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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 ♪ ♪ 00:30 Hello boys and girls. (Miss Ruthie) Welcome to Starting With 00:33 Jesus. We have a really exciting program for you today. 00:36 And you won't want to miss it, especially our Bible story with 00:41 Miss Michelle which is, and I know I've said this before about 00:44 many stories, but this is really one of my favorite stories 00:47 because it's so hopeful. It's a story about Jesus raising 00:54 somebody from the dead. And you won't want to miss that story. 00:57 We also have an exciting story time and at the very end of our 01:02 program so you won't want to miss that. Now let's get started 01:05 with some singing. 01:07 ♪ ♪ 01:57 ♪ ♪ 02:55 ♪ ♪ 03:38 ♪ ♪ 03:43 Hello boys and girls. My name is Mr. Rob and I am here with my 03:47 wife, Mrs. B, Hello, and we're going to share a little bit 03:51 about our mission house in the Amazon rain forest. Here it is 03:56 as you can see a little house here around a lot of trees and 04:00 right the river. It is a beautiful place to be and every 04:05 time I'm not there that is where I want to be. What I like about 04:10 it is all the nature around the mission house. Here we have a 04:14 little alligator that someone brought by. The same day 04:17 someone brought by this little baby porcupine and all the 04:22 parrots, birds and flowers. There's so many things in God's 04:29 nature all around the house. And it is just a beautiful place 04:34 Along with the beautiful place are many beautiful people. 04:38 Here is the group that went with us this last trip. 04:43 In the mornings, 04:45 we would have worship and some of the young people from the 04:50 community would come by and join us for worship, hear stories 04:54 about Jesus and pray with us to start our day. One of the things 05:00 we did when we were down there is we had a wedding. Right? 05:03 Yes we had a wedding, we helped to prepare for the food, for 05:09 decoration. It was fun. We used lots of our elements from nature 05:16 our flowers. See all the flowers and trees. So it was a lot of 05:22 fun. Then we fed everyone and everyone from the village were 05:29 invited. It was a lot of fun. People enjoyed, the kids enjoyed 05:33 everyone had a good time. 05:36 We know that Jesus likes weddings because one of his 05:38 first miracles was at a wedding. That's wonderful. Also while we 05:46 had an evangelistic series and our pastor from here came down, 05:50 Pastor Dennis, and he shared his story about being freed from 05:56 alcohol and smoking and drugs. These are things that they deal 06:00 with down there as well. So they were drawn to his story. They 06:04 wanted to know more and they wanted to know how they could 06:08 get free from these addictions through stories from the Bible. 06:14 Also, we gave out food baskets with the help of our local 06:20 church and friends for Christmas We have been doing this as a 06:25 tradition. This is the third year. So it's a lot of fun. The 06:30 kids help to put together all the items in the baskets. 06:39 During the meetings we give them out. They were already expecting 06:47 It was Christmas day so they took it home and they could 06:51 even enjoy some of the items for a Christmas party, for Christmas 06:58 day, yes. 06:59 While we were down there we had a few people that were ready for 07:03 baptism. So we wanted to have another celebration for that 07:07 like the wedding. We blew up balloons. We went down and 07:11 decorated the river very nicely but then right before the 07:17 baptism started, we're in the rain forest, it started to rain. 07:22 But that didn't discourage us at all. We got down in the river 07:27 and we had those baptisms, those celebrations and all was good. 07:34 Also we enjoy connecting with the young people. Beatrice 07:40 cooking with them. Pastor Dennis telling stories with them, 07:44 eating with them, visiting in their homes. These are all the 07:49 things we would do to connect with people down there. One of 07:53 the things we did we would pray with them. And so to close out 07:56 this little mission segment I would like to now pray with you. 08:00 Dear heavenly Father, we just thank you for this day. We thank 08:04 you for all the young people watching this program. We ask 08:09 you to impress on our hearts what we should do to use our 08:14 talents to better serve you and to share you