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00:01 Hey kids, it's time for Sabbath School. Grab your bibles and
00:03 let's go. 00:04 ♪ ♪ 00:31 Hello boys and girls. Welcome to Starting With Jesus. Because 00:34 everything we do should start with Jesus. (Miss Ruthie) We 00:37 have some fun things planned for you today in our program. In our 00:41 Bible story we're going to learn about something that was lost. 00:45 Now have you ever lost a key or something around your house? 00:48 I've lost my car keys a few times and it's always 00:51 frustrating when their lost, isn't it? Well today we're going 00:55 learn about something else that was lost and I'm looking forward 00:59 to hearing that story. But before we can get to any of that 01:03 what are we going to do? We're going to praise Jesus in song. 01:07 So let's join together in singing praises to Jesus. 01:11 ♪ ♪ 02:46 ♪ ♪ 04:12 ♪ ♪ 04:48 ♪ ♪ 04:52 Hello boys and girls. I have a problem and I was hoping you 04:55 could help me figure out how to solve my problem. (Mr. Jonathan) 04:58 So this is what it is. This sand represents things that make my 05:03 life really busy. You know, things like maybe brushing my 05:07 teeth when I get up in the morning, making my bed, and 05:11 maybe feeding the dog and then I have to help with dishes. 05:16 And then my 05:18 mom doesn't want me to go out looking like I'm crazy so I have 05:22 to fix my hair so that takes some time. And I have school. 05:26 All of these things represent all the little things that take 05:31 so much time. Sometimes it's watching my favorite cartoons 05:36 and my favorite videos or maybe there's a computer game I like 05:41 to play or a board game. And then of course, I need to 05:43 talk to my 05:44 friends. So all these things take up time. You know, they 05:49 don't take up all my time but look, they fill up a lot of my 05:53 day. So then I have some big things and these are very 05:57 important things; things like reading the Bible and praying. 06:03 Always good to pray every day. Then going to church. I know 06:09 with COVID-19 not everyone gets to go to church in person, but 06:12 we know it's really important but... I don't have any more 06:16 room and for other things like helping people. I just don't 06:21 have time anymore. And even family worship; I'm just so busy 06:25 with my other things that I can't fit it all in. So this is 06:29 my problem that I need your hlep with. The problem is that I have 06:32 these big things that I know are important and I need to make 06:36 time for, but the problem is I have so many things that I'm 06:40 doing that I just don't have time for some of the really big 06:44 things. Can you help me? Ah I know what you're thinking. Some 06:48 of you are thinking, we need to do the big things first and then 06:52 see if the other little things can find their place. I think 06:57 you might to onto something. Let's see what happens if we 07:00 take care of all these little things, put them off to the side 07:02 for a minute and we start our day off reading the Bible. And 07:11 then praying, which is very, very important. Okay. So wow 07:16 those are fitting in so far but look at all these busy, these 07:20 other things I have to do. I don't know if it's going to work 07:22 So what about helping people. Is that important? Yeah, so 07:26 let's make sure we make time to help people. Maybe that's 07:30 helping mom or dad with the dishes. Then there's other 07:35 things like having family worship, which is a very 07:37 important thing and going to church. Even if you can't 07:41 actually go to church at least doing church online. If we do 07:46 all those things first and we've got time for those, so what 07:49 about all those other things that need to be done. You know 07:51 like brushing your teeth and doing the dishes and going to 07:57 school. I don't know what other things you like to do but I'm 08:00 sure you have lots of things to make your day very busy. Will 08:04 those things fit in? Let's see. You think we can fit in all 08:12 these other things too? Maybe they won't all fit. Are they 08:21 fitting? They are. See when we put the big things first, guess 08:30 what everything else fits in around it and I have time for 08:34 the most important things and all the little things that I 08:39 have to do. Thank you so much for helping me with my problem 08:42 today and I hope my problem, if you're having the same problem, 08:46 that you will learn to put Jesus first, put the big things 08:51 first in your life. Make sure you spend time with Jesus every 08:55 day and then all of the other things you have to do will fill 08:58 in the rest of your time. 09:00 ♪ ♪ 09:16 Hi everybody and welcome back for another adventure in the 09:20 Holy Bible with Miss Michelle. I'm so glad you're here. Now I 09:24 have a question for you. Has somebody in your life, maybe 09:27 like some older like grandma and grandpa, aunt or uncle or maybe 09:32 a great aunt or a great uncle given you something that's 09:34 really important to you. Well I know that a couple of things 09:38 that I have been given; here I'll show you. This was my 09:42 grandmother's baby blanket when she was a baby. Isn't that so 09:47 cool. It's really special to me because it was hers. Here's 09:52 another one. This one was my great grandfather's baton and 09:55 you may have seen me use this before to pretend like I was 09:57 directing a choir or a band. Right? Those are just a few 10:01 things that are really special. And when something's really 10:05 special we would be so disappointed if it got lost. 10:08 Right? Today's story talks about some things that got lost and if 10:13 you're anything like Miss Michelle you've experienced this 10:15 before so you'll be able to relate to this story. Let's not 10:19 get lost and not pray before we get started though. 