presents a glimpse of each lesson

Objectives presents the direction of each lesson

Essential questions help learners see the connection between content standards and important
questions through inquiry and thoughtful conversation

Concept map presents the flow of the lessons contained in the module

Let’s Recall taps into the learner’s prior knowledge

Active Reading contains information on each lesson through various adapted articles and
excerpts

Activities are short in-between activities provided to test the knowledge acquired from each
lesson

Summary to give the learners a condensed and objective account of the main ideas and
features of the lessons.

Performance Task enable the learners to demonstrate their knowledge, understanding and
proficiency as evidence of their learning.

Thought Provoking question provokes more reflection and encourages learner to take
charge of their learning and their feelings

Journal help learners make connections between what is really important to them, the
curriculum, and the world.

Post Assessment is the summative evaluation of the learners understanding after the lesson.

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 Reminder!
Before you start answering your modules, please read the following study tips and reminders to
help you for a much easy and fun modular learning!

How to study meaningfully?

1. Know your learning style

2. Put your learning style to conscious use
3. Study in a variety of environment
4. Set regular study time
5. Eliminate potential distractions before starting your module
6. Maintain a study planner with deadlines and prioritized assignments
7. Bait yourself with enticing treats for study goals
8. Take more useful notes
9. Review notes while the information is still fresh in your mind
10. Condense or rewrite notes to maximize learning
11. Tap into the power of Mnemonics
12. Feed your brain with friendly nutritious foods
13. You snooze, you win
Remember:
“The big Secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you’re
willing to work”.

1. Before starting to read and answer your module, please check the pages to be sure that
nothing is lacking.
2. Scanning and skimming is highly discouraged, as it will lead you to confusion.
3. Read and analyze the statements in the module so that you can answer your activities.
4. Answer all the activities, especially the thought provoking question to get a good
grade.
5. To have more ideas about the topic and questions you can search it on the internet.
6. If you have questions and clarifications, don’t hesitate to message your teacher on the
contact details indicated on the cover page of the module.
7. Have fun, while learning. No matter what your score is, I am still proud of you
because you have done your very best.

Are you ready to learn new ideas? If you are, then let’s begin your journey.

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 MODULE Lesson 7: Jesus’ Mission, Fulfillment and Revelation of God’s
7 Plan for Salvation

Introduction

Have you experienced trying to choose a path you would like to follow? Have you wondered
what you wanted to be in your life? Many of us grow up not knowing exactly what we want to do with our
lives. It can take years to figure it out, and some unfortunately never do. Many of change jobs or careers or
relationships the way they change clothes. They continue to search for their purpose in life because in the very
first place they could not quite discern the will of God in their lives.
Knowing God’s will for us is very important for us as it guides as closer to reach our destination or
purpose in life. In seeking and searching for God’s will, we should put Christ first and everything else will
follow. When we have our hearts centered on what is important, our ultimate purpose in life is unravelled and
becomes clear – the Kingdom of God.
The lesson that follows provide the direction to follow Jesus through the gifts bestowed upon us.

Objectives:

In this lesson, you will be able to:

Lesson 7: Jesus’ Mission, Fulfillment and  Identify the mission of Jesus Christ;
Revelation of God’s Plan for  Create a symbol on your identified mission in life
Salvation as a Grade 8 student; and
 Appreciate the importance of Christ’s mission in
the salvation of man by doing His will every day of
our lives.

Essential Questions:

As you go on with this lesson, remember to search for the answer of the following questions:

1. How will you show your love to Jesus Christ?

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2. Does Christ play an important role in the salvation of man?
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 Concept Map:

Here is a simple map of the above lesson you will cover:

Teachings of the Teachings of the

Bible Passage
Bible Church

Jesus’ Mission,
Fulfillment and
Revelation of God’s Plan
for Salvation

Jesus: The Model Challenge of

of a Perfect Man Following Christ
Growing in Love
and Holiness

Let’s Recall:

Jesus is our Model and Guide in the attainment of salvation. In this activity you need to complete the
maze in following Jesus, provided below by drawing lines from the starting point to the finish line.

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 K-W-L Chart

Complete the first parts of the diagram. After the topic you will be asked to complete all parts. Write your answer on
the space provided for.

What do I
know?

Jesus’
What do I
Mission and want to
Fulfillment know?

What have I Answer this question “What have I learned”

learned? on page 12 , after you have read the topic.

LET’S EXPLORE
In this lesson, you will be able to learn the mission of Jesus in the attainment of man’s salvation and
how He fulfilled such mission. As you go on with this lesson, bear in mind this question:

How will you show your love to Jesus?

