Participants: Natalie McLean (Host), Cecily Harker (Host), Pr Rick Ferret, Dr John Hammond
Series Code: DWK
Program Code: DWK000013
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00:01 Hello there. Happy Sabbath. Come on in. We're about to meet
00:06 with the king. 00:08 ¤ ¤ 00:54 Good day. I'm Auntie Nat. It's great that you could all join 00:57 us to meet with the King. We're 00:59 about to open the Sabbath. Come 01:00 and join our worship time together. Hello Auntie Cecily. 01:03 It's great you could join us again. 01:04 Hello Auntie Nat. 01:06 Hello children. It's great that you could come and meet the 01:09 King. And hello Teddy, it's great that you could be here 01:13 too. Auntie Cecily, would you please say a prayer for us to 01:17 open our worship time together. 01:19 Yes. Dear God thank you for bringing us safely through 01:23 another week and thank you for your Sabbath and thank you for 01:27 all the boys and girls who are able to join us today. 01:31 In Jesus' name, Amen. 01:34 Amen. Do you know this is a great time to reflect on our 01:37 week and see how God has blessed us. Nick you have a blessing 01:41 for us. 01:42 Um, once my cat was lost and he was lost for four days and 01:48 my mom was praying for him and hoping he'd be okay and everyone 01:53 was really scared. So mom had been door knocking and trying 01:59 to find out if they'd seen him for a few days. And then she 02:04 went to our next door neighbors and he heard a meow under the 02:09 house so they let him out and they found him under there and 02:13 that was a really good blessing. 02:16 That's great Nick thanks for sharing that blessing with us. 02:19 Auntie Cecily you have 02:21 a blessing to share with us about the Sabbath. 02:24 Yes. When Jesus comes again to take us to heaven and then gives 02:29 us an earth made new, we will still be keeping the Sabbath. 02:34 Mmm. That's what Isaiah 66:22 and 23 tells us. For eternity 02:39 Sabbath will continue. So if we're going to be keeping the 02:44 Sabbath in heaven we should get used to keeping it on this earth 02:49 Keeping the Sabbath is a sign of our love for God and by it we 02:54 let people know that he is our King. 02:57 Praise God! Thanks Cecily for sharing that with us. Do you 03:01 know another way we can worship God is through song and we have 03:05 Pastor Rick here with us. Thanks Pastor Rick. 03:08 Hi boys and girls. Let's sing the song Remember the Sabbath. 04:38 Pastor Rick do you think we could sing O Friend Do You 04:41 Love Jesus? 04:42 Oh I think we certainly can. 06:00 Pastor Rick can we sing Be Like Jesus? 06:04 Yes, that's a great song. Let's sing it together. 06:45 Thanks Pastor Rick. It's great to share God and worship God 06:49 in song. Ben we discovered a blessing at Sunnyside this week. 06:52 Will we share that with the children at home? Yes. 06:55 Okay let's go have a look at that. 07:01 Hello boys and girls. My name is Dr. John Hammond. Welcome to the 07:07 Australian home of Mrs. Ellen White. Come with me. 07:11 I've got some stories to tell you. 07:15 Thank you for coming back to listen to another story about 07:24 Ellen. Now I want you to do something because I want you to 07:32 do what your mother did probably as soon as you were 07:36 born. Hold up your fingers. Have you got 10? Yes. You know my 07:41 son is a doctor and he delivers lots of babies and sometimes 07:46 a baby is born with an extra finger. And as soon as they do 07:51 that, they just snip it off and the baby grows up normally. 07:57 It happens quite often. But every now and again someone is 08:02 born with a finger missing or a funny hand because we don't all 08:07 develop the same way and that is why our mamas always look at our 08:12 fingers and toes when we are born. A little girl called Katy 08:18 lived here in Courenbong. Her name was Katy Ennis and she was 08:24 four years old. At the age of four you start to notice the 08:30 other boys and girls have got more fingers than I did. When I 08:36 was a little boy I lived in a town called Kempsey and there 08:41 was a man there who worked in a sawmill. And he was sawing a 08:45 piece of wood one day and he was whistling, looking the wrong 08:50 way and the saw went whoosh and took off his thumb. He was so 08:55 sad because he was an elder. He could no longer shake hands with 08:59 people because it felt so strange and you go yuck and 09:07 finally he came to my father. My father was a surgeon. He said 09:11 Doctor what can we do. I can't be an elder because I'm too 09:16 ashamed about my missing thumb. And my dad said, I'll tell you 09:21 what I can do. I can take your big toe, cut it off, and I can 09:27 stitch it and sew and graft it onto your hand and then I'll 09:32 trim it and nobody will know that it's not a thumb. He did 09:36 that. The man was so happy. He went back to church. He could 09:41 shake people's hands. He could even suck his toe in church. 