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Series Code: KCBG
Program Code: KCBG190013S
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00:01 Hi, campers!
00:02 Welcome to Bible Gems. 00:04 Today, we're going to learn about 00:06 Jacob and his twin Esau. 00:10 Julie, what are you doing? 00:12 I'm opening the program, like you do. 00:15 I don't sound like that. 00:17 Oh, hush, Julie. 00:18 I'm trying to tell the story. 00:20 No, no, no, I'm Tiara, you're Julie. 00:23 You made me lose my place. 00:25 What was I talking about? 00:26 Okay, Julie, give me the wig. 00:28 Only for your birthright. 00:30 Julie, it's not funny anymore. It's not funny anymore. 00:32 Stop that! Stop that! 00:34 Julie, give me the wig. 00:35 Julie, stop it! 00:37 It's my wig! Cut it out! 00:39 We are also going to learn about 00:41 how Jacob deceived his father, little hooligan. 00:46 Julie, you can't tell them the whole story. 00:47 You're going to give it away. 00:49 Julie, hush now, child. 00:51 I'm Tiara. Would you give me the wig? 00:53 What, no, no, no! 00:56 Stop it! Stop it! Oh! 00:58 Stay tuned to see what happens with Jacob and Esau. 01:01 Oh! 01:03 Bible Gems is up next. 01:05 Ah! Give me the wig! 01:28 Welcome to Bible Gems. Yes! 01:33 So we are going to have fun today. 01:35 I think... What? 01:37 Uncle Aaron, what's our story about today? 01:40 Today, we're going to learn about the dangers of lying 01:44 within the story of Jacob. 01:45 Ooh, that sounds exciting. 01:47 Let's get started with our memory verse. 01:50 Okay. 01:52 Lying lips, lying lips 01:56 Are abomination to the Lord 01:59 But they that deal truly 02:04 Are His delight 02:08 Lying lips, lying lips 02:12 Are abomination to the Lord 02:16 But they that deal truly 02:21 Are His delight 02:25 Proverbs 12:22 02:38 Right. 02:40 Thank you for sharing that memory verse song. 02:41 That was great. 02:42 Do you guys think that was a good song to learn? 02:45 Yes. Amen. 02:47 Hmm. It's time for our Bible Gem. 02:49 And that means we're missing something. 02:51 What could it be? 02:52 Well, I think we're missing our treasure chest 02:55 full of Bible Gems. 02:57 You're right, Uncle Aaron. He's right. 02:59 I'll go get that right now. Right. 03:01 Somebody better help her. 03:03 Oh my, it's big and heavy. 03:04 Can someone come help me? 03:06 Oh. 03:10 Oh, I love treasures. Do you like treasures? 03:12 Yes. 03:13 Look at this. It takes all of us to carry it. 03:16 Wow! 03:17 That's got to be some treasure. 03:20 All right, let's set it down carefully. 03:23 Oh. 03:25 I wonder what it could be! 03:28 Can we open it, Uncle Aaron? 03:30 Let's do it. Let's see. 03:31 You guys want to open it? 03:33 Go ahead. 03:34 Tell me what's inside. 03:35 Whoa! 03:37 Wow! 03:38 Look at all that. 03:40 All kinds of gems. 03:41 But, hey, whoa, whoa, whoa, 03:42 what's that scroll right there? 03:44 Wow. 03:46 Guys, everyone, look at the scroll. 03:47 This is the true treasure. 03:49 That's the biggest treasure of all. 03:50 This is the biggest one. 03:52 Is that the real Hebrew Bible? 03:54 Yeah, this is the Hebrew Scriptures. 03:57 All right. 03:58 Hey, who wants to hear a Bible story? 04:02 I do! That's right. 04:05 Here we have a story in the Hebrew Scriptures. 04:10 And there's a story that we're going to learn today 04:13 about lying. 04:16 There was a man by the name of Jacob. 04:19 In fact, Jacob's name means... 04:22 Does anyone know? 04:26 Jacob's name means deceiver. 04:29 A deceiver is someone who lies. 04:32 Now Jacob, was Jacob 04:35 the only son of Isaac? 04:38 Yes or no? 04:40 No. No. 04:41 Who can tell me the other brother's name? 04:45 Let's go with Zachary. 04:46 Esau. Esau. 04:48 That's exactly right. 04:50 Who knows 04:52 or who here knows what a twin is? 04:56 A twin. 04:57 So Esau and Jacob were actually twins. 05:01 Whoa! 05:02 That means that they are born at the exact same time 05:05 from their mom. 05:08 Now do all twins look exactly identical? 