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00:25 (Miss Ruthie) Hello boys and girls. Welcome to Starting with
00:28 Jesus where we want to encourage you to start everything you do 00:32 with Jesus. Today we are still in that last week before Jesus's 00:39 death and we're going to be learning a little bit about a 00:42 special service that Jesus had with His disciples, but before 00:46 we have our Bible story, let's start with some singing. 00:50 ♪ ♪ 02:03 ♪ ♪ 03:09 ♪ ♪ 04:29 ♪ ♪ 04:34 Hello boys and girls. Have you ever wondered if the miracles 04:38 that happened in Bible times can still, happen today? (Miss Milca) 04:43 This story takes place in the south part of Venezuela. And 04:47 there's a huge Indian population and a lot of tribes there. A lot 04:52 of stuff was going on down there a lot of injustices to the 04:58 Indians and finally people down there went on protest. The 05:02 government sent his soldiers. Well, the soldiers decided that 05:08 they wanted to take over and attack a little village that is 05:12 there called Maracha. Maracha has an Adventist school and there's 05:17 a lot of Seventh-day Adventist Christians who live there. Well 05:21 the people there were so afraid because they didn't have 05:25 anything to defend themselves. So they went to the only One who 05:29 can help us win, and who is that? God, Jesus. So they went 05:33 in prayer pleading to God for their lives because they were 05:37 were in danger. Well, the day comes when the soldiers start 05:42 approaching the village and they're almost there at the 05:45 entrance when they see the tallest soldiers they had ever 05:50 seen in their lives. Not only the soldiers were tall but they 05:53 were big and strong and they had some guns that they had 05:57 never seen in their lives. One of the soldiers comes and lets 06:03 them know that they cannot go into the village because it is 06:06 protected by many of them. So the other soldiers turned around 06:12 they leave but they don't give up. They want to try to take 06:16 over the village one more time. So they tried to go towards the 06:19 evening. And as they're approaching the entrance, they 06:24 see more soldiers who are very tall and very strong with some 06:30 guns that they cannot identify. So they didn't even talk, they 06:34 just turned around and left. But they didn't want to give up. 06:37 They said, Okay, we're going to go through the entrance. Let's 06:40 try another side, you know, of this village and maybe we can 06:44 get in. And the next day, they tried that, but as they were 06:47 approaching a thick, black cloud comes down and blocks the way 06:55 and they said that they cannot see a thing. So you know what? 06:59 They got so afraid they decided to just go away. They don't want 07:02 to mess up with this village anymore and they left. Now I 07:05 ask you a question. Do you think the village was under a spell or 07:11 witchcraft? Of course not. It was God's power protecting His 07:16 faithful ones there who were pleading for their life. So do 07:20 you think those miracles happen today. Yes. This story that 07:24 I'm just telling you happened two years ago. So what happened 07:28 in Bible times, all those wonderful miracle stories 07:31 can still happen today. 07:33 ♪ ♪ 07:37 (Miss Michelle) All right, welcome back everybody. I'm so 07:39 glad to see you. I wish I could actually see you. That would be 07:42 so cool wouldn't it? If we could all sit down together and have a 07:45 meal together. Wouldn't that be really special? That's what our 07:49 story's about today actually. Thirteen people gathered around 07:52 a table in an upper room in a house inside Jerusalem. Can you 07:56 guess what I'm describing. That's right, the last supper. 08:00 Let's pray. 08:01 Dear heavenly Father, we praise and thank you for being here 08:05 with us, for sending your Holy Spirit as you have promised to 08:08 lead and guide us into all truth Please be with us as we continue 08:12 to talk about the events that happened during the last week of 08:15 your life on earth. In your name we pray, Amen. 08:17 Well if you've been following along in the story we're to 08:21 Thursday night of the last week of Jesus's life on earth. Right? 