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Series Code: SWJ
Program Code: SWJ000083S
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00:23 Hello boys and girls, welcome to "Starting with Jesus."
00:26 Where we want to encourage you to start everything you do 00:29 with Jesus. 00:31 We have a story today about a young man just like you 00:35 who gave his heart to Jesus. 00:37 And a reminder that it doesn't matter how old you are 00:42 that you can be a missionary for Jesus. 00:47 So, I'm excited about that story. But before we get to that 00:51 story, let's get to some singing. 04:09 Alright guys so we come here to this kind of overlook here 04:14 and there's something really interesting about the stones. 04:16 Can you help me out and tell me how many sides this one has? 04:21 Can you count them with me? One, two, can you count? 04:25 three, four, five, six, okay. Why does it look like someone 04:32 just came up here with a concrete truck or a patio 04:37 and just made this pattern up here? 04:39 How do you think it happened? Now this is cool right? 04:43 But it's easy to walk up here and look around and then just 04:49 keep on walking, right cause you don't really think there is 04:52 much to this other than these rocks with different sides. 04:56 Well, right now we can't really tell. They all have different 05:00 shapes but if all we do is keep on walking 05:03 we're going to miss out on something really cool. 05:06 Let's go! 05:07 So guys, I know it was a little bit of a hike to get down here. 05:32 It took some time didn't it? And I always thought the top 05:35 of these rocks were interesting patterns. 05:37 I want you to look behind me and see something really amazing. 05:40 What do you see? 05:41 Is this what we saw before? 05:45 No, we just saw these little stones under our feet. 05:49 But when we walked down here we saw that those stones 05:52 are actually huge basalt columns. 05:56 It's called Devil's Post piling, why is it called Devil's 05:59 post pile? Yeah, they look like posts, they're in a pile 06:06 but what does the Devil have to do with it? 06:08 Well these were formed when lava cooled and people associate 06:13 lava with who? Satan and hell, that's why it's called 06:18 the Devil's post pile. but these columns range in... 06:22 they average about two feet wide, some of them get as wide 06:26 as three and a half feet wide. And from those little stones 06:32 that we saw under our feet some of them stretched down 06:35 about sixty feet, 60 feet, isn't that amazing? 06:40 and you wouldn't even know that these are huge columns 06:44 if all we had done was just look at the rocks 06:47 that were under our feet. 06:48 In Psalm 92:5 it says "How great are your works O Lord." 06:55 Your thoughts are very deep. You see, there are some things 06:59 that we will never find out about God unless we search 07:02 beneath the surface of the Bible. 07:05 Boys and girls if we will take time to read and study the Bible 07:10 we will discover things that we didn't even know were there. 07:14 do you want to discover something new? 07:16 Start reading your Bible every day. 07:18 ♪♪ 07:23 Hmmm! Okay, I need to add that and this, what date was that? 07:30 Oh! Hey everybody, I was just updating my resume. 07:35 Have you heard of a resume before? 07:37 A resume is a list of things that you have accomplished 07:42 in your life, it's also a list of your qualifications. 07:45 Maybe where you went to school or what jobs that you've had 07:49 or what your skills are, or what special trainings 07:51 that you've had and when you are looking for a job 07:53 then you give your resume to someone... 07:56 you print it off and you give it to someone and they decide 07:59 if you're the right person for the job. 08:01 Well today we're going to talk about someone who didn't have 08:05 a crazy resume, but God still used him for a very special job. 08:11 Let's pray. 08:12 Dear Heavenly Father, We thank you and we praise you 08:14 for loving us and for being our God. 08:17 Please send your Holy Spirit to be with us now. 08:19 Thank you so much that your angels are watching over and 08:22 protecting us and that you are always with us. 08:24 Help us to learn something new about you today. 08:27 In Your name we pray Amen! 08:28 Today's story is called Timothy the Young Missionary. 08:32 Now, when you're a young person maybe just out of college or 08:36 even in high-school, would you have a very long resume? 08:40 No! No you wouldn't. It would be very short 08:44 and that's to be expected but you'll want to do things 08:46 and have different jobs and different experiences 08:49 that will spruce up or make your resume longer and 08:52 more impressive so that you could get a job, right? 08:54 Well, here are some of the things that were on 08:56 Timothy's resume, are you ready? 