Day with the King, A

Joseph

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

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00:03 Hello there. Happy Sabbath. Come on in. We're about to meet
00:08 with the King.
00:09 ¤ ¤
00:54 Hello, I'm Auntie Nat. It's great you could all join us to
00:57 meet with the King. We're about
00:59 to open the Sabbath. Come and
01:01 join our worship time together. Hello Auntie Cecily.
01:04 Hello Auntie Nat.
01:05 Thanks for joining us. And hello children. It's great to see you
01:09 here too. It's great to be able to meet and worship the King.
01:13 Auntie Cecily, would you please say a prayer for us to open our
01:16 worship time.
01:18 Yes. Dear Father in heaven we thank you that we can come and
01:22 worship you again on another Sabbath and we pray that you
01:26 would bless our hearts and minds. For Jesus' sake, Amen.
01:30 Amen. Do you know this is a great time to reflect on our
01:33 week and count the blessings that God has sent us. Liam you
01:37 have a blessing for us today.
01:39 My family, they were in a very tough time and we just prayed
01:45 to God and He helped us out of it.
01:47 That's great, Liam. Thanks for sharing that blessing with us.
01:50 Auntie Cecily, you have a blessing to share with us
01:53 about the Sabbath.
01:54 Yes. You know after Jesus died on the cross his disciples
01:59 continued to keep the
02:01 Sabbath as a witness to us of the importance of this
02:04 special day of rest. Sabbath observance was still a big part
02:09 of the disciples lives. The fact that it is mentioned numerous
02:14 times through the book of Acts shows us that God wanted to us
02:19 not to forget it. Do you know that we are also Christ's
02:25 disciples? God wants us to keep the Sabbath like they did. The
02:30 disciples had a special close relationship with Jesus. They
02:35 spent three and a half years with Him. We don't have Jesus in
02:40 the flesh with us, but we have the Bible to show us how to
02:46 live. Jesus promises us in John 20:29 that those of us who
02:52 haven't seen Jesus in the flesh but believe in Him just the same
02:57 will be blessed. Let's claim that promise and believe in the
03:02 Bible and the witness that Jesus and the disciples left for
03:06 us in keeping the Sabbath.
03:08 Amen. Thanks Auntie Cecily. Do you know another way we can
03:12 worship God is through song and we have Pastor Rick here to help
03:18 us. Thanks Pastor Rick.
03:19 Hi boys and girls. Let's sing
03:21 I Have Decided to Follow Jesus.
04:06 Pastor Rick could we please sing I Have the Joy?
04:10 I Have the Joy. Let's do it.
04:47 Pastor Rick can we please sing Seek Ye First?
04:50 Yes, let's do. It's a lovely song. You ready?
05:40 Thanks Pastor Rick. It's great to praise God in song.
05:43 Kate, we had a blessing at Sunnyside this week. Will we
05:47 share that with the children at home. Yes. Okay let's go have
05:50 a look at that.
05:52 Hello boys and girls. My name is Dr. John Hammond. Welcome to
06:00 the Australian home of Mrs. Ellen White. Come with me.
06:04 I've got some stories to tell you.
06:12 Thank you for coming back to listen to the stories about
06:18 Ellen. Ellen was one of the greatest writers the world has
06:23 ever seen. She was probably, I'm going to use a big word, the
06:28 most prolific, in other words she wrote more than any other
06:33 woman ever wrote. Her pile of books, one on top of the other,
06:37 and all her articles written in many languages would reach up
06:42 far higher than the very top of this house. Today if I want to
06:47 write a book, well this is my little invention, I wish it was,
06:51 but this is mine. I turn this on and I can sit in an airplane
06:56 or a train and I can type and it talks to my I phone. Doesn't
07:01 even have to touch. I just type and it comes on the screen.
07:07 It is so easy. Well before they invented computers, we used
07:13 pens and pens are great because you just twist and out comes the
07:19 ink and you can write thousands of words without running out.
07:25 Well before that we had the typewriters. This typewriter is
07:33 nearly 120 years old and you type one letter at a time and
07:39 if you did two at a time they would get jammed. And that
07:44 much good and it cost a lot of money. No computer and you
07:50 just had to slowly type away. Well Ellen when she wrote, she
07:54 wrote she didn't have a typewriter. She had secretaries.
07:59 But she would take some ink and this ink well belonged to my
08:05 grandmother and this is what Ellen used; just a simple pen.