08:26 And we're going to pick up this story in Luke. Now this special 08:31 meal that we see the 13 people sharing together, in our minds 08:34 eye, of course, was one that the Israelites celebrated every year 08:39 And let's go to Luke 22. Luke, let's see what Dr. Luke has to 08:44 say, Luke chapter 22 verse 8: 08:50 And He [capital He so that's Jesus] said to Peter and John 08:56 saying, Go and prepare the Passover for us that we may eat. 09:00 So they said to Him, where do you want us to prepare? And He 09:04 said to them, Behold, when you have entered the city, a man 09:08 will meet you carrying a pitcher of water on his head. Follow him 09:12 into the house which he enters. 09:14 Oops, I added the head part. I was just picturing that. It just 09:16 says a pitcher of water. Maybe he was carrying it on his head, 09:19 maybe he had it under his arm. 09:21 Following him into the house that he enters. And you shall 09:25 say to the Master of the house, The teacher says to you, where 09:29 is the guest room where I may eat the Passover with my 09:31 disciples. Then he will show you a large furnished upper room. 09:35 There make ready. 09:37 I love it. This reminds me of when He asked for the donkey. 09:40 Doesn't it? It seems like such an odd request and yet I'm sure 09:43 that the guy will say, Yes, here's the room. Right? 09:45 Sure enough. 09:46 So they went and found it just as He had said to them. And 09:49 they prepared the Passover. 09:51 Wow! This is so exciting, the Passover meal. Now this was 09:58 celebrating the original Passover. Do you remember when 10:00 that was. The first Passover, let's review that together. 10:03 It happened many, many hundreds of years before and that was the 10:08 night that the Israelites were freed from slavery and that was 10:14 the night of the final plague, the death of the firstborn son. 10:17 But the Israelites knew that if they put the blood of the lamb 10:22 on the doorposts and the lintel of their house that the angel of 10:27 death would pass over that house Now, of course, the lamb and the 10:31 blood pointed forward to Jesus and little did the disciples 10:35 know that this Passover was the last one that would meaningfully 10:39 point forward to Jesus. Because that very next day, on Friday, 10:44 Jesus would be crucified as that sacrificial lamb, the Passover 10:50 lamb, the true lamb of God. And as the disciples and Jesus ate 10:55 this meal, they didn't have to eat it in a quick manner like 10:57 the Israelites did on their way out of Egypt. Right? They could 11:01 relax and rest and have a special time to talk with each 11:07 other and for Jesus to share with them. Now Jesus though they 11:12 noticed was different right now. He was very sad and troubled. 11:15 And the disciples were definitely not ready for what 11:19 was to come. They were still vying for Jesus's attention and 11:23 were jealous of each other and they wanted the best of the best 11:25 for themselves. Judas had pushed his way all the way to be on the 11:30 side of Jesus, right next to Him on the left. Interesting if you 11:34 remember last week when we talked about the left and the 11:37 right. And John the disciples, often called the disciples whom 11:40 Jesus loved, sat on the right like the sheep. Right? As they 11:46 sat down for the meal there should have been a servant there 11:49 to wash their feet. Now their feet got super gross because 11:53 they did not have the sanitary practices that we have today. 11:56 So often waste, animal waste and human waste and junk would just 12:03 be in the street and then they would walk through it with their 12:04 sandals and it would be really gross. One of the disciples 12:08 should have realized, Oh wow, there's no servant here. I'm a 12:12 disciples of Jesus. I should be the one to do this. Somebody 12:15 must wash their feet and yet they didn't. This was Jesus's 12:19 chance to teach them a huge lesson in humility. So Jesus 12:22 took a towel and He took His outer garment off, His robe, and 12:26 He took the towel and He wrapped it around his waist and He took 12:30 a basin of water and He knelt down and He started washing the 12:34 disciples' feet and drying them on the towel around His waist. 12:38 Oh my! You can imagine the disciples' surprise and then 12:44 horror to realize that their Lord and teacher was washing 12:48 their feet. Oh my! They should be the ones doing that. Right? 