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00:01 Hi kids. It's time for Sabbath School. So grab your Bibles and
00:03 let's go. 00:04 ♪ ♪ 00:31 Hello boys and girls. (Miss Ruthie) Welcome to 00:33 Starting With Jesus where we want to encourage you to start 00:36 everything you do with Jesus. I am so glad that you're here 00:41 with us today. We have a very exciting program for you and 00:46 during Miss Michelle's Bible story we are going to learn 00:49 about a man who couldn't see but he wanted to see Jesus. So you 00:56 won't want to miss that and before we get to any of that 01:00 let's start with some singing. 01:02 ♪ ♪ 01:51 ♪ ♪ 03:08 ♪ ♪ 03:53 ♪ ♪ 03:57 Hello boys and girls. I'm glad that you joined me in our 03:59 kitchen today. (Chitwood family) So the boys will tell you what 04:02 we're going to make today. What are we making? 04:04 Bread in a bag. 04:06 Bread in a bag. My friend Patsy Tower gave me this recipe and 04:09 she said I could share it with you. So that's what we're going 04:12 to do. Let's go ahead and we're going to get started. I'm going 04:15 to tell you what you need. The first thing you'll need is a 04:20 gallon Ziploc bag, whole wheat flour. You're going to need 04:25 white flour. You need some salt and some honey and some yeast 04:32 and some oil. Once you have all of that then you're going to 04:38 need some kind of spray that you might want to use for the pan so 04:43 that the bread doesn't stick. The first thing you're going to 04:46 do is get your Ziploc bag and we're going to put 1 cup of 04:51 whole wheat flour in it. So here's a cup for you. You can 04:55 just pour it in, the whole thing it's already measured. We 04:58 already measured it. There you go. All right, we're going to 05:08 need a teaspoon of salt and then a tablespoon of yeast. I buy my 05:15 yeast in big packets but what you can do is when you're at the 05:19 grocery store they have yeast in little single packets and so 05:23 that might be easier for you. So you want to mix those 05:26 ingredients together. So we're going to zip it closed. I can't. 05:29 Here I'll help you. Now shake it up, tip it upside down. Now 05:37 we're going to add our wet ingredients. So let's go ahead 05:41 and add our wet ingredients. 05:43 Open the bag now. 05:44 Okay, we're going to put in 2 tablespoons oil. So I've got my 05:49 tablespoon here and we're going to do 2 tablespoons of oil. 05:56 Okay and then we need 2 tablespoons honey. So the same 05:59 amount of oil and the same amount of honey. Here we go. 06:03 Now we're going to pour... 06:06 Ah that stinks. 06:08 Aden doesn't really like honey. Okay we need 1 cup of very warm 06:14 water. All right once you have all of that then we're going to 06:17 add our cup and a half of white flour. Now you might want to 06:21 make it a little more healthy and so you may just want to make 06:24 it all just whole wheat flour. That's fine. You can do that. 06:27 The reason why I'm using the white flour today is because my 06:31 whole wheat flour is very dense and so it makes my bread really 06:36 dense unless I add some of the white flour to it to make it a 06:42 little lighter. Thank you. First kind of mix it together. And 06:46 then once that's good then what we're going to do is squeeze out 06:48 all the air so that we can really knead the bread. Now it's 06:54 important to knead the bread for 10 minutes. You're going to 06:58 knead it, punch it, hit it, squeeze it, try not to break 07:02 the bag. You can do it like on a floured surface on your 07:09 counter top if you want, but you don't have to. It's up to you. 07:13 This is nice because it just keeps all the mess inside the 07:16 bag and then you don't have to worry about it. So we are going 07:19 to knead this bread for 10 minutes and then we'll be right 07:22 back and show you what to do next. 07:24 Jesus was trying to help people understand who he was and what 07:28 the kingdom of God is like and what kind of people will be 07:32 there in God's kingdom. Well one of the stories that Jesus told 07:36 was about making bread. God's love works like yeast. No matter 07:42 who we are or what we have been like, whether we've done things 07:46 that are good or whether we've done things that are terrible 07:49 God's love in our hearts changes us just like yeast makes dough 07:56 into a loaf of good bread. 07:59 Here we are kneading our bread. You can see that it is really 08:04 looking good. Once you have your bread made into a loaf 08:07 we're going to cover it with tin foil and put it in a warm oven 08:11 for about 20 minutes so that the bread can rise. Then we're 08:16 going to turn up the oven to 350 degrees for 35 minutes and we're 08:21 going to cook it then. Let's go ahead and do that. Okay here's 08:26 our bread. We're going to cut into it. Oh yeah. Look at that. 08:32 Yummy fluffy bread. Well, I'm so glad that you guys joined us 08:41 so that we could make some bread together. And I challenge you to 08:44 make you own loaf. I know you'll like it. So until next time 08:48 we'll see you guys later. Bye-bye. That is really good. 08:54 ♪ ♪ 09:11 Have you ever met someone who is blind before. (Miss Michelle) 09:14 Being blind means they don't have the ability to see. Right? 