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Series Code: BT
Program Code: BT170005A
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00:01 It's time to go on a journey.
00:04 A search for treasure. 00:07 This is no ordinary treasure though. 00:10 This priceless discovery contains God's Word, 00:15 including secrets from the past and future 00:19 that will change your life. 00:22 Welcome to Bible Treasures. 00:30 You really gonna need this, Isabella, 00:32 it's super hot outside. 00:35 Sorry, sorry, I'm really sorry about that. 00:37 It's okay. I was waiting to ask you guys. 00:39 Yeah. 00:41 Why did Riley throw his clock out the window? 00:43 He threw his clock out of the window? 00:45 Why would he do that? 00:46 Oh, I know why. 00:48 It's because he wanted to see time fly. 00:53 Hey everyone, how's it going? 00:55 So glad you're here. Come on in, guys. 00:56 So glad to be here. 00:57 Oh that's Awesome. Today's gonna be a great day. 00:59 Welcome to Bible Treasures. 01:01 My name is Rich Aguilera and we've got 01:02 an awesome crew here assembled. 01:05 I'll let them introduce themselves. 01:07 Hi, my name is Isabella, 01:09 and I'm in charge of computer ops. 01:11 Cool. Who else do we have? 01:12 And I'm Sam, the one who you're supposed to talk to 01:15 if you're want to know more about historical documents. 01:18 Awesome. 01:19 Hi, I'm Nora and I love to work with pretty cool artifacts. 01:22 Awesome. 01:23 Well, you know, why don't we get ready for today 01:25 by starting with a brain teaser? 01:27 That's a good idea. 01:28 All right, let's drop in our brains here. 01:29 I think I found a good one for you guys. 01:31 Really? 01:32 Let's see if you can figure this out. 01:34 Okay. All right. 01:35 It says the more you take out of it, 01:37 the bigger it becomes. 01:38 What is it? 01:40 The more you take out of it, the bigger it becomes. 01:43 We're gonna need some time to think about that. 01:44 Yeah, let's see if you guys can figure that one out. 01:46 Wait, I think I heard something. 01:48 Really? 01:49 Yeah, there might be a message from headquarters. 01:50 Oh, cool. Hope it is. 01:54 Recently, a good friend of mine died of cancer. 01:59 And we're all really sad. 02:03 Why does God have to let good people die? 02:06 Oh, that's such a sad question. 02:09 Yeah, my grandma died not long ago. 02:11 Oh, so sorry to hear that. 02:13 Oh, man, sorry to hear that, Sam. 02:14 Death is so sad. 02:15 It is. It is. 02:17 How should we respond to that? 02:18 Yeah, that's a good question. 02:20 Well, you know what, first of all, 02:21 why don't we write this down in our journal 02:23 so we get our question down. 02:24 I think we should. This is a hard question, man. 02:27 Why do people have to die? 02:31 Now I wonder myself. 02:33 That's a good question. 02:36 Well, you know what? 02:37 I think I have an idea of how we can respond to this. 02:39 What's the deal? We'll need an artifact. 02:41 Oh, okay. Could you get one for us? 02:43 What number? I think it's 44 X. 02:46 Oh, okay. I think that might help. 02:48 And I bring all these little artifacts around 02:50 'cause you never know when we're gonna use them 02:51 and they help us understand different Bible lessons. 02:54 Awesome. 02:56 Okay, I got something pretty cool in here, 02:57 I want to show you. 02:59 I love learning artifacts. 03:00 This is actually, this is actually a fossil. 03:01 Oh. A fossil, cool from where? 03:03 I got this in Utah. 03:06 Oh, I see it. It's right there. 03:07 Yeah, that's right. 03:09 Wow, I can't wait to learn more about it. 03:11 Yeah, well, this is actually called a trilobite. 03:13 A trilobite? Wow. 03:15 Actually, you know what? 03:17 Sam, it would be probably good to see 03:18 where on the map Utah is. 03:19 Can you show us? 03:21 It seems to be right about here. 03:24 I marked it already. Yep. That's it. 03:26 Oh, cool. You know what? 03:27 We could probably learn a lot about Utah 03:29 if we see a location brief. 