08:12 And they were blotchy, they were scratchy. And I'm going to start
08:16 to write. So I will write Hello my name is Dr., but you know
08:29 as you wrote the ink would be used up and it would have to be
08:37 put back in and you'd put your arm on it and there'd be a
08:46 smudge. You could try and mop it up. If the rain came on it, it
08:53 would smudge. And that, even 100 years ago, was all that you
08:59 had to write with. And you know, she wrote all those books and as
09:06 she wrote, she would send the copy and her secretary would get
09:13 paper in the typewriter. And little Rory Thompson that we
09:17 spoke about in our last story, he learned after his leg got
09:22 better how to use one of these machines and he used to type for
09:27 her. Because Ellen wasn't a very good speller and she would rely
09:33 on her secretaries. While she was here she wrote a book that
09:38 was very, very important and people have said that this book,
09:46 called the Desire of Ages, aside from the Bible, is probably the
09:51 greatest book ever written in the English language. And she
09:55 wrote it while she was living here in Sunnyside. In fact,
09:59 if you go outside you'll see a little sign, a little plaque,
10:04 and it says Under this tree, the tree is gone, it was an old
10:09 pine tree, is where she sat down and she wrote this book and
10:13 Satan didn't like her writing the book because it was all
10:17 about the life of Jesus. Another book she wrote while she was
10:22 here at Sunnyside was this book. How'd you like to buy this book
10:27 second hand. It is very tattered and I'll tell you why it's
10:32 tattered. It's a book called Christ's Object Lessons and in
10:36 1913 a man knocked at my grandmother's door in New
10:40 Zealand and he said I've got a book here written by a lady
10:44 called Ellen and my grandmother bought this and because of that
10:50 she learned to love Jesus and she joined our church and my
10:55 grandfather became a minister. My father was a missionary and
10:59 I worked for the church for all these years because of the
11:04 wonderful work and the wonderful writing of Ellen inspired by
11:11 angels to write for God the story of Jesus Christ. And the
11:15 world is so thankful for what Ellen did and what Ellen wrote
11:20 all with a fountain pen. That's a great story.
11:24 Hi boys and girls. Happy Sabbath I hope you have your Bibles
11:28 ready. It would be good if you could follow along with us.
11:31 Auntie Cecily would you like to say a prayer for us please?
11:35 Dear Father, thank you for our Bibles. May the children's
11:39 hearts be warmed to you and please give us understanding
11:44 as we read your words. In Jesus' name Amen.
11:48 Amen. Now Sarah, what happened last week, what did we study
11:52 about? Jacob. Jacob. And something happened to Jacob.
11:56 Who deceived him? Laban. Laban. And what happened?
11:59 He has two wives instead of one.
12:01 He does, doesn't he? And there became a lot of jealousy and
12:04 strife because there were two wives and as well as the maids.
12:08 They had lots of children and all that jealousy and strife
12:13 affected the 12 personalities of Jacob's sons. And we're going
12:17 read about one son in particular and his name was
12:21 Joseph. Okay, Liam, you've got our first reading. And that
12:26 tells us who they were. Genesis 35:23-26.
12:31 Now the sons of Jacob were 12. The sons of Leah were Reuben,
12:37 Jacob's firstborn and Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar and
12:44 Zebulon. The sons of Rachel were Joseph and Benjamin. The sons of
12:50 Bilhah, Rachel's maid servant, were Dan and Naphtali. The sons
12:56 of Zilpah, Leah's maidservant, were Gad and Asher. These were
13:01 the sons of Jacob who were born to him an Paddan-aram.
13:06 Wow, so that's 12 sons, that's a lot of children. Let's go over
13:10 their names again. Let's have a look in the Bible. So who was
13:16 the firstborn. Reuben. Reuben. And then there was Simeon, and
13:22 Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulon and then Joseph and Benjamin and
13:29 then Dan and Naphtali and then Gad and Asher. That's a lot of
13:35 boys isn't it? Okay. So today we're going to study about
13:40 Joseph. Now who was Joseph's mother? Rachel. Rachel. And was
13:45 Rachel Jacob's favorite wife. Yes. Unfortunately Jacob favored
13:50 Joseph because he favored Rachel and that caused a lot of problem
13:55 in the family. Ella, can you please read Genesis 37:3-4.
