You can’t BUY the Holy Ghost!

Premise:

Teacher is talking to the kids about the Holy Ghost and a gangster breaks into the class and tries to obtain the Holy Ghost through nefarious means.

Skit:

The teacher is giving a simple lesson on the Holy Ghost. Explaining how wonderful it is, WHAT it is, how you know when you have received it, how it can change your life etc.

GANGSTER wearing a black suit, fedora, sunglasses and other gangster accouterments with a briefcase handcuffed to his wrist flanked by two similarly attired body guards comes in through the back door and loudly interrupts.

GANGSTER (in New York/Bronx accent): HEY! What’s goin’ on in here? Step aside and make room because, BIG SAMMY THE SNAKE is in the building!

TEACHER: Excuse me? What do you think you are doing? We are trying to have Children’s Church here!

GANGSTER: Yeah yeah, whatever… I heard you got some of dat Holy Ghost here. Dat true?

TEACHER: Well, yes actually. I was just telling the kids all about it.

GANGSTER: So how does it work huh? Tell me dat. What does it do?

TEACHER tries to explain despite the occasional rude questions that are thrown in by the GANGSTER.

GANGSTER: This Holy Ghost thing sounds like really good stuff… I want you to hook me up. How much does it cost?

TEACHER: Well, actually, it is priceless. There isn’t enough money on earth to buy it.

GANGSTER: Yeah, I’ve heard that before. Everybody has their price, what’s yours?

TEACHER: Well, it really isn’t up to me, I…

GANGSTER: DON’T PUSH ME! HOW MUCH!?!

TEACHER: The Holy Ghost isn’t for sale… there isn’t a price that….

GANGSTER: OH YEAH! Just check this out! Step back and let me work. Let me show you something and then you’ll see I can pay the price. WHATEVER IT IS!!!!

GANGSTER makes a big production out of taking the handcuff from the briefcase and his wrist. He slowly and dramatically sets the briefcase down and SLOWLY REVEALS THAT IT IS COMPLETELY FULL OF MONEY.

NOTE: Our Sunday School has a store that the kids can buy stuff from. Each Sunday they can earn customized Sunday School dollars for attending, bringing their bibles, bringing an offering, bringing a friend that hasn’t attended before and wearing their “Sunday School” shirt. The most a child can earn in a single day is 5 unless there is a special promotion going on so a briefcase FULL of these dollars is pretty cool! The case held about 9,000 of these dollars!

GANGSTER: There you go! You see? Whatever the cost, I got enough. I can make it rain around here!

GANGSTER grabs a handful of money and throws it into the audience.

TEACHER: Uh, yeah… you don’t really understand the whole Holy Ghost thing do you?

GANGSTER: HOW DARE YOU! DO I HAVE TO PULL IT OUT OF YOU? DO I?! Don’t make me get rough with you…

The TEACHER calms him down and slowly persuades him that the Holy Ghost CANNOT be bought using the verses below:

• 18 And when Simon saw that through laying on of the apostles’ hands the Holy Ghost was given, he offered them money,
• 19 Saying, Give me also this power, that on whomsoever I lay hands, he may receive the Holy Ghost.
• 20 But Peter said unto him, Thy money perish with thee, because thou hast thought that the gift of God may be purchased with money.
• 21 Thou hast neither part nor lot in this matter: for thy heart is not right in the sight of God.
• 22 Repent therefore of this thy wickedness, and pray God, if perhaps the thought of thine heart may be forgiven thee.
• 23 For I perceive that thou art in the gall of bitterness, and in the bond of iniquity.
• 24 Then answered Simon, and said, Pray ye to the Lord for me, that none of these things which ye have spoken come upon me.

GANGSTER finally concedes defeat.

GANGSTER: OK! You win… I can’t buy the Holy Ghost and I can’t beat it out of you either. You are right… so what do I have to do to get it?

The TEACHER explains to the gangster all about the Holy Ghost, walking him through the plan of salvation… repentance, baptism in Jesus name etc.

TEACHER encourages him to hand around until the end of the service and he will have an opportunity to get the Holy Ghost when all the kids come up to pray. GANGSTER meekly apologizes, agrees and makes a humble exit.