09:19 Well I had that opportunity one summer when I worked at camp, 09:23 summer camp. And we had actually a whole week where we had 09:28 several blind campers come and enjoy all the summer camp 09:32 activities and boy did we have a great time. In preparation 09:36 though for that camp they wanted us to understand what being 09:40 blind was like so we did several activities to help us understand 09:44 that. One of the activities was we had to try to feed somebody 09:47 when we were blind. And that was really hard. Trying to feed 09:51 yourself is hard enough. Trying to feed someone else was 09:54 difficult as well. We had to also help lead each other when 09:57 we were blind. Did you know that one of the ways that they taught 09:59 us to do that was interesting because I had thought maybe 10:02 you'd link arms with them or maybe you'd just hold their back 10:05 or their shoulder. But actually how they do that is you'd grab 10:09 right here on their elbow. The blind person, the person who's 10:12 pretending to be blind in this case, would grab the elbow of 10:15 that person and actually that was a great way to help them 10:18 through tricky places for walking. I learned so much. 10:23 Being blind is very difficult and I can't even imagine it to 10:28 the full extent but from that experience it helped me 10:30 understand just a little bit of what it's like and I gained many 10:35 amazing, amazing friends. Now our first story today is about 10:39 someone who was blind but today you get a special deal because 10:43 you get three stories for the price of one, free. Let's pray 10:46 and ask Jesus to be with us. 10:49 Dear heavenly Father, thank you for loving us, for being here 10:52 with us and for helping us to see you clearly. Please send 10:56 your Spirit to be with us as we enjoy these three stories from 10:59 your word right now. In your name we pray, Amen. 11:02 All right. The first story, as promised, is about a blind man. 11:07 whose name was Bartimaeus and here is his story. If you can 11:11 imagine with me two blind beggars sitting on the road just 11:15 outside Jericho. Beggars because they were begging for people to 11:19 give them money or food. They didn't have a way to make money 11:22 or have those things because of their blindness. Mark tells this 11:28 story and he focuses on one of them. His name was, What was 11:31 it? Bartimaeus. That's right. You see he had heard of Jesus 11:36 before and he believed that if he had the chance to see Jesus 11:40 right, he would be able to see. If he had a chance to come into 11:45 contact with Jesus he would be able to see. Jesus was leaving 11:48 Jericho with his disciples and a big multitude of people. Often 11:54 times Jesus had a lot of people following him, didn't he? 11:56 Mark 10 verse 47 and 48 says: One again if you want to look at 12:02 it with me you can pause it or you could jot down the verse 12:06 and look at it after the story today. Mark chapter 10 verse 47 12:11 says: And when he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth he began 12:16 to cry out and say, Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me. Now 12:22 the people who were there warned him to be quiet but he cried out 12:25 all the more [he didn't give up] Jesus, Son of David have mercy 12:29 on me. 12:31 Now what do you think that Jesus would do? 12:33 I got to thinking because when I hear my son's cry I often times 12:39 know it's my son even if he's a long ways away. Maybe if you 12:42 hear your parent's voice or your brother or sister's voice you 12:44 know it's them. I think that Jesus had the same talent and 12:48 that was he could hear people who needed him. And he stopped. 12:52 Even though there was a huge multitude of people he had heard 12:55 Bartimaeus' cry and what did Jesus do? In verse 49 he said: 12:59 So Jesus stood still and commanded him to be called. Then 13:01 they called the blind man saying to him, Be of good cheer, Rise, 13:05 he's calling for you. [He - That's Jesus, right] And 13:10 throwing aside his garment he rose and came to Jesus. [But 13:14 what would Jesus do?] So Jesus answered and said to him, What 13:18 is it that you want me to do for you? The blind man said to Him, 13:22 Rabboni,... 13:24 which means when we looked it up Rabboni meant master or 13:27 great one. So it was a display of respect. 13:30 Rabboni, that I might receive my sight. Then Jesus said to him, 13:35 Go your way, your faith has made you well. And immediately he 13:41 received his sight and he followed Jesus on the road. 13:46 How amazing. Blind Bartimaeus believed and received his sight. 13:53 God is amazing, God is so good. Now we're on to story number two 13:58 The other day I got this out. You see, this is my recipe to 14:03 make bread and my husband wanted me to make him some bread so 14:08 finally I got around to doing it Now what are some of the 14:11 ingredients in bread? Maybe you've made it before with your 14:14 Mom, or grandma or aunt. Or maybe you're like Miss Michelle 14:17 and you'd kind of rather just go to the store and buy some. 14:19 Although homemade bread is pretty tasty. Well, you need 14:25 flour, you need water, you might want to put a little oil in it. 14:28 Sometimes people throw in some nuts. I can't do that yet 14:31 because it's a choking hazard for my son. But later one we 14:33 might do that. Or maybe some oats, that's yummy too in bread. 