with others and to 08:19 possibly even go on a mission trip some day. We pray these 08:22 things in Jesus' name, Amen. 08:24 ♪ ♪ 08:30 Hey everybody, we're going back to Bethany today (Miss Michelle) 08:33 That's right, we're going back to a place that we visited 08:36 before and just like any trip let's ask Jesus to go with us. 08:41 Dear heavenly Father, we thank you and praise you for being 08:44 with us always. Please send your Holy Spirit to give us a crisp 08:47 clear picture of your love from this story today. In your name 08:51 we pray, Amen. 08:53 Do you remember who lived in Bethany? Hmm. It's about two 08:57 miles from Jerusalem and three of Jesus's closest friends live 09:01 there. Do you remember who they were? That's right. Mary, Martha 09:06 and Lazarus. These three friends were very close to Jesus. 09:12 You see they believed in Jesus and when he was with them he 09:16 didn't have to convince them that he was the Savior, the 09:18 Messiah, the Son of God. They believed he was. He didn't have 09:22 to tell them stories and try to explain things to them. He could 09:26 just relax and be himself. Sadly in this story one of his friends 09:33 falls ill or sick. Do you remember who it was? 09:36 Lazarus. Lazarus became very sick. Jesus was not in Bethany 09:41 at this point. But right away the sisters sent a message to 09:46 Jesus about their brother, Lazarus. This story is in the 09:50 gospel book of John; Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, the fourth 09:58 gospel. It's in John chapter 11 verse 3. John 11 verse 3. And if 10:07 you don't follow along now you can write down the reference and 10:09 read it with your family again later. John 11 verse 3 says: 10:14 Therefore the sisters sent to Him [capital Him, that would be 10:19 Jesus] saying Lord, behold the one who you love is sick. 10:23 The message probably took about a day or so to reach Jesus, 10:28 and Jesus's response came back. 10:30 When Jesus heard that he said, This sickness 10:33 is not unto death, but for the glory of God that the Son of God 10:37 may be glorified through it. 10:39 We know sometimes bad things happen and good things can come 10:43 of it. So when that message went back, the sisters thought, Oh, 10:46 well maybe he's not going to die and he's going to become 10:49 miraculously well. But sadly that's not what happened. 10:53 Verse 5 says: Now loved Mary and her sister and Lazarus, so when 10:59 he heard that Lazarus was sick he stayed two more days in the 11:02 place where he was. Now that doesn't make sense and his 11:05 disciples were quite confused as well. Why didn't he quickly 11:11 go up and put his sandals on and start hiking down the road to 11:13 Bethany to help his friend who he loved? Why didn't he do that? 11:17 They were so confused. 11:24 Then after he said to his disciples let us go to Judea 11:27 again. The disciples said to Him, Rabbi, lately the Jews 11:30 sought to stone you [they wanted to hurt you] and are you going 11:33 there again? Jesus answered, Are there not 12 hours in the day? 11:38 If anyone walks in the day he does not stumble because he sees 11:42 the light of this world, but if one walks in the night he 11:47 stumbles because the light is not in him. These things he said 11:51 and after that he said to them, Our friend Lazarus sleeps but 11:55 I go that I will wake him up. 11:56 Now when people are sick it's important to sleep. Right? 12:00 To rest, to let your body fight off that whatever is making you 12:05 sick; a virus or a bacteria, who knows, right? So his disciples 12:10 thought, oh, this is a good thing. Jesus is going to say 12:12 wake up, you're okay now. You've slept it off. Right? But this is 12:17 not what happened. 12:18 Then his disciples said, Lord if he sleeps he'll get well 12:21 [that's great] 12:23 However, Jesus spoke of his death but they thought he was speaking 12:26 about Lazarus taking rest in sleep. Then Jesus said to them 12:30 plainly, Lazarus is dead, and I am glad for your sakes that I 12:37 was not there that you may believe. Nevertheless, let us go 12:40 to him. 12:41 He was glad that he was dead?! This made absolutely no sense at 12:45 all. Jesus was surely acting strangely, thought his disciples 12:50 And so they did, they went back to Bethany. 