09:46 But little Katy, she knew she had a problem because her hand 09:52 was very small and very, very thin and after church Ellen used 09:57 to meet them all up in the foyer where the big village church is 10:01 now but it was a wooden church. And she knew all the kids by 10:06 name and she saw that Katy would stand back and she would always 10:11 cover her hand. And when she wasn't covering her hand she 10:17 would put it behind her back. She was very sad. One day when 10:21 she was seven Ellen called her and she said come here. Show me 10:27 me your hand. She said you've got a beautiful hand but I want 10:31 to have a meeting with you in heaven and I'm going to look 10:36 at your hand and I'm going to ask you how you used your 10:40 withered, imperfect hand to help Jesus while you were living on 10:45 earth. And Ellen went home and she never met Katy again but 10:50 Katy grew up. She got married. She became a midwife, delivered 10:55 babies, and she went to live in Indonesia and she became one of 11:01 the most famous midwives in the whole country of Java because 11:06 her hand was so small that sometimes when a baby is being 11:10 born it is very, very difficult when you've got a big hand to 11:14 help the baby be born. And because she had only three 11:19 fingers and they were very long, her hand was small and very thin 11:25 she was able to help deliver babies without them being hurt. 11:30 When she gets to heaven she's going to meet Ellen and I'm sure 11:35 she can hardly wait. And I suspect when she meets Jesus 11:39 she'll even say thank you for letting me born the way I was 11:43 because I help so many babies come into this world because 11:48 of my deformity. 11:49 And boys and girls and all of you who are listening 11:53 there may be some of you who are not pretty. You may think you're 11:57 not very smart. You may think you haven't got everything right 12:01 with your body. You may think there are other people who are 12:06 better and smarter and quicker but Jesus chose you to be 12:11 exactly the way you are because he has a work for every one of 12:16 us and he used Ellen all her life. Hasn't that been wonderful 12:22 Thank you. 12:23 Good day boys and girls. Happy Sabbath. Welcome to our Bible 12:27 study. I hope you have your Bibles ready to read along with 12:31 us. Auntie Cecily, can you please pray for us. 12:35 Dear Father thank you for bringing us together on another 12:39 Sabbath to study your word. We pray that you would be with us. 12:43 In Jesus' name, Amen. 12:46 Amen. Now Liam what happened last Sabbath? Who was it about? 12:49 Joseph became the prime minister of Egypt and he also saved Egypt 12:55 from starvation. 12:56 Yes he did, didn't he? Through God; God helped him to do that. 13:00 We're going to read what happens about Joseph's family. 13:03 Okay, Liam, you're going to read our first verse again. It's 13:06 Genesis 42:1-5. 13:13 When Jacob saw that there was grain in Egypt, Jacob said to 13:18 his sons, Why do you look at one another? And he said, Indeed I 13:23 have heard that there is grain in Egypt. Go down to that place 13:28 and buy for us there that we may live and not die. So Joseph's 10 13:33 brothers went down to buy grain in Egypt. But Jacob did not send 13:38 Joseph's brother Benjamin with his brothers for he said, Lest 13:44 calamity befall him. And the sons of Israel went to buy grain 13:49 among those who journeyed for the famine was in the land of 13:54 Canaan. 13:56 So the famine had stretched all the way to Canaan from Egypt 13:59 to Joseph's family and Jacob sends the 10 brothers down to 14:03 buy some food. Now did Jacob send Benjamin? No. No because he 14:07 was afraid something would happen to him just like what 14:10 happened to Joseph. Ella, you're going to read Genesis 42:6-9 14:14 please. 14:16 Now Joseph was governor over the land and it was he who sold to 14:20 all the people of the land. And Joseph's brothers came and 14:25 bowed down before him with their faces to the earth. Joseph saw 14:29 his brothers and recognized them. But he acted as a stranger 14:33 to them and spoke roughly to them. Then he said to them, 14:37 Where do you come and they said from the land of Canaan to buy 14:41 food. So Joseph recognized his brothers but they did not 14:44 recognize him. Then Joseph remembered about the dreams 14:48 which he had dreamt about them and he said to them, You are 14:53 spies and you've come to see the nakedness of the land. 14:57 So the brothers don't recognize him do they? No. Joseph was 15:01 wearing Egyptian clothes and he was all grown up. But Joseph 15:05 recognizes his brothers. What about all those dreams that 15:09 Joseph had. Were his brothers bowing down to him? So those 15:14 dreams came true, didn't they? They did. Praise the Lord. But 15:18 he's really concerned that Benjamin is not with them and 15:22 he's worried that something's happened to him. So he throws 15:27 them into prison. Okay Elijah, you are going to read for us 15:32 Genesis 42:18-20. 