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Series Code: JML
Program Code: JML210014S
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00:06 When my heart begins to fear, He is my Light. 00:10 I can smile for He is near, Jesus my Light. 00:15 When I'm blue and feeling sad, He is my Light. 00:19 He reminds me I can be glad, Jesus my Light. 00:23 He is the Light, yes, Jesus my Light 00:28 In Him is no darkness, In Him is no night. 00:32 Wherever He leads me, He makes my way bright. 00:37 I'll shine for Jesus, Jesus my Light. 00:43 Look, here comes Aunt Francine. 00:45 Hi kids. How are you? I'm so excited to see you. High fives. 00:50 Oh Yay! I had a busy week. Aren't you glad to be here in 00:58 our tree house? Yeah! Yes! To learn about Jesus. Yes! 01:03 I sure am. Jesus wanted people to follow Him and love Him just 01:08 as much as they could and give their whole heart to Him. You 01:12 know, this is a funny story. I like this one because I believe 01:15 Jesus must have had a sense of humor on this one because we're 01:18 going to talk about the fishers of men. Do you know that song? 01:21 Yeah! Let's sing it together. ♪ ♪ 01:28 You ready to sing it with us. 02:31 On thank you. Don't you want to follow Jesus? I hope so. Are you 02:35 ready for a Bible story? Yeah! Yes! All right. 02:40 ♪ ♪ 02:45 Jesus wanted to meditate along the Sea of Galilee and He was 02:48 talking to His heavenly Father while He was walking. And you 02:51 know as usual what was happening behind Him? A crowd of people 02:58 were following Jesus sees them and he decided to go and walk over to 03:03 Peter's boat. ♪ ♪ 03:22 Take me on the boat so that I may talk with the people. 03:25 Sounds of water and music. 03:36 And so today Jesus is talking about His heavenly Father and 03:39 saying how much He loves each one of them and that someday 03:44 soon you will get to meet Him. 03:46 Launch out into the deep and let your nets down for a catch. 03:51 Master, we worked hard all night and caught nothing. But if you 03:56 say I should put my nets in the water, so I will. 04:03 ♪ ♪ 04:26 Hey guys, can we get some help over here. 04:30 ♪ ♪ 04:42 Go away from me Lord for I am a sinful man. 04:46 Do not be afraid. From now on you will be fishers of men. 04:54 Then the crowd started dispersing and Jesus is asking 04:59 Have you caught any fish? Now the disciples were a little bit 05:03 sad because after all, you know that they're fishermen, right? 05:05 Mm-huh, right. Yes. 05:07 And did they catch any fish? No! No. You know the story. They 05:11 didn't catch a single fish. So Jesus said, Let's even go 05:15 farther out. And then what does He say? Cast you nets on the 05:20 other side. You know the story well. And here the disciples 05:24 they're thinking, what is Jesus talking about? But nevertheless 05:28 they knew that they had to trust their new master. And so 05:33 nevertheless, they threw it in and you know the story well. 05:37 what happened. The fish come and they're pulling it up and ah, 05:45 there's so many fish. And you know it's really wonderful just 05:49 to see that Jesus loved them so much. He knew that they were sad 05:53 not only because they hadn't caught any fish but He also knew 05:57 that John the Baptist was now in prison. And so Jesus wanted to 06:01 encourage them. You know, that's the character of Jesus. He's 06:05 always there to encourage you. Did you know that? Yeah! Yeah. 06:09 Sometimes we can encourage each other. Have you encouraged 06:13 somebody else by a helping hand? Yeah! Or sometimes we can 06:17 encourage each other by just a smile or doing something nice. 06:21 But Jesus knew their hearts and decided I need to encourage them 06:25 and so He did a miracle. But you know the rest of the story? 06:28 What happened to them? You know what happened next? I love this 06:34 part. They just left everything, the boat, their fish, a whole 06:38 boatload of fish left it there in the boat, and realized that 06:44 they had to follow Jesus. No matter what they were going to 06:49 follow Jesus, leave everything behind and follow Jesus. Do you 06:52 think you could do that? That would be hard because after all 06:56 that's the whole trade that they knew. They were fishers of men 07:00 and now...I mean before they were fishermen and now they were 07:05 going to be fishers of men. Right? Yeah. And what does that 07:09 mean to be fishers of men? 07:10 Go reach others... 07:12 Reach others for Christ. You're right. And that's exactly what 07:16 happened. And so they were so excited. You know what, I know 07:20 some people that have had to leave everything behind, 07:25 everything. You know there's a story...Let me show you the 07:32 story of Joseph Bates. Do you know who Joseph Bates...Have you 07:35 heard of him. Yeah! Yes! Do you know that he was a sailor just 07:40 like those fishermen. Here's a picture of Joseph Bates. Come on 07:43 close. Here's a picture of Joseph Bates. And you know what? 07:48 He was a crude sailor. He said some very unkind words, used 07:52 unkind words, but you know what his wife decided one time that 07:56 she would put a Bible in his suitcase. And Joseph Bates, on 08:02 one of his voyages decided to open up his Bible and he opened 08:06 it up and learned about Jesus. And he says you know what I need 08:11 to change my life around, turn it totally around and follow 08:15 this Jesus that I've just learned about in my Bible. 