03:30 Isabella, do you think we have one? 03:32 Oh, yes. I was just checking that out. 03:35 Oh. Wow. 03:37 It's so cool. 03:39 Location brief, Utah. 03:42 Utah is a Western State 03:45 of the United States of America, 03:48 and home to some of the most incredible landscapes on earth. 03:54 There is an incredible diversity of places to see, 03:57 including Monument Valley, 04:00 a region with many sandstone buttes 04:03 rising from the desert floor. 04:06 There's also Goosenecks State Park, 04:10 a curvy winding canyon, 04:12 with the San Juan River 1000 feet below. 04:18 One of the several national parks in Utah 04:21 is Arches National Park, 04:24 where there are more than 2000 natural arches 04:28 carved out of the sandstone rock. 04:31 There's also Escalante National Monument 04:35 that includes beautiful areas of landscape 04:38 that seemed to have been perfectly carved into stone. 04:43 Not far away is Zion National Park, 04:47 a stunning 15 mile long canyon, 04:50 with canyon walls dropping over 2600 feet deep. 04:56 One of the most striking natural features 04:58 in many places in Utah are the slot canyons, 05:03 including one of the most famous slot canyons, 05:06 Antelope Canyon, 05:08 as well as a slot canyon in Zion National Park, 05:12 called The Narrows. 05:15 Another incredible national park nearby 05:18 is Bryce Canyon. 05:20 And even though the name says canyon, 05:23 the major feature is a giant natural amphitheater 05:28 filled with unique geological structures 05:32 called hoodoos formed by erosion. 05:36 Towards the center of Utah 05:38 is another incredibly unique state park 05:41 called Goblin Valley, 05:44 featuring thousands of strange looking 05:47 rock formations, also called hoodoos, 05:51 and also formed by erosion. 05:55 Farther north, around the Great Salt Lake 05:59 are huge, salt flats, a densely packed salt pan. 06:04 That's all that's left of an enormous dried up like. 06:09 It's easy to be amazed at how many incredibly 06:13 unique natural wonders are found in Utah. 06:18 This concludes this location brief. 06:22 Cool. Wow, that's awesome. 06:24 Yeah. 06:25 Utah really is a pretty cool place. 06:27 That seems likely. Yeah, it's very true. 06:28 A lot of amazing landscapes. You know what? 06:30 On this particular story, it happens to be 06:33 that our family and I were traveling 06:34 through the country. 06:36 Oh, okay. 06:37 We were on our way from Michigan to California 06:39 to visit my parents. 06:40 Wow. Oh, that's nice. 06:41 So we just kind of took the direct route 06:43 right down the middle, which is I 70, 06:44 which goes through Denver, 06:45 and through the Rocky Mountains, 06:47 and eventually into Utah. 06:48 That must have been beautiful. It was beautiful. 06:50 It's very beautiful place. 06:51 Now, when we got into Utah, we had a choice 06:54 because once you arrive at the end of Utah, 06:56 you have to kind of either go north or south 06:57 on another highway. 06:59 Okay. 07:00 But we decided this time that we're going to go 07:02 straight through on this little road. 07:03 And we got on this road, it was bumpy, 07:05 and there was nobody there. 07:07 And then we got off that road on to a dirt road. 07:09 And we traveled 20 miles into the mountains 07:12 on a dirt road. 07:14 That must have been very beautiful. 07:16 It's amazing but there was nobody there. 07:18 Oh, okay. 07:20 Wow, you guys had it all to yourself. 07:21 We had it all to ourselves but then also we arrived 07:23 to a very interesting place. 07:24 Where? 07:26 It was a place where you can dig for trilobites. 