14:01 Now Israel loved Joseph more than all the children because
14:07 he was the son of his old age. Also he made him a tunic of many
14:11 colors. But when his brothers saw that their father loved him
14:16 more than all of his brothers, they hated him and could not
14:20 speak peacefully to him.
14:23 Mmm. So Jacob made a very special coat for Joseph and it
14:26 was a coat of many colors. It was the type of coat that people
14:30 of distinction wore. Do you think his brothers were mad
14:33 about that? Yes. They were very mad because they saw that their
14:36 father was favoring Joseph and they were a bit worried that
14:39 perhaps Joseph, who was one of the youngest, was going to take
14:44 birthright instead of one of the oldest. But Joseph was different
14:48 to the other boys. Okay, Ella you're going to read a Torch
14:51 Light now from Mrs. White's writings to see what she has to
14:55 say about that.
15:02 There was one, however, of a widely different character, the
15:06 elder son of Rachel, Joseph, whose rare personal beauty
15:11 seemed to reflect in word,
15:15 beauty of mind and heart, pure active, and joyous. The lad gave
15:21 evidence also of moral, earnest and firmness. He listened to his
15:28 father's instructions and loved to obey God.
15:31 _ that Joseph loved to obey God. But Joseph obeying
15:37 God, do you think that made his brother's even madder. Yes.
15:40 It did. It made them very cross. Okay now Elijah you have our
15:44 next reading for us. Genesis 37:5-8.
15:48 Now Jacob had a dream and he told it to his brothers and they
15:52 hated him even more. So he said to them. Please hear this dream
15:56 which I have dreamed. There we were binding sheaves in the
16:01 field and behold my sheaf arose and also stood upright and
16:05 indeed your sheaves stood all around and bowed down to my
16:09 sheaf. And his brothers said to him, Shall you indeed reign over
16:13 us; or shall you indeed have dominion over us. They hated him
16:17 even more for his dreams and for his words.
16:19 Mmm. His brothers were very cross with him. Okay, Auntie
16:23 Cecily, can you ready Genesis 37:9-11 please.
16:28 Then he dreamed still another dream and told it to his
16:31 brothers and said, Look, I have dreamed another dream and this
16:36 time the sun, the moon and the 11 stars bowed down to me.
16:43 Though his told it to his father and his brothers and his father
16:48 rebuked him and said to him what is this dream you have dreamed?
16:52 Shall your mother and I and your brothers indeed come to bow down
16:58 to the earth before you? And his brothers envied him. But his
17:03 father kept the matter in mind.
17:04 So look, I have a picture here of Joseph having a sleep and
17:09 you can see there is the picture of the two dreams. So we have
17:13 the dream of the stars and the moon bowing down before him,
17:16 and the sheaves of wheat bowing down before him. And they are
17:20 the dreams that he had. Do you know what? Even his father in
17:23 the end rebuked him but the Bible said he kept the matter
17:26 in his mind. I think he must have been thinking perhaps God
17:30 is revealing something special to my son. Do you think God was
17:34 revealing something special to Joseph. Yes. He was. So one day
17:38 Joseph's brothers go off with their father's sheep to find
17:42 pasture. And Jacob asked Joseph to do something. Kate, can you
17:46 please read for us in Genesis 37:14-20.
17:50 And he said to him please go and see if it is well with your
17:54 brothers and well with the flocks and bring back word to
17:58 me. So he sent him out of the valley of Hebron and he
18:03 went to Shechem.
18:04 Now a certain man found him and there he was wandering in the
18:09 field and the man asked him saying, What are you seeking?
18:14 So he said, I am seeking my brothers. Please tell me where
18:18 they are feeding their flocks. And the man said, They have
18:24 departed from here for I heard them say let us go to Dothan.
18:30 So Joseph went after his brothers and found them in
18:33 Dothan. Now when they saw him afar off, even before he came
18:39 near them they conspired against him to kill him. Then they said
18:45 to one another. Look this dreamer is coming. Come
18:49 therefore let us now kill him and cast him into some pit and
18:54 we shall say, some wild beast has devoured him. We shall see
18:58 what become of his dreams.
19:00 Mmm. So his brothers weren't happy were they? They were so
19:03 angry they wanted to kill him. Where else have we read in the
19:08 Bible about a brother killing a brother? Cain and Abel. That's
19:12 right. And Cain killed Abel because he was cross at Abel
19:16 for being obedient. And is the same thing happening here? Yes.
