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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 (Miss Ruthie) Hello boys and girls, Welcome to Starting With 00:33 Jesus. I am so glad you're here with us today and I hope that 00:37 you're starting everything you do with Jesus. This week our 00:43 Bible story is about something that smells really good. So 00:48 you'll have to listen to that to find out what that was. And 00:53 don't forget that you can down load and color this week's 00:56 coloring page while you're listening to Miss Michelle's 00:59 Bible story. So go to startingwithjesus.com/color 01:04 and down load this week's coloring picture. But before we 01:08 get to any of that let's get to some singing. 01:10 ♪ ♪ 01:50 ♪ ♪ 03:04 ♪ ♪ 04:36 ♪ ♪ 04:41 (Miss Kate) Hey guys, I'm at my friend Lena's house and she is a 04:44 sheep herder. That's what she does for a living. I want to 04:47 share with you some things that I've been learning about sheep. 04:50 (Sheep bells sounding) What struck me was how curious the 05:02 sheep and the goats are. They're very scared of me but once they 05:06 got what they considered was a safe distance away, they would 05:10 just stand there and stare at me They don't put the bells on all 05:14 the sheep, just the few sheep that are more independent, the 05:18 ones who tend to wander off easier. Baby sheep can stand 05:25 within minutes of being born. Sheep like to stick together in 05:29 a herd. There is safety in numbers. That's where their 05:33 protection is. By the time they're six months old they're 05:38 just about full grown and they're not as cute. It was so 05:44 relaxing and peaceful to be out in the forest, to hear the 05:48 clinking of their bells and the sound of the wind. 05:51 ♪ ♪ (sheep bells sounding) 06:11 Hi boys and girls. I'm glad that you got to join me as we went 06:13 with my friend and out to see her sheep and went sheep 06:16 herding with her. I was really surprised because her sheep move 06:21 really, really fast. Basically they go really fast until they 06:26 find some grass and then they stop and they eat grass. You 06:29 know what else they like to eat, which I didn't know before. They 06:33 like to eat the snow. They love the snow and they eat the snow 06:38 which is pretty funny too. It's very, very important that sheep 06:42 have a shepherd to go with them because the shepherd helps to 06:46 keep them safe. And when it's time to turn around and go home 06:49 at night back to the safety of their pen, the shepherd has to 06:52 be the one to make sure that the sheep turn around and go in the 06:56 direction that they're supposed to and head towards home. 06:59 I think my favorite goat was the little baby. Did you get 07:02 to see it? 07:03 The little baby was so adorable and it would follow its mom 07:07 around and it was really curious And you know what, when they fed 07:10 the sheep in the morning their little baby goat would jump into 07:15 the feed trough and would stand in the feed trough and 07:18 eat while the 07:19 others just put their heads in. It was really funny to see. 07:23 There are so many placed in the Bible where Jesus talks about 07:28 sheep and calls us sheep. And what does he call Himself? 07:32 Do you know? He calls himself the good shepherd. Jesus is our 07:37 good shepherd. He takes care of us. He watches the sheep, he 07:41 walks along beside them. When they get hurt he's right there 07:45 to help them. When they are going really fast because they 07:50 want to get to the next part of the green grass, he's right 07:53 there with them walking along beside them. Jesus never forces 07:57 us. He doesn't tell us that we have to follow Him. He invites 08:01 us. He gives us the opportunity. And I know today, I want to 08:05 follow Jesus. How about you? It's really exciting for me to 08:10 be able to be here and to watch the sheep and learn more about 08:15 them. I hope that I get to see you next time when we explore 08:21 God's nature and His creation together. We'll see you later, 08:25 Bye bye. 08:26 ♪ ♪ 08:49 (Miss Michelle) Today we're going to be talking about a 08:51 story that Jesus said would be repeated all throughout history. 