07:29 That's where you found that. That's where I got this. 07:30 Oh, that's cool. So they had this place. 07:32 It's called a quarry, 07:34 where they opened up a hole in the ground, 07:35 and they have a bunch of this shale 07:37 is this type of rock laying around 07:39 and what you have to do 07:41 is you pick up the shale pieces, 07:43 and they give you these tools 07:44 and you kind of break it in half. 07:46 Don't have one for yourself. Yeah. 07:47 And then you split open the shale 07:49 and that is how you find the trilobites. 07:51 Oh. That's awesome. 07:53 How long did it take to find that one? 07:54 Well, here's how what they do there. 07:56 So when we go in there, they charge us to be there. 07:59 But we decided that we're going to stay there 08:01 for two hours. 08:02 Okay. 08:04 And it was four of us that were going to be working. 08:05 So we each had our tools, and we each kind of found 08:07 a spot that we liked in the quarry 08:09 and we were just... 08:10 Oh, was it hard? 08:12 It wasn't too hard because the shale 08:13 actually splits pretty easily 08:14 when you hit it with the right little tool. 08:16 Really? 08:17 And we just opened it up and then we were hoping 08:19 that there would be a little trilobite there. 08:21 And needs them, you break a crack? 08:22 Yeah, they would all break a crack 08:24 and we'd see little trilobites and then we keep the trilobites 08:27 and then we put them in the special bucket. 08:29 You know how many we found in two hours? 08:31 How many? Let me guess, eight? 08:34 No, we found about 100. 08:36 A 100? I can't believe it. 08:38 Yeah, this is just one of them. 08:40 This is one of my favorite ones 08:42 because you can see it pretty good there. 08:43 Yeah, you can. 08:45 Now a lot of people would wonder 08:46 what happened to this poor little trilobite? 08:48 Yeah. 08:49 A trilobite is a fossil of a little creature 08:52 that is now extinct. 08:53 Is it a bug? It's a little marine creature. 08:56 So it lived at the bottom of the ocean 08:58 and for some reason, 09:00 they died because it got buried by water and mud. 09:04 That's sad. Of course, you know what? 09:05 I believe this happened during the flood 09:07 which is mentioned in Genesis. 09:08 That is a good explanation. 09:10 I mean, it does talk about the world being flooded, right? 09:12 Yes. Right. 09:13 The sad part is so many trilobites died 09:15 because even though 09:16 we were only there for two hours, 09:18 we found 100 of them. 09:19 The people that were there working told us, 09:21 there's got to be hundreds of thousands. 09:24 Oh, wow. That's a lot. 09:26 Yeah. Wow. 09:28 And I got to thinking to myself, 09:29 man, you know what? 09:31 That's so sad. 09:32 So many of these little trilobites died. 09:34 And so quickly, too. And so quickly, too. 09:36 And it's just like a giant graveyard of trilobites. 09:40 And I got reminded, you know. Yeah. 09:43 Death isn't part of God's original plan? 09:45 Yeah. It's not. 09:47 This was supposed to live forever. 09:48 Yeah, this was not God's original plan, so. 09:50 Satan and sin introduced it. 09:51 That's right. Yeah. 09:53 So you know what? 09:54 I have a Bible text 09:55 that I think would be great here. 09:57 Would you like me to look it up? 09:58 Please do, Sam. Sure. 10:00 Look up, Romans 6:23. 10:03 I think I remember that verse. 10:05 This will definitely give us a clue 10:06 of what is going on here. 10:08 Oh! 10:09 Go ahead and read it when you find it, 6:23. 10:11 Okay, "For the wages of sin is death. 10:14 But the gift of God is eternal life 10:16 in Christ Jesus, our Lord." 10:18 I remember that verse. 10:20 That is wonderful message. I remember that. 10:21 The interesting thing is that it kind of helps us understand 10:24 why we have death in the first place. 10:26 Yeah. It started because of sin. 10:29 Right. Yeah, sadly. 