15:34 Then Joseph said to them on the third day, Do this and live for 15:39 I fear God. If you are honest men, let one of your brothers 15:44 be confined to your prison house but you go and carry grain for 15:48 the famine of your houses and bring your youngest brother to 15:52 me so your words will be verified and ye shall not die. 15:55 And they did so. 15:56 So Joseph's testing them. He wants to know that Benjamin is 16:03 very safe. Okay, Nick, let's read Genesis 42:21 please. 16:09 Then they said to one another, We are truly guilty concerning 16:13 our brother for we saw the anguish of his soul when he 16:17 pleaded with us we would not hear. Therefore this distress 16:22 has come upon us. 16:23 Mmm. Let's have a look at our Torch Light, Mrs. White's 16:26 writings and see what she has to shine on this verse. Elijah, 16:29 would you please read that for us. 16:39 During the years since Joseph 16:40 had been separated from his 16:42 brothers, these sons of Jacob had changed in character. The 16:46 three days in the Egyptian prison were days of bitter 16:49 sorrow as the brothers reflected upon their past sins. 16:52 So do you think Joseph's brothers were starting to feel 16:56 bad what they'd done to Joseph? Yeah. And do you know what? 16:59 I think God had been working on their hearts all these years. 17:03 Do you know that if we ask God He can forgive us for our sins 17:06 and He can change our hearts too. Let's look at Psalm 51:10, 17:10 our memory verse, and let's read that together and see what the 17:13 Bible promises us. 17:15 You ready? Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a 17:25 steadfast spirit within me. 17:27 So if we read the last part of verse 24, the Bible tells us 17:31 that Joseph chose Simeon to stay back in prison and he let the 17:35 other brothers go home to buy grain. In verse 25, Joseph 17:39 orders that the money the brothers brought with them to 17:42 pay for the food be put back in their sacks. Let's see what 17:46 happens next. Kate, can you please read for us 17:49 Genesis 42:28. 17:51 So he said to his brothers my money has been restored and 17:57 there it is in my sack. Then their hearts failed them and 18:02 all said, saying to one another, What is this that God has done 18:06 to us? 18:08 Mmm. But one of the problems that the brothers had when they 18:11 sold Joseph as a slave to the traders, it was lying and they 18:15 lied to their father about the disappearance of Joseph. I think 18:18 Joseph was testing them to find out to see whether their 18:22 character had been changed. The brothers finally got home and 18:26 they told their father Jacob all what had happened. Okay 18:30 Auntie Cecily, you're going read for us Genesis 42:36 and 38. 18:35 And Jacob their father said to them you have bereaved me. 18:41 Joseph is no more, Simeon is no more and you want to take 18:46 Benjamin. All these things are against me. But he said my son 18:51 shall not go down with you for his brother is dead and he is 18:56 left alone. If any calamity should befall him along the way 19:01 in which you go then you would bring down my gray hair with 19:05 sorrow to the grave. Jacob was really sad wasn't he. He was 19:10 upset. He'd lost his son Joseph. But was he really lost? No. No 19:15 didn't know that. His son Simeon was in jail and then Benjamin 19:19 was supposed to go down next time they bought food. Otherwise 19:23 they'd all starve. Sarah you're going to read for us 19:26 Genesis 43:1-3 please. 19:30 Now the famine was severe in the land and it came to pass when 19:33 they had eaten up the grain which they had bought from Egypt 19:37 that their father said to them, Go back, buy us a little food. 19:40 But Judah spoke to him saying the man solemnly warned us 19:45 saying you shall not see my face unless your brother is with you 19:49 Mmm. Well the famine's still on, they've got no food, and Jacob 19:52 wants the boys to go down and buy more food. But Judah said 19:55 there's no point us going down. Who did they have to have before 19:58 they went back down? Benjamin. Benjamin. Okay Liam, you're 20:03 going to read our next verse, Genesis 43:9. 20:08 I myself will be surety for him. From my hand you shall require 20:14 him. If I do not bring him back to you and set him before you, 20:20 then let me bear the blame forever. 