08:56 This story, the woman in this story, was an example for all of 09:02 us. Who could that be? Hmm. Let's pray and find out. 09:06 Dear heavenly Father, we praise you and thank you for loving us, 09:10 for sending your Son, the ultimate sacrifice for our sins. 09:14 Please come into our hearts today Lord. Fill us with your 09:18 Spirit and be with us a we learn about this important story in 09:22 your scriptures. In your name we pray, Amen. 09:25 Let's do a little history lesson real quick. Look out. Miss 09:29 Michelle is a teacher so yep, I do like to do some teaching 09:31 sometimes. Now we know that since the beginning of time, 09:35 since Jesus created Adam and Eve and sin happened the sacrificial 09:40 system started. And those are two big words. Right? It means 09:43 that Adam and Eve brought a lamb and sacrificed it or killed it 09:47 and this lamb represented Jesus, the Lamb of God who would take 09:51 away the sin of the world. Sounds gross and really sad, 09:54 doesn't it? It is. But let's think about it. The sacrifice 09:58 that Jesus had to make for us was really sad and what he had 10:01 to go through was excruciatingly painful. Now let's fast forward. 10:06 The Jews were in Egypt and a big event happened where God led 10:11 them out of Egypt. We call that the Passover. And that was 10:14 another thing that pointed to Jesus. You see, the Jews, 10:18 or the Israelites who were in Egypt, it was the last plague. 10:24 Do you remember this? It was going to be death of the first 10:28 born. And if they painted blood on their door post that 10:31 represented Jesus's blood covering them, once again 10:34 pointing to Jesus and if there was blood on the door post their 10:37 first born son didn't die. The Passover was celebrated over 10:42 time and little did the people in Jesus' time know that the 10:46 most important Passover was coming up in just a few days. 10:50 Jesus knew that the lamb that would be sacrificed in just a 10:54 few days was Him, the true lamb of God. The priests were already 11:00 plotting His death. How lonely Jesus must have felt to know 11:04 this and yet to tell even His disciples and His followers this 11:09 and feel like no one was listening. They wanted an 11:11 earthly kingdom, they wanted an earthly king, they wanted 11:14 freedom from the Romans and when Jesus would tell them the truth 11:17 it just went right over their heads, in one ear, out the other 11:21 And the Passover was coming up so soon, Jesus' death was coming 11:26 so soon. Six days away was the Passover and Jesus was on his 11:29 way to Jerusalem. But, of course He had to stop at Bethany. Do 11:33 you remember who lived at Bethany? If you said Lazarus, 11:37 Mary and Martha, you were right. Three of his dearest friends. 11:43 It was at Bethany that Lazarus was raised from the dead. There 11:47 was another resident or person who lived in Bethany who also 11:50 owed Jesus a debt of gratitude and his name was Simon. He was a 11:56 Pharisee and he had been healed by Jesus of leprosy, that 12:01 horrible skin condition that would lead to your death 12:05 eventually. Simon was a disciple of Jesus but he wasn't fully 12:08 committed. He still hadn't changed how he thought to how 12:12 Jesus thinks and he still thought he was a pretty good 12:15 person. You know, except for the leprosy bit and maybe a couple 12:18 of little things that he'd done. But he had many desperately evil 12:22 secret sins and he was holding onto those things and still on 12:28 the outside looked like he was a really good guy but in his 12:31 heart he had some very wicked things there. He thought, to pay 12:37 Jesus back, to make it right for what He had done for Simon, 12:42 he would have a big party, a big feast for Jesus and why a party 12:46 would pay someone back for healing you from a desperately 12:49 horrible disease is beyond me, but in his mind, Simon thought 12:52 that this would help, I don't know, make up for that or pay 12:56 Jesus for that. And Lazarus was invited and Mary was there and 13:01 Martha was there. She was in charge of the food. Surprise, 13:03 surprise. Many people were in Bethany at this time because 13:06 one, they were headed to Passover and two, they wanted 13:09 to see Jesus. They also kind of wanted to see Lazarus too, you 13:12 see, they knew he had been dead for four days and they wanted to 13:15 know what it was like to be dead Now we know because it says in 13:18 Ecclesiastes 9 verses 5 and 6: For the living know that they 13:23 will die, but the dead know nothing and they will have no 13:26 more reward for the memory of them is forgotten. Also their 13:30 love, their hatred and their envy is now perished. Nevermore 13:33 will they have a share in anything done under the sun. 13:36 We know that once you die, you don't know anything. In fact, 13:40 when Lazarus died he didn't know anything. Nothing was going on 13:45 his brain, his soul didn't leave his body and go up to heaven. 