14:37 Now in Matthew, we're going to back up to Matthew, verse 13. 14:42 Jesus taught a lesson with bread Hmm. He did that several times 14:48 didn't he. Do you know the secret ingredient for bread? 14:52 I have it right here in this bag I had to put it in here because 14:55 it needs to stay cold. Would you like to see what the secret 14:59 ingredient is? You see, if I put flour and some oil and maybe a 15:04 little salt, you know, in bread it would just stay the same. 15:09 What is the secret ingredient. The secret ingredient is called 15:13 yeast and mine comes in a little jar. And the yeast just looks 15:18 tiny, tiny little... Oh you probably can't even see it. 15:22 It looks like almost like the mustard seed from the other week 15:24 but tiny little pebbles, tiny, tiny, tiny little pebbles. 15:27 And Jesus taught them a lesson about yeast. Shall we read 15:30 what it is? 15:31 Again Jesus spoke a parable to them. The kingdom of heaven is 15:35 like leaven [that's yeast] which a woman took and hid in three 15:40 measures of meal until it was all leavened. 15:42 You see it only takes a tiny, tiny little bit of yeast and 15:46 when you put it in the bread, the meal, and you put it by 15:50 something warm, it grows and grows and grows into a 15:53 beautiful loaf of bread that you're sure to enjoy. Jesus 15:57 wanted the Pharisees to know and understand and this is a quote 16:00 from your lesson, that God's love works just like yeast. 16:05 No matter who you are or what we have been like, God's love in 16:10 our hearts changes us like yeast makes dough into a loaf of good 16:16 bread. What a cool lesson. All from a loaf of bread. On to 16:20 story number three. This one's called Finding A Treasure. 16:25 It's also in Matthew chapter 13 and this is about a man. 16:33 This man actually had rented a field and he was renting it. 16:38 People still do this today, where they'll rent the land and 16:42 then they'll work the land and plant a crop and harvest the 16:45 crop. Then they pay the land owner some money. Actually not 16:49 terribly a lot of money. I mean if you were doing it with a lot 16:52 of land it would probably be a lot of money but they usually 16:55 make a pretty reasonable deal for them to use that land. But 17:00 the land doesn't belong to them, only the crops that they grow on 17:03 it do. So this man was out in the field working on his crops 17:09 and the Bible says in Matthew 13 verse 44: 17:15 Again the kingdom is like a treasure hidden in a field 17:19 which a man found and hid. 17:21 Now why would he hide the treasure. You see he's out 17:24 working in this rented field and he finds a treasure. Wow. Maybe 17:29 the person who had owned the field a long time ago had hidden 17:32 that treasure. You see, back then they didn't necessarily 17:36 have banks like we do today where you can put your treasure, 17:38 your money, away safely. They often times would bury their 17:44 treasure somewhere and remember where it was. But sometimes they 17:48 may pass away before they could tell their family members or 17:52 someone else about where the treasure was. So this treasure 17:56 was unclaimed. It was just in this field. My bet is even the 18:00 owner of the field didn't know where it was. Why does Miss 18:03 Michelle think that? Well let's continue reading. 18:07 He found and for joy over it he goes and sells all he has and 18:12 buys that field. 18:14 Now first of all he would have had to go and talk to the person 18:16 who owned the field. And if they knew there was a treasure there 18:19 do you think they would have sold it? No way. In fact, that's 18:22 why he rehid the treasure. Right Then he told people kind of a 18:28 partial truth. He said, I must buy the field, which is true, 18:33 he didn't tell them why. Right? He left out the part about the 18:36 part about the treasure. And you can imagine what his family 18:39 thought of him when he came home and said, There's this field, 18:42 really nice field. I'm thinking we should sell everything. I can 18:46 just imagine my husband's face if I came home and said this. 18:49 We should just sell everything we have and buy this field. 18:53 And my husband's like does it have a home on it? No, no, no 18:57 home. Does it have a business on it? No, no business. Does it, 19:01 like did you find gold? And at that point the man would like 19:06 mm mmm mm because he kind of had found a treasure. Right? But his 19:11 family did think he was downright crazy. But he knew 19:14 that it would be worth it so he did. The Bible verse says he 19:18 sold everything that he had in order to buy this field. Can you 19:22 imagine the day that he purchased it and he said to his 19:25 wife and kids, Come on, let's go check out our new field. We can 19:29 just imagine the kids saying, Oh Dad are you serious. I cannot 19:32 even believe you made us sell everything. What are we going 19:35 do now. We have like, we have a field. Yay, let's