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00:22 (Miss Ruthie) Hello boys and girls. Welcome to Starting with 00:30 Jesus. I'm glad you're here today. Now if you remember our 00:33 story last week was a little bit sad because Peter made a choice 00:38 that made him sad and made Jesus sad. But what did he do after he 00:42 do after he made that. Does he go and he prayed and he asked 00:46 God to forgive him? And did God forgive him? Of course, He did. 00:50 But today we have another sad story about another person who 00:54 made a choice they shouldn't have made. And this one doesn't 00:57 end quite as happy. So listen closely because we can always 01:02 learn from stories of others and not make those same mistakes, 01:06 right? Before we get to that story though what do we always 01:10 do? We always sing. So let's start with some singing. 01:14 ♪ ♪ 02:41 ♪ ♪ 03:48 ♪ ♪ 05:02 ♪ ♪ 05:07 My name is Eugene and I'm going to spend some time with you 05:09 going over the first chapter of Steps to Christ. God's Love for 05:14 Man. So what it says here in the book is that God has found 05:19 several different ways to tell us about His love. It's when we 05:23 see God's love that our hearts are softened. Titus 3 verse 3 05:40 We were evil. Then we saw God's love and when we saw it it 05:44 changed us. There are three ways that God shows His love to us. 05:48 Why the first one is all around me; it's nature. It's by the way 05:52 this nature was designed to meet the happiness not only of me but 05:56 the happiness of the deer and the squirrels and of the various 05:59 woodpeckers that I see here, the Downey and the Hoary. God has 06:04 designed nature in a way that just satisfies us. He opens His 06:09 hand and satisfies the desires of every living thing. We see it 06:13 also in the Holy Bible. We read in Jeremiah that I have loved 06:17 you with an everlasting love, therefore, with loving-kindness 06:20 have I drawn you? We see that God describes His love in how He 06:24 spared His people and what He's done. So the Bible is the second 06:29 place. But you know the third place, the one we read the most 06:32 of in this chapter, is about Jesus. The fact is that love is 06:38 an idea that's harder to describe than it is to see. 06:43 And Jesus came here to earth to make sure we could see it. That 06:49 we see Him sharing the gospel with the poor and see Him 06:53 forgiving His enemies and see Him becoming like us, humbling 06:58 Himself to be a man. All of those things are revealed here 07:02 in ways that are designed to capture us. At about the fifth 07:08 paragraph it says... 07:27 I was sharing the thoughts of this chapter with some young 07:30 friends of mine this week and they suggested to me a few ideas 07:34 One of them, they said, is the fact that Jesus was the only one 07:38 one that could pay for our sins. Have you thought about that? 07:42 That Jesus is the one that chose to give me life so I could pay 07:49 for my own sin because I was rebellious, or He could pay for 07:53 my sin because He was loving. Because He was creative and gave 07:57 me freedom. And as Jesus was our only creator He's the only one that 08:02 could pay for the sins of his creation. I asked them what else 08:06 They said they were really impressed with the idea 08:08 that there's no simile for God's love. It's too big for us to 08:12 comprehend. And by this idea especially that the Father loved 08:17 us so much that He missed being with us. He didn't want to be in 08:21 heaven without us. And so He sent Jesus. Why this chapter is 08:26 full of evidence about the great love of the Father. I just 08:30 want to encourage you to read the chapter for yourself. 08:33 ♪ ♪ 08:37 The whole universe was watching. (Miss Michelle) What were they 08:41 watching? What was so interesting to everyone? We're 08:44 going to find out in today's story. Let's bow our heads 08:46 before we get started. 08:48 Dear heavenly Father, we thank you and praise you for another 08:50 day of life. We ask that you please be here with us today. 