13:48 He stayed in the grave and was sleeping until Jesus woke him up 13:51 four days later. The same thing happens when our loved ones die. 13:55 It's so sad for us but for them it's a nap till Jesus comes and 14:01 the next thing that they know Jesus will be coming in the 14:04 clouds of glory. Isn't that amazing? I'm so glad that we 14:08 have that hope for our relatives Isn't that great? Now they 14:14 wanted to know what it was like to be dead and Lazarus would 14:16 have said, Well I don't know. I didn't know what was happening. 14:19 I just woke up and Jesus was there. But it is Jesus and He is 14:22 the one who raised me from the dead and He is the Son of God. 14:25 So he did witness to people in that way. Now back to the feast. 14:28 The guests came in and they lay on these couches, they were 14:32 around these really low tables. I don't know if you've ever been 14:34 to a restaurant before that has a low table that you sit on the 14:38 floor. Their feet were faced away from the table and they 14:40 were just kind of lounging there and eating. It was odd though 14:44 because no one was sent to wash Jesus' feet which was a custom 14:47 at those times. We'll talk about that more in the future but it 14:51 was kind of odd that that didn't happen. But the food was great, 14:53 of course; Martha was in charge. And they were all enjoying that 14:58 together. And that's when Mary came in. Jesus had done so much 15:02 for Mary. He had scared away demons out of her multiple times 15:07 He had loved her even though she lived in sin and had made some 15:11 really horrible choices. He had raised her brother from the dead 15:16 and she was so thankful and she truly had a repentant heart. She 15:21 knew she was a sinner and she knew that she needed Jesus. 15:24 She had been listening, you see, to what Jesus was talking about. 15:29 Jesus had told his disciples and she had been there too that he 15:33 would die soon. They kind of just didn't believe him. They 15:37 kind of were like okay, yeah, yeah, mm-hmm, we all die, mm-hmm 15:40 But she was listening. She also heard people talking about how 15:44 he was going to become king soon because they wanted him to be 15:49 king soon and be the earthly kingdom and defeat the Romans. 15:51 Right? In John is where we find the part of the story that we're 15:56 going to read, but it's very interesting to learn that all 15:58 four gospels also have this story. John 12 verse 3:... 16:02 Then Mary took a pound of very costly oil of spikenard and 16:07 anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped his feet with her hair. 16:11 And the house was filled with the fragrance of the oil. Maybe 16:17 your dad has some cologne or your mom has some perfume or 16:20 your grandma or papa but I have this perfume. This is special 16:23 perfume because my husband got it for me way back when we were 16:27 dating so it's very old perfume. And I only wear it once in a 16:30 while for special occasions. But the perfume that they had back 16:35 then was a little different than the perfume that we have today. 16:37 You see this spikenard was very expensive and you can buy some 16:42 very expensive perfumes today. Right? This spikenard that she 16:46 had bought actually took a whole years' worth of her wages to 16:49 buy this. Like she worked a whole year to get this much 16:53 money. She had heard Jesus talk about His death and she wanted 16:56 to use that to put on His body after He died but then she got 17:01 to thinking about it and we need to think about this too. Should 17:03 we thank people and tell them how much they mean to us after 17:07 they die or while their still alive? She wanted to be the 17:10 first one to celebrate Him as king and so she put the perfume 17:16 on Jesus. Now today if you just spray it, a little bit will come 17:20 out. Right? But back then they had perfumes a little different 17:24 and they would actually break it now I'm not going to break this 17:26 but they would break it and you couldn't use it again. So it was 17:30 like a one-time deal. So she did she broke it. Matthew and Mark 17:34 say that she anointed Jesus' head with it and Luke and John 17:37 say that she put it on Jesus' feet. Now does it really matter? 