08:59 He grew up in Lystra, you put your address on the resume. 09:02 His dad was Greek and his mom was Jewish. 09:04 You probably don't put stuff about your parents on your 09:06 resume, but that was his background. 09:08 His mom's name is Eunice and then he also had a 09:11 Grandma Lois. He loved God. You want to put that on your 09:15 resume right? If you were applying to be a missionary. 09:18 And he worshiped on the Sabbath. That would be another thing 09:22 maybe he even helped out in his church... 09:24 Those would be good things to put on your resume 09:25 if you were going to be a missionary, right? 09:27 But he didn't know Jesus yet. So he couldn't put Christian 09:31 on his resume because he didn't know about Jesus yet. 09:34 And he could but I don't participate in Heathen Festivals, 09:39 that was an important part of his resume right? 09:41 What do you think, would you hire Timothy to be a missionary? 09:44 Hmm. Well, it didn't go so well for Mark at first 09:48 but then after a second try he did better. 09:50 Let's find out what happens to Timothy, they want to be 09:54 missionary? Paul and Barnaba's visited Timothy's town 09:58 of Lystra, you may remember of some of the things 10:02 from a previous story that I've told you. 10:04 And they shared with Timothy and his grandma Lois 10:08 and his mom Eunice about Jesus. Now they had already talked 10:12 to Timothy about the Old Testament and to believe and 10:14 to love God but they now knew about Jesus. 10:20 Timothy admired Paul and Barnaba's and maybe he even 10:23 saw them heal that crippled man who had palsy, do you remember 10:27 that? They probably watched the heathen people call them 10:30 gods and try to make sacrifices to them. 10:33 Do you remember that part? Oh my. And he probably saw them 10:41 try to stone Paul to kill him. Did Paul die then, 10:44 do you remember the story? It looks like he was dead but 10:47 he wasn't and Timothy after witnessing all these things 10:51 still was starting to think about being a missionary 10:55 himself. Would those sort of things make you want to be a 10:58 missionary? I don't know but God definitely had placed a call 11:02 in Timothy's life. During Paul's second missionary trip 11:06 Paul and Silas went to Lystra again the Christian were still 11:10 so strong in the city of Lystra, praise God for that. 11:12 Paul checked up on Timothy. He went to his resume maybe, 11:17 not really but he tacked around and he found out that 11:21 he really did love Jesus and that he was really a 11:24 quality young person and he thought hmm, I think maybe 11:29 Timothy should come with us. What do you think Silas? 11:32 And Silas agreed. Paul came to love Timothy like a son 11:37 and Timothy, although he didn't have a super impressive resume 11:42 with a lot of wonderful talents, he had one really important 11:47 thing that we can all have because it's a choice. 11:50 He chose to be like Jesus and you can have that on your resume 11:55 too, right. Tim and Dr. Luke went with Paul and Silas to 12:00 Philippi, do you remember that part? Do you remember them 12:02 in jail singing and counting it all joy even when things 12:05 were going wrong? And next they headed to Thessalonica 12:09 that's where we're going to pick up our story in Acts 17:1. 12:14 Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, Acts 17 verse 1. 12:23 I hope you have been enjoying these adventures in Acts 12:27 the Apostles, I know I have. Acts 17:1 says 12:32 "Now when they had passed through Anthropoids and Apolonia 12:38 they came to Thessalonica where there was a synagogue 12:42 of the Jews. Then Paul as his custom was what he usually did, 12:47 went in with them and for three Sabbaths he reasoned with them 12:51 from the scriptures...from the Bible. 12:53 Explaining and demonstration that the Christ had to suffer 12:59 and rise again from the dead saying, This Jesus whom I 13:02 preached to you is the Christ. 13:04 And some of them were persuaded and a great multitude 13:09 of devout Greeks and not a few of leading women 13:13 joined Paul and Silas. Praise God. Now, what happened next? 13:20 Do you think that Satan is going to let everything be 13:22 smooth sailing and everything go well? 13:24 No, he always seems to want to mess things up doesn't he? 13:28 Let's see what happens. In verse five it says this. 13:34 But the Jews who were not persuaded became envious 13:38 and they took some of the evil men from the market place 13:41 and gathered a mob and set all the city in an uproar and 13:44 attacked the house of Jason and sought to bring them out 13:48 to the people. Them being Paul and Silas. 13:51 My guess is that Timothy was in there too, he may have been 13:56 a little bit afraid. Who knows? 