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00:01 Hey kids. It's time for Sabbath School. Grab your Bibles and
00:03 let's go. 00:04 ♪ ♪ 00:31 (Miss Ruthie) Hello boys and girls. Welcome back to Starting 00:33 with Jesus where we want to encourage you to start 00:36 everything you do with Jesus. Now we have an exciting program 00:41 for you today. Miss Michelle is going to be telling a story 00:45 about some workers in a vineyard and Pastor Moe is going to be 00:51 continuing his story. So you won't want to miss that. Now I 00:55 want to remind you about something that you might not 00:58 know about. On our website, startingwithjesus.com/color 01:03 we have some coloring pages, this is one from a few weeks ago 01:07 that you can color along when you're listening to the story 01:11 you can be coloring the picture that goes along with the story. 01:13 Every single week we have a new picture for you and you can go 01:17 back and look at other weeks. So we want you to know about 01:21 that so go to startingwithjesus.com/color 01:24 and you can look up those coloring pictures. We would love 01:28 to see your coloring pictures that you've done. So you can 01:32 send those to us at media@startingwithjesus.com 01:36 or you can tag us on Instagram and Facebook @startingwithjesus 01:40 with your coloring pictures and the things you've done and we 01:43 will share those on an upcoming episode or on our Facebook and 01:49 Instagram. So make sure to let us know if you've been coloring 01:54 these pictures because we love to see your art work and what 01:57 you've been doing. Now let's get to some singing. 02:00 ♪ ♪ 03:10 ♪ ♪ 04:20 ♪ ♪ 05:53 ♪ ♪ 05:57 Hi, we're the Flying Eagles Pathfinder Club of Bristol, 06:01 Tennessee. There's not a lot of us but we still want to make a 06:05 difference for other kids in the world. Our parents got an ADRA 06:09 Kids gift catalog in the mail. And when we saw it we knew we 06:13 wanted to help. The catalog had a few mission projects so we 06:18 chose chickens and it said "Can you imagine your 06:22 whole family living 06:23 on just one dollar and fifty cents a day? You can probably 06:27 find that much change in between your sofa cushions right now. 06:29 There are many reasons that families must survive on so 06:33 little. But you can make things easier by choosing this gift. 06:37 and their eggs can be sold at the market so families have more 06:40 money for food, clothes and other necessities." We also chose 06:46 goats and it said "Many children live on farms and help their 06:52 parents take care of farm animals like goats. These goats 06:55 provide milk and cheese. The yummy cheese can be eaten or 06:59 sold at the market year round so that no one in the family 07:03 ever goes hungry. As the goats have babies, the farm will start 07:08 to grow. If you team up with your friends and each buy a 07:12 share you can get a family of goats." 07:16 Last we chose wells and it said "You can help dig a well in many 07:23 countries. Kids don't have clean water to drink so sometimes they 07:30 have to dig in the ground for hours to find enough water to 07:35 fill one bucket. In other places kids have to drink dirty water, 07:41 yuk, and it often makes them sick. You can be a hero who 07:46 gives kids clean drinking water so they can stay healthy and 07:51 hydrated." Well we got right to work. Each of us participated 07:57 however we could and by the end we had made a poster, laminated 08:01 the different missions and taped it to the poster board. Then we 08:06 hung decorated index cards on 08:08 mason jars to collect money for each mission. Last we asked 08:12 permission to set it out in the church lobby. After a few short 08:16 weeks we had collected $345.60. That's more money than we 08:23 thought we could ever collect. We had enough for almost eight 08:27 chickens, four goats and $160 towards a well. We praise God 08:38 that he has missions that even us kids can help with. 08:43 ♪ ♪ 09:03 (Miss Michelle) One of the things that I love to learn 09:06 about is a certain part of the body. Maybe you can guess what 09:09 it is. Hmm. I think you can. It's the brain. The brain is an 09:15 amazing organ and it is so cool to learn about it. There's 09:21 different parts and they all have such important jobs. Have 09:25 you ever wondered what's inside God's brain? What kind of 09:30 thoughts does God think? Today we're going to talk about that. 09:34 Let's pray. 09:35 Dear heavenly Father, we thank you for loving us. We ask that 09:38 you are here with us right now as we dive into your word and 09:42 read a very interesting story that doesn't really match how 09:45 our brains think. We thank you for sending your Holy Spirit. 