Active Reading
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Teachings of the Bible
In the letter of St. Paul to the Philippians, Jesus is revealed as a Person who is a perfect model of a
humble servant. He obeys what the Father wills for Him and remains faithful to the Father even to the point of
suffering and death.
The Humility of Jesus
(Phil. 2:6-11)
Though being Divine in nature, He did not claim in fact equality with God, but emptied Himself, taking
on the nature of a servant, made in human likeness, and in His appearance found as a man.

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 He humbled himself by being obedient to death, death on the cross. That is why God exalted Him and
gave Him the name which outshines all names; so that at the name of Jesus all knees should bend in heaven, on
earth and among the dead, and all tongues proclaim that Christ Jesus is the Lord to the Glory of God the
Father.

The scripture reading above shows that in Jesus’ life, He was a man on a mission, for He always follow
the will of the Father. His mission is the greatest and is considered as the most perfect of all missions for Jesus
did not only fulfil it by words but most importantly in deed. God, the Father sent Him for He has a greater
purpose, and He intentionally fulfilled it through His life and ministry. Jesus is always willing to do what the
Father willed for Him, even to the point of surrendering His whole life for the salvation of all.

Process Questions:
Answer the following questions briefly and concisely. Write your answer on the space provided for.
1. Why is Jesus considered as the Fullness of God’s Revelation?
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2. How are you going to describe the humility of Jesus in obeying God’s will?
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Active Reading
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Teachings of the Church
For us to understand further the mission of Jesus Christ and how He has obeyed the will of His Father,
let us go over to the following points taken from the Catechism of the Catholic Church and some Bible verses
and passages.
Jesus Christ is the definitive fulfilment of God’s revelation. He is the fullness of God’s revelation in the
sense that through Him, God has communicated to humanity the totality of truth. He chose to reveal it to man
though at the same time the Church admits that Christian revelation is not yet completely explicit. Through
Christ, it was God Himself who made known to man His will.
 Jesus: Reveals the Divine Plan of the Father. The Divine Plan of Revelation is realized simultaneously
“by deeds and words which are intrinsically bound up with each other” and shed light on each other. It
involves a specific divine pedagogy: God communicates himself to man gradually. He prepares Him to
welcome by stages the supernatural Revelation that is to culminate in the person and mission of the
Incarnate Word, Jesus Christ (CCC 53). Man is capable of receiving this Revelation from God through His
natural facilities but cannot grasp the Truth without God’s disclosure of His plan through Jesus Christ (CCC
35).
In the Old Testament, God has spoken through the Prophets. They were God’s means of communication
of His laws and decrees to Israel. For a period, it was this instrumentality that bridged God’s revelation. But
God had to choose prophets now and then since as human beings, they died, and because of human frailties,
they had that tendency to fall back as evidenced by God’s numerous admonitions towards Israel and the
prophets.

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 Jesus: Reveals the truth of the potential of salvation. Christ in the very revelation of the mystery of the
Father and of His love, makes man fully manifest to Himself and brings to light His exalted vocation. “It is
in Christ, the image of the invisible God, that man has been created in the image and likeness of the
Creator”. It is in Christ, Redeemer and Savior that the Divine image, disfigured in man by the first sin has
been restored to its original beauty and ennabled by the grace of God (CCC 1701).

 Jesus: Is chosen to reveal the Father. Jesus reveals that He is the exclusive way to the Father, saying, “I
am the Way, and the Truth, and the Life; no one comes to the Father, but by Me” (John 14:6) for Jesus is “in
the Father, and the Father is in Jesus” (John 14:11). And as a result “Jesus is the only One who knows Him
and can reveal Him (CCC 151). Jesus draws His Mission from the Father (John 10:18), embracing the
Father’s will (Matt. 26: 39-42) and doing the things the Father has directed Him (John 12:49) and given
Him the power to do (John 13:3).
God having spoken to us everything through His Son is evidenced by the fact that Jesus Himself is the
Word. He is the definitive Word, and no other Word will come after Him. As what had St. John of the Cross
said in his comment on Heb. 1:1-12, “He has spoken to everything to us at one in this sole Word – and He
has no more to say”.

 Jesus: Reveals the Father through Action. Jesus reveals the Father through His actions: The Cleansing of
the Temple (John 2:16); healing on the Sabbath in Jerusalem (John 5). Jesus repeatedly claims that the
Father has sent Him (John 6:27; 8:27) and glorified Him (John 8:54). The Father is revealed in the Son at
His Baptism (“This is My Beloved Son with whom I am well pleased” – Matt. 3:17) and at the
Transfiguration (“This is My Son, My chosen one; listen to Him” – Luke 9:35).

 Jesus: Reveals the Father in His Teaching. Jesus reveals that God is a loving Father: “Again I say to you,
if two of you agree on earth about anything they ask, it will be done for them by My Father in heaven”
(Matt 18:19); the Father knows what we need (Luke 12:30), and it is the “Father’s good pleasure to give us
the kingdom” (Luke 12:32). Jesus refers to the Father in the parable of The Prodigal Son (Luke 15).