12:56 And there they sent a message to Mary and Martha, but [it says 13:03 here in verse 17] So when Jesus came he found that he had 13:07 already been in the tomb for four days. 13:09 Lazarus had already been dead and in the tomb, like buried, 13:13 for four days. 13:15 Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, about two miles away, and many 13:18 of the Jews had joined the women around Martha and Mary to 13:20 comfort them concerning their brother. And now Martha, as soon 13:25 as she heard that Jesus was coming, went and met Him. 13:29 And Mary must not have heard because she didn't go right away 13:32 But Mary was sitting in the house. 13:33 Now Martha said to Jesus, 13:36 Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died. 13:40 You can imagine the pain in her voice as she said that to Jesus. 13:43 Yet she believed in Him still. And she showed that by what she 13:47 said next. 13:50 But even now I know that whatever you ask of God, God 13:54 will give it to you. Jesus said to her. Your brother will rise 13:59 again. Martha said to him, I know that he will arise again in 14:03 the resurrection at the last day Jesus said to her, I am the 14:07 resurrection and the life. He who believes in me though he may 14:11 die shall live. 14:13 What great news that is! Right? 14:15 And whoever lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you 14:18 believe this, he asked Martha. She said, Oh yes, Lord, I 14:22 believe that you are the Christ the Son of God who has come into 14:25 the world. And when she had said these things she went her way 14:29 and secretly called Mary her sister saying [Hey come on] the 14:33 teacher has come and is calling for you. As soon as she heard 14:38 that she arose quickly and came to him. Now Jesus had not yet 14:42 come into town but was in the place where Martha met him. 14:45 But when the Jews saw Mary heading out they thought, Oh 14:49 she must be going to the tomb to mourn some more. Let's go with 14:54 her and support her. 14:56 Then when Mary came to Jesus and saw him she too fell down at his 15:01 feet saying Lord if you had only been here my brother would not 15:04 have died. 15:05 When bad things happen in our life it's really hard to make 15:08 sense of them isn't it. 15:09 Therefore, when Jesus saw her weeping and the Jews who came 15:12 with her weeping, he groaned in spirit and was troubled. 15:15 Jesus was sad too. Well didn't he know that something great was 15:19 going to happen. Of course, he knew because he was the One who 15:22 was going to ask God for that to happen. 15:24 And then He said, Where have you laid him. And they said to Him, 15:28 Come and see Lord. [And] Jesus wept. 15:31 Right there, John chapter 11 verse 35 is the shortest verse 15:36 in the Bible. And it says, Jesus wept. Why would Jesus weep 15:41 though when he knew the end of this story? We don't 15:45 even know it yet. 15:46 Or you may have heard it before. But Jesus wept. You see Jesus 15:50 saw right there in that moment all the pain throughout history 15:54 all the way from Cain killing Abel all the way to the end when 15:59 the people who choose not to follow Jesus will be destroyed. 16:02 And he wept to think of all that heartache that had gone on and 16:09 he wept because his friends were sad. When your friends are sad 16:12 we're sad too aren't we? Now let's continue though because 16:15 we're getting to the great part of the story. 16:17 The Jews said, [Oh] See how he loved him. And some of them said 16:22 Could not this man who opened the eyes of the blind also kept 16:25 this man from dying. 16:26 Like why did he let him die? This makes no sense. Lazarus had 16:32 been in the tomb how many days? Four days. A tomb back then 16:38 where they would bury people was often like a cave with a 16:40 rock rolled in front of the cave. And you can imagine that 16:45 after four days of not being alive they were concerned with 16:50 Jesus next request. 16:51 Jesus said, Take away the stone. And Martha the sister of him who 16:56 was dead said to him, Lord by this time there is a stench 16:59 [a stink] for he has been dead for four days. But Jesus said to 17:03 her [We're now on verse 40] Did I not say to you that if you 17:08 would believe you would see the glory of God. Then they took 17:13 away the stone from the place where the dead man was lying and 17:16 Jesus lifted up his eyes and said, Father I thank you that 17:20 You have heard Me and I know that you always hear Me but 17:24 because of the people who are standing by me I said this that 17:28 they may believe that you sent Me. Now when he had said these 17:32 things he cried out with a loud voice, Lazarus come forth. 