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00:24 Hello boys and girls. Welcome to Starting With Jesus where we 00:31 want you to start everything you do with Jesus. Now we have some 00:36 exciting things for you today. We have a story time with 00:39 Miss Michelle, yeah, and we have a song service and we have all 00:45 sorts of fun things planned for you, so let's get to some 00:49 singing. 00:51 ♪ ♪ 01:29 ♪ ♪ 02:15 ♪ ♪ 03:10 ♪ ♪ 03:14 Hi boys and girls and welcome to another page in God's great book 03:16 of object lessons. Today we're going to learn about scars. 03:20 (Miss Gloria) Scars are what's left over after your boo-boo or 03:24 your owie or your oh-oh or your ouch gets better. Some scars may 03:30 be from common accidents like climbing trees and getting 03:33 scraped by the branches. But some scars have a little more 03:37 meaning to them. Every time you look at them you're reminded of 03:40 something that happened. You're taken back to that time. For 03:43 example, my daughter has some pretty big scars from the open 03:48 heart surgery she had to have because she was born with some 03:51 defects in her heart. A defect is something that's not right. 03:54 Her first surgery was when she was a baby and the other was 03:58 when she was eight years old. Every single time I see her 04:03 scars I'm taken back to those days at the hospital when she 04:06 got the surgery. I cry every time I remember but they're 04:11 tears of joy because her scars remind me of how much Jesus 04:16 loves our family and how He grew close to us when we needed Him 04:18 the most and that it was Him who guided the hands of her surgeon 04:22 Did you know that Jesus has scars too? His scars remind us 04:27 of what happened to Him because of His great love for us. You 04:32 see Jesus is and forever will be God but about 2000 years ago He 04:37 left His throne in heaven and He came down to this earth. He took 04:40 on our human form and He lived a perfect life. Then He died on 04:45 the cross just to save me and you from our sins. 1 Peter 2:24 04:50 says: 05:01 Because of this, He has scars from where the soldiers pierced 05:05 His hands and feet with long nails to that old rugged cross. 05:09 Now our scars will disappear when we get to heaven. But 05:12 Jesus' scars are permanent. That means they have not disappeared 05:16 nor will they ever. He suffered a death that He did not deserve 05:21 so that we wouldn't have to die that eternal death that we do 05:25 deserve for sinning. All we need to do is accept His selfless 05:30 sacrifice, His beautiful gift on the cross. I'm grateful that 05:35 Jesus is back in heaven now preparing to come again and take 05:37 us home someday. And when we get to heaven, you'll be able to ask 05:42 Jesus to show you his scars and every time you see them you'll 05:46 remember how much He loves you. So today's object lesson is 05:52 every time you get a scar remember Jesus has scars too. 05:55 and He will forever wear them with joy because of the great 05:58 love He has for you. Until next time boys and girls keep looking 06:01 for object lessons everywhere you go. Adios. 06:05 ♪ ♪ 06:10 Hey everyone! Welcome back and guess what? The good news 06:15 continues today. Let's pray. 06:17 Dear heavenly Father, we thank you and we praise you for 06:20 another day of life. Please be with us Send your Holy Spirit to 06:23 be here with us and help us as we learn this really important 06:26 lesson today. In your name we pray, Amen. 06:28 (Miss Michelle) Guess what? Jesus was alive. I know, I told 06:33 you that last week, but I can't say that enough times, it's so 06:37 exciting and a lot of people knew about it. Who knew, you 06:39 might ask. Well, the angels knew. God's angels were there, right? 06:44 People who live in other worlds were watching and they saw and 06:49 they knew that Jesus was alive. Satan knew and his evil angels 06:53 and they were not happy about it The Roman soldiers knew and they 06:56 told lots of people on their way to tell Pilot. The priests and 07:00 rulers knew and they tried to bribe the soldiers to not tell 07:03 anyone and Pilot ended up finding out anyway, didn't he? 07:07 All these people knew. The women who came to the tomb Sunday 07:10 morning knew. And the men on the road to Emmaus knew. In fact, Peter 07:16 had actually seen Jesus too as well as Mary and they all knew 07:20 But there were still more people to tell right, how exciting. Now 07:28 before I get going I wanted to talk to