09:49 In your name we pray, Amen. 09:50 You see, humans think very differently than God, especially 09:56 since sin. Right? We were created in God's image and God 09:59 wanted our brains to think just like His does. And yet, God 10:04 thinks different thoughts than we do. What kind of thoughts 10:07 does God think? Isaiah 55 verses 8 and 9 says: 10:11 For my thoughts are not your thoughts nor are your ways my 10:19 ways, says the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the 10:23 earth so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than 10:27 your thoughts. Then He also says in the next book of the Bible, 10:32 Jeremiah, this is one of my favorites, maybe it's one of 10:35 your favorites as well. In Jeremiah 29 verse 11, what does 10:40 He think about us? For I know the thoughts that I think toward 10:44 you, says the Lord; thoughts of peace and not of evil to give 10:49 you a future and a hope. The whole time that Jesus was on 10:54 earth He was trying to show us what God was like, how God 10:58 thinks, how Jesus thinks. And in today's story He really threw us 11:05 a curve ball in telling a story that helps us understand that 11:09 and yet confuses us because we don't understand completely how 11:13 God thinks. You see, back then we know that the Pharisees were 11:17 about the rules, rules, rules. Jesus didn't obey all of their 11:21 made up rules, made up human rules. He obeyed his heavenly 11:24 Father's rules. They ruled Him out as the Messiah because He 11:28 didn't obey their rules. The rich young ruler also walked 11:32 away because he didn't agree with what Jesus was asking him 11:36 to do. And the disciples were even confused about Jesus and 11:40 His thought towards them. In Mark chapter 9, Mark chapter 9 11:47 verses 33 and 34 it says, Mark 9:33 and 34: 11:54 Then he came to Capernaum and when he was in the house he 11:57 asked then, What was it that you disputed among yourselves in the 12:00 road, and they kept silent for on the road they had been 12:03 disputing among themselves over who would be the greatest. 12:06 They were more worried about who would be at His right hand when 12:09 He conquered the Romans, which wasn't even going to happen, 12:12 then they were about how God thinks and about what God cares 12:16 about. So Jesus told this story. This story is found in Matthew 12:21 chapter 20, Matthew chapter 20 and I brought something to help 12:28 tell this story that we're going to be using. Maybe you've 12:32 learned about it in school. Maybe you like digital better, 12:36 but I think that analog is important to learn as well. 12:39 You see there was a rich farmer and he had a large vineyard. 12:43 What do they grow in vineyards? They grow grapes and we have a 12:49 lot of vineyards around where I live. Not as many maybe as in 12:51 California or maybe other places in different countries but here 12:55 we have quite a few vineyards around. And he had so many 13:02 grapes that he needed to hire extra help to harvest those 13:06 grapes. And we'll pick up the story in Matthew 20 and verse 1: 13:09 For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out 13:13 early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard. Now 13:17 when he had agreed with the laborers to a denarius a day he 13:21 sent then into his vineyard. A denarius; so one coin. 13:25 A denarius back then would have the equivalent of about a day's 13:28 labor, a day's worth of labor. So today's minimum wage is 13:32 right around $7.25 or so. If you multiply that by how many hours 13:35 you work you would find out how much that would be in today's 13:40 money. And they thought that sounded like a fair deal because 13:42 back then to get a denarius for one day's labor was fair. 13:46 So they went to work in the vineyard picking the grapes. 13:49 Verse 3 continues the story: And he went out at about about the 13:54 third hour. Now this is a little confusing to Miss Michelle 13:57 because the third hour I might think 3 o'clock but then I think 14:01 3 a.m. That doesn't make any sense. Right? No one's up at 14:05 3 a.m. and it says that he already hired people early in 14:08 the morning in the third hour. So early in the morning was 14:12 probably, pardon me, my minute hand is giving me trouble, was 14:16 probably around 6 o'clock. So small hand pointing to the 6. 14:19 The third hour would have been three hours after the work day 14:23 started. So that would be 7, 8, 9 o'clock. So 9 a.m. the farmer 14:29 went out and he realized that... 14:33 In the third hour he saw others standing out in the market place 14:36 and he said to them, You also go into the vineyard and whatever 14:39 is right I will give you. 14:41 So they went. Now he didn't tell them how much he was going to 14:43 pay them, did he? They had to trust him that he would make 14:48 fair pay for them. And so they did. He realized that he needed 14:52 more workers; there were so many grapes to pick. Then in verse 5 14:56 it continues: Again in about the sixth hour... So six hour after 15:00 they had started at six would be at noon. So at noon once again 15:03 he went out and asked more people who were standing there 15:05 to come and help him work. And again at the ninth hour which 15:09 would be three more hours, right? One, two three, at 15:11 3 o'clock in the afternoon he asked again for more people to 15:15 come and help him and he didn't tell them how much he was going 15:18 pay them. It says:... Again he went in the sixth and the ninth 15:22 hour and did likewise and,... we're in verse 6, and at about 15:26 the 11th hour he went out and found others standing idle. 15:28 I don't mean they were just standing around, they weren't 15:30 moving. If your car is idling it means it's staying in one place. 