13:58 But when they did not find them, they dragged Jason and 14:01 some of the brethren to the rulers of the city crying out, 14:03 Those who have turned the world upside down have come here too. 14:07 No, they meant that as an insult didn't they? 14:11 Turning the world upside down? That's impossible due to gravity 14:14 and obviously our human powers don't have that. 14:16 They meant that as an insult... Is that an insult to turn 14:19 the world upside down for Jesus. It's almost like a compliment 14:23 right. Um, let's keep reading. Jason has harbored them 14:28 and these are all acting contrary to the decrees 14:31 of Caesar saying that there is another king Jesus. 14:34 And they troubled the crowd and the rulers of the city 14:38 when they heard these things. So when they had taken security 14:40 from Jason and the rest, they let them go. 14:43 So they did let Jason go eventually. 14:45 Um. Turn the world upside down, they let Jason go. 14:51 What was going to happen to Paul and Silas though, right? 14:54 The new believers decided to send Paul and Silas away 14:59 at night time because they didn't want anything bad to 15:03 happen to Paul and Silas. Where did they go? 15:06 Then the brethren immediately sent Paul and Silas away 15:09 at night to Berea. When they arrived, they went to the 15:13 Synagogue of the Jews. Isn't that interesting? 15:15 Every time that they went they went to the Synagogue. 15:17 Now did they mysteriously believe things that were 15:21 happening in the Synagogue? No, but they wanted to go to 15:24 church, they wanted to go to church and that was pretty cool 15:27 that they went to the Synagogue and every Sabbath 15:32 that was their custom. 15:33 I love going to church on Sabbath, don't you? 15:35 It's a lot of fun. Now, if you haven't gone to church before 15:38 look up on Google the nearest church closest to you and 15:42 I want to encourage you to check it out. 15:43 They have a lot of super fun things that you can do during 15:47 Sabbath School and then during church service there's songs 15:50 and stories and you can learn more about God so I want to 15:54 encourage you to check out your local church. 15:56 Now, when they got to Berea though, they noticed something 16:00 different about the people in Berea let's read what that was. 16:04 These were more fair-minded than those in Thessalonica 16:08 in that, they received the word with all readiness and searched 16:11 the scriptures daily to find out whether, these things were so. 16:14 In Thessalonica and other places people just read the scriptures 16:18 it's like la-de-da-de da... Yeah, I've heard that before 16:21 But the Bereans, they really studied the scriptures and 16:26 they searched them and they tried to find out if these 16:29 things were so. The Bereans set a great example for us 16:33 didn't they? Does it say that they searched them once-in- 16:35 awhile? Daily. Hmm! Do we search our scriptures 16:39 daily? That's a good question even for Ms. Michele 16:42 to remember to daily get into the word of God and search 16:46 it to find the truth right. 16:49 Therefore many of them believed also not a few of the Greeks 16:53 prominent women as well as men praised God. 16:57 And they didn't believe just because somebody else said so 17:00 They believed because they actually learned it for 17:04 themselves. That's important isn't it? 17:07 As you get older and older you're going to need to 17:11 search the scriptures and know for yourself, 17:14 not just cause mom and dad or grandma and grandpa, 17:16 or auntie or uncle believe it, you need to learn it 17:20 for yourself and believe it for yourself cause that is 17:23 most important thing. That's a personal relationship with 17:26 Jesus, we can't just rely on mom and dad to keep us 17:30 close to Jesus, we need to do our part and He will help us 17:35 to learn more about Him through His word. 17:37 Then, but then when the Jews from Thessalonica learned that 17:42 the Word of God had been preached in Berea 17:45 they came there also and stirred up the crowds, 17:46 they just couldn't leave well enough alone. 17:49 Then immediately the brethren sent Paul away to go to the sea 17:54 but both Silas and Timothy remained in Berea. 17:57 So those who conducted Paul brought him to Athens 18:02 and receiving a command for Silas and Timothy to come to him 18:06 with all speed they departed. So they got Paul away quickly 18:10 and then later he sent back for who? Timothy and Silas 18:17 to join him. And Paul went to Athens with some of the new 18:22 believers. Isn't it amazing how God always takes care of Paul? 18:27 There are so many more adventure stories to come and we have 18:30 heard so many adventure stories of how Paul has faced death 18:34 has faced horrible situations and yet God has 18:38 pulled him through. Can you think of some examples in your 18:41 life where God has helped you? 18:44 I'd love for you to share those with us, you can go into our 18:48 Instagram or our Facebook page and share some stories with us 18:51 or email us, you can even email me directly at 18:54 michele@startingwithjesus.com and I'd love to hear 18:57 those stories and with your permission, 18:59 I could even share some of those. 