17:41 No. The important part was she was anointing Him and showing 17:44 Him that she believed Him and that she was celebrating Him 17:48 and thanking Him. At first no one noticed but you know how 17:50 perfume is. I just sprayed one little spurt of this perfume and 17:53 the whole room is starting to smell like Miss Michelle. Right? 17:56 Now the same thing happened there. (coughs) I just had a big 18:01 whiff of it too. It's a good smell, just don't inhale it. 18:03 Right? Pretty soon everybody stopped because they smelled it 18:08 and they knew that this was some very costly perfume. No one said 18:14 anything until Judas spoke up and sadly he didn't have nice 18:18 things to say. John 12 verses 4-6:... 18:22 But one of His disciples, Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, who would 18:26 betray Him said, Why is this fragrant oil not sold for 300 18:29 denarii and given to the poor? This he said, not that he cared 18:33 for the poor but because he was a thief and had the money box 18:37 and he used to take what was put in it. So he was like the 18:42 treasurer of the group and he would take money instead of 18:46 giving it to the poor. So he thought that would have been 18:48 great money for him. Right? Wow! How selfish. And Mary was just 18:52 crushed. She felt terrible. She wanted it to be a secret but she 18:56 had forgotten about how the smell would fill the whole room. 18:58 How embarrassing. Jesus looked right at Judas and Judas 19:05 realized the Jesus knew; He knew his heart and he knew that he 19:09 had been dishonest even though Judas thought he was being 19:11 sneaky and getting away with it. And at that point Judas left. 19:16 And he hurried away to Jerusalem to offer to help capture Jesus, 19:20 to the high priest. 19:23 But Jesus said, Let her alone. She has kept this for the day 19:27 of my burial. For the poor you will always have with you but me 19:34 you will not always have. 19:36 Now there was another person in the crowd who also questioned 19:40 her choice there and that was Simon the host of the party and 19:46 he said something as well, which was not kind. He said in Luke 7 19:53 verses 36-39:... 19:54 Then one of the Pharisees asked him to eat with him... 19:58 Let's fast forward. And she began to wash his feet she 20:03 was doing that... 20:04 And when the Pharisee [that would be Simon] who had invited 20:06 him saw this he spoke to himself saying, This man, if He were a 20:09 prophet, He would know of what manner this woman is who is 20:13 touching Him, for she is a sinner. [Whoa] And Jesus 20:18 answered and said to him, Simon, I have something to say to you. 20:21 So he said, Teacher say it. 20:24 Jesus could have called Simon out. Simon, as I said before, 20:28 had done some very, very wicked things that I don't even want to 20:31 get into and yet he thought he could call Mary out on this and 20:37 she was a sinner too. Don't get me wrong. But he was an even 20:40 greater sinner. 20:41 There was a certain creditor who had two debtors, Jesus said. One 20:44 owed 500 denarii and the other 50 denarii, and when they had 20:49 nothing with which to repay he freely forgave them both. Tell 20:53 me therefore which of them would love him more? Simon answered 20:56 and said, Well I suppose the one he forgave more. And He said to 20:59 him, You have rightly judged. Then He turned to the woman and 21:02 said to Simon, Do you see this woman? I entered your house and 21:06 you gave me no water for my feet but she has washed my feet 21:09 with her tears and wiped them with her hair of her head. You 21:12 gave me no kiss, but this woman has not ceased to kiss my feet 21:15 since the time she came in. You did not anoint my head with oil 21:18 but this woman anointed me feet with fragrant oil. Therefore, I 21:21 say to you, Her sins which are many are forgiven for she has 21:25 loved much. But to whom little is forgiven the same loves 21:29 little. Then he said to her, Your sins are forgiven. And 21:32 those who sat at the table with Him began to say to themselves, 21:35 Who is this man that he forgives sins. Then he said to this woman 21:38 You faith has saved you, go in peace. 21:41 Jesus forgave Mary. He forgave Simon too, and he will always 21:45 forgive you. 21:47 ♪ ♪ 22:00 Were you listening to this week's story? I hope you were 22:04 because it's time for our new questions. But before we get to 22:07 our new questions we've got to review last week's questions. 