12:52 And Jesus did that for them. It says in John, and all of the 12:59 gospels talk about the events in the last week of Jesus's life. 13:02 But we're going to go to John now. Jump over to John 13 verses 13:08 3-5 where it talks about Jesus washing the disciples feet. 13:11 Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into His 13:15 hands and that He had come from God and was going back to God, 13:19 rose from supper and laid aside His garments, took a towel and 13:22 girded Himself. After that He poured water into a basin and 13:25 began to wash the disciples' feet and to wipe them with the 13:28 towel which He had girded Himself about His waist. Then He 13:32 came to Simon Peter and Peter said to Him, [you know Peter 13:36 always had something to say didn't he, Haha, yes he did] 13:39 Lord, are you washing my feet? [Obvious question] And Jesus 13:44 said to him, What I am doing you do not understand now but you 13:48 will know after this. And Peter said to Him, You shall never 13:52 wash my feet! [No] Jesus answered him, If I do not wash 13:57 you, you will have no part with me. Simon Peter said to Him, Oh 14:03 Lord, not only my feet, also my hands, my head. [He was ready 14:08 for a full on shower, wasn't he] And Jesus said to him, he who 14:12 has bathed needs only to wash his feet, but is completely 14:18 clean. And you are clean but not all of you. 14:23 Dun, dun, dun. Everyone looked around the room. Well who of us 14:26 is not clean? Jesus washed all of our feet. Hmm. Jesus even 14:33 washing Judas' feet didn't He. Judas had already, and He knew 14:38 Jesus had known this already. Judas had already gone to the 14:41 priests and rulers a couple of times and he had already agreed 14:44 to set Jesus up, to help them to get Jesus and yet he also 14:49 cleaned Judas's feet. And Judas, as his Lord and Savior knelt by 14:54 him and washed his feet he almost changed his heart. But 14:56 pride got in the way. Let's continue reading. Oh, we read 15:01 that about Peter already. Peter loved Jesus so much and he had a 15:04 good heart and he wanted to change but he didn't realize he 15:07 couldn't do it by himself. Foot washing service is such a 15:12 special service that represents kind of like a mini baptism and 15:16 forgiveness and humility and clean hearts and being a servant 15:22 to each other. It's such a special service and here in the 15:25 U.S. we celebrate the foot washing service one time a 15:29 quarter. Not quite sure where that tradition came from but 15:31 Passover is one time a year, we get to do it four times a year. 15:34 So it's such a special thing. And they continued there with 15:41 the foot washing service. This is something that Jesus asked us 15:44 to do. And He says: 15:47 If I then, your Lord and Teacher have washed your feet, you also 15:50 ought to wash one another's feet for I have given you an example 15:54 that you should do as I have done to you. Most assuredly I 15:57 say to you, A servant is not greater than his master nor is 16:00 he who is sent greater than he who sent him. If you know these 16:04 things blessed are you if you do them. 16:06 He asks us to continue this ceremony. So on the night where 16:10 Passover was going to change completely the next day, right, 16:13 He gave is a new ceremony that we could continue to celebrate 16:16 to remember Him. Now the new ceremony consisted of the foot 16:21 washing but then it also had the communion service and the 16:24 communion service had elements of what they already celebrated 16:28 with Passover as well melded together and it was very special 16:31 Let's jump back to Matthew. Jesus took the cup after supper 16:37 and He started a new tradition for them. Well let's start with 16:44 bread actually. Okay. So He took... And remember at the 16:48 Passover time they had bread without yeast because yeast 16:49 represented sin. So it was flat bread. This is called matzah 16:52 which is the Passover bread. And this is what Jesus said in 16:56 Matthew 26 verse 26: 16:59 And after they were done eating Jesus took the bread and blessed 17:02 and broke it and gave it to His disciples and He said, Take, eat 17:07 this is my body broken for you. 17:10 This is really cool about the matzah bread. You see the holes, 17:14 just like the holes that were to be in Jesus's hands and the 17:18 stripes just like the stripes from the whip on His back. 17:20 There is a lot of symbolism in this bread. And then He took the 17:25 cup. Here I have a bottle here. He took the bottle and He poured 17:29 it into the cup and He took the cup after supper and He said: 17:32 He gave thanks and He said drink from it, all of you, for this is 17:38 my blood, the blood of the new covenant which was shed for many 17:41 for the remission of sins. But I say to you, I will not drink of 17:44 the fruit of the vine from now until the day in which I drink 17:48 it with you, new with you, in my Father's kingdom. 