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00:24 (Miss Ruthie) Hello everyone Welcome to Starting With Jesus. 00:28 Where we want to encourage you to start everything you do 00:32 with Jesus. Today's story is going to be really exciting. 00:37 We're going to be learning about some fire that didn't burn the 00:43 people up and it's not the three Hebrews and it's not the 00:48 fiery furnace. 00:50 Mmm. Well. I can't wait for Miss Michelle's story. It's going to 00:55 be really fun. But before we get to story time let's get to some 00:59 singing. ♪ ♪ 02:12 ♪ ♪ 02:53 ♪ ♪ 03:42 ♪ ♪ 03:46 Hi boys and girls. And welcome to another page in God's great 03:49 book of object lessons. Today we're going to consider memories 03:53 (Miss Gloria) The memories are things that you remember about 03:55 things that happened in the past As you live life you go about 03:59 making memories. But that makes me think. How am I living my 04:04 life? Do I make it a place to make special memories with Jesus 04:07 Hmm. James 4:8 says: 04:14 Well, how can I draw near to God? Read the Bible. Pray. Spend 04:20 time in nature. Help others. Do God's will. Share Jesus with 04:26 others. Oh, I think I got it. Spending time doing all these 04:30 things will help me draw near to God and make memories with Jesus 04:33 Hmm. How about watching Starting With Jesus each week? They 04:37 recently had a VBS. It was called OnGuard Knight and Day. 04:42 Raise your hands if you watched it. If you missed it it's okay. 04:47 You can always go back and watch it whenever you get a chance. 04:49 But for now I'd like to show you some special memories that these 04:52 kids made with Jesus during their VBS week. Miss Katie 04:58 always says spending time with Jesus is the best way to start 05:02 your day. So they started each day with prayer to invite Jesus 05:06 to VBS. Then they joined Miss Rachel in the great hall and 05:12 they learned all about the different gates that lead to 05:14 their castle: The eye gate, the ear gate, the mouth gate, the 05:22 nose gate, the touch gate and the think gate. Next they 05:29 visited the animals God has made for us to enjoy like the fish in 05:34 the pond, and the cute little kittens. Awe, cuddle time. Their 05:41 next stop was The Armory with Miss Michelle. She teaches Bible 05:45 stories in a fun way. And craft time was a fan favorite. They 05:52 made some pretty cool on guard scene crafts this year at VBS. 05:56 By this time they had worked up quite the appetite, so to the 06:00 mess hall it was. Sometime they even ate outside. That's always 06:04 fun to do. Each day they did lots of exercise in place but 06:11 the more they moved the more energy they got. The daily field 06:17 trip was last. One day they got to visit a local castle. It was 06:22 so fun to walk around the castle walls and identify all the gates 06:26 They also did missionary work. They got to pass out literature 06:32 in the local downtown. Even the local fireman got a book. They 06:36 didn't know that sharing Jesus with others would be so much fun 06:40 Now the best thing about this memory is what they learned from 06:45 it: That Jesus helps you protect your gates because He loves you. 06:49 Making memories with Jesus is the best way to live life and 06:53 that's the truth. Until next time boys and girls try to spend 06:57 every waking moment with your friend Jesus, and try to make 07:00 special memories with Him always Adios. 07:03 ♪ ♪ 07:09 Hey everyone. I was just looking at one of my favorite things to 07:13 do, especially my son and I like doing this together. 07:15 (Miss Michelle) _ wants the story that we want to listen 07:17 to today. I think...Oh yes! Uh-huh, nope, nope. Here it is. 07:24 This is the one and I'll tell you why in a little bit. 07:27 Dear heavenly Father, thank you so very much for loving us, for 07:31 sending your Holy Spirit way back when and still today to 07:35 take care of us. Please bless our story time today as we delve 07:38 into your word to learn more about you. In your name, we pray, 07:40 Amen. 07:42 Can you imagine having three and a half years with Jesus? I mean 07:47 all the cool things that can happen here on earth in three 07:50 and a half years. Lot of sad things happen too. But if you 07:53 can imagine having three and a half years with Jesus, what kind 07:56 of memories, you would have. I mean Matthew, Mark, Luke and 08:00 John, they wrote down all sorts of memories that the disciples 08:04 had of their times with Jesus didn't they? And