19:20 The brothers realized that God was bestowing a special
19:23 prophetic inspiration on Joseph but they didn't want to know
19:26 about it. They did not want to repent and leave their evil ways
19:29 And every time they looked at Joseph, they were just so cross
19:32 because they didn't want to change. But do you now what?
19:36 God called Reuben to intervene and he talked his brothers into
19:40 not killing Joseph. Let's see what happened. Nick can you
19:44 please read Genesis 37:23.
19:48 So it came to pass when Joseph had come to his brothers that
19:59 they stripped Joseph of his tunic, the tunic of many colors,
20:02 that was on him.
20:06 Mmm. So they didn't kill him. They threw him into a pit.
20:09 I wonder what happens next. Sarah, can you please read
20:12 Genesis 37:26-28.
20:15 So Judas said to his brothers What profit is there if we kill
20:19 our brother and conceal his blood. Come and let us sell him
20:23 to the Ishmaelite's and let not our hand be upon him, for he is
20:28 our brother and our flesh. And his brothers listened. Then
20:32 Midianite traders passed by, so the brothers pulled Joseph up
20:37 and lifted him out of the pit and sold him to the Israelites
20:41 for 20 shekels of silver. And they took Joseph to Egypt.
20:45 What a terrible thing. Imagine selling your brother or sister
20:49 as a slave. Goodness me. But God intervened. They didn't kill
20:52 him, they sold him. Okay Auntie Cecily can you please read our
20:56 next verse for us. Genesis 37:31-35.
21:00 Then they took Joseph's tunic, killed a kid of the goats and
21:05 dipped the tunic in the blood. Then they sent the tunic of many
21:10 colours and they brought it to their father and said, We have
21:14 found this. Do you know whether it is you son's tunic or not?
21:19 And he recognized it and said, It is my son's tunic. A wild
21:25 beast had devoured him. Without doubt Joseph is torn to pieces.
21:30 And Jacob tore his clothes, put sackcloth on his waist and
21:35 mourned for his son many days. And all his sons and all his
21:40 daughters arose to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted
21:45 and he said, For I shall go down into the grave to my son in
21:51 mourning. Thus his father wept for him.
21:53 Mmm. So the brothers lied to their father. But do you know
21:57 what? Joseph was still alive and that was God's doing. He
22:01 protected him and even though he was sold as a slave, which
22:04 terrible, he was still alive and God had something very special.
22:08 Quickly let's read Psalm 18:2, our memory verse before we
22:13 finish. Okay. The Lord is my
22:19 rock and my fortress and my deliverer. My God my strength
22:25 in whom I will trust. My shield and the horn of my salvation
22:30 my stronghold.
22:32 What an amazing promise that God has provided for us.
22:35 Thank you boys and girls for joining us today in reading the
22:38 Bible. It was wonderful to have you along with us. If you ask
22:42 God, He will strengthen you in the time of need. He will
22:45 deliver you. In our story today things appeared disastrous but
22:49 God can bring something good out of bad. That is what we are
22:53 going to study about next Sabbath.
22:57 God delivered Joseph out of the hands of his brothers. God had a
23:02 plan for his life and God has a plan for your life as well. When
23:07 we study our Bibles, God can reveal his will for our lives.
23:11 Sabbath's a great time to reading our Bibles but God also
23:16 wants us to read our Bibles every day. Auntie Nat, can you
23:21 tell us about the devotional that relates to our study today?
23:24 Sure Auntie Cecily. We have a seven-day devotional study
23:27 available on Joseph, the subject we studied together today. This
23:31 devotional expands on what we have learnt. You can download it
23:35 and print it free from our website which is
23:37 www.adaywiththeking.com. This will help you to read your Bible
23:42 every day and to spend time getting to know God. Auntie
23:46 Cecily will we do our memory verse?
23:47 Yes. Are you ready to read it through all
23:49 together children? Yes.
23:50 Psalm 18:2- The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer
23:58 my God, my strength, in him I will trust, my shield and the
24:04 horn of my salvation, my stronghold.
24:08 Auntie Nat, you ready to sing our blessing song to the
24:11 children? Let's do that.
24:12 ¤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¤
24:38 ¤As Sabbath after Sabbath we greet the day of rest¤
24:48 ¤The day the King of glory has sanctified and blessed¤
24:58 ¤Good bye my friend till we meet again¤
25:04 ¤For another day with the King¤
25:11 Good bye, Good bye. See you next Sabbath.
25:13 ¤ ¤


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