05:11 No. No. 05:13 There can be a twin 05:14 that one is a girl and one's a boy 05:17 or sometimes a boy and a boy and a girl and a girl, 05:19 but they can actually look a little bit different. 05:22 Jacob and Esau were twins, but they look quite different. 05:27 As they grew up, Rebecca, the mother, 05:33 loved one of her two sons more than the other. 05:36 Oh, that's not good, Uncle Aaron 05:38 Yeah. 05:39 Does that ever lead to anything good? 05:41 'Cause Jesus loves us all the same. 05:42 That's right. 05:43 Who believes that Jesus loves all of us the same? 05:46 That's right. 05:47 He has love for all the boys and the girls 05:49 and all the people in the world. 05:51 Now let me grab, over here, 05:54 we have some skin. 05:57 The Bible tells us that Esau was a really hairy guy, 06:02 just like this. 06:03 This is... 06:04 I believe this is some goatskin. 06:06 And this is some rugged stuff. 06:08 So you want to pass this around and get a feel. 06:10 This is what Esau felt like, right? 06:13 Wow, that was one hairy man. 06:16 Yes, Esau was tough. 06:19 Now one day, 06:22 when Esau was out hunting, 06:26 he came back from being out and hunting 06:29 and doing things and he was really tired. 06:32 And typically, when you get tired, 06:34 you also get hungry. 06:37 Amen. 06:38 Do any of you get hungry 06:39 when you're outside and playing? 06:41 That's right. Yes. 06:43 That's good. 06:44 And so he came back and Jacob was back at home 06:47 and he was cooking a pot of red lentils. 06:51 Yeah. Anybody here like lentils? 06:54 Yeah. So Jacob was a good cook. 06:56 You know why? 06:57 Because he was a mama's boy, right? 07:00 He spent time with his mom. 07:02 And he learned how to cook a mean red stew. 07:05 And Jacob came back from being out hunting 07:08 and he was tired and he was hungry 07:09 and he came and he said, 07:11 "Jacob, give me some of your food." 07:17 Who knows what Jacob said to him? 07:21 Okay, let's give the mic to Gavin. 07:25 I'll trade you some for your birthright. 07:28 What? Is that what he really said? 07:31 Man, what an unfair trade. 07:35 Just for a little pot of stew, he said, "Okay, 07:37 I'll give you the food 07:38 if you'll give me your birthright." 07:41 And to make matters even worse, guess who agreed to this deal. 07:46 Esau. Esau did. 07:48 Ah, Esau despised his birthright 07:51 and he traded it for a mere pot of stew. 07:53 Now a little bit later in the story 07:56 when Isaac, their dad was getting older 07:59 and older and older, 08:00 his eyesight began to get really blurry, right? 08:04 He could hardly see. 08:06 And Jacob and Rebecca, his mom, 08:09 because remember, Rebecca really loved Jacob, 08:12 they thought that they could take advantage 08:13 of that situation. 08:15 So Isaac said, "You know, 08:16 I'm getting old and I might be dying soon." 08:18 So he called in Jacob and he says," 08:20 Hey, Jacob, I want to bless you. 08:22 And with the blessing, 08:23 I want to have a special meal with you. 08:25 So will you go out..." And Excuse me? 08:28 You guys are listening. 08:30 You guys, you must really read the Scriptures. 08:34 Esau was told to go out and to hunt 08:38 and get an animal to come back and to prepare a meal, 08:44 a special meal with his with his father there. 08:47 Now Rebecca was overhearing this conversation 08:52 that was taking place. 08:53 And she knew that, oh, Jacob was supposed to be 08:57 the one who gets the birthright. 08:59 And so she called Jacob aside and said, 09:01 "Hey, you're my favorite son 09:03 and we're going to come up with a plot 09:06 and we're going to deceive your father." 09:09 That never worked. 09:10 She would deceive her own husband? 09:12 Can you believe it? 09:13 Rebecca thought to deceive her own husband 09:16 and Jacob thought to deceive his own dad. 09:19 Rebecca cooked up the meal, and he said, 09:22 "Well, I can't go in because Esau's really hairy. 09:25 And I'm just, you know, 09:27 not that hairy and stuff like that. 09:29 I'm smooth-skinned, right?" 