17:37 And sure enough Lazarus came forth! Now back then they used 17:43 to prepare the body for burial and we do that today too but 17:47 the families generally don't do it, you would go to a funeral 17:49 home and they would do it. But back then they used to wrap the 17:52 body in cloth. Now the only thing I had was toilet paper 17:55 but they would wrap the body in cloth and in that way honor 18:00 the body and embalm that person. They would put special herbs and 18:06 things and the whole body from head to toe will be wrapped that 18:09 way. Right? You may have seen pictures of this in the past. 18:11 But can you imagine having to walk when you're all wrapped up 18:17 cloth. Maybe you could practice with a blanket or something like 18:21 that. Don't want to waste good toilet paper. Right? But it's 18:25 hard to walk, right, when you're all wrapped up tightly. 18:27 But pretty soon out of the tomb came Lazarus waddling out, right 18:34 trying to get free from the grave cloths, but he was alive! 18:38 Wow! I can't believe it. 18:42 And he who had died came out bound hand and foot with grave 18:45 clothes and his face was wrapped with a cloth. 18:48 So he came out 18:49 and hopefully he didn't bump into anything. His whole face 18:51 was even covered. 18:53 Jesus said (the logical thing, of course) Loose him 18:56 and let him go. 18:58 So they did. You can imagine Mary and Martha racing to their 19:02 brother and unwrapping him and I can also imagine the biggest 19:06 family hug of all history. I can just see it now. Oh wow! This is 19:12 so exciting. Most rejoiced at this wonderful thing that had 19:16 happened. They couldn't believe it and through Lazarus' death 19:20 and resurrection before the second coming resurrection many 19:25 people believed in Jesus. But there were others who saw this 19:30 and were even more angry and hateful and thought hurtful 19:34 things of Jesus than ever before In fact, they went to tattle on 19:38 him to the Pharisees and shared what he had done. Some people 19:41 even said that he had done it by the power of Satan. But would 19:44 Satan want something good like that to happen? Hmm. I don't 19:47 think so. But while this was happening, while all the 19:51 happiness was happening and a few spiteful people who ran away 19:54 tell, Jesus quietly slipped away because now was not his time. 20:00 Right? Now was not his time. Wow! What an amazing story. 20:04 This story makes me think, can't help but think, of the second 20:08 coming and that resurrection story, when all who are in their 20:12 graves will hear His voice and come forth. John 5 verses 20:16 28 and 29. This verse means so much to me because I can't wait 20:20 for that day. Maybe you've lost loved ones before. I've lost 20:24 grandpas and grandmas, I've lost aunties and uncles and it's hard 20:32 isn't it. I've lost friends who have passed away. Passed away 20:36 means died. Right? And I can't wait until that day when we look 20:40 In fact, I kind of want to be in a cemetery. I know it's kind of 20:43 weird, but here's why. I would really like to be in a cemetery 20:46 This is, you can't see probably very well, but this is my 20:49 grandpa standing beside where my grandma is buried, and now he's 20:51 buried there too. And it's so sad. But the happy part was if 20:55 I'm in a cemetery when Jesus comes all of a sudden it'll be 20:58 boing, boing, boing, boing, and we'll see everybody coming up 21:01 out of the grave, who have chosen to be on God's team. 21:05 How exciting that will be. And I really would like to be where my 21:09 family is that day so I can be the first one to give them a hug 21:12 and tell them it's time to go home, to our heavenly home. 21:17 Can't wait for that day. I want to meet you there and I can't 21:21 wait to see Jesus too. Thank you guys for listening and we'll see 21:26 you again next time. 21:28 ♪ ♪ 21:37 Have you heard of Seed Pod Beginners. It's a seven to nine 21:41 minute podcast just for kids ages zero to five years old. 21:45 It can be used for family worship or your child's special 21:49 daily devotional time with Jesus Each week has two programs that 21:54 focus on a major Bible story using _, nature lesson 22:00 memory verse, Bible story, prayer time, coloring pages 22:07 and more to reinforce the Bible story and character lessons. 