all the 08:08 different miracles of what happened while He was here. 08:11 What's your favorite Bible or miracle story of Jesus's life? 08:15 That would be a fun thing to share. You can even share it 08:18 with your family or with a friend or it would be a great 08:20 thing to share even in front of your church or in front of your 08:24 Sabbath School group. One of my very favorite stories is 08:28 found in this Your Story Hour Album, 08:31 Album 4 of the Bible Comes Alive Series and 08:36 I think I put a plug in for Your Story Hour before but fantastic 08:40 way to learn more about the Bible. They have a whole bunch 08:44 of stories from the Bible all put to Audio so you can listen 08:48 and real people are doing the talking and if there's a sheep 08:51 in the sheep it'll sound like a sheep, a sheep noise, or if a 08:56 door closes there'll be a door closing. So it feels like you're 08:59 really there. My favorite story is number 44 and it's called 09:04 Journey to Jerusalem and Happiness in Galilee, two of my 09:08 very most favorite stories of what happened when Jesus was 09:11 here. And so if you want to check those out, I highly 09:13 encourage you to check them out Your Story Hour if you just 09:17 Google it. They also have it at yourstoryhour.org where you can 09:20 learn more about that. Anyway I'm sure that you guys have many 09:24 favorites and I do to. It's hard to choose just one of what 09:27 happened when Jesus was alive. Our lesson said it so will that 09:32 I'm going to quote, that means I'm going to say exactly what 09:35 the lesson said about this one little part. I'm going to read 09:37 it to you. Yes day and night Jesus had been with the 09:41 disciples teaching them, guiding them, comforting them and 09:45 keeping them safe. Day after day they felt Jesus's love for them 09:49 and every day they loved and trusted Jesus more. Wow! Oh I'm 09:55 a little jealous. I'm not going to lie. I think it would have 09:57 been so amazing to be able to be there with Jesus, right? Luke 10:01 24 says something important that we're going to read right now. 10:07 We're going to figure out where we're picking up our story for 10:09 today. Luke 24 verse 50 says: And He led them out as far as 10:14 Bethany and lifted up his hands and blessed them. Now it came to 10:17 pass that when He blessed them that He was parted from them 10:20 and carried up into heaven. Do you remember that from last week 10:23 And they worshiped Him and they returned to Jerusalem with great 10:26 joy and were continually in the temple praising and blessing God 10:30 Amen. Now it was curious to the people of Jerusalem a little bit 10:36 why when the disciples came back A - Jesus wasn't with them and 10:40 B - They were still really happy Because last time that Jesus had 10:44 been gone which was when He died they were all really sad. But 10:47 now He was gone and they were really happy. So they were a 10:50 little confused. This was a great way for the disciples to 10:54 share about why they were so happy. And happy Christians, 10:59 let's be honest, are the best witnesses for Jesus because we 11:02 have a lot to be happy about. Now am I saying you need to be 11:04 happy all the time? No. There are a lot of really sad things 11:07 that happen in this earth and a lot of things...You know I'm 11:10 not saying that you need to be happy every time but when we're 11:12 talking about Jesus, what he's done for us and the overall 11:15 tenor or the overall theme of our lives should be happiness. 11:19 right? Because if we truly believe that Jesus loves us we 11:24 can choose that happiness for ourselves and it's so amazing. 11:27 John 14 verses 16 and 17 says: And I pray the Father and He 11:33 will give you another Helper that He may abide with you 11:36 forever, the Spirit of Truth whom the world cannot receive 11:39 because it neither seeth Him nor knows Him, but you know Him for 11:43 he dwells with you and will be in you. I will not leave you 11:46 orphans. I will come to you. Now did Jesus come back? No. But 11:53 He sent a Helper. Now have you heard the word omnipresent 11:57 before? Kind of a big fancy word that theologians use, people who 12:01 study the Bible. But omnipresent means that you can be everywhere 12:06 at once. And you are not omnipresent. Sometimes you may 12:10 think that your parents are because how do they find out 12:12 about the stuff you're doing right? But they're not 12:14 omnipresent either. I'm not. Jesus was but when He gave up 12:20 His complete Divinity to become both Divine, God, and human, He 12:23 also gave up His ability to be omnipresent. So Jesus can't be 12:27 everywhere at once. He gave that up by taking on our humanity. 