you about one important 07:31 thing. Sometimes we have questions about the Bible don't 07:33 we. And one of the cool books that I like to use is called The 07:38 Bible Textionary. I think Textionary is a word that they 07:41 made up. It's kind of like dictionary but you can also just 07:45 google a topic as well and you can use it. But this book is 07:49 handy and it has all sorts of different topics listed here and 07:53 then more listed on the back. And if you go to that topic it 07:56 will give you verses in the Bible that can help you 07:58 understand it more. One of the questions we're going to be 08:01 talking about today is are angels real? And that's a really 08:05 important question. In fact, it's so important that it's the first 08:08 one listed in the Bible Textionary, probably because it 08:10 starts with A though right? And a lot of people have questions 08:14 about angels and that might be something fun that you could 08:17 research as a family. Now before Jesus became human did He 08:23 sometimes appear as a human? Can you think of any times? Yes. 08:27 Abraham had some visitors and one of them was Jesus and He 08:31 looked like a human. Gideon, Jesus appeared before Gideon 08:35 looking like a human. Sampson's parents and the list goes on. 08:38 So before Jesus became human and came down to this earth He did 08:42 sometimes appear like a human. Now the crazy thing though is 08:48 and this is a topic that adults even have a hard time 08:51 understanding is that Jesus was both human and God. Now angels 08:56 are not God. Do we see angels as people. Sometimes we do right 09:00 but only Jesus is the only one in the world who is both God 09:05 and human. And this is very difficult to wrap your mind 09:09 around right? But while He was here on earth, He did not use His 09:15 God powers to help himself. He only used His powers to help 09:20 other people by healing them and other things, other miracles 09:22 that He did, right? But the cool part is, the human part of Him 09:27 He went through everything like we do so He truly understands us 09:31 Wow! Isn't that amazing? Satan tempted Him many times to use 09:37 His God powers to help Himself but He didn't. And once He was 09:44 alive again He started using His God powers in ways that He 09:48 didn't before, in ways that angels do when they perform 09:51 miracles on behalf of God as well. And like we don't see our 09:57 angels but we know that they're with us, right. They encamp 09:59 around us. In the same way, Jesus appeared out of nowhere 10:03 several times after He came back to life. He would even appear 10:08 through a locked door. Mmm. Let's keep listening to this 10:12 story right. This is getting interesting. All right. What day 10:16 did Jesus die? That's right. He was crucified on Friday. Then on 10:20 Sabbath He rested in the tomb just like we rest to celebrate 10:25 creation and Jesus as our Creator and Redeemer. Then 10:28 Sunday morning Jesus rose from the dead. That's right. Now do 10:34 you remember what He said to Mary? He said You can't touch 10:37 me because I haven't yet gone to see my Father. And that's when 10:39 Jesus went back up to heaven for a quick meet up with His Father 10:43 They went over the plan of Salvation and His Father said, 10:46 Well done My Son. Jesus had completed the plan of Salvation 10:50 just as they had planned before the foundation of the world. 10:55 Then Jesus came back down and do you remember who He appeared to 10:58 next? The two men who were walking home on the road to 11:02 Emmaus, right? And then later on that evening those two men 11:07 scurried, ran, back to Jerusalem to tell the disciples that they 11:11 had seen Jesus. Where were the disciples, you may ask. That 11:15 Sunday night all the disciples except for Thomas, randomly, 11:19 were in the Passover Upper Room again where they had just been 11:24 Thursday night celebrating the Passover Feast with their Savior 11:27 They were confused, they were scared and they were worried too 11:31 because the priests had been spreading some pretty wild 11:34 rumors about them, about how they had stolen the body of Jesus 11:37 and about how they had done all these things that were not true. 11:40 And that's when Jesus appears to them. Let's look up what the 11:46 Bible says about that in Luke 24 verses 34 and 36. Luke 24 verse 11:52 34 says, um, let me see. There it is. The Lord is risen indeed 12:00 and He has 12:02 appeared to Simon. So they knew these things, right? And