Day with the King, A

Abraham and Sarah

Three Angels Broadcasting Network

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Participants: Cecily Harker (Host), Natalee McLean (Host), Dr John Hammond, Pr Rick Ferret

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00:01 Hello there. Happy Sabbath. Come on in. We're about to meet with
00:06 the King.
00:07 ¤ ¤
00:53 Hi I'm Auntie Nat. It's great that you could all join us to
00:56 meet with the King. We're about to open the Sabbath. Come and
01:00 join our worship time together. Hello Auntie Cecily. Welcome to
01:04 our worship time today.
01:05 Hello Auntie Nat.
01:06 Hello children. Welcome to our worship today. I'm glad you've
01:10 come here to meet the King. Auntie Cecily, could you please
01:15 say a prayer for us before we have our worship.
01:18 Yes. Dear heavenly Father. Thank you for our safe keeping during
01:22 the week. And thank you that we can enjoy the rest on your
01:27 Sabbath day. In Jesus' name Amen
01:30 Amen. Do you know that this is a great time to reflect on our
01:35 week and thank God for the many blessings He's brought us. Sarah
01:40 you've got a blessing to share with us today.
01:42 My grandpa had a pacemaker put into his heart and it was
01:46 successfully installed. He was 86 at the time so I praise God
01:50 for waking him up from the surgery.
01:52 That's great, Sarah. Thanks for sharing that with us. Auntie
01:55 Cecily, you have something to share with us too. Something
01:58 about the Sabbath.
01:59 Yes. Last Sabbath we talked about rest. God rested as an
02:05 example for us and he commands us to rest as well. God wants us
02:10 to keep the Sabbath holy. In Nehemiah 13:15-22 the Bible
02:17 tells us not to do any business work or school work and not to
02:22 buy and sell on the Sabbath. He wants us to spend the day with
02:27 Him and leave the cares and burdens of the world for that
02:31 day. He wants our minds focused on Him. God in His holy wisdom
02:36 knows that for our health and well being resting with Him on
02:42 the Sabbath is very good for us. God, the master creator, knows
02:47 our bodies inside out and upside down. He knows our bodies and
02:52 minds are at their best when we rest on the blessed seventh day
02:57 Sabbath.
02:58 Amen. Thank you Auntie Cecily. God's so good. Do you know
03:02 another way we can worship God on the Sabbath is to worship Him
03:06 in song. Pastor Rick has joined us. Thanks Pastor Rick.
03:11 Hello boys and girls. Let's sing This Is the Day.
03:46 Let's do it again.
04:17 Pastor Rick, could we please sing Give Me Oil In My Lamp?
04:20 Oh, why not? Who knows it?
05:37 Pastor Rick, can we sing Make Me Like You?
05:40 Ah, yes
06:53 Thanks Pastor Rick. It's great to praise God in song. Now
06:57 Elijah, we discovered a blessing at Sunnyside this week. Will we
07:00 share that with the children at home? Yes. Okay let's have a
07:03 look at that.
07:09 Hello boys and girls. My name is Dr. John Hammond. Welcome to the
07:14 Australian home of Mrs. Ellen White. Come with me. I've
07:18 got some stories to tell you.
07:24 You know what my favorite meal of the week is Sabbath lunch
07:32 because my wife, she makes a special lunch and a nice dessert
07:39 and Ellen used to do the same thing. And on this particular
07:45 Sabbath she made a beautiful rice pudding. And when they were
07:52 ready for it, they went out to the kitchen and the rice pudding
07:59 was gone. Not just the rice pudding; the dish, the cutlery
08:07 the table cloth. Everything in the kitchen was stolen. Ellen
08:13 was so upset. She went to the police and she said what's going
08:19 on? And the policeman's name was Sgt. Berry. He said oh Ellen we
08:25 have some naughty people here. Many years ago three families
08:30 who were ex-convicts lived just over the hill there at
08:34 Martinsville and the families would grow and there were 250
08:40 of them and they are all thieves and they will take anything that
08:46 is not too hot or too heavy. And we advise you to get a
08:54 watch dog. Oh, okay. She got a watch dog with the fiercest name
09:00 it was named after a very fierce Persian king thousands of years
09:06 ago. And the king's name was Tiglath-pilezer. I think they
09:14 called the dog Tig, well Tig turned up. He had the most ferocious
09:21 bark. Now I want you all together to give me the most
09:26 ferocious bark you can. One, two three, BARK. Huh! That would
09:34 scare the 250 people out over the mountains. Tiglath had an
09:40 awful bark, (bark, bark, bark, bark, bark, bark). And they
09:45 tied him up by the fence just over there. But you know what?