12:33 And that's why God had to send or Jesus sent the Holy Spirit 12:39 to be with us. John 16 verse 7 says: Nevertheless I tell you 12:45 the truth. It is to your advantage that I go away for if 12:48 I do not go away the Helper will not come to you, but if I depart 12:53 I will send Him to you. The Helper is like a nickname for 12:57 the Holy Spirit. The Old Testament talks about the Holy 12:59 Spirit as well. Did you know that? In Ezekiel. Let me see 13:04 Esther, Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Solomon, 13:07 Isaiah, Jeremiah, Lamentations, Ezekiel! We got there. Sometimes 13:11 I have to like repeat them to help myself or sometimes I sing 13:14 a song. I know many of your with our podcast are memorizing the 13:18 books of the Bible, which is fantastic because it helps you 13:22 find stuff so much faster when you have it memorized. Ezekiel 13:25 36 verse 27. If you don't have it memorized don't worry though 13:30 There's a table of contents that you can use as well to tell you 13:32 which page number. Ezekiel 36 verse 27 was actually a prophecy 13:38 talking about what was going to happen. I will put my Spirit 13:41 within you and cause you to walk in my statutes and you will keep 13:44 my judgments and do them. God promised His Spirit way back in 13:48 the Old Testament and it was going to happen and it's going 13:51 to happen in today's story. How exciting is that, right? Now 13:57 where were they waiting? Do you remember? They were waiting in 13:59 the upper room in Jerusalem and we're going to pick up the story 14:03 in the book of Acts. Acts 1 verse 12: They returned to 14:07 Jerusalem from the mount called Olivet which was near Jerusalem 14:10 a Sabbath day's journey. And when they entered they went into 14:13 the upper room where they were staying, all 11 disciples. They 14:16 all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication with the 14:21 women and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brothers. 14:24 They were all there. What does that mean to be in one accord? 14:27 Well we all know that the disciples kind of had a habit of 14:31 arguing a lot and being super jealous and being super selfish 14:36 They weren't that way anymore. One accord means one agreement 14:41 or they were getting along. They were all working towards the 14:44 same goal and that was praying for God to send the power of the 14:48 Holy Spirit power. And God chose to send that on the day of 14:53 Pentecost. People came from all over the world for the day of 14:56 Pentecost to Jerusalem. So it was a perfect time for God to 14:59 send the Holy Spirit. Acts 2 verse 1 says, verse 1: When the 15:04 day of Pentecost had fully come they were all with one accord 15:07 in one place. And then, in verse 5, I'm going to skip ahead, it 15:14 says: And there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men, from 15:17 every nation under heaven. This is setting the stage, helping 15:21 you understand what was happening in this story. Okay 15:25 now we're going to jump back and find out what actually happened 15:26 when the Holy Spirit shows up. Ooops! Just told you. That's all 15:29 right. Here we go, ready? Verse two. And suddenly there came a 15:33 sound from heaven as a rushing mighty wind and it filled the 15:36 whole house where they were sitting. Then there appeared to 15:40 them divided tongues of fire and one sat on each of them. 15:44 On their heads. You can imagine by my orange shirt on today they 15:48 had a little bit of fire on their head. Well they weren't 15:53 burning up. That reminds me of the fiery furnace, right? And 15:57 they were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with 15:59 other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance. They started to 16:02 be able to speak other languages What?! That was amazing. They 16:07 were simple fishermen from Galilee. They only knew and 16:10 spoke their own language and yet they were speaking all these 16:13 other languages. God had sent the Holy Spirit on them and you 16:18 could tell, right? Acts 2 verses 11 and 12 says: Ahh, we're going 16:27 to back up first actually. And when the sound occurred, we're 16:30 in verse 6, the multitude came together and they were confused 16:33 because everyone heard them speaking in his own language. 