08:53 Send your Holy Spirit to be here and guide us as we open your 08:56 word and we learn about one of the darkest days in history that 09:00 brought on the brightest sunrise We thank you. In your name we 09:03 pray, Amen. 09:05 Well, you may have guessed because we've been learning 09:08 about the last week in the life of Jesus that we're nearing the 09:12 close of the week and many of you probably have prior 09:15 knowledge about why the whole universe was watching that 09:19 Friday. Jesus knew they were watching too. The physical 09:23 suffering that Jesus knew He was going to experience very soon 09:26 was going to be horrific but He knew it was going to be nothing 09:30 in comparison to the spiritual and emotional suffering that He 09:34 would experience so soon. Remember when the angels came to 09:39 visit Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane. Because they came He 09:45 survived. He probably would have actually died because of the 09:49 separation that He felt there in the garden and if they hadn't 09:52 given Him the extra strength that He may not have made it 09:55 through that terrible, terrible trying time. And He felt the 10:01 weight. Have you ever lifted weights before? Maybe your mom 10:04 or dad or aunt or uncle or grandma or grandpa like to lift 10:07 weights at the gym. Have you ever tried to lift a weight 10:10 before? It's really heavy, right and you can even get heavier 10:12 ones too; all different sizes. 10:14 But Jesus's weight was like nothing you could lift at the 10:19 gym, nothing that your strongest uncle could bench press. This 10:23 weight was the weight of all the sins of anyone who had ever 10:27 lived or ever would live. Wow! That's a lot of sin. And He felt 10:32 the separation because when we sin, when we go against what 10:35 God's law of love has for us then it creates separation 10:39 between us and God and so He felt completely separated from 10:43 His heavenly Father. How horrible that must have felt for 10:47 Him. He was to die our death. In fact in Romans 6 verse 23 10:52 it tells us what we earn because of sin. It says: The wages (what 10:57 you earn because) of sin, that's death. But the good news is, the 11:02 gift of God is eternal life in who? Christ Jesus our Lord. 11:06 No one understood. Jesus was completely alone and if you feel 11:13 alone sometimes Jesus can relate because He felt the most alone 11:16 of anyone who's ever lived. What love He had for us and has for 11:20 us that He was willing to go through that. Wow. Now it's 11:26 early Friday morning and Jesus was bound and He stood before 11:28 the Sanhedrin Council. You may remember we left off here last 11:32 week. The Sanhedrin was the Jewish council, all the 11:34 important Jewish rulers and leaders of the church. John was 11:38 still there waiting but Peter remember had run away. Do you 11:42 where he was now? After the rooster had crowed, he went to 11:44 the garden of Gethsemane and he was there crying because he felt 11:48 so bad for what he had done to Jesus. Judas was actually there 11:52 too, in the Sanhedrin, in the Council area. And he was 11:57 watching. He had his 30 silver coins that they had given him 12:01 and he thought Jesus surely would soon free himself. He was 12:06 surprised actually that Jesus had let them take Him out of the 12:10 garden. But he soon realized too late he had sold Jesus for the 12:16 price of a slave. The trial was ending and Judas was realizing 12:21 that Jesus wasn't stepping in. He wasn't doing anything. This 12:24 made no sense. This was not his plan. Jesus was not going with 12:29 his plan. And at that point Judas ran in front of the 12:33 council and he said, Don't kill Him, I have betrayed an innocent 12:37 man. And he took the coins that they had given him and he threw 12:40 them down on the floor right there in front of the council. 12:44 Now you can imagine that they were very embarrassed by this. 12:48 In fact, he even grabbed Caiaphas's robe which we 12:52 wouldn't think would be a great idea, right? And they were 12:57 exposed. Everyone there understood what had happened. 12:59 They could see right through it. They knew where Judas had gotten 13:02 that money. And Judas fell at Jesus's feet and he wanted Him 13:08 to save yourself, save yourself. He was still not sorry. He still 13:11 wanted his plan to work. He wanted to force Jesus into an 13:14 earthly kingdom and into an earthly kingship. But it was too 13:19 late. In fact, let's jump over to Matthew 27 and jump right 13:24 into our story here in the word. Matthew 27 verses 3 and 4 say: 13:31 Then Jesus's betrayer, seeing that He had been condemned was 13:35 remorseful and brought back the 30 pieces of silver and saying I 13:39 have sinned by betraying innocent blood. What is this to 13:42 