10:22 Dear heavenly Father, thank you for loving us and for being here 10:25 with us today. Please bless our time together. Send your Holy 10:29 Spirit to be here with us and help us to find more about you 10:33 in this story. In your name we pray. Amen. 10:36 Today's story is called Finding What Was Lost. Oh, if I have 10:41 something that's lost especially like a piece to a puzzle or a 10:44 piece to a little play set that my son is playing with or maybe 10:47 a book that I really wanted to read or, the sky's the limit. 10:51 Right? It makes me so bothered until I can find it and today's 10:56 story will talk about that. The Pharisees didn't understand 11:01 Jesus. They just could not wrap their minds around Jesus. He 11:06 would hang out with sinners, he talked to them, he ate with them 11:09 he healed them. Uugh why would you do that? That just... they 11:15 couldn't comprehend it. It was unlike anything that they had 11:18 ever, ever thought was appropriate in the past. 11:21 Let's pick up the story in Luke 15, Matthew, Mark, Luke, we're 11:28 almost there, there we go. Luke 15 verse 1. All right. Luke 15 11:33 verse one says:... 11:34 Then all the tax collectors and the sinners drew near to him 11:37 to hear him. 11:39 They got it. Right? They understood way more than 11:42 the Pharisees and the teachers of that day did. 11:44 The Pharisees and scribes complained saying, 11:47 This man receives 11:49 sinners and eats with them. [Oh ah, goodness. So] He spoke this 11:55 parable to them saying: What man of you having a hundred 12:00 sheep, if he loses one of them will not leave the 99 in the 12:05 wilderness and go after the one who is lost until he finds it. 12:10 Picture this: It's a cold, dark night and we're just getting 12:15 home. You see, we're shepherds and as we get home our sheep are 12:20 walking into their fold. Now a fold is like a pen or a fenced 12:25 in area where they might sleep for the night. And as they pass 12:27 us and go through the gate we count them. Right? We want to 12:30 make sure that we didn't lose any and as we count, counting up 12:35 to a hundred... Can you guys do that? Probably a lot of you can. 12:38 Maybe some of you could even count up to a thousand. Boy that 12:41 would be an activity that would take awhile. Right? I'm sure 12:44 your parents wouldn't mind. A hundred. So he counted and 12:48 counted and he got up to 99 and he thought, oooh. Wait maybe 12:52 I missed one. Maybe one scurried around and through and I missed 12:56 it. So what do you do? You count again. When my husband and I do 13:01 our budget, and I'm even using a calculator, it's a lot of 13:04 numbers to add up, sometimes I get different numbers at the end 13:08 and I do best out of three usually so hopefully out of 13:11 three times I get the same number twice so I can assume 13:14 that that number is correct. Same thing for the shepherd. 13:18 And he counted again and he got 99 and he thought, okay, I'll 13:20 just check one more time. Maybe and nope 99. That cold dark 13:26 night you see the shepherd heading back out into the fields 13:29 back out into the mountain passes looking and looking and 13:34 looking, calling, searching. Probably had a candle or some 13:37 sort of light to try to find that lost sheep. Sure enough 13:41 pretty soon he hears the sheep, bleating, making a noise. Right? 13:46 And he hurries there. And does he scold the sheep and say, You 13:50 bad and naughty sheep. How dare you run away from me like that? 13:53 I'm going to get you. You come here. I'll give you a little 13:56 whupping with my shepherd's rod. No the shepherd, oop I gave it 14:01 away. Jesus represented by the shepherd in the story, he picked 14:05 up the sheep and said, Oh buddy, I'm so glad I found you. And he 14:09 checked the sheep over, checked the sheep's body to see if it 14:13 was hurt and put some salve or some ointment on the wounds and 14:17 picked up the sheep and put it over his shoulders and maybe 14:19 carried it like cradled it like a baby, I don't know, and 14:23 carried the sheep back home to the fold. Isn't that a beautiful 14:29 picture of how much Jesus loves us. Beautiful picture. And Jesus 14:34 trying to show that to the Pharisees and everyone who was 14:38 listening, to the Gentiles, to the Jews, to everyone. He's like 14:42 I love you this much. In fact, Jesus, like I already slipped 14:47 and told you, Jesus is represented by this good 14:50 shepherd. And Jesus from the very beginning, from before time 14:54 began, Jesus make the choice to come rescue us if we needed 14:59 rescuing. Sadly we made the choice that we did need rescuing 15:05 In fact, our lesson said and I thought this was really 15:07 interesting, out of millions of worlds that were created only 15:10 the earth, us, obeyed Satan and we're like lost sheep now. 15:17 Right? Because of that choice. Jesus the good shepherd, he 15:21 would have come down here for one person. If he knew, and he 15:26 knows the end from the beginning that in heaven only one person 15:30 would choose to be there with him, he still would have come 15:35 down and died for that one person. Wow! Now I'm having a 15:40 hard time even wrapping my mind around that and I feel like I'll 15:43 be studying that for all of eternity, how that love works. 