22:11 And I know that you will enjoy listening to these programs 22:16 and will learn so much about God's word. So to find out more 22:21 information go to startingwithjesus.com/seedpod 22:27 ♪ ♪ 22:33 Thank you Miss Michelle for that Bible story. I am so glad that 22:36 Jesus is coming soon and that one day all of our friends and 22:42 all of our family we don't have with us anymore, we'll be able 22:46 to see them again when Jesus comes. That makes me really, 22:49 really excited. Now I think we have some answers from last week 22:55 so let's see what the questions were and the answers were from 22:58 last week and see if you got them right. 23:01 ♪ ♪ 23:18 It's time now for our new questions. Are you ready? 23:20 Question #1: 23:30 Question #2: 23:41 And question #3: Do you think that Jesus cares when we're sad? 23:47 There is a song that talks about this. It says, Does Jesus care 23:52 when my heart is pained too deeply for mirth or song. And 23:58 the chorus answers that question So I want you to go look it up. 24:02 The song is called, Does Jesus Care and the Chorus answers that 24:08 question. You can send your answers to us at: 24:10 answers@startingwithjesus.com We love to see how you're 24:14 participating and we love to see your answers so you can send 24:17 them to us at: answers@startingwithjesus.com 24:21 ♪ ♪ 24:32 It's time now for our memory verse. Let's say it together. 24:35 John 5 verses 28 and 29: All who are in the grave will hear his 24:42 voice and come forth. 24:44 ♪ ♪ 24:58 In the summer of 2003 I [Uncle Vince] was knocking on doors 25:02 in Missouri. As I was knocking on doors I come around this 25:08 hedge. I cannot see past it and so I come around the hedge and 25:13 I turn around heading to the house. About to knock on the 25:18 door and I see two dogs sitting right in front of the front door 25:24 I see them, they see me. And I think to myself, Not good. 25:30 Immediately they get up. They start chasing and running toward 25:35 my direction. I knew in that moment I could not outrun the 25:41 dogs. I was tired, they run faster than I do. So I thought 25:47 to myself well God, You can shut the mouths of these dogs and 25:54 immediately I thought that those two dogs right at the same time 25:59 stopped in their tracks, turned around, went back and sat down 26:03 where they were before I knocked or I came around the hedge. 26:08 I remember thinking to myself, Wow! God answers prayers. 26:15 So remember whenever you find yourself in a situation where it 26:19 might seem overwhelming remember the story of Daniel in the lions 26:23 den or how God answers prayers or how God sends angels to take 26:28 care of you because he is still answering those prayers. 26:32 Thank you so much for joining us today. I am so glad that you 26:37 were here to learn more about Jesus. Now we have a lot more 26:42 things that we're going to be doing this year and we want to 26:45 make sure that you keep in touch with us. So you can sign up to 26:50 our newsletter at startingwithjesus.com 26:53 and there's a popup that will say sign up here. You can also 26:57 make sure to send in your answers to us at: 27:00 answers@startingwithjesus.com and your memory verse videos 27:03 to our memory verse email at videos@startingwithjesus.com 27:08 We love to see your participation and we love to 27:12 include you in our program. Don't forget to send in your 27:15 pictures for our intro and you can find more information for 27:20 that at: startingwithjesus.com/intro 27:24 And one last thing that we really don't want you to miss 27:28 out on is our weekly podcast that goes throughout the week. 27:33 We want to make sure that you're spending that special time with 27:36 Jesus every single morning. You can find that podcast at: 27:41 startingwithjesus.com/seedpod. 27:44 That's startingwithjesus.com/seedpod 27:48 We know that you will enjoy it and have that special time with 27:51 Jesus every single morning. Let's pray. 27:54 Our Father in heaven, thank you so much that you love us. Thank 27:57 you so much that you are coming again. Thank you for the story 28:03 that reminds us that you are powerful and that you can do 28:08 anything and we pray that you will help us to remember that 28:11 throughout our lives. We love you. In Jesus' name, Amen. 28:14 Thank you for joining us. Have a blessed week and keep in touch. 28:18 ♪ ♪ |
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