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Series Code: JML
Program Code: JML210015S
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00:06 When my heart begins to fear He is my Light. 00:09 I can smile for He is near, Jesus my Light. 00:14 When I'm blue and feeling sad He is my Light 00:18 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 life bright. 00:37 I'll shine for Jesus Jesus my Light. 00:43 Hey, it's Aunt Francine. 00:45 Hey kids. How are you? I can't wait to be in the tree house. 00:51 Are you excited to be here in the tree house. Yes. I am Ho! 00:55 You know what, today I'm out of breath. Getting up those stairs, 01:00 I should say ladder, I get a little tired. But you know what 01:04 we want to welcome you to Jesus My Light. I'm Aunt Francine and 01:08 this is Little Ginger. You know Sabbath is supposed to be a 01:11 wonderful time with your family and to do fun things. Sabbath is 01:15 meant to just learn about Jesus. And I hope that we can enjoy the 01:20 Sabbath day. And you know there's a song about that. How 01:24 singing This Is the Day. 01:26 Sounds good. What do you guys think. You want to sing it? 01:28 You ready? Yeah! Yes! 01:31 ♪ ♪ 02:06 I am so thankful for the Sabbath day. Do you think you're ready 02:10 for the story time? Yes! Yeah! Where you learn about Jesus? 02:14 Yes! Yeah! All right ♪ ♪ 02:20 So it was the Sabbath day and Jesus was walking toward the 02:24 temple. And on the way there there was some sheep gates and 02:29 the sheep gates there you would buy. And He went to the pool of 02:34 Bethesda. Now Jesus was seeing one of the poorest looking man 02:40 that was there. After all, he had been there for 38 years. Can you 02:45 imagine being in one place for 38 years. And each time they 02:53 believed that if the angel of the Lord would stir up the pool 02:58 of water and they were the first one to go into the pool, they 03:02 hoped that they would be what? Healed! You know the story. 03:05 Healed. And so he was 03:07 hoping that he could be there some day but you know what 03:09 he didn't have too many friends. After all, they may have gotten 03:12 better or maybe they just left. But there were five porches and 03:17 so I believe he was there under one of those shaded areas and so 03:22 he would be there and he'd said Ho man. And then he saw the most 03:27 gentle eyes coming, walking toward him. And you know Jesus 03:34 came up to him. 03:37 Do you want to be made well? 03:40 Sir, I have no one to put me in the pool when it is stirred up. 03:42 While I'm coming another one steps before me. 03:46 Arise, pick up your bed and walk 03:50 ♪ ♪ 04:12 And you know what happened right You know the story very well. He 04:15 gets up out of his mat and he goes. And he's so excited like 04:20 he's running out. He's so excited. And who comes up to him 04:24 It is the Sabbath. It is not lawful for you to carry your bed 04:28 He who made me well said, Take up your bed and walk. 04:33 Who was the man that said to you take up your bed and walk? 04:37 See, now you are well Now sin no more so that nothing worse 04:51 happens to you. 04:53 Jesus, it was Jesus, it was Jesus 04:56 Of course, the law was very important to them and they made 04:59 sure...But you know what they realized and recognized this 05:03 lame man. They had seen him before. After all, he had been 05:06 lame for how many years. 38! 38 years and so they recognized 05:14 And they said well who healed you? And you know what? 05:19 He didn't who it was. Who was it? So he just went on his way. 05:25 And the Pharisees inside their hearts and in their minds said 05:28 Oh, Jesus, He's causing trouble. He's healing on the Sabbath. 05:35 They weren't so mad at the man carrying his mat. They were more 05:41 upset that Jesus was healing on the Sabbath. Now was Jesus doing 05:43 something really good on the Sabbath? Um-Huh. You're right. 05:47 He was doing something about His Father's business. He was doing 05:51 something really good. He was on His way to the temple but He 05:54 wanted to go about His Father's business. And He wanted good 05:58 things for this lame man. And so later on, we know the story well 06:01 all right, he finds out it's Jesus and Jesus is there and 06:06 again he recognizes Jesus and he finds out that it's Jesus 06:09 and so he sees the Pharisees and Jesus, it's Jesus! Once again 06:15 he couldn't keep quiet Can you keep quiet when you have some 06:18 really good news? No. He had to go tell everyone he could 06:22 find. He was so happy that he was healed. And he was so glad 06:27 that he had the faith because you know he just got up and 06:30 decided to have faith. What if the man decided to just stay 06:35 there. And we can look in our picture. What if the man just 06:38 decided to stay there and not trust Jesus? Do you think he 06:45 would have still be lame? Uh-huh. Yeah. I think that you can come 06:48 around over here. You see he is so lame and he wanted someone to 06:55 help him into the pool and there was nobody there to help him 06:57 in the pool. And yet Jesus told him to grab his mat and go. 07:03 He was so excited. You know, how many of you like to go 07:07 swimming? Does anybody here like to go swimming? Me! I love the 07:11 water and my dad liked it even more than I do. And you know 07:15 what? Water is wonderful. It's fun the play in it. And have you 07:19 heard of hydrotherapy, have you ever heard of that? Yes. 07:24 Sometimes people would go into the springs. Do you like the 07:28 springs of water? Sometimes...Do you want to see these pictures? 