08:20 And you know that's exactly what we can do is learn about Jesus 08:23 Right? Yeah. So you know it's wonderful that we can follow 08:29 Jesus in everything that we do. Okay. And we can be fishers of 08:34 men. Did you notice how Peter was clinging onto Jesus? Did you 08:40 see him at His feet? How he was just clinging onto Jesus. He 08:44 said, Get away from me, but yet he still was clinging onto Jesus. 08:47 You know why he was doing that? He knew he was so sinful, so 08:54 full of sin, and yet he didn't want Jesus to leave him. Wow. 08:59 Just clinging onto Jesus. Can we cling onto Jesus? Yes, Yeah. 09:04 Yeah. He didn't want Jesus to leave him. He knew he was a 09:08 sinner but he wanted to stay close to Jesus. And I'm so glad 09:11 that these disciples decided to follow Jesus, no matter what, 09:15 leaving everything behind. That's a hard task to do isn't 09:19 it? Yeah. You know that reminds me that sometimes we need to 09:26 have a new beginning. Do you know what that means? Start over 09:31 Starting over. Mm-huh. And you know, I think I have another 09:35 video, a picture, here and it's about some caterpillars. Do you 09:40 know about a caterpillar? Yes. Here's another caterpillar and 09:45 you know how it goes from a larva, right? and then it turns 09:49 into a beautiful butterfly, right? Yeah. Mm-huh. Do they 09:53 have to have a change? Yeah! Yes, they have to make a change. 09:57 And you know scientists decided to do an experiment on them. Do 10:00 you like experiments? Yeah! I like experiments. And so 10:05 scientists decided that they would test these caterpillars 10:08 and they would put them and try to teach them not to like a 10:12 certain smell. And then when it changed into a butterfly, you 10:18 know what they did? They introduced the same scent to see 10:21 if the butterfly would not like the same scent. And you know 10:25 what happened? What? They would They were the same; they did not 10:28 like the same smell that they were testing them on. That's 10:33 kind of interesting, right? We can have a new beginning but 10:37 Jesus can make us beautiful like the butterfly, right? Yes. Would 10:42 you like to see the picture book Yeah, yeah. Let's look at our 10:47 picture book because these are my favorite stories. One of my 10:52 favorite stories. And look at these disciples are like, What! 10:57 You want us to go farther out. And here are the followers, they 11:01 wanted to follow Jesus. I hope that you want to follow Jesus 11:04 too because everything is a lot better when we follow Jesus. 11:09 Right? Yeah. We can put a new leaf, a new change in life. So 11:14 are you ready for some questions Yeah! I hope you were listening. 11:19 Now I have to tell you one thing You know what, I forgot to say 11:24 something, but here is...do you know that Peter means? A rock. 11:29 A rock. You do know it. Peter means like a pebble, like a 11:35 small rock, not worth of anything, you're right. So here 11:38 is what...some of the questions. Okay. That was supposed to be 11:42 the first question. Okay so, whose name means Pebble? 11:46 Peter! Peter. What is the best time to go fishing? Is it 11:53 A - Early in the morning or late in the evening. B - Noon; or 12:01 C - When the temperature is warm A! You said A. You were all 12:06 correct. What did the disciples do with all the fish they caught 12:12 Is it A - Sold them to have money, after all they can use it 12:18 to help; B - Throw them back into the water; or C - Left them 12:23 in the boat. C! I'm sure you got this one right. It's C, they 12:28 left them in the boat to follow Jesus. Don't you want to follow 12:32 Jesus with everything, you can leave everything behind. Just 12:35 to follow Jesus. I hope that you will do that. We are so thankful 12:39 that Jesus was our example. We can follow His life in 12:43 everything that we do. Are you ready to do that? Yeah! Are you 12:46 ready to say Yes Jesus I want to follow you. You want to say 12:50 it with me? Yes Jesus, I want to follow you. Yes, we want to 12:56 follow Jesus in everything that we do because things go a lot 12:59 better when we're with Jesus. Don't you agree? Yes, Yeah. 13:03 Do you think that the disciples agreed to have Jesus in their 13:05 hearts. I'm sure they did and I know we want to invite Jesus 13:09 into our hearts in everything that we do. You know this 13:13 reminds me of times when we are in difficult times and we are 13:19 discouraged. But Jesus wants to let you know how much He really 13:21 really loves you. Will you put your trust in Him? I hope you 13:26 will join us to the next Jesus my Light. Can you say goodbye 13:30 to us kids. Good bye! bye! 13:33 ♪ ♪ |
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