us? You see to it. That's what they said. They said what is 13:47 this to us? They tried to act like they didn't know what was 13:48 happening, right? He threw down the silver and he departed the 13:52 temple. And this is the really sad part of this story. He felt 13:55 so hopeless and so sad at that point that he went and he hanged 13:59 himself. Isn't that a sad end to Judas? He had such a 14:02 promising start. How Judas? He had so many talents. He was good 14:08 looking, he was smart and in fact he thought he was better 14:12 than the other disciples. But his downfall was something that 14:17 can get us even today folks. It was something that can get us 14:21 today. Money! Now money is not necessarily bad in and of itself 14:28 Money can do some really great things for Jesus. But the love 14:32 of money. When we love money more than we love Jesus and more 14:36 than we love others, that's the problem and the love of money is 14:40 what got Judas into big trouble. Judas had actually made the 14:46 other disciples doubt Jesus as well. And Jesus knew about what 14:50 Judas was up to. And yet He still gave him chance after 14:53 chance to change. Well the council had come down with a 14:59 verdict and, you guessed it, Jesus was found guilty. And the 15:03 people's reaction, this is crazy I couldn't believe how the 15:07 people reacted. But you can just imagine that Satan had filled 15:10 them with evil because they shouted, they yelled and it even 15:14 says that they acted...behaved like wild animals. Can you 15:18 imagine? And the priests joined in on this ruckus. It wasn't 15:21 just the common people, it was the priests as well. They had 15:24 gotten their way and they were feeling good. Ho! The soldiers 15:28 actually had to stop the Jews from killing Jesus. The problem 15:34 was though the Sanhedrin Council they didn't have the political 15:37 power to actually put someone to death. They didn't have that 15:41 power and so the next stop they had to go to, they had to take 15:45 Jesus, was before Pilot, the Roman governor. Because he was 15:48 the one who had the power to actually do what they wanted to 15:51 be done to Jesus. And they wanted this to be rushed because 15:55 they didn't want Jesus's followers, He had a lot of 15:57 friends and followers and they didn't want them to find out and 16:00 to try to defend Jesus in any way. So they woke up Pilot early 16:06 and you can imagine, I don't know about you but Miss Michelle 16:08 is not a super duper morning person. I'm not the happiest I 16:12 am all day the first thing I wake up in the morning and Pilot 16:15 was also not thrilled to be woken up early. A little back 16:19 story on Pilot. He was a bad leader. Let's just say it how it 16:24 is. He killed many innocent people and he killed many guilty 16:27 people as well. And it was no big deal for him to condemn 16:31 someone to death. But when he looked at Jesus, Jesus was 16:34 different to him. And Jesus looked innocent. And this kind 16:39 of surprised himself, right? And his wife had actually told him 16:42 about Jesus. And he knew about how He had raised Lazarus from 16:46 the dead and about some of the miracles that He had done and 16:49 this just wasn't making sense to him why these people would want 16:52 Him put to death. Doesn't make sense to us either does it? In 16:56 John 18 we'll see what Pilot was up to here. So let's skip over 17:01 to John 18 verses 28 and 29. It says: Then they led Jesus from 17:06 Caiaphas to the Praetorium. It was early in the morning. But 17:10 they themselves did not go into the Praetorium. This is very 17:13 interesting, lest they should be defiled. Keep that word in mind. 17:17 But that they might eat the Passover. And Pilot went out to 17:21 them and said, What accusation do you bring against this man? 17:25 And to them, this kind of phased them as well. Okay let's first 17:28 go over the word defile, right? Okay, the word defile means to 17:31 to take something that's clean and make it dirty. So 17:34 technically, we defile our plate at supper when we eat from it 17:38 and we get it dirty. But that's not usually the way we use that 17:41 word. The leaders, if they had gone into the Roman court, the 17:44 Roman court, there into the Roman Praetorium, they wouldn't 17:47 have been able to take part in Passover. That was Jewish 17:50 tradition. And so, they wanted to put this man to death, which 17:53 goes