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00:23 (Miss Ruthie) Hello boys and girls. Welcome to Starting With
00:28 Jesus. I am so glad you're here and I hope that you're starting 00:31 everything you do with Jesus. Today's Bible story is about the 00:37 gift that Jesus gave us, the ultimate, the greatest gift that 00:42 Jesus gave to us. And I cannot wait the hear our Bible story 00:47 today. But before we get to that Bible story let's join with some 00:51 singing. And I think we have a new theme song this month so I'm 00:55 really excited about it and I hope that you'll learn it along 00:58 with me. 00:59 ♪ ♪ 01:41 ♪ ♪ 03:09 ♪ ♪ 03:41 ♪ ♪ 04:54 ♪ ♪ 04:58 Hi boys and girls I'm looking for another page in God's great 05:01 book of nature. I brought a little friend with me today. 05:04 Her name is Olivia She's about eight months old 05:07 so she's still a puppy. Now some of you have had puppies before 05:10 and some of you have puppies now and you know that puppies can be 05:15 wiggle worms because they have a lot of energy. You're busy all 05:18 all-day aren't you? Let's take a look at a typical day in the 05:25 life of Olivia the puppy. After waking up in the morning and 05:29 eating breakfast she runs down the stairs and heads outside. 05:33 She half rides, half rolls her volleyball down the hill. She 05:37 loves that ball. She plays with her favorite squeaky toy. Boy 05:42 does she love that toy? Can you hear it. (squeak, squeak) She 05:51 loves playing with her fur cousin. They tumble around in 05:54 the grass. They play tag and they run in circles all the time 05:57 Olivia likes to sniff around and explore the different nooks and 06:02 crannies of the forest. She wants to know if any other 06:05 animals have visited the area. Dogs like to roll around in the 06:09 grass and soak up any scent they find that they like. So that's 06:13 what she does and then she's off again. Now after being outside 06:19 she runs back up the stairs to eat and continues playing, of 06:24 course. And sometimes you even see her smiley face toy roll 06:29 right on by. You know what that means. Well, with all that 06:35 playing she does she sure gets tuckered out. She still finds 06:39 that nice comfy spot to rest and there she falls fast asleep. Shh 06:48 you might wake her up. She needs to rest so she can do it all 06:54 again tomorrow. Just like Olivia needs her rest from being busy 06:57 all day, we need our rest from being busy all week. We learn at 07:02 school or at home, we do chores, we play, explore nature, some of 07:08 you help out your parents in your business or your neighbor 07:12 on his farm or your grandma in her garden. We are busy all week 07:16 and we need a break. God knows that so He made a time every 07:20 day where we can sleep and He made a time each week where we 07:24 can rest. You see when God made man, He gave us six days each 07:30 week to do everyday things. But He knew that by the end of the 07:34 week we'd be pretty tired and we would need a break. So on the 07:38 seventh day of the week He gave us a Sabbath rest so we can rest 07:43 in Him and be rejuvenated spiritually through Him. 07:45 Rejuvenated means to get your energy back so you can keep 07:49 going. As you see right from the beginning God was thinking 07:55 of giving you rest. In Mark 2:27 Jesus explains this by saying: 08:05 That means that the Sabbath was made for us as a gift for all 08:09 mankind, for every culture, for everyone to enjoy rest in Him. 08:15 I hope that at the end of your week you get to rest and enjoy 08:18 your Sabbath day. Until next time boys and girls have a 08:22 happy Sabbath. Adios. 08:25 ♪ ♪ 08:29 I was just thinking about love's greatest gift (Miss Michelle) 08:31 That's what our story's about today. Let's pray. 08:35 Dear heavenly Father, thank you so very much for giving us 08:39 love's greatest gift in Jesus. Please send your Holy Spirit to 08:42 be here with us today. We love you. Amen. 08:45 Do you remember where Jesus was when we left off our story last 08:49 week? He was in Herod's court. Pilot had sent Him there hoping 08:54 to patch things up and to make things right with Herod. And 09:00 Herod, you may have heard that name before, you'd be right. 