15:49 That agape love of God. Just... I got nothing. Miss Michelle is 15:58 speechless and it takes a lot for me to be speechless. Right? 16:02 Wow! Thank you Jesus! We'd all be lost forever just like that 16:07 sheep would have been lost forever if we had not had Jesus 16:13 come. Wow! Forever, that's a long time. And instead we have 16:19 the forever promise of being with Jesus forever. Wow! Well a 16:27 lot of times in the Bible you'll notice that important things 16:30 are not just 16:32 said once and in fact they're not just said twice. A lot of 16:34 times they're said three or more times in the Bible. And maybe 16:37 your parents do the same thing with you. They may say, I need 16:41 your help with this, um I still need your help with this, I 16:45 could really use your help with this. And that's a big important 16:49 thing that's also in the Bible. The more times that something is 16:52 said the more important it is. So it's really interesting 16:56 because in Luke chapter 15 it actually goes over three stories 17:02 about being lost. The first one was about the sheep. Right? The 17:06 next one we're going to talk about this week and the one 17:10 after that we're going to talk about the following week. Okay. 17:13 So let's hop on into story number two about something else 17:18 that got lost. You see: 17:24 For what woman [it says in verse eight] having 10 silver coins if 17:27 she loses but one coin does not light a lamp, sweep the house 17:32 and try to look everywhere until she finds that coin. Right? 17:40 You might say, Oh it's just one silver coin. But in reading what 17:45 the lesson said and doing a little research online I found 17:47 that that one coin probably a wedding gift 17:52 that she had received 17:53 or a gift from someone much like the things that I have that are 17:56 special to me, were given to me. Oh if I lost any of them I'd be 18:00 so sad. And not only was it probably a special gift given 18:05 to her, ten silver coins, the coins were more than likely the 18:10 Greek coin which were called the drachmas, I'm not sure if I'm 18:13 saying that right because obviously I didn't live back 18:15 then, but each one was worth about a day's wages. So it was 18:19 kind of like her savings. She had 10 days of wages. That's 18:24 almost two weeks. Right? It is two work weeks. And those were 18:28 her savings and they were really special to her. Right? She 18:31 searched high and low. Now why would she need to light a lamp? 18:34 Well, you see back then homes often didn't have windows so 18:39 they were very dark inside and fact they might leave the door 18:42 open during the day to get light but during the evening hours and 18:44 when it was past sunset they'd have to light a lamp. And she 18:47 would search and search until she found her coin. Let's find 18:50 out what happens next. 18:52 And when she found it [phew, I like this story] she calls her 18:56 friends and neighbors together and says, Rejoice with me for I 18:59 have found the piece which I had lost. Likewise I say to you, 19:03 there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one 19:08 sinner who repents. 19:12 God loves sinners so much and he was trying to help the people 19:16 there realize that we're all sinners and he loves us all so 19:20 much. He will search high and low, near and far, east and west 19:25 north and south, all over, to find us and to bring us back to 19:29 him. There is no place that we can run that's too far away from 19:33 Jesus. He is always there the second we ask him. How powerful 19:39 is that? 19:40 There is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one 19:42 sinner who repents. Luke 15 verse 10. 19:46 Now before we wrap up today's story I'd just like to talk real 19:51 quick about repent. What does that mean because I think it's 19:54 important the words that we're memorizing and not just memorize 19:58 them. It's also important to realize what the words mean that 20:02 we say. And this is for me too. Sometimes we might say things 20:05 and they might mean something that we don't realize or that we 20:08 do realize and we shouldn't actually say them. Right? 20:11 So let's jump back to repent. It's important to know the 20:14 meaning of a word. What does it mean to repent? Hmm. To repent. 