17:52 What special symbolism. Now sometimes some people believe 17:57 that when Jesus said, This is my body, they believe in something 18:00 called transubstantiation. It's a really big word and what that 18:03 means is that when the pastor blesses this that it actually 18:08 becomes Jesus's body. Now just saying that out loud, we don't 18:13 believe that that's what the Bible is saying here. We believe 18:15 that this represents Jesus's body broken for us and when we 18:19 break it with our teeth that it's like our sins are breaking 18:23 Jesus on the cross. Right? So we don't believe that this is 18:26 actually Jesus's body. We believe it represents or it's a 18:29 symbol for Jesus's body. And some believe that this actually 18:34 becomes His blood which we don't believe in that. It's almost 18:38 like magic. Right? And we don't believe in that. But we believe 18:41 that this is representing or a symbol for His blood that He 18:44 shed for us. The other thing that we believe is that we 18:47 believe that this is grape juice and that it's not fermented, 18:51 because we know what Jesus has said through His servant Solomon 18:54 that wine is a mocker. Right? Wine and strong drink is 18:57 raging. It makes us make really bad choices so there's no reason 19:00 who Jesus would have partaken in that with His disciples. So this 19:03 is just pure grape juice. Squeeze the grapes and that's 19:06 the grape juice. That's such a special ceremony that Jesus has 19:10 set up for us to learn. Then actually during the supper 19:19 Jesus announced in a way that Judas was the one that would 19:22 betray Him by saying whoever dips in this with me and eats is 19:27 one. And Judas did. And the disciples were shocked. They 19:30 couldn't believe it. And Judas went out to do the thing that he 19:34 was going to do which was to betray Jesus, his Lord and 19:37 Savior. Judas hurried to betray Jesus and he already had the 30 19:41 pieces of silver that the priests had given him. Judas may 19:44 have thought that this would have happened anyway. Or he 19:48 thought well maybe if I force Jesus to save himself maybe 19:53 He'll become the king that I want Him to be. But we know that 19:55 that wasn't true. That night, that Passover night that they 19:59 celebrated Jesus showed us a new ceremony that we can celebrate. 20:03 Now myself, I actually have a really fun Bible study group 20:06 that I'm a part of and we've actually celebrated what Jesus 20:09 would have celebrated Passover as. And it's really fun to learn 20:12 about the history of that. Not that I think that we need to do 20:14 that to be saved. No I don't think that. But I think it's 20:17 really cool to understand the symbolism behind it and most 20:20 importantly it's important to understand what Jesus did for us 20:24 and what the symbols of communion, what we call Passover 20:30 now mean to us. Jesus loved you so much that He gave His life 20:34 for you. 20:36 ♪ ♪ 20:40 Thank you Miss Michelle for that story. We had some questions 20:43 from last week. We're going to look at those answers and then 20:46 we'll have some more questions for this week. So let's see what 20:49 those answers were for last week and who answered those questions 20:53 and sent in their answers. 20:54 ♪ ♪ 21:21 It's time now for our new questions. Question #1: 21:39 Questions #2: 21:47 And when we do communion today we do a foot washing, so what 21:50 does that represent? 21:53 Question #3: 21:55 What did the Passover itself represent and why did the Jews 22:02 celebrate. What were they celebrating it for? 22:08 Now you can send your answers to us at: 22:13 answers@startingwithjesus.com 22:16 ♪ ♪ 22:20 The memory verse for today is found in John 13 verse 15: 22:23 For I have given you an example that you should do as I have 22:28 done to you. 22:29 ♪ ♪ 22:46 Hey guys, we are going to make some crackers today and I am so 22:49 glad that you joined us. We are going to use flour and sugar and 22:54 salt, a little bit of oil and some water. This recipe comes 23:00 from the Pioneer Woman. We'll put a link of it in the 23:03 description box below so you can go and make these exact same 23:06 crackers. Now what's so neat about these crackers is that you 23:10 can add different things to it to make it really yummy. So boys 23:15 what did we add today? Do you remember? Seasoning. Seasonings. 