16:36 They were like how is this happening, right? This was 16:42 amazing and that's what they said. Then they were all amazed 16:43 and marveled saying to one another, Are not all these who 16:47 speak Galileans and how is it that we hear each in our own 16:52 language in which we were born? There were people from all over 16:56 the world: Parthians and Medes and Elamites and those born in 17:00 Mesopotamia, Judea, Cappadocia, Pontus, and Asia...I'm probably 17:07 not saying all these correctly but I'm trying...Persia, 17:12 Pamphylia, Egypt, and from parts of Libya, adjoining Hello Stephen, I received a call from Mary Rohn 214-376-1229 reporting that the signal is breaking up saying weak signal or no signal. Can you please check into this and let me know if you are able to fix it?, 17:15 visitors from Rome both Jews and proselytes, Cretans, and Arabs 17:20 We hear them speaking in our own tongues the wonderful works 17:27 of God. So they were amazed and perplexed saying to one another 17:31 Whatever could this mean? Others mocking...this is Satan trying 17:36 to get his word in edgewise... They said oh they're full of 17:38 wine, they're just drunk. When people are drunk they don't make 17:43 more sense, they make less sense and they don't just randomly 17:49 have the ability to speak other languages, right? This was a 17:54 distractor and people realized right away that that was not 17:57 true. But Peter was no longer a coward anymore. He spoke up and 18:03 called them out on that. And Peter, standing up with the 11, 18:07 raised his voice and said to them, Men of Judea and all who 18:10 dwell in Jerusalem, let this be known to you and heed my words. 18:13 For these are not drunk as you suppose since it's only the 18:17 third hour of the day. But this is what is spoken by the prophet 18:21 Joel. And he went into telling them about the prophecies of 18:26 Jesus, the miracles of Jesus, and he told them amazing things. 18:30 I'll read a couple verses of what he said. He's quoting from 18:34 Joel: And it shall come to pass in the last days, says God, that 18:36 I will pour out my Spirit on flesh. Your sons and daughters 18:40 shall prophesy, your young men shall see visions and your old 18:44 men shall dream dreams. And on my man servants and my maid 18:47 servants, I will pour our my Spirit in those days and they 18:50 shall prophesy. He told them what was going to happen. Joel 18:54 had already said it, right? And it was happening before their 18:57 eyes. Now Peter shared a powerful sermon at that point 19:03 and he testified, he shared his testimony of what he'd see Jesus 19:07 do in his life. People can't argue with your testimony. It's 19:10 what's happened in your life. They can't say that didn't 19:13 happen because they weren't there right? Testimony is a 19:16 powerful way to tell other people about Jesus. And they 19:20 were convicted in their hearts. They wanted to change. And so 19:23 they asked, What shall we do? And in Acts 2 verse 38 Peter 19:26 said to them, Repent and let every one of you be baptized in 19:31 the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins and you shall 19:34 receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. They could receive that 19:37 gift too? How amazing and how exciting, right? The people 19:42 began to see more clearly and believe and guess what happened 19:46 that day? Then those who gladly received his word were baptized 19:49 and that day about...any guesses ...3000 souls were added to them 19:57 to the believers, 3000! souls and that was just the beginning 20:02 of what the Holy Spirit was going to do through the 20:04 disciples and all of the followers of Christ. Wow Tune in 20:08 next week for more exciting things that happened after Jesus 20:12 returned to heaven. Take care. 20:15 ♪ ♪ 20:20 Thank you so much for that story Miss Michelle. It's time for our 20:25 questions from last week. Let's see what those questions were 20:30 and if you got them right. 20:33 ♪ ♪ 20:59 It's question time. So make sure to go grab a piece of paper or 21:02 computer or something to type down your answers and send them 21:06 to us at answers@startingwithjesus.com 21:11 and we'll be giving you a shout out next week. So are you ready 21:16 for your new questions? Okay. Here they are. Question number 21:21 one: Were the disciples happy or sad when Jesus went to heaven? 21:27 Were the disciples happy or sad when Jesus went to heaven? 