20:19 If I repent of my sin, what am I doing? Well I'm admitting that 20:24 my sin was wrong. It's an important thing because a lot 20:29 of times we like to make excuses So like when we feel guilty 20:34 about something, like the Holy Spirit's whispering in our ear, 20:37 like bad choice, that was a bummer. Ah, did you want to say 20:42 anything to God about that? We're like, well I didn't mean 20:45 to. Like I'm sure He gets it. It was just a mistake. Like I won't 20:49 do it again. This is like the first time that it's ever 20:51 happened so like mmm. No repentance, true repentance, is 20:56 that when we see what we did that was wrong repentance means 21:01 being truly sorry for that thing and what does that verse say. 21:06 It says when we have true repentance in our hearts there 21:09 is a party in heaven. The angels just throw a big party and 21:14 that's just for one person. And their so excited to see us 21:18 making positive choices. Isn't that crazy that making a good 21:22 choice like asking God to forgive your sins because you're 21:25 truly sorry for them can cause a party in heaven. But more 21:30 importantly it will cause a change of heart in us. And that 21:33 process will begin and it will change our lives. Jesus wants to 21:37 do that for us. He wants to take us lost sinners and have us find 21:41 the merciful Savior, the Messiah who loves us so much, who cannot 21:47 wait to come down in that cloud and pick us up and head to 21:51 heaven. I can't wait for that day either. And I'm excited for 21:54 next time when we talked about something else that was lost. 21:57 In fact, the title of the lesson says that two things were lost. 22:01 So that makes me curious. In fact, I might just read ahead. 22:05 So, I'm just going to read now. I hope that you guys have a 22:08 great rest of your day. And thank you so much for coming 22:10 along on this Bible adventure with me. We'll see you next time 22:14 ♪ ♪ 22:28 Thank you Miss Michelle for that Bible story. It's time now for 22:32 our questions and to review the questions from last week. So 22:36 let's see if you got those questions right. 22:39 ♪ ♪ 22:55 Are we ready for our new questions? Well here they are. 22:59 Question #1: What two things were lost in our story today? 23:06 What two things were lost in our story today? 23:10 Question #2: When those two things were found what did the 23:21 shepherd and the woman do? What did they do when they found the 23:26 things that were lost? 23:28 Question #3: What happens in heaven when one sinner repents? 23:38 What happens in heaven when one sinner repents? 23:41 You can send your answer to us at answers@startingwithjesus.com 23:48 and we love to see how you're participating in Sabbath School 23:52 and how you are listening and learning about Jesus's love. 23:58 ♪ ♪ 24:09 It's time now for our memory verse. And I kind of gave you a 24:13 hint in our last question what it is. Let's say it together. 24:18 Luke 15 verse 10: There is joy in the presence of the angels 24:25 of God over one sinner who repents. 24:30 ♪ ♪ 24:44 Hello boys and girls. How's it going. (Pastor Joe) We're going 24:47 to share a story with you. Do you want a story Hudson? Yeah. 24:50 Yeah. Well when daddy was a little boy I loved to go 24:55 sledding. And when it would get in the middle of the winter we 25:00 would get together with all of our friends and we'd go up the 25:04 hill and zoooom really fast. 25:07 Fast as we could down the hill. One day we were out sledding on 25:13 the driveway and it was going down, down the hill. We were 25:17 going as fast as we could and we decided that we were going to 25:22 race down the hill one more time before the end of the day. So we 25:28 all lined up at the top, we got our sleds and we counted one, 25:33 two, three, goooo! And we all shooo right down that hill and 25:41 daddy got down on his belly in the front of the sled and I was 25:47 going fast as I could and I was trying to pass everybody else. 25:51 But it wasn't working because my friend Christina passed me and I 25:59 thought Oh No. When we got to the bottom of the hill the road 26:04 flattened out there and just as it was starting to flatten out 26:08 my sled was starting to slow down and we were on a road and I 26:13 heard an engine behind me and I turned, started to turn around 26:15 to look to see what the noise of this engine was and then 26:19 something distracted me and I looked ahead again and then boom 26:24 ♪ ♪ 26:29 We have some exciting things happening at Starting With Jesus 26:32 We also want to involve you in our program. And one of the ways 26:36 that we like to involve you is in our intro. 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We have 27:28 just a ton of different things that are going to be happening. 27:30 We know you do not want to miss these things. Let's have a 27:35 prayer to close out our Sabbath School. 27:38 Our Father in heaven, thank you so much that you love us. Thank 27:44 you that you search for us. Thank you that you want us so 27:49 much that you will do anything to find us. Lord, I pray that 27:54 you will help us to give our hearts to you. Help us to 28:00 surrender and say Jesus come into my heart so that there can 28:04 be rejoicing and a big party in heaven. We love you, Lord, we 28:08 thank you that you love us and we pray this in your name, in 28:12 Jesus' name, Amen. 28:15 Thank you for watching. Have a blessed week and keep in touch. 28:19 ♪ ♪ |
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