07:30 Do you want to come again? Oops! Some springs of water. That's 07:34 kind of fun because it's natural and minerals in the water. And 07:39 so they were there. And they had five porches there in the pool 07:44 of Bethesda. And so people enjoyed being there. Fortunately 07:48 there was shade but I believe that they had some minerals in 07:51 there that also helped and were soothing. So how many of you 07:54 like to go in a hot tub. You don't want to stay there too 07:57 long, right? But sometimes that's good for you to go and 08:01 enjoy the water. Because after all, it's refreshing, right? 08:04 Yeah. So here's another thing to do. I want to talk about the 08:11 Sabbath. Sometime we adults and I'm sorry about that. I will 08:17 speak for the adults. Sometimes we say, Oh you can't do that on 08:21 Sabbath. Oh what will people say I remember one time I was trying 08:27 to go roller skating one time and I was trying to clean up the 08:31 nuts on my driveway on Sabbath so I could roller skate. And my 08:38 mother said to me, oh you better not do that. What will the 08:41 neighbors say? Now you know sometimes we make choices right 08:47 but Sabbath is supposed to be a delight. We're supposed to have 08:50 fun. So forgive our parents every once in a while when they 08:53 say something like that. We need to have fun. I like to go by a 08:56 lake. Do you like the lake? Yeah! I really like the lake. 09:00 Sometimes I find little critters like salamanders and frogs. Do 09:04 you like picking for them, looking for them and picking 09:07 them up. Yeah! I hope you put them gently down. Jesus was all 09:11 about finding and doing wonderful things and I hope that 09:15 I hear some of the things. What do you like to do on the Sabbath 09:16 day? I like to go for walks especially when it's by a creek 09:21 or a lake. Do you like doing that. Yeah! What do you like to 09:25 do? I like to go with my Grandpa and Grandma to a creek. 09:31 A creek too. Anybody else? 09:34 Yeah, I like skipping stones in a lake. 09:37 Skipping stones. How many can you throw. 09:39 Oh, once I did 10. 09:41 Ten one time. Yes. 09:42 I like going in my backyard and playing in the creek. 09:45 Oh, you like water too? I hope that those of you at home...Oh. 09:50 I saw you were going to speak up 09:53 Ah, I like water and so what I like doing on Sabbath is going 09:58 on hikes. 10:00 On hikes. I would like to hear from some of you at home. What 10:02 do you like to do on Sabbath so that you can connect with God 10:06 Again, nature is all about who Jesus is. And we can learn so 10:10 much about nature. So I hope that you take time to find some 10:15 things and learn about Jesus. But you know what? I used to do 10:19 something else and let's see if I can get my picture back... 10:22 There's something else that I like to do on Sabbath. I used to 10:27 go to an old folks home and sing How many of you have done that 10:30 before? Yeah, maybe. Or sometimes we even got together 10:36 and we made a lot of extra food on Friday so that we could take 10:42 it out to a shelter on the Sabbath. So sometimes we would 10:46 get a whole bunch of food together and have it all ready 10:51 so that after church we would go to something like a soup kitchen 10:53 Do you want to see this? Here's a soup kitchen and you know they 10:57 all are serving food to help others. Sabbath is about having 11:03 fun, learning about Jesus, but also doing good, right? There's 11:09 balance where we don't want to do our own business but we need 11:12 to be about the business of doing good for others right? 11:15 Can you 11:16 think of ways that we can do that? I hope so, that you can 11:20 find some things that you can do at home or in your community 11:24 that you can bring the joy and love of Jesus. So are you ready 11:29 for some questions? Yeah! Yes! All right. Let me get my 11:33 questions out. All right here we go. How many porches did the 11:39 pool of Bethesda have? Was it A - 3; B - 5; or C - 7? How many 11:50 porches did the pool of Bethesda have? If you said B you're right 11:58 There were five porches. What did Jesus ask the lame man to do 12:04 A - Do you want to be healed? B - Do you want to be whole? 12:09 or C - May I help you into the water? What did Jesus say? 12:14 If you said B you are correct. Besides being upset that the 12:23 lame man was carrying his mat, what were the Pharisees really 12:27 angry about? Ooo, that's a tough questions. Is it A - The man was 12:35 healed; B - Jesus didn't heal everyone at the pool; or 12:42 C - Jesus healed on the Sabbath. What really made the Pharisees 12:48 upset? Did you get it right at home? If you said C - Jesus 12:52 healed on the Sabbath, that is what the Pharisees were really 12:56 upset about. So don't worry, I mean you want to follow rules 13:02 and respect Jesus but you know the biggest thing is to have fun 13:06 Going about and doing good, helping others. Don't you want 13:11 to help others? Yeah! Yes! Find an opportunity. Maybe it's a 13:15 neighbor. My daughter and I we have some neighbors that we go 13:18 too often and we share Jesus. We just spend time with them. 13:22 Sometimes we bring a meal to them and we eat with them. 13:25 Whatever you can do try to find some kind of opportunity to 13:30 share Jesus. I hope you'll join us for another time of 13:34 Jesus My Light. 13:36 ♪ ♪ |
Revised 2022-06-09