20:24 So Judah told his father he would bear the blame if anything 20:27 happened to Benjamin. And if we were to read Genesis 42:37 20:31 Reuben said he would allow his two sons to die if he didn't 20:34 bring Benjamin back alive. Did they act that way with Joseph? 20:39 No. No, they hated him, couldn't wait to get rid of him. But now 20:43 they say they would do everything to bring back 20:45 Benjamin alive. Do you think God had changed their hearts? Yes. 20:49 I think he has. Do you know what? It was a hard decision, 20:52 but Jacob finally consented to Benjamin to go down to Egypt to 20:57 buy grain. So, off they go, back down to Egypt. Okay. Now when 21:02 they go back down Joseph sees they have Benjamin and so he 21:06 sends them to his house for a meal. Ella, you're going to 21:09 Genesis 44:1-2 for us. 21:15 And he commanded the steward of his house saying, Fill the 21:22 men's sacks with grain, as much as they can carry, and put each 21:25 man's money in the mouth of his sack. Also put my cup the silver 21:29 cup in the mouth of the sack of the youngest and his grain 21:33 money, so he did according to word that Joseph had spoken. 21:37 Mmm. If we were to continue to read the Bible tells us that 21:41 after the brothers had left, Joseph's men went after them 21:46 and whose sack do you think that cup was found in. Benjamin. 21:50 Benjamin's. Oh the brothers were so upset How were they going 21:54 to face their father going home without Benjamin. But do you 21:58 know what. Judah begged Joseph to keep him as a slave instead 22:02 of Benjamin. And do you know what? Joseph then knew that the 22:06 brothers had full repentance for what they had done. Joseph 22:10 was satisfied and he revealed himself to his brothers and 22:14 Genesis 45 tells of that reunion. Elijah you're going 22:18 to read that for us. Genesis 45:14,15. 22:21 Then he fell on his brother Benjamin's neck and wept and 22:26 Benjamin wept on his neck. Moreover he kissed all his 22:31 brothers and wept over them. And after that his brothers talked 22:35 Wow! So God did bring something good out of something bad. 22:38 Pharaoh was so grateful for what Joseph had done for his 22:41 country and he was very happy that Joseph had found his family 22:45 again. He wanted his family to come down to Egypt and live in 22:49 Goshen on the edge of Egypt because there were still five 22:53 years of famine to go. Joseph was reunited and thus 22:56 the family lived in peace together. Thank you boys and 22:59 girls for joining us in reading the Bible. It was great to have 23:02 you along with us today. It's been wonderful that you've 23:04 joined us as we've journeyed through the book of Genesis. 23:07 We hope you have enjoyed it as much as we have. Always remember 23:10 that God loves you so much. If you give your heart to him like 23:14 Joseph did. God can bring you out of what seems something 23:18 disastrous into something very good. Trust Him, pray to Him and 23:22 read His word and watch Him turn your life around just as he did 23:25 in the story of Joseph and his brothers as well as in many 23:29 stories that we have read about in the book of Genesis. May God 23:33 bless each and every one of you. 23:40 When we read our Bibles our hearts can be touched and 23:43 changed by the Holy Spirit. God wants our hearts. He wants to 23:48 spend eternity with you. God wants you to read your Bibles 23:53 everyday so he can communicate with you and tell you how much 23:57 He loves you. Auntie Nat would you tell us about the devotional 24:02 that relates to our study today? 24:03 Sure. Yes, we have a seven-day devotional study available on 24:07 Joseph and His Brothers, the subject we studied together 24:11 today. This devotional expands on what we learnt. You can 24:15 download and print it free from www.adaywiththeking.com. 24:19 This will help you read your Bible every day and spend time 24:22 getting to know God. Auntie Cecily will we go over our memory 24:26 verse? 24:28 Yes, Children ready to say it all together? 24:29 Psalm 51:10- Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew 24:38 a steadfast spirit within me. 24:41 Auntie Nat, do you think it would be nice if the boys and 24:46 girls joined us in singing our blessing song this time? 24:47 I think that would be really lovely. Girls and boys can you 24:51 turn around and we're going to sing to the children at home. 25:01 ¤May God bless and keep you and fill your heart with love¤ 25:11 ¤May God guide and protect you and watch you from above¤ 25:21 as Sabbath after Sabbath we greet the day of rest, 25:31 ¤the day the King of glory has sanctified and blessed¤ 25:42 ¤Good bye my friend till we meet again¤ 25:46 ¤For an another day with the King¤ 25:52 Good bye, Good bye. Good bye. 25:57 ¤ ¤ |
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