also 12:06 Jesus has appeared to the two men as well. Let's continue in 12:10 verse 36: Now as they said these things, they were talking about 12:14 everything that they knew, Jesus Himself stood in the midst of 12:19 them and said...Get this, I love this...This is what He said... 12:22 Peace to you. Now you can imagine, they were very 12:25 frightened. Jesus hadn't been there and all of a sudden in 12:27 this locked upper room and there is Jesus. How did He get in?! 12:31 I mean, I'm sure they weren't complaining but they were very 12:34 surprised, right? And they were terrified and frightened. They 12:37 thought they had seen a spirit. And He said to them, why are you 12:43 troubled and why do doubts arise in your heart? Behold my hands, 12:46 and He showed them the scars in His hands and in His feet, that 12:54 it is I myself. Handle me, touch me and see for a spirit does not 12:58 flesh or bones as you see that I have. When He said this to them 13:02 He showed them His hands and feet. But while they still did 13:06 believe for joy and marveled, He said to them, have you any food 13:09 here? Once again, a spirit wouldn't be hungry because only 13:12 humans get hungry, right? So they gave Him a piece of broiled 13:17 fish and some honeycomb and He took and ate it in their 13:19 presence. He had proved to them that He was, in fact, Jesus and 13:23 He was in fact alive. How exciting. However, you may 13:30 remember who was not there. A guy named Thomas and if he had 13:35 been there he may not be as famous a disciple as he is today 13:39 Have you ever heard the term, Doubting Thomas? I know I have. 13:43 And that refers to Thomas. Why? Well here's what Thomas said. 13:48 He said I don't believe that you saw Jesus. I wasn't there, I 13:51 didn't see Him. I don't believe it. You guys are making this 13:56 story up. You're just wishing. I bet it was a dream. I bet that 14:01 were just dreaming that that happened. Let's see what he says 14:05 in John 20 verse 25 he even went as far as to say...The other 14:09 disciples, therefore, said to him, We have seen the Lord, and he 14:12 said to them, Unless I see His hands and His feet, the hands 14:18 the prints of the nails, and put my finger into the prints of the 14:20 nails and put my finger into His side, remember they pierced 14:24 Jesus's side while He was on the cross, I will not believe. He 14:30 just straight up said I do not believe your story. And after 14:34 eight days His disciples were again inside. This time Thomas 14:38 was with them. Jesus came and the doors being shut and stood 14:42 in the midst and said, once again, Peace to you. That must 14:46 have been His favorite greeting right? Then He said to Thomas 14:51 Reach your fingers here and look at my hands, reach your hand 14:56 here and put it into my side... He must have had a nasty scar 15:01 I don't even know if it would have scared by then, it was 15:03 still, probably a wound...put it into my side. Do not be 15:08 unbelieving but believe. You can imagine Thomas (cough, cough) I 15:14 believe, I believe Lord what do you mean. No. And Thomas 15:17 answered and said to Him, My Lord and my God. And Jesus said 15:23 to him, Thomas, because you have seen me you've believed. Blessed 15:28 those who have not seen me and yet have believed. Now that's 15:33 the majority of people, isn't it Not a lot of us 15:36 actually were alive 15:37 when Jesus was here on earth and so really relying on our 15:41 physical eyesight for belief is not the best way to do it right? 15:45 In fact, most of us believe because of what we read in the 15:48 Bible and what it tells us about God's love for us and that's the 15:52 way Thomas was encouraged to believe, right? Um, Jesus's 16:00 disciples needed to truly understand the great controversy 16:03 and I'm not talking about the Great Controversy book that is 16:08 an excellent book, it tells a lot about what's going to happen 16:11 in the future. I'm not talking about this in particular 16:13 although this outlines everything. They needed to just 16:17 understand the plan of salvation and why Jesus had actually come 16:21 and you can find those answers in this book and in the Bible, 16:25 of course, but they needed to understand it for themselves. 