10:30 Now, you know what? 10:31 That verse really gives us a lot of clue. 10:34 It does. 10:35 I want to write it down right here. 10:36 That was, was it Romans? 10:38 Romans 6:23. 10:41 Yep. Wow. That is awesome. 10:43 Oh, I think I saw a video on your fossil deck 10:45 on the computer. 10:47 That's true, I bet there's one on there. 10:48 Let's go check it out. Oh, I have to see that. 10:51 Oh, I wish I would have went there myself. 10:53 Yeah, that would have been really cool. 10:55 Look at it. Wow. 10:56 Cool. Yeah. 10:58 Look at all the fossil we found. 11:00 That's awesome. 11:01 That's a lot of fossils. Wow. 11:03 And a ton of trilobites. Yes. 11:05 Death is a very, very sad thing. 11:07 No one likes it. 11:09 But we've kind of gotten used to the idea 11:11 and think it's normal. 11:12 For example, people eat meat or wear leather 11:14 without even thinking that something had to die. 11:17 Or on the road, sometimes we see an animal that died 11:20 because it was hit by a car. 11:22 Of course, in our own families, death happens too, 11:25 people die from a disease 11:27 or because they made poor decisions, 11:29 or because they got old. 11:31 We think that's all normal. 11:33 But that wasn't part of God's plan. 11:35 We were originally created by God to live forever. 11:39 But like the Bible says, when we sinned, 11:42 the consequence was that from now on, 11:44 all of God's perfect creations were corrupted and messed up. 11:49 That's why today all around us we see the death, 11:52 the accidents, and the diseases, 11:53 and the old age. 11:55 And we even see people killing other people. 11:57 None of this was how God had planned. 12:00 You probably heard the expression, 12:02 "If you play with fire, you're gonna get burned." 12:06 One thing is the consequence of the other, 12:09 you play with fire, 12:10 the consequence is getting burned. 12:12 It's the same with sin, because we sinned, 12:15 the consequence is death. 12:18 Just as our treasure text reminds us today. 12:21 What makes this verse awesome, though, 12:23 is the second part. 12:25 God has a special gift for us, eternal life. 12:29 That means He wants to recreate us 12:32 to be perfect again 12:34 and when we're perfect again, there will be no more death. 12:39 Now, in order for that to happen, though, 12:41 we have to accept that gift that He's trying to give us. 12:44 A free gift, eternal life. 12:47 I hope you will accept that gift today. 12:49 And the neat part is that it's all right there 12:52 in today's Bible treasure. 12:55 That's good. 12:57 Hey, we should end with a prayer. 12:58 Hey, crew, why don't you come on in? 12:59 Let's pray together. 13:01 Come on guys, come on. 13:02 Hey, who'd like to pray for us? Anybody. 13:05 I'll do it. Awesome. 13:06 Sam will pray. Let's bow our heads. 13:10 Dear Lord, thank You for all of the things 13:12 that You do for us. 13:14 Thank You that we'll be able to spend eternal life 13:16 in heaven with You. 13:17 And please help us to see 13:19 our loved ones in heaven with You. 13:21 In Your Son Jesus name, I do pray. 13:23 Amen. Amen. 13:26 Well, guys, you guys want to hear the answer 13:29 to the brain teaser? 13:30 Yes! All right, cool. 13:32 If you guys remember what it was, 13:34 I'll read it for you again. 13:35 The more you take out of it, a bigger it becomes. 13:40 A box. 13:41 No, it's not a box. 13:43 I think I know. 13:45 What do you think, Isabella? A hole in the ground? 13:46 That's right, a hole in the ground. 13:49 I'm so glad you joined us today for Bible treasures. 13:52 Don't forget to search for treasure. 13:54 Every day! 13:56 See you next time. Come on, guys. 13:58 Let's head out to the dig site. 14:01 I hope we'll find some challenge to accept. 14:03 We always find something new. |
Revised 2019-10-21