09:30 And so Rebecca said, "Oh, what you'll do 09:33 is you'll get some skin, some rough goatskin," 09:36 or whatever, it was goatskin, actually, 09:38 and she told him, "Wrap it around, 09:41 wrap it around your arm and around your neck, 09:45 and then go in. 09:47 And so when your father checks to see if it's really Esau, 09:51 he'll come over and he'll feel, 09:52 'Hmm, yeah, I guess that is Esau.'" 09:55 So... 09:56 Did he wear Esau's clothes too 09:59 so that he smelled like hunting? 10:01 Yeah, he got that burly smell, that manly smell. 10:04 And he tried to... 10:06 I mean, they were twins after all, right? 10:08 He tried to do as best of a job 10:10 to be like his brother that he could. 10:11 And he went into that tent. 10:13 And he went right up to his dad and he said, 10:15 "I'm ready for the birthright." 10:17 What did Isaac do? 10:19 Oh, Isaac smelled something a little fishy. 10:24 He heard something a little fishy 10:25 'cause he said, "Hmm, this sounds like my son Jacob. 10:30 Is it really Esau? 10:31 Esau, is this really you?" 10:33 And what did Jacob say? 10:36 He lied straight out of his teeth. 10:39 And he said, "Oh, I'm Esau." He said, "Really?" 10:42 So he leaned over and he felt his arm 10:45 and he's like, "Hmm, 10:47 yeah, that must be him because this is so hairy." 10:50 And so then he gave him the blessing 10:52 and they had the meal together. 10:54 And the birthright was given, 10:56 and eventually, Esau did come back. 10:59 And do you think he was happy or mad 11:02 when he found out that Jacob took his birthright? 11:05 Oh, he was furious and he was sad too. 11:09 He begged his father, 11:10 "Please, please, please, bless me. 11:12 Bless me. Is there any blessing left?" 11:15 And unfortunately, although Isaac, 11:17 his father did bless him, 11:18 oh, it wasn't anything of the splendor 11:23 and the amount and the glory that was given to Jacob. 11:26 And so what ended up happening is Esau was so angry, 11:29 he chased his brother away. 11:33 Even though Jacob ran away, God still blessed him. 11:38 That's exactly right. 11:39 You see, friends, even though sometimes 11:42 we make mistakes, God still blesses 11:47 and works through our failures. 11:49 You know why? 11:50 That's how God loves us that 11:52 even when He died on the cross for us, 11:53 He did it for us anyways 'cause He loves us so much. 11:55 Wow, Olivia, what a good point. 11:57 That's exactly right. 11:59 God's love for us is so great 12:01 that He's extremely patient with us. 12:04 And He says, "I don't care 12:05 how long I have to work for them. 12:07 I don't care what it takes, but I'm going to work, 12:11 and I'm going to save, and I'm going to be there 12:13 for my children." 12:15 Beautiful lesson. Now we're running out of time. 12:18 So I'm going to summarize the story 12:19 and get moving really quickly. 12:21 God said, "Jacob, I want you to go back 12:24 to your family, 12:25 to Isaac, to Canaan, to your brother Esau." 12:28 He said, "Oh, really? Okay." 12:30 So they got together and they began to make 12:32 their way, that way. 12:33 But before they made their way, all the way back, 12:36 Jacob went away to pray. 12:38 And as Jacob was praying, what happened to him? 12:41 He was there praying, 12:42 and he was praying and all of a sudden... 12:44 Bam! 12:45 A mystery man came out of nowhere, 12:47 and he began to wrestle with him, 12:48 and he was wrestling and wrestling all night long. 12:53 And then finally as the day was breaking, this mystery man, 12:56 "Ah," he touched Jacob's hip, 12:59 and there Jacob realized he wasn't just wrestling 13:01 against a human, a man, 13:03 but he was wrestling against who? 13:05 God. God Himself. 13:07 And there he realized that God still loves me 13:11 and God changed his name from deceiver to what? 13:14 To Israel To Israel. 13:15 Because, friends, 13:17 we don't struggle against just man, 13:19 but if we struggle with man and God, 13:22 we can be one who prevails just like how Jacob did. 13:25 Who wants to be a prevailer, just like how Jacob did 13:28 and he became Israel? 13:30 Amen. 13:32 That's all the time we have for now. 13:34 See you again on Bible Gems. 13:37 Good job, kids. |
Revised 2020-04-09