roll around in 19:39 the dirt. Right? And his wife I can imagine maybe she was 19:42 even rolling her eyes a little bit at him, who knows and she 19:45 couldn't believe that it had come to this. But as they got 19:48 out to the field, he pulled out his shovel. You can see them 19:51 saying, Dad what are you doing? We don't want to work. This is 19:54 about like the worst day of our lives, we don't want to work. 19:56 He said, No wait, wait. And he started to dig, dig, dig and 20:03 clunk his shovel hit something. Well, this is curious. Now they 20:08 were paying attention. Right? He opened up that chest and he 20:12 showed them the treasure and it all made sense. They weren't so 20:17 mad at their dad anymore were they? And he bought that field 20:22 and had the treasure for himself You see he gave up everything. 20:28 People back then and people now need to give up some things too 20:34 don't we? People weren't willing to give up their wrong ideas 20:38 about Jesus and about God's kingdom. They were hanging onto 20:44 those, they were hanging onto the rules that were made up by 20:46 men. They were hanging onto things that were not from God. 20:49 Jesus wanted to show them that when you give up everything 20:53 you will see the treasure that God has in store for you. Wow! 20:59 Our memory verse focus was I rejoice at your word as one who 21:04 finds a great treasure. The treasure here is heaven, being 21:10 with Jesus forever. The treasure is God's great love for us and 21:15 when we let everything else from the world go then 21:18 we can see the 21:20 treasure that he has for us. I cannot wait for heaven. How 21:24 about you? And sometimes we may feel like we have to give up 21:27 things in this world or may not be able to get to do all the 21:30 things that other friends are doing or maybe things just don't 21:33 make sense when our parents say yes or no to certain things but 21:37 when we see what Jesus did for us... You know He gave up 21:40 everything too. And when we give up things for Him we'll soon 21:45 know the treasure that is waiting for us. Wow. I'm going 21:50 pray for you guys right now that you would listen to Jesus and 21:53 have his treasure in your heart. 21:56 Dear heavenly Father, thank you so very much for loving us and 21:58 for giving us the treasure of eternal life, life forever with 22:02 you. I want each kid to be here who's listening and their 22:05 parents too Thank you for loving us, in your name we pray, Amen. 22:09 ♪ ♪ 22:19 Hi, I'm Micah. You have probably seen me and my family singing 22:22 songs and exploring God's nature in the weekly Sabbath School 22:27 program. My mom has put together a brand new devotional 22:36 podcast called 22:38 the Seed Pod for Kids to help us spend time each day with Jesus. 22:43 Sunday through Friday she will be releasing a daily podcast 22:47 with stories, those are my favorite, songs which are my 22:52 brother Aden's favorite, memory verses and the Bible lesson. 22:57 If you listen carefully you can hear me in there too. Check it 23:01 out at www. startingwithjesus.com/seedpod 23:08 ♪ ♪ 23:15 Thank you so much for that Bible story, Miss Michelle. I really 23:19 enjoy Miss Michelle's Bible stories and I am so glad that 23:22 she's our Bible story teller, aren't you? Well it's time to 23:27 review our questions from last week. You think you got them 23:30 right? Well it's time to find out. 23:33 ♪ ♪ 23:51 It's time now for our questions. Are you ready? 23:55 Question #1: What was the name of the blind man who was crying 24:00 out to Jesus? What was the name of the blind man who cried out 24:05 to Jesus? 24:07 Question #2: What did Jesus do for that blind man? What did 24:15 Jesus do for that blind man? 24:17 Question #3: There was a parable in our lesson today and I want 24:27 you to tell me what that parable was. What was the parable in our 24:32 lesson today? You can send your answers to us at 24:38 answers@startingwithjesus.com. That's 24:41 answers@startingwithjesus.com. We love to see how you're 24:46 participating in our program. We love to have lots of different 24:50 ways to participate so make sure to send in your answers. 24:55 ♪ ♪ 25:05 It's time now for our memory verse. Our memory verse is found 25:09 Psalm 119 verse 162. Let's say it together: I rejoice in your 25:17 word as one who finds great treasure. 25:23 ♪ ♪ 25:40 Thank you so much for joining us today and for listening to 25:45 our program. We are so glad that you have been here and thank you 25:48 for each person who helped in this program. 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Thank 27:39 you so much that you helped blind Bartimaeus so many years 27:44 ago and that you help us today. Thank you so much that you love 27:50 us. I pray that you will help us to be missionaries to all those 27:56 around us to show your love to everyone and help us to bring 27:59 our friends to find you. Thank you that you love us and help us 28:07 and forgive us for our sins and help us to be like you. 28:10 In Jesus' name, Amen. 28:13 Thank you so much for joining us. Have a blessed week and 28:17 keep in touch. 28:18 ♪ ♪ |
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