16:28 Not just for a book but for themselves. And Jesus talked 16:33 with them and talked with them and shared with them some more 16:35 why He had come and He was trying to help them understand 16:38 this. Because you see they really still thought somewhat 16:43 that the Romans were the real enemy, the ones to be afraid of, 16:47 the ones that they needed to conquer but Jesus wanted us to 16:50 know that the great controversy, the big battle is not between 16:54 Jesus and the Romans...the Romans played a part in the 16:57 great controversy...but it's between Jesus and Satan. It's 17:02 between God's followers and people who choose to be on 17:05 Satan's team. Jesus's mission for us is to bring us to heaven, 17:13 right? For us to make that choice to serve and follow Jesus 17:16 And the awesome, amazing, miraculous thing is that Jesus 17:22 did the Mission Perfect. He left a perfect life, He followed 17:27 God's love laws perfectly. No one can do that. And that is the 17:32 expectation right. If we want to be with God forever we need to 17:36 follow His love laws but we can't do it on our own. And 17:40 that's where Jesus did it for us He was perfect for us. In fact 17:45 when God gets out His glasses 17:50 although I'm sure God doesn't need glasses, right...and He 17:53 looks and He says, oh yes here's the Book of Life let me see. 17:58 Miss Michelle...When He goes to my page because I've accepted 18:01 Jesus as my Savior, He's going to look a little closer and He's 18:04 going to say Wow she looks an awful lot like my Son. Why? 18:09 Because Jesus covers our sins. He takes His picture, His 18:15 picture-perfect life that He lived to perfection, not perfect 18:18 things happening to Him, right? And He puts His picture over 18:22 ours so that when God looks at the Book of Life He says Wow 18:28 this one's mine. Isn't that amazingly exciting? Ha. Jesus 18:34 that for us because He loves us so very much. I am so thankful 18:42 and grateful and forever in debt to Jesus for what He did for us. 18:47 I want to read you one last verse real quick. It's found in 18:50 Isaiah 53 and this just talks about the amazing sacrifice 18:53 Jesus made for us...53 verses 5 and 6 says: But He was wounded 18:58 for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities, 19:01 that's our sin and the chastisement of our peace was 19:04 upon Him. By His stripes we are healed. All we like sheep have 19:07 gone astray, we have turned everyone to his own way and the 19:10 Lord laid on Him the iniquity of us all. Thank you, Jesus and 19:15 thank you for taking our doubts and turning them into belief. 19:19 We'll see you next time. Take care. 19:21 ♪ ♪ 19:26 Thank you Miss Michelle for that Bible story. And it's time to 19:30 see the answers to our questions and to see if you got them right 19:34 Yeah, are you ready to see if we got those answers right? Okay. 19:39 Let's see. 19:40 ♪ ♪ 20:06 It's time for our new questions. Question number one: Name three 20:12 people that knew Jesus was alive Name three people that knew 20:16 Jesus was alive. Question number two: What convinced Thomas, the 20:26 doubting disciples, that Jesus was alive? What convinced Thomas 20:33 that Jesus was alive? And question number three: True or 20:39 false: We can be saved all on our own. True or false: We can 20:47 be saved all on our own. Now you can send your answers to us at 20:54 answers@startingwithjesus.com and you'll be included in next 20:59 week's shout-out. So make sure to do that. And we look forward 21:04 to seeing your answers to the questions. 21:07 ♪ ♪ 21:11 Today's memory verse is found in 1 John 4:15 21:20 ♪ ♪ 21:36 Hey everybody we are going to play a game and if you want to 21:39 do this at home, you are more than welcome to. We are going 21:42 to play a game. Now you can get a box if you want. I chose to 21:46 get a pillow case and what you're going to do is have an 21:49 adult in the family or one of your brothers or sisters go and 21:52 find an object and we are going to put that object inside the 21:57 pillow case and the boys don't know what it is. And they're 22:00 going to reach in and they're going to feel it without looking 22:04 Without looking, they're going to reach in a feel and see if 22:08 they can guess what that object is. Okay? So who wants to go 22:11 first? Me. Ah-ha! I knew that was going to happen. 22:16 All right. I have an object in here and I want you to be really 22:19 really careful, don't look. It is fragile. Don't pull it out. 22:25 I want you to feel it. You can put both hands in there and you 22:29 can use them to feel, both hands if you want. 22:32 Sand dollar. 22:33 Hah, what is it? 22:35 A sand dollar. Look at that. We went to the beach this last week 22:41 and we found some sand dollars at the beach. 