09:51 He had a big bark but whenever somebody came, he'd wag his
09:55 tail. They didn't know what to do with the thieves. And Ellen
10:01 came up with a plan. She said we won't scare them away, we
10:06 will draw them with love and we will change them. How you going
10:11 to do that? There was a sickness we call it an epidemic and it
10:14 went right through the district and there were people who were
10:19 so sick. And every day she would go to a house, and she would
10:24 bring food, or she would wash the baby or she would ask them
10:29 if they had enough medicine. And she went right over into the
10:34 area where the 250 thieving people who were descendants
10:40 of the convicts were living and you know one by one she won them
10:46 over. She took them food and Tiglath, he was such a friendly
10:54 dog, I'll show you his picture. Here he is. He actually got a
11:01 whole page in the autograph book: Greetings from
11:08 Tiglath-pilezer and he had a chain and he was so strong I
11:11 he wanted to say hello to people he pulled it off. See the kennel
11:16 is tilted over. He never hurt anybody but let me tell you
11:20 about the people. They stopped swearing, they stopped drinking,
11:27 they stopped smoking, they accepted Jesus and one by one
11:32 they changed their lives and if Ellen White had a really fierce
11:38 dog that bit people and chased them, they would never have been
11:44 won to Jesus. She loved animals and she loved people and
11:49 gradually they joined the church and you know what. After one
11:56 year nobody ever, ever stole anything from Ellen's house.
12:03 Don't you think that's the best way? Win them with kindness.
12:09 Have you seen people do that who are kind when other people
12:15 are cruel to them. This is what Ellen did. She won them over by
12:21 being kind and Tiglath whose name was Tig was a happy dog but
12:27 he never bit anybody. Thank you.
12:30 Hi boys and girls. Happy Sabbath Welcome back to our Bible study.
12:34 I hope you know now to have your Bibles ready so you can read
12:37 along with us. Auntie Cecily could you please say a prayer
12:40 before we open the word.
12:42 Yes. Dear Lord, thank you for this time that we can spend with
12:46 you. Please be with the boys and girls as they read their Bibles
12:51 and touch their hearts. In Jesus' name, Amen.
12:54 Amen. Now last Sabbath we studied about a very faithful,
12:59 obedient man. Kate, who was that man? Noah. It was Noah. We
13:04 are going to study about a another man who was very
13:06 faithful and obedient and his name was Abraham. Now it's been
13:11 about 400 years since the flood and Abraham's about 75 years
13:15 old. Let's read about that. Liam, can you please read
13:19 Genesis 12:1-3.
13:21 Now the Lord had said to Abram get out of your country from
13:26 your family and from your father's house to a land that I
13:31 will show you. I will make you a great nation. I will bless you
13:36 and make your name great and you shall be a blessing. I will
13:41 bless those who bless you and I will curse him who curses you
13:46 and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.
13:51 Thanks Liam. So God asked him to leave his country and his family
13:57 Do you think that would have been hard to leave your family?
13:59 Yes but Abraham loved God. Let's see who went with him?
14:04 Ella, can you please read Genesis 12:4-5.
14:08 Abram departed as the Lord had spoken to him and Lot went with
14:13 him. And Abram was 75 years old when he departed from Haran.
14:19 And Abram took Sarai his wife and Lot his brother's son and
14:25 all their possessions which they had gathered, the people whom
14:31 they had acquired in Haran and they departed from there to the
14:37 land of Canaan. So they came to the land of Canaan.