 Jesus: Reveals the Father in His Ministry, Teaching and Healing Ministry. During the three (3) years
between His Baptism and His death and resurrection, Jesus travelled throughout the land of the Hebrews
ministering to the people. As we read about the teaching of Jesus in the Bible, it is characterized by
authority (Mt. 7:29, Mk. 1:22) and wisdom (Mt. 13:54, Mt. 6:2). Amazed and astonished (Mt. 22:33, Mk.
7:28) are the words of those who heard Jesus teach.
Jesus expressed His compassion and proved His authority with miracles. He was reported to having
calmed the storm and walked on the sea. Jesus gave sight to the blind, caused the lame to walk, and healed
people with horrible diseases. He cast out demons, and He even raised people from the dead. For thirty (30)
years, Jesus had lived in obscurity. But now, He was demonstrating His power over the physical and the
Spiritual world, over life and death.

Finally as Catholic Christians, we believe that God revealed Himself in many and different ways. But
among those revelations, we considered Jesus, the only Son of God as the fullness of His revelation because of
the following truths:

 Through Jesus, God has communicated to humanity the totality of God’s truth.
 Through Jesus we further know and discover who and what the Father is by His life and teachings.
 Through Jesus, we have known the unending mercy and unconditional love of the Father through His deeds
and works in his teaching and healing ministry.
 Through Jesus, He reveals the Divine Plan of His Father to save the humanity by offering His Son, Jesus
Christ, to save us.

Activity 7.1
A – Check yourself whether you already know the will of God for you, by completing the sentence
below.

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God’s will for me is…

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B – Write at least four (4) specific and doable ways on how you can show your obedience to God’s will despite
the challenges and temptations you are facing every day. Put your answer on the space provided for.
1.

2.

3.

4.

Active Reading
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Jesus: The Model of a Perfect Man
Christ is the supreme norm of Christian moral life. His Obedience to the Father’s will is the starting
point for moral development. In the scriptural reading, Jesus knew that the time has come for Him to fulfil the
salvation of humankind. Thus, He reminds the people to follow Him.

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 Christian moral life is patterned after God and His Son, Jesus Christ. Jesus is our model. His life is a
perfect example of how we should live ours. He is a man for others. His openness goes to the extent of
encountering others as a person who needs integral liberation from sin and oppression. As an authentic man
among men, He basically is also a man oriented to God. Jesus Himself acknowledged this, “I have come in my
Father’s name… (Jn. 5:43).
If we are to follow Christ, we must accept Him in His totality. Hence, Christians accept Christ a model
of a free man for others and a man of God. Accepting Christ involves embracing His will and following His
way. This includes allowing Him to live in us, teaching us within by the power of the Holy Spirit.
Growing in Love and Holiness
The response to Jesus’s call is through faith, a faith that is more than just believing a set of truths but a
faith which is ready to follow the way to Christ – the way to life! To live a life of faith requires bearing witness
to the Lord by keeping His commandments and living the Gospel. This is exemplified not only through
religious devotions but is exercised through service to our fellowmen. Jesus told us that whenever we feed,
clothe, or give drink to a stranger, to one of the least, we do it to Him.
Jesus is the incarnate love of God and the perfect model of holiness. His death for our salvation
demonstrates the love of God has for us. God loves us first (Jn. 4:10) and this love of God has appeared in our
midst. He gave Jesus for us to emulate so that love and holiness will not just be ideas to grasp but a way of life
to be lived. To grow in the love of God is to love our neighbors. Pope Benedict XVI in his encyclical Deus
Caritas Est (God is Love) mentions that there is an unbreakable bond between love of God and love of
neighbour. One is closely connected to the other to say that we love God becomes a lie if we are closed to our
neighbour or hate him altogether (DCE 16).
Many of us relate holiness to saints or certain persons like priests or religious. This idea blinds us from
becoming holy. CFC states that all baptized are called to live the full challenge of Christian holiness. In reality,
love is the center of holiness.
Each one of us is called by Christ to holiness. To be holy is to be Christ-like. Holiness involves the
practice of self-denial, prayer, and cooperation with the graces of the Holy Spirit. To grow in love and holiness,
we need to have an active faith by translating our beliefs into concrete acts of love.
Challenge of Following Christ
Man as a person is the image and likeness of God. This means that each and every one of us bears
witness to God, since we have our origin in Him. Obedience and submission to the Father’s will is the primary
element of discipleship; just as Jesus obeyed His Father in heaven, we are all called to do the same. Moreover,
real followers of Christ also answer the invitation of Jesus to “be perfect as His Father is perfect”. We are to “let
go” and “let “God” into our lives by clinging to the very person of Christ, to make Him the foremost priority in
our lives.
The challenge to us in the performance of our moral responsibilities also includes acknowledgement of
our sinfulness and conversion. Conversion is not just a one-moment definitive change, it is a life-long task. If
we put Jesus in the center of our moral life, we will be able to turn away from sin. Through Him and with him,
we can form our moral vision, moral norms, and decision-making process. The Christian moral person is the
one who experiences the liberating and transforming presence of Christ. Thus, our actions and moral decisions
must be guided by the life of Jesus as presented in the Gospel.