22:47 _ kids do that. What does it feel like? 22:51 Oh, I know what it is. 22:53 Okay. It's made out of plastic. 22:55 Okay, it's made out of plastic. Hmm. What else could it be? 22:59 What is it kind of shaped like? 23:01 I know because it can unfold. 23:04 Okay, it folds and it unfolds. Good. What's another clue? 23:11 And it goes on your head. 23:14 It goes on your head. Can Mikey guess what it is? No. 23:20 I could if I could feel it. 23:22 All right so it's made out of plastic, it folds and unfolds 23:24 and it goes on your head. 23:27 Yeah. I want to see. Hah! What is that? Sunglasses. 23:31 Yeah sunglasses are great to protect our eyes. 23:35 I would guess that if I could feel it. 23:41 Hah! It makes a noise. It has... Don't pull it out yet. 23:50 It's made out of plastic. It kind of...I think that's what it 23:57 is. What is it Aiden? 24:02 It is...! 24:03 A fan. Why are fans important? 24:04 Because they keep us cool. 24:06 Okay, my turn. 24:12 Describe it to us. 24:14 It's a box. 24:17 It's a box. Is there something in the box? 24:24 Oh yeah! I just discovered because I opened the lid and 24:27 touched what was inside. 24:29 Okay is there something inside? What's inside. Are there a lot 24:33 of things inside the box or is it just a few? 24:36 A lot. 24:39 And does it have different shapes? 24:43 Yeah. You want me to take one out? 24:45 Yeah, take one out. 24:47 Hah! A puzzle. Very nice. 24:54 It's a sea turtle. 24:55 It's a sea turtle puzzle. How neat. If you want to find 24:59 some objects around your house and do the same thing, you can. 25:04 It's lots of fun. Don't you think? 25:06 Uh-huh. Yeah. 25:07 ♪ ♪ 25:11 Thank you so much for being part of our program. Don't forget. 25:14 If you haven't watched our VBS program you can go back and 25:18 watch it at startingwithjeseus.com/onguard 25:21 And I have a little clip here of one of our friends who was 25:27 watching the VBS program and sent in a special verse that's 25:32 going to help him to guard the castle throughout his life. 25:36 You are my strength. I wait for you to rescue me for you To God 25:46 are my fortress. Psalm 59:9 25:49 Now I just want to give you a little heads up. For those of 25:53 you who are watching on our website we want you to know that 25:56 sometimes this summer there might be a few times where we 26:00 just upload the video and we won't be able to include our 26:03 usual interactive activities. We try to include them every single 26:07 week. We love to have your memory verses that you send in 26:11 and the shout out but during the summer there might be a few 26:14 times we're not able to include them. But we want to make sure 26:16 that you know that we always get them. We love watching them and 26:20 we love that you're participating in our program 26:23 and we love including them every time that we can. So make sure 26:26 to keep sending them because most weeks we'll be able to 26:29 include them. There'll just be a few weeks here and there where 26:33 we won't be able to. And one of those weeks we want you to know 26:37 about is because we're going to be at ASI which is Adventist 26:40 Laymen's Services and Industries a convention that's going to be 26:43 happening in Orlando, Florida. And if you're going to be there 26:47 we would love to see you. So make sure to check us out at our 26:50 booth. We're going to be right with Audio Verse and right next 26:54 to My Bible First, so you'll be able to find us pretty easily 26:58 and we would love to get to know you and there's an extra special 27:02 part and a way that you can participate if you come to our 27:06 booth and we'll have some special treats so we would love 27:08 to see you there. Let's pray. 27:11 Our Father in heaven, thank you so much for your love. Thank you 27:15 that you're with us and thank you for giving us the assurance 27:19 that you are alive and that you love us and that you are coming 27:28 again. I pray that you will help us to be ready. I pray that you 27:33 will help us to have faith even when everything looks just so 27:39 unsure. But I pray that you will help us to have faith in you and 27:44 know that you love us and know that you care for us and know 27:51 that it was for us that you gave your life. We love you so much 27:55 and we pray this in your name In Jesus name, Amen. 28:01 Thank you so much for joining us Have a blessed week and 28:03 keep in touch. 28:05 ♪ ♪ |
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