23:19 I actually sprinkled some onion powder over it. We put some 23:23 pumpkin seeds and some sesame seeds and what else did we do? 23:28 We did sunflower seeds. That's your favorite. Right? Yeah. 23:32 Sunflower seeds. And so we put them on top and it was so good. 23:36 So we are going to make this with you, today and I hope you 23:40 get to try it at home. Let's go ahead and get started. We are 23:44 going to get started with 3 cups of all-purpose flour. Now I 23:48 decided I wanted it a little healthier so I did 2 cups of the 23:51 white flour and 1 cup of whole wheat. So that's what's in this 23:55 bowl right here and we're going to add it to our mixing bowl. So 23:58 Micah, can you pour it in for us? Now they recommend sifting 24:03 it and you can sift the flour. It'll make it lighter and it'll 24:08 make it fluffier and the crackers lighter. So if you want 24:12 to do that, that is fine. I don't have a sifter with me 24:15 right now and so this is what we're going to do. Now the next 24:19 thing that we're going to put in is 2 teaspoons of sugar. 24:23 We're using white sugar. You could use brown sugar, any kind 24:25 of sweetener and then add _ into this one. Then we're going 24:31 do 2-1/2 teaspoons of salt. Now that might seem like a lot of 24:34 salt but once we baked it, it tasted just fine. If your family 24:39 doesn't like to do a lot of salt you can put less salt in. That's 24:45 totally fine. Okay, now what we're going to do is we're going 24:48 do is we're going to mix this together and then once we mix 24:52 this together then we'll add our wet ingredients. So let's go 24:56 ahead and start mixing. Now we're going to add our wet 25:00 ingredients; so we're going to add 1 cup of water and 25:03 4 tablespoons of fat. It can be olive oil, it could be melted 25:07 butter, it could be melted coconut oil. There's different 25:12 things that you can use for a fat. We're using olive oil. 25:15 All right, we have divided out dough into two separate parts 25:20 and what we're going to do is flour the surface to put some 25:25 flour down and then we're going to roll it out really nice and 25:28 thin. We want it about an 1/8th of an inch. The thinner it is 25:34 the crispier your cracker will be. The thicker it is the more 25:37 chewy it'll be. We also want to make sure that we turn on our 25:40 oven and get it warmed up to 450 degrees. So let's go ahead 25:45 and do that and then we'll roll out our dough. Okay. We got it 25:49 all rolled out and now we are ready to add the toppings if you 25:54 want. What we want to do is we're going to take a little bit 25:57 of olive oil and a brush and we're going to start brushing on 26:00 the olive oil on top, just lightly. Just a little bit so 26:03 that it kind of toasts it and makes it nice and crispy. And 26:07 then you can add whatever toppings you want. If you want 26:10 to do what we're doing, we're going to make on batch plain 26:12 just regular and then the other batch we're going to add our 26:16 seeds and it's going to be really, really yummy. All right, 26:21 our oven is ready; the beep just told me that it's ready. Our 26:25 crackers have their topping on it and now we're about to put it 26:29 in the oven for 10-15 minutes. Something I didn't tell you was 26:35 we need to poke it with a fork. Now when you poke it with a fork 26:40 it keeps it from bubbling up and having bubbles in it. 26:42 ♪ ♪ 26:52 All right, we got it all done. Some of them got a little too 26:54 dark, but we have them, and they are finished. We have our seed 26:59 crackers and our just regular. So, until next time I hope you 27:04 guys are able to make these crackers and that you'll 27:07 enjoy them as much as we do. 27:09 ♪ ♪ 27:16 Thank you so much for joining us today. I'm so glad you have 27:18 joined us and I hope that you're thinking about these stories 27:22 throughout the week, and that you're meditating on them and 27:25 that you're spending your daily time with Jesus. You know we 27:28 have a podcast that can help you spend that daily time with Jesus 27:31 If you go to: startingwithjesus.come/seedpod 27:34 you'll be able to see our daily podcast programs that you can 27:42 listen to and spend that daily time with Jesus. Let's pray 27:47 together. 27:49 Our Father in heaven, thank you so much that you came down here 27:52 to be an example to us, that you lived your life as a perfect 27:56 example of what we should be like. That you were willing to 28:01 be a servant when no one else was. I pray that you will help 28:04 us to be like you that our choices that we make every day 28:09 will be choices that you would make. And we love you. And we 28:13 pray this in your name, Jesus' name, Amen. 28:17 Thanks so much for joining us. Have a blessed week and keep 28:19 in touch. 28:20 ♪ ♪ |
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