22:10 So let's see if you got those answers right. And if you sent 22:14 in your answers make sure to go to our website at 22:18 startingwithjesus.com and watch for the shout out in this week's 22:23 episode. 22:25 ♪ ♪ 22:42 Okay, it's time for our new questions, so are you ready? 22:46 Question #1: In our story today Jesus was at a feast. Whose 22:53 house was He as for that feast? Whose house was Jesus at for 22:58 that feast? 23:00 Question #2: How much was the perfume worth that Mary broke on 23:09 Jesus's feet? How much was it worth? 23:13 And question #3: 23:26 Now you can send your answers to us at: 23:29 answers@startingwithjesus.com and we will be giving you a 23:34 shout out in next week's episode So send them to: 23:37 answers@startingwithjesus.com 23:40 ♪ ♪ 23:55 Our memory verse today is going to be found in 1 John 4:19:... 23:58 We love Him because he first loved us. 24:01 ♪ ♪ 24:16 Hi friends. This is Moe. Well about two weeks ago we started 24:22 our adventure and I told you how we served in the mission field. 24:25 One of our very close family friends got really hurt and we 24:29 decided that we needed to help him. That is my boy Liam. You 24:33 can hear him in the background and he's listening to our story 24:36 too. Last week we saw that when we pray God listens and He 24:42 answers and He knows exactly what we need. We left off last 24:45 week with how the kidnappers were convicted that they should 24:49 not touch my dad; that he was a man of God. And we were praying 24:53 for him and we knew God was going to do something. And they 24:57 started to protest, some of the people in that car and say, No 25:01 way. We need to finish the job. We need to hurt this man too. 25:04 But God said no. Just at that moment the head kidnapper said 25:09 we're going to drive this man back and we're going to help him 25:12 find his way to whatever things he was going to do, which was to 25:17 help our friend that got hurt really bad. As they were driving 25:21 him the head kidnapper said, Pastor, I want to ask for 25:26 forgiveness. I want to ask if we could still be friends. Now my 25:30 father didn't know who those people were and we didn't know 25:33 who they were. But you know even when people that are not nice to 25:38 you ask for forgiveness you always ought to forgive them 25:43 just like Jesus forgives us. Sometimes we're not nice to 25:48 people and sometimes we say things that are not the best 25:51 things to say. But you know when we turn to Jesus He forgives us 25:55 and when we turn to one another we should forgive one another. 26:00 My father forgave the man and there he got the help that he 26:04 needed to help our friend that got hurt really badly. Today our 26:10 friend is still alive because of the help he could get and it is 26:14 a good story to always share with you how Jesus listens to us 26:19 and we should never be afraid because we can talk to Jesus 26:24 today. So whatever's in your heart, whatever situation you 26:27 might be facing, if something is making you sad or you're not 26:31 sure about the future, talk to Jesus today and ask Him, Lord 26:37 help me. And I tell you what. Jesus will always answer your 26:42 prayer because he listens and he loves you and he died for you 26:47 So look to Jesus today my friend Take care. 26:53 ♪ ♪ 26:55 It's time for our Sabbath School to be over. I'm so glad that you 26:58 joined us today. We have some really exciting upcoming 27:01 programs. Don't forget April 4 we have our story time and I'm 27:06 really looking forward to that. So make sure to go to our 27:09 You Tube at youtube.com/startingwithjesus 27:12 and you'll be able to check out that story time starting April 4 27:17 It's time to close with a prayer So why don't you pray with me? 27:20 Our Father in heaven, thank you so much for your love. Thank 27:23 you for the story of Mary because it reminds us that 27:27 you care for us and that when people come and make fun of us 27:31 and do things you don't like that and you care about every 27:39 individual. I thank you also for the story of Simon because it 27:43 reminds us that we're no better than anybody else. And help us 27:48 to start everything we do with you. Help us to be missionaries 27:53 to everybody we're with and help us to show your love to everyone 27:58 We love you Jesus, we thank you. In Jesus' name, Amen. 28:04 Thank you so much for watching, Have a blessed week and 28:08 keep in touch. 28:09 ♪ ♪ |
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