14:39 Okay, so who went with Abram? His wife Sarai and his nephew
14:45 Lot and lots of their helpers and workers. Let's go to our
14:49 faith chapter Auntie Cecily and read Hebrews 11:8 and see what
14:54 that says.
14:56 By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to the
15:01 place which he would receive as an inheritance and he went out
15:07 not knowing where he was going.
15:11 Okay, we're going to look at our Torch Light now, Mrs. White's
15:15 writings to see what that sheds on verse. Thanks Nick, you're
15:19 going to read that for us today.
15:22 Abraham's unquestioning
15:24 obedience is one of the most striking evidences of faith to
15:28 be found in all the Bible.
15:30 Wow, so that tells us that Abram was a very obedient and faithful
15:37 man. I wonder why God asked him to leave his home? I think
15:41 it might have been because they were worshipping a lot of idols
15:46 Abraham loved God and God loved Abraham and he asked Abraham to
15:50 a land where they wouldn't be influenced by all the idols
15:53 because they had to preserve a line from which Jesus would be
15:58 born into. Okay. So Abraham and Sarah had no children which
16:02 means Sarah was barren. She couldn't have a baby. Remember
16:07 in Genesis 12:2 that God promised that he would bless
16:11 Abraham and make him a great nation. So Abraham was troubled
16:16 Let's read what God had promised him again. Let's read
16:19 Genesis 15:5. Elijah can you read that for us please.
16:22 Then he brought him outside and said, look now toward heaven and
16:28 count the stars if you are able to number them. And He said to
16:34 him so shall your descendants be.
16:37 Mmm. So that was a great promise God was making to Abraham. But
16:42 do you know what? Abraham and Sarah were human like you and me
16:47 and they were getting old and they were having doubts and
16:50 thoughts. And they thought how can God bless us and make us a
16:53 great nation like all the stars in the sky if we have no
16:58 children. Let's read and see what happens next. Kate, can you
17:00 please read Genesis 16:2-3.
17:05 So Sarai said to Abram, see now the Lord has restrained me from
17:11 bearing children. Please go in to my maid. Perhaps I shall
17:17 obtain children by her. And Abram heeded the voice of Sarai.
17:22 And Sarai Abram's wife took Hagar her maid the Egyptian and
17:28 gave her to her husband Abram to be his wife, after Abram had
17:33 dwelt 10 years in the land of Canaan.
17:36 Mmm. Oh dear. Did Sarah and Abraham take matters into their
17:40 own hands? I think they did. They weren't patient and they
17:43 didn't wait on God. Are you supposed to have two wives?
17:48 No. No. Hagar gave him a son, Ishmael and if we were to
17:52 continue to read, it caused no end of trouble. There was
17:55 jealousy and there were arguments and heartaches in the
17:59 household. Do you think that's what God want's for us. No. I
18:02 think Abraham and Sarah learnt their lesson the hard way. Again
18:06 God comes to Abraham and promises him to make him a
18:10 father of many nations. We can find out in the first part of
18:15 chapter 17. So God still loved Abraham. Okay, let's read
18:20 chapter 17, Genesis 17:17,19. God has something to say to
18:25 Abraham. Ben, you're going to read that for us.
18:27 Then Abraham fell on his face and laughed and said in his
18:33 heart, shall a child be born to a man who is 100 years old and
18:39 shall Sarah, who is 90 years old, bear a child? Then God said
18:46 Sarah your wife shall bear you a son and you shall call his name
18:52 Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him for an
18:55 everlasting covenant and with his descendants after him.
18:59 Mmm. So did that happen. It did. And we can read that in chapter
19:03 21. Nick, you're going to read that for us. We're looking at
19:09 Genesis 21:1-3. Might have to go over a few pages in our Bible
19:14 now.
19:17 And the Lord visited Sarah as he had said and the Lord did
19:20 for Sarah as He had
19:22 spoken. So Sarah conceived and bore Abraham a son in his old
19:27 age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him. And
19:32 Abraham called the name of his son, whom Sarah bore to him,
19:36 Isaac.
19:38 Mmm. So did God keep his promise? He did didn't He.