against the 10 commandments but they couldn't go into this 17:56 building because...Yeah, that makes no sense, right? That's 17:59 neither here nor there. And so he asked the priests why, like 18:03 what accusations do you have and this kind of phased them because 18:06 before like in the past Pilot hadn't really worried about like 18:09 what was right and what was wrong, what was good, what was 18:12 bad. He just kind of rubber stamped things. Like oh you want 18:14 this guy killed, okay, mm, sounds good. Go for it. But they 18:18 were actually having to stop and think like what reason is he 18:22 going to like for us to put Jesus to death. Oh I just can't 18:26 imagine, right? And so in John 18 verses 30 and 31 it says: 18:32 They answered and said to him, If He were not an evil doer we 18:35 would not have delivered Him to you. Like we wouldn't be here if 18:39 he wasn't bad. Then Pilot said to them, You take Him and judge 18:42 Him according to your law. Therefore the Jews said to him, 18:46 It is not lawful for us to put anyone to death. Pretty much 18:49 saying, We already did this and we can't do what we want to do. 18:53 Wow. Pilot then took Jesus aside to talk to Him because he really 18:57 did think he was innocent and continuing in John 18 it says, 19:02 verse 33: Pilot entered the Praetorium again, called Jesus 19:05 and said to Him, Are you the King of the Jews? And Jesus 19:08 answered him, Are you speaking for yourself about this or did 19:11 the others tell you this concerning me? Pilot answered, 19:14 I'm not a Jew. Your own nation and chief priests have delivered 19:17 you to me. What have you done? And Jesus answered, My kingdom 19:21 is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, my 19:25 servants would fight so that I should not be delivered to the 19:27 Jews but now my kingdom is not from here. Pilot therefore said 19:31 to Him, are you a king then? And Jesus said You say rightly that 19:34 I am a king. For this, cause I was born and for this cause I 19:38 have come into the world that I should bear witness to the truth 19:41 Everyone who is of the truth hears my voice. He told Pilot 19:46 straight on, I am the king. And yet Pilot still didn't listen. 19:52 And oh, can't imagine, right? And then it continues and the 19:59 priests mentioned Galilee, that He was from Galilee, right? 20:02 And when the priests said that, Pilot thought, hmm, I know who's 20:10 over in Galilee. Herod, King Herod. And Pilot and King Herod 20:16 apparently didn't get along real well. So he thought, hmm, if I 20:19 send Him over the Herod maybe we could be buddies again and he 20:23 would have a little more respect for me, if I had respect for him 20:26 as a ruler. So that's what he did. He decided to be a coward. 20:31 He decided he wouldn't stand up to the Jewish leaders. He 20:34 wouldn't tell them what he knew was true which was that Jesus 20:38 was the King and that He was innocent and that He shouldn't 20:40 be killed and instead, he sent Jesus on. And in Luke 23 verses 20:47 5-7 it says, But they were the more fierce saying He stirs up 20:51 the people teaching them throughout all Judea beginning 20:54 from Galilee to this place. That was where Pilot heard Galilee 20:57 and thought that's my ticket, my free ticket, right. Then 21:01 heard of Galilee, he asked if the man was a Galilean and as 21:05 soon as he knew that he belonged in Herod's jurisdiction he sent 21:08 Him to Herod who was also in Jerusalem at that time. That's 21:12 where we're going to leave off our story for today. And next 21:14 week we'll pick up in Herod's court and we'll find out what 21:17 happened to our Savior next. Thanks for tuning in. Remember 21:21 just how much Jesus loves you that He put up with all of this 21:25 and all this for us. He loves you. I hope that you have a very 21:30 happy Sabbath. Take care. 21:32 ♪ ♪ 21:37 Thank you Miss Michelle for that Bible story. And I hope you are 21:40 making good decisions in your life. Now it's time to review 21:46 our questions from last week. So let's see what those 21:49 questions were and see what the answers were and see if you got 21:53 them right. 21:55 ♪ ♪ 22:20 It's time for our new questions. Are you ready? Question number 22:26 one: Who said, 22:28 Don't kill Him Caiaphas, He is innocent! Who said, Don't kill 22:34 him Caiaphas, He is innocent. Question number two: What 22:41 question did Pilot ask Jesus? What question did Pilot ask 22:47 Jesus? And question number three Did he wait for an answer? After 22:55 Pilot asked Jesus that question did he wait for Jesus to answer? 