21:34 Question number two: Did the disciples keep on arguing after 21:42 Jesus left? Did the disciples keep arguing and quarreling and 21:48 fighting with each other after Jesus left? And question number 21:55 three: How did the Holy Spirit come, How did the Holy Spirit 22:01 come to the disciples? You can send your answers to us at 22:06 answers@startingwithjesus.com 22:09 ♪ ♪ 22:13 This week's memory verse is found in Acts 2:38 and it says: 22:17 Repent and let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus 22:21 Christ for the remission of sins and you shall receive the gift 22:24 of the Holy Spirit. Bye 22:27 ♪ ♪ 22:46 Do you know who the Holy Spirit is? The Holy Spirit is part of 22:52 the Trinity, one of the Godhead. The Father, the Son and the 22:59 Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is a helper, a comforter sent to 23:05 help us here on earth. We can read about the Holy Spirit in 23:10 the Bible. The more we read in the Bible, the more we pray, the 23:16 easier it is for us to hear the Holy Spirit. Hear His voice. He 23:23 speaks to us. Sometimes people talk about having a conscience. 23:28 Something that helps you know what's right and what's wrong. 23:33 That conscience is like the Holy Spirit speaking to us. Did you 23:40 know that the Holy Spirit is like a flame of fire? A flame of 23:50 fire burning in me and burning in you. Do you remember the 23:57 story of the Holy Spirit coming down like flames of fire. The 24:04 Holy Spirit is a lot like fire because it guide us and it leads 24:10 us. Just like if we're in a dark place, it's nice to have some 24:14 light so we can see. If we're reading and we're confused about 24:19 what we're reading we can pray. The Holy Spirit can help us 24:25 understand. You can read about the Holy Spirit in the Bible. 24:30 In 1 Thessalonians 5:19 it says: Do not quench the Holy Spirit. 24:39 Do not extinguish the Holy Spirit. Do you know what quench 24:45 or extinguish means. It means to put out a flame. Just like the 24:54 Holy Spirit is our flame. What do you think will happen if I 24:59 put my cup over top of my flame? What would happen? Let's see. 25:08 ♪ Oh no. My flame went out. I quenched or extinguished my 25:24 flame. That's what the Bible means when it says, Do not 25:29 quench the Holy Spirit. We're not supposed to put the flame 25:35 of the Holy Spirit out. We want to keep the Holy Spirit burning 25:39 right inside of our hearts. Do you know how to keep that Holy 25:44 Spirit burning brightly? Well when we read our Bibles, when we 25:51 pray to Jesus, we're building our relationship and we're 25:55 keeping our flame burning brightly. I want the flame of 26:04 the Holy Spirit to burn brightly inside of me. What about you? 26:09 Yes. Me too. Let's not quench the Holy Spirit on our lives. 26:16 ♪ ♪ 26:21 I start with Jesus all day every day and I do it by praying 26:27 all day every day. 26:29 ♪ ♪ 26:33 Thank you so much for watching today. We are so excited that 26:37 you're here and we want you to know that we have so many other 26:40 programs on our website at startingwithjesus.com 26:43 We have our daily devotional podcast and not only that we 26:47 have some really neat things that go along with our Sabbath 26:50 School program. If you go on our website and click this week's 26:53 Sabbath School you'll be able to see that there's a coloring page 26:57 that you can color along while you're watching the video. 27:00 Or there's a new worksheet that you can learn the memory verse 27:06 with. You can write down the memory verse. There's a cursive 27:10 version and a writing version and some activities that go 27:14 along go along that help you learn this week's memory verse. 27:16 So make sure to check it out at startingwithjesus.com and click 27:20 on this week's lesson and you'll be able to see the worksheet 27:26 that goes along with this week's memory verse. Let's pray. 27:29 Our Father in heaven, thank you so much that you sent the Holy 27:35 Spirit on the disciples so that they could share the message of 27:38 your love with the world. I pray that you will help us to have 27:43 have the Holy Spirit on our lives so that we can understand 27:47 what you have to say in your word and also be able to know 27:51 how to share what you have told us with others. We thank 27:57 you so much that you love us. Help us to daily grow in our 28:02 life with you. We love you. In Jesus' name, Amen. 28:06 Thank you so much for watching. Have a blessed week. 28:09 and keep in touch. 28:11 ♪ ♪ |
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