15:33 So once again we're to the 11th hour. So we started at six so 15:38 let's count 11, ready, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11. So 15:43 this is 5 o'clock in the evening he still realized that they 15:47 weren't going to finish in time and he needed more help to push 15:50 through to finish that day. And so at the 11th hour he went and 15:55 hired more people and said to them, Why have you been standing 15:59 here idle all day? And they said to him, Because no one has hired 16:02 us. And he said to them, Well you also go into the vineyard 16:05 and whatever is right you will receive. So when evening had 16:09 come the owner of the vineyard said to his steward, Call the 16:13 laborers and give them their wages. Okay, this was natural. 16:16 They would pay as they went so at the end of that day, it was 16:20 time to pay them what they were due. Okay, this is where the 16:26 story gets interesting. Do you like stories with a surprise 16:29 ending? Sometimes I do, sometimes I don't. I like to be 16:32 able to guess what the ending is but I don't think, unless 16:35 you've heard the story before, you would guess it correctly. 16:37 So what does he do? Well he tells his servant there he says 16:44 to him... And we should begin with the last and go to the 16:51 first. Sound familiar? Jesus has said that before. Right? And so 16:56 when those who came who were hired at the 11th hour came they 17:00 received a denarius. And the people who'd been working all 17:05 day thought, well that's interesting. And then when they 17:10 received it, or no, let's back up. And then when the first came 17:15 they supposed that they would receive more. They thought well 17:17 if everybody else, the people who came at 3 p.m., noon, the 17:20 people who came at 9, if they all got a denarius, which is 17:23 what it says, then we must be getting a little more. I mean we 17:27 worked really hard, 12-hour day, 6 to 6. But here's what happened 17:33 When the first came, we're in verse 10, they supposed they 17:36 would receive more and they likewise received each a 17:40 denarius, which is what had been agreed upon. But they were a 17:43 little frustrated. When they received it they complained 17:47 against the land owner saying, These men who worked only one 17:52 hour and you made them equal to us who have born the labor of 17:56 the heat all day long. But the land owner answered them, 18:00 And he answered one of them and said, Friend, I'm doing you no 18:06 wrong. Did you not agree to work for the day for me for a 18:10 denarius? Take what is yours and go your way. I wish to give to 18:20 this last man the same as to you Is it not lawful for me to do 18:25 what I wish with my own things? Or is your eye evil because I am 18:30 good. Whoa! A picture into how God's brain thinks. And this is 18:37 how Jesus ended this story. So the last will be first and 18:42 the first will be last. For many are called but few are chosen. 18:48 What does this mean, Miss Michelle? It doesn't make any 18:52 sense. We would get really frustrated if that happened 18:56 to us today. Right. If we worked all day and got paid the same as 19:00 someone who worked for one hour. I bet the workers who started 19:03 later in the day were so glad that they had trusted the 19:06 farmer to be fair with their wages. Here is what I learned 19:11 from this story. No one can ever work hard enough, be good enough 19:18 for God's kingdom. You can work your whole life and you can't do 19:23 it on your own. You see Jesus is showing in this parable that 19:28 no matter how many hours you work, you cannot earn salvation. 19:33 You cannot earn the reward and yet there is only one way to 19:40 earn that, to be able to go to heaven, have eternal life, which 19:44 is like what the wages in this story would represent. And we 19:47 find that way, that one way, in Acts, all throughout the Bible 19:51 obviously, but also in Acts chapter 4 verse 12. Acts chapter 19:57 4 verse 12 says:... Nor is there salvation in any other for there 20:03 is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must 20:09 be saved. Who is that name? Let's hear it, loud in the back, 20:12 Jesus. The only way that we can be saved is through Jesus. 20:15 Acts 16 verse 13 also reiterates or reemphasizes this fact. 20:21 Acts 16 verse 13 says:... Sorry. Acts 16 verse 13:... I think I 20:29 may have written down the wrong Oh here it is. It's verse 31. I 20:33 flipped the numbers. Have you ever done that before? So they 20:35 said: Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved, 20:39 you and your household. Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. That's 20:44 it folks. Sinless Jesus lived for us. He lived the life that 20:51 we can't and He died the death that we deserve. He died and in 21:00 His death He provided our salvation. Praise God. Glory to 21:06 His name. Isn't it amazing to see inside a little picture of 21:10 what is inside Jesus' brain? And his heart. Right? That he would 21:16 do that for us. That God would make that plan before the 21:19 foundation of the world, before creation, he had a plan to save 21:22 us in case we messed it up, which we did. And you can 21:27 imagine that the disciples and everyone who was listening were 21:30 majorly confused by this story. We could think about this story 21:34 for a really long time and still not completely understand the 21:37 amazing love that Jesus has for us. It's not fair, but that's 21:42 the amazing thing about it. For by grace you have been saved 21:45 through faith. Ephesians 2 verse 8. Let's thank God today and 21:50 praise Him for His salvation. 21:53 ♪ ♪ 22:06 Thank you, Miss Michelle, for that Bible story. It's time to 22:10 see if you got your questions from last week's Bible story 22:14 right. So make sure to be watching to see if you got them 22:18 right and if you go to our Instagram and Facebook 22:22 @startingwithjesus you can see the shout out to those of you 22:28 who sent in your answers. So make sure to check out Instagram 22:31 and Facebook @startingwithjesus to see a shout out for those of 22:35 you who sent in your answers. 22:37 ♪ ♪ 22:57 It's time now for our new questions. I hope you were 22:59 listening. So let's see if we can get them right. 23:03 Question #1: In our story today what was the farmer harvesting? 23:11 Question #2: 23:33 Question #3: 23:46 You can send you answers to us at answers@startingwithjesus.com 23:54 ♪ ♪ 24:11 Our memory verse today says: For grace you have been saved 24:14 through faith, and that not of yourselves, it is a gift of God. 24:17 It's found in Ephesians 2 verse 8. 24:20 ♪ ♪ 24:35 Hi kids, this is Moe. Last week we talked about what happened to 24:40 a very close friend of ours in the mission field. As we were 24:46 trying to help him, my father, in the process, got kidnapped. 24:49 Now we decided that things weren't looking good because we 24:54 hadn't seen our father. So we decided to pray. And we prayed 24:58 and we said, Dear Lord, Please whatever is going on help our 25:03 dad to be okay. And you know what my friends? God listens 25:08 and He can even talk to kidnappers. Now we didn't know 25:12 this but they were driving my father down to the river. And 25:15 whenever they would drive you down to the river they would 25:18 take all your money and they will throw you out and hurt you 25:21 really bad. So we prayed and we said Lord please and just at 25:26 that moment God started to impress upon the head kidnapper 25:30 that if he was going to touch my father he was going to mess with 25:35 God and things were not going to look good for him. So he turned 25:40 to the other people that were in the car that were kidnapping my 25:43 dad and he says, You guys, we cannot touch this person because 25:49 this person is a man of God. And at that moment someone of the 25:53 people that were there in the car, No way, we never do this. 25:56 We always finish the job. But he said No, God has shown me that 26:03 we cannot touch this man. And my friends, I want to tell you 26:07 what, whenever you pray God listens. You might feel stuck, 26:11 you might be in a hard situation in your life but guess what? 26:15 Jesus understands and if you go to Him He always knows what you 26:21 need. Next week we're going to see what happens when those 26:24 kidnappers get converted. Talk to you next week and God bless. 26:31 Thank you so much for joining us today and don't forget coming 26:36 up April 4 we have our weekly story time with Miss Kara and 26:40 I'm really excited about that. You'll be able to watch that at 26:43 our You Tube channel at youtube.com/startingwithjesus 26:48 So you won't want to miss that starting April 4 and you'll be 26:52 able to watch that there. Don't forget that we also have 26:56 coloring pages and I'm sure you were able to color this week's 26:58 picture at startingwithjesus.com/color 27:03 and we have some from other weeks and you can participate in 27:06 our weekly intro by sending in your pictures. So you can find 27:10 that information about that at startingwithjesus.com/intro 27:15 So let's say a prayer and thank Jesus for today. 27:18 Our Father in heaven, thank you so much for our program today. 27:22 Thank you that you love us, that you have invited us to work with 27:30 you and that you have a wonderful, wonderful plan for 27:35 our lives. I just pray that you will come into our hearts and 27:39 that you will help us to see that nothing we do will save us. 27:43 But only you can save us. I pray that you will help us to live 27:48 our lives the way you would want us to. Help us to be friendly 27:55 and be kind and be loving to everyone we meet and to show 27:59 then you. We love you Jesus and we thank you, in Jesus' name Amen 28:04 Thank you for watching, have a blessed week, and keep in touch. 28:07 ♪ ♪ |
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