Activity 7.2
Read and analyze each statement carefully, then write T if the statement is correct and F if
otherwise, on the space provided before each number.

____________1. Following God’s commandments is part of taking the challenge of discipleship.

____________2. Our existence is a product of the love of God for men.

____________3. Christ is the supreme norm of Christian moral life.

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____________4. It is impossible to be good because we are sinners.

____________5. Jesus invites selected people for discipleship.

____________6. The standard of perfect goodness is Christ.

____________7. To be a disciple of Christ is to follow Him.

____________8. There is no forgiveness for our sins.

____________9. Holiness is for the clergy alone.

____________10. Everyone is called to holiness.

Process Questions:
Answer the following questions briefly and concisely. Write your answer on the space provided for.
1. How can you respond to Jesus’ call to discipleship?
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2. What are the challenges of following Christ?

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Summary

 Jesus Christ is the definitive fulfilment of God’s revelation. He is the fullness of God’s revelation in
the sense that through Him, God has communicated to humanity the totality of truth.
 The Divine Plan of Revelation is realized simultaneously “by deeds and words which are intrinsically
bound up with each other” and shed light on each other.
 Christ is the supreme norm of Christian moral life. His Obedience to the Father’s will is the starting
point for moral development.
 Christian moral life is patterned after God and His Son, Jesus Christ. Jesus is our model. His life is a
perfect example of how we should live ours.

Performance Task:

Draw a comprehensive symbol of your identified mission as a son/daughter to your parents and as a
Grade 8 student. Put your output on a long bondpaper. You will be rated using these criteria:

Creativity - 30 points _____

Content - 40 points _____
Uniqueness/Originality - 20 points _____
Neatness - 10 points _____
TOTAL - 100 points _____

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 Thought Provoking Question:

You are an active youth member in your GKK, and you are annually doing an outreach program to a
certain purok in your barangay, who are less fortunate and needs help. The chosen purok of your group is where
the enemy of your mother resides and destroyed so much the reputation of your family. Will you still attend to
the outreach program knowing that the reputation of your family members has been destroyed? Why?
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K-W-L Chart

Revisit your K-W-L Chart, then; answer the “What have I learned” question, on the space provided for.

You have already answered this one on page 6

What do I
know?

Jesus’
You have already answered this one on page 6
Mission and What do I
Fulfillment want to
know?

What have I
learned?

Journal:

Write the lessons you have learned in this module, and how you will apply it in your life. Write your
journal on the box provided below. You will be rated using these criteria:

Organization of Ideas - 15 points

Content - 15 points
Grammar - 10 points
Neatness - 10 points
TOTAL - 50 points
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 Lessons I learned… How I will apply it into my life….. Realization…..

Post Assessment:

I. Identification
Read each statement carefully, then choose your answer from the word pool given below. Write your
answer on the space provided before each number.

Obedience Love Person

Deus Caritas Est Follower Commandments
Jesus Gospel Center
Doing Model Commandments
Human Faith

_______________1. Faith is more than believing, it is also_____.

_______________2. A moral being has _____ as the norm.
_______________3. To live a good Christian life, we should keep God’s _____.
_______________4. Jesus, through the _____, helps us in order to perform our tasks as disciples.
_______________5. The starting point of discipleship is _____.
_______________6. The response to Jesus’ call is through _____.
_______________7. Jesus is the perfect _____ of holiness.
_______________8. Man as a _____ is the image and likeness of God.
_______________9. Christian moral life is a process of becoming authentically _____.
_______________10. Our actions and moral decisions must be guided by the life of Jesus as presented in the
___.
_______________11. The bond between love of God and love of neighbour is described in _____.
_______________12. Active faith is translating our beliefs into concrete acts of _____.
_______________13. We can turn away from sins if we put Jesus at the ______ of our moral life.
_______________14. Every believer is called to be a _____ of Christ.
_______________15. Salvation depends on one’s attitude to _____.

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 ~ Congratulations! End of Module 7 ~

Prepared by: Checked by:

MS. MAE B. ESTREBILLO SR. MA. CONCEPCION E. MENDEZ, TDM

Teacher School Directress/ Principal

REFERENCES
Books:
- KENOSIS: The Life-Giving Sacrifice of Jesus (Don Besco Press, Inc.) – Del Castillo, Fides A.
- Christian Living Education (DACS) – Ramirez, Candida A.
- We Celebrate God’s Love (VIBAL) – Arrogante, Constantina S, et al.

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