19:01 I think it's so amazing that we serve a God who loves and cares 19:05 for us and He wants what is best for us and He's going to 19:10 take care of us. Now, are you going to be a Timothy? 19:14 That's right, God can use people of all ages, 19:18 you don't have to be older like Ms. Michele or like your parents 19:22 or like your grandparents God can use you starting now. 19:26 What are some ways that you can be a missionary for Jesus today 19:30 right, where you live. I bet you could think of a long list 19:34 with your family and I want to challenge you to do that, 19:36 to be a Timothy, someone who loves God can use anybody 19:42 and He would really really love to use you. 19:46 Next week we have another exciting adventure 19:49 and I'm excited to share that with you. 19:51 Thank you so much for listening every week and for 19:54 learning more about the Bible just like the Bereans did. 19:58 Don't just brush over the top, really dig deep and learn more 20:01 about how very much God loves you. 20:05 Well, I'll see you again next week and in the meantime 20:09 remember, let's challenge each other to search the scriptures 20:12 every day to learn the truth of Jesus's love for you. 20:17 See you next time. God bless you. 20:23 Thank you so much, Miss Michele for that Bible Story. 20:27 It's time for our shout outs and a review of last weeks 20:31 questions. So, let's see what those questions were and if 20:35 you got them right. 21:11 It's time for our new questions and I know I tell you this 21:15 every week but, where are you going to send your answers to? 21:19 That's right, send the answers to us at 21:25 So are you ready to write those answers down? 21:28 Okay, here are the new questions. 21:30 Question number one. 21:43 Question number two. 21:51 When Paul was stoned, did that make Timothy afraid of being 21:57 a missionary or did it give him strength to be a missionary? 22:01 Question number three. 22:11 When Timothy decided to be a missionary, 22:16 who did he travel with? 22:18 You can send your answers to us at 23:04 Are you ready to search the scriptures? 23:07 Go get your Bible and let's get started. 23:10 ♪♪ 23:24 Now that we have our Bibles I'm going to give you a clue 23:29 We'll look up a verse, fill in the blank and then find 23:33 the object that was missing. Are you ready? 23:37 Let's get started. 23:39 Let's look up Romans 14:2. 24:01 What goes in the blank? 24:10 1 Corinthians 4:11 24:38 2 Corinthians 11:33 24:51 What was Paul lowered in? 25:00 Ephesians 6:14 25:18 Philippians 3:8. What does he consider them now? 25:38 Last one. 2 Timothy 1:6 26:08 Thanks for searching the scriptures with me today. 26:11 If you have your own Bible, then you're blessed with the 26:16 opportunity to daily search the scriptures. 26:20 I hope that you do. 26:23 ♪♪ 26:28 Thank you so much for watching and I'm so glad that 26:30 each one of you is choosing to be a missionary for Jesus 26:34 just like Timothy was. Even when you're young. 26:37 You know that God has called you to be a missionary for Him 26:42 and He'll use you no matter what your age is. 26:44 We have some really fun programs that we have been doing on our 26:49 YouTube channel and Instagram and our Facebook 26:52 we've been having a lot of fun learning about health 26:55 from Miss Karen and how to do crafts with Miss Ashley. 26:58 We also have been learning some tips and tricks on 27:01 how to have that special time with Jesus every day 27:04 to memorize scripture and special Sabbath activities. 27:09 And we have a special podcast where you can listen 27:12 every single day to a Bible Story Time where you can learn 27:18 more about Jesus and His Word and have that special daily 27:22 time Starting With Jesus. 27:24 So make sure to check it out at, 27:29 Subscribe to our YouTube channel, like us on Facebook, 27:32 follow us on Instagram, and you can find out all the 27:36 different programs that we are doing on our website at. 27:39 Let's pray. 27:41 Our Father in heaven, thank you so much for your love, 27:44 thank you so much for your goodness and your mercy 27:46 and your grace. We love you so much. We pray that we will be 27:50 missionaries for you no matter what ages, that we will find 27:53 ways to share you with everybody around us. 27:56 We love you so much. In Jesus name. Amen. |
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