22:59 You can send your answer to us at answers@startingwithjesus.com 23:06 and you can look at our website startingwithjesus.com for a 23:10 shout out with your name. 23:12 ♪ ♪ 23:17 Today's memory verse is found in Matthew 6:33: Seek first the 23:26 the kingdom of God and His righteousness and all these 23:30 things shall be added to you. 23:33 ♪ ♪ 23:45 Hi, I'm Micah. You have probably seen me and my family singing 23:49 songs and exploring God's nature in the weekly Sabbath School 23:53 program. My mom has put together a devotional podcast called the 23:58 Seed Pod for Kids to help us spend time each day with Jesus. 24:03 Sunday through Friday she will be releasing a daily podcast 24:08 with stories, those are my favorite, songs which are my 24:12 brother Aiden's favorite, memory verses and the Bible lesson. 24:17 Check it out at www. startingwithjesus.com/seedpod 24:33 Hello boys and girls. Today we're going to test your Bible 24:36 knowledge with a little Bible trivia. So if I say a fact 24:41 that's true you face me. If I say a fact that's false, false 24:45 means it's not correct if I say something that false you turn 24:50 around and you don't face me. Righty? Here we go. Jonah was in 24:55 the belly of the big fish for three weeks. That's actually 25:02 false. It was three what? Days. It was three days. All right 25:07 first, then you can turn back around. Here goes. Next one. 25:12 This is a tricky one. Pay attention. Joseph had 12 25:16 brothers. Joseph had 12 brothers You're right. He had 11 brothers 25:24 Perfect. All right turn back around. Here's another tricky 25:28 one. Matthew, one of Jesus's disciples was a fisherman 25:33 before meeting Jesus. I thought I was going to get you but I 25:37 didn't get you, huh. All right false, he was a tax collector. 25:41 Everybody turn back around. All right Revelation 1:7 says 25:50 Every eye will see Him, when Jesus comes back the second... 25:55 at Jesus' second coming. It says every eye will see Him. That 26:00 includes blind people. Is that true or false. Face me if it's 26:04 true and turn around if it's not. Revelation 1:7, Every eye 26:08 will see Him. That's true. Have you guys ever thought about that 26:11 Have you ever thought about every eye will see Him and blind 26:14 people will be able to see Him. I thought that was pretty 26:16 awesome. All right, last one, you ready? During creation 26:21 during creation, God made the heaven and the earth in five 26:28 days and He rested on the sixth day. That's not true. 26:33 He actually made the heaven and the earth in six days and He 26:36 rested on what day? The seventh. The seventh and what did He do 26:40 to that seventh day. He made it holy. All right for...I love the 26:44 Sabbath. You guys can turn around. I love the Sabbath day 26:46 It's actually my favorite day of the week. Perfect. Let's end 26:49 with the salute for your participation. All right. 26:55 Excellent. 26:56 ♪ ♪ 27:00 Thank you so much for joining us I am so glad you were here. 27:02 Don't forget. We have a VBS program coming up - On Guard 27:05 Night and Day. We're going to be learning about some castles that 27:10 each one of us live in and the different ways that we can 27:13 protect our gates. We're going to have some really fun things 27:16 that you can participate in so don't forget to check it out at 27:19 startingwithjesus.com/onguard And we also have our story time 27:25 with Singer on the Sand. So you want to make sure to hear the 27:29 last few chapters of those coming up. We have a few more 27:33 chapters till the end and it's getting really exciting. 27:36 we'll have to see what happens to Satu and the big teacher's 27:39 family. Let's say a prayer and thank Jesus for being with us 27:44 today. Dear Jesus, thank you so much 27:47 for your love. Help us to make choices that will be good 27:54 choices. Help us to follow you all the way. And when we make a 27:58 mistake help us to say, Jesus help us, forgive us for our sins 28:02 and cleanse us. And help us to be willing to be humble. We 28:07 thank you for your love to us. We love you. In Jesus' name Amen 28:12 Thank you so much for watching. Have a blessed week and 28:16 keep in touch. 28:17 ♪ ♪ |
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