19:40 Even though Abraham were very old to have children God did it
19:44 in His own timing. Nothing is impossible with God. We're going
19:47 read that in our memory verse. Let's look at that in Luke 1:37.
19:51 We're going to read that together. You got that. Okay
19:57 let's read that together.
19:59 For with God nothing will be impossible.
20:03 Okay, so to finish our story about Abraham, something
20:07 happened. Let's have a look at that, Ben, in Genesis 22:1-2.
20:14 Can you read that for us?
20:21 Now it came to pass after these things that God tested Abraham
20:25 and said to him, and he said here I am. Then he said take
20:30 now your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to
20:34 the land of Moriah and offer him there as a burnt offering
20:39 on one of the mountains on which I shall tell you.
20:41 Mmm. So what's happening here. God's testing Abraham. Have we
20:45 studied up before about how God tests people. It happened in the
20:49 garden of Eden and it happened with Cain and Abel didn't it?
20:53 Let's see if Abraham passes the test. Auntie Cecily can you
20:57 please read Genesis 22:3 and then 9-13 for us.
21:03 So Abraham rose early in the morning and saddled his donkey
21:09 and took two of his young men with him and Isaac his son. And
21:14 split the wood for the burnt offering and arose and went to
21:20 the place of which God had told him. (And continuing on at verse
21:24 nine). Then they came to the place of which God had told him
21:30 and Abraham built an altar there and placed the wood in order.
21:35 And he bound Isaac his son and laid him on the altar upon the
21:41 wood and Abraham stretched out his hand and took the knife to
21:46 slay his son. But the angel of the Lord called to him from
21:52 heaven and said, Abraham, Abraham. So he said, here I am.
21:57 He said do not lay your hand on the lad or do anything to him
22:03 for now I know that you fear God since you have not withheld your
22:08 son, your only son, from Me. And Abraham lifted his eyes and
22:14 looked and there behind him was a ram caught in a thicket by its
22:19 horns. So Abraham went and took the ram and offered it up for a
22:25 burnt offering instead of his son.
22:28 Did Abraham pass the test? YES. He did. Praise the Lord! Do you
22:33 know what? In James 2:23, the Bible tells us that Abraham was
22:38 called a friend of God. Thank you boys and girls for joining
22:42 us in reading the Bible. Would you like to be a friend of God?
22:46 Well you can be. Just ask Him. Claim that verse we talked about
22:50 in James 2:23 over your life. God loves us so much that he
22:57 longs for us to be his friends and to have a close relationship
23:00 with him. Next Sabbath we are going to study about how through
23:03 prayer a very special person was found for Isaac.
23:07 When we keep the Sabbath we get to know God better and realize
23:12 how much He wants to build a relationship with us. You can be
23:17 a friend of God just like Abraham. One way to
23:21 strengthen your friendship with the Lord is to study your Bibles.
23:25 We want to encourage you to read your Bibles, not only on the
23:28 Sabbath day but every day. Auntie Nat would you tell us
23:32 about the devotional that relates to our study today.
23:36 Sure. Yes, we have a seven-day devotional study available on
23:40 Abraham and Sarah, the subject we studied together today. This
23:44 devotional expands on what we have learnt. You can download
23:48 and print it free from our website which is
23:51 www.adaywiththeking.com. This will help you to read your Bible
23:53 every day and to spend time getting to know God. Auntie
23:56 Cecily, shall we go over our memory verse that we studied
23:59 today.
24:00 Yes let's do that. Children are you ready to read it through?
24:03 Luke 1:37 For with God nothing will be impossible.
24:09 Auntie Nat you ready to sing our blessing song to the children?
24:13 Sure, let's do that.
24:16 ¤May God bless you and keep you and fill your heart with love¤
24:28 ¤May God guide and protect you and watch you from above¤
24:39 ¤And Sabbath after Sabbath we greet the day of rest¤
24:50 ¤The day the King of glory has sanctified and blessed¤
25:00 ¤Good bye my friends till we meet again¤
25:05 ¤For another day with the king¤
25:10 Bye, Happy Sabbath.
25:14 ¤ ¤


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