09:04 He's the same Herod who killed John the Baptist and he still 09:08 felt guilty about that. In fact, he thought maybe that by saving 09:12 Jesus, he could make up for his bad choice of killing John the 09:15 Baptist and he also wanted to see Jesus do some miracles first 09:20 hand. So even though he looked at Jesus as being and knew just 09:26 like Pilot did that He was innocent, he still wanted to put 09:28 Him to the test. So he brought in some sick people and he said 09:32 if you heal them I'll set you free. Do you think Jesus did? 09:35 He didn't. I'm sure He wanted to heal them, but He would have 09:39 have been healing them for the wrong reason. It would have been 09:42 a selfish reason which technically would have been a 09:44 sin, right? So He didn't. Now the priests were scared at this 09:49 point because they thought that maybe He would do the miracle 09:52 but He didn't. And that's when we're going to pick up the story 09:56 in the book of Luke. Luke 23 verse 9 says: And he questioned 10:01 Him with many words but He answered him nothing. And then 10:05 Herod and his men of war treated Him with contempt and mocked Him 10:09 which means that they mistreated Him, and arrayed Him in a 10:11 gorgeous robe and sent Him back to Pilot. Herod really didn't do 10:16 much of anything did he? But verse 12 says, That very day 10:20 Pilot and Herod became friends with each other, for previously 10:22 they had had enmity with each other. So that part of it worked 10:25 out, right? So He's back now with Pilot. You see, at Passover 10:31 there was a special tradition and that was that one prisoner 10:34 would be set free. That's right. Someone who was very guilty 10:38 would be set free. And Pilot had an idea. He thought I'm going 10:43 to choose a really bad prisoner. Hmm, who should I pick? 10:46 Barabbas. He was horrible. He was a wicked prisoner. He looked 10:49 evil and he was evil. He was condemned to be crucified. He 10:53 had already been tried. And he thought, I'll set Jesus and 10:56 Barabbas side by side and surely they'll set Jesus free. But did 11:01 they? Luke tells us more from the story in verse 18: And they 11:05 all cried out at once, Away with this man and release to us 11:10 Barabbas, who had been thrown into prison for a certain 11:13 rebellion made in the city and for murder. Pilot, therefore, 11:16 wishing to release Jesus again called out to them, but they 11:19 shouted saying Crucify Him, Crucify Him. Then he said to 11:24 them a third time, Why? What evil has He done? I find no 11:28 reason for death in Him. I will therefore chastise Him and let 11:31 Him go. But they were insistent demanding with loud voices that 11:35 He be crucified. And the voices of these men and the chief 11:38 prevailed. It was at this time as well that Pilot got a note 11:44 from his wife and his wife said Don't do anything to Jesus. 11:48 I had a dream about Him, please don't. But did he listen to his 11:53 wife? Did he listen to his very own conscience? Let's see what 11:58 happened. So Pilot gave sentence that it should be as they 12:04 requested and he released to them the one that they requested 12:08 who for rebellion and murder had been thrown into prison but he 12:12 delivered Jesus to their will. He let Barabbas go free and Jesus 12:17 he gave over to the ruckus crowd Now during this time that He had 12:23 been in the Roman control the soldiers had been very unkind to 12:28 Him and they had whipped Him and hurt Him very badly and He 12:32 hadn't had anything to eat either since Passover supper 12:35 Thursday night so He was very hungry, He was bleeding. They 12:40 had put now a crown of thorns on His head and He was very weak. 12:48 And they then brought Jesus out and Pilot gave Him over to them. 12:56 He washed his hands in a basin of water, it says in Matthew to 13:00 try to like wash off what he had done or just symbolize that he 13:04 wasn't responsible. But we know that he was responsible just 13:08 like the priests and the people, all the people shouting, Crucify 13:10 Him were responsible. Jesus had the guilt of all the sins of the 13:17 world along with all the physical suffering that He had 13:19 had due to the Roman soldiers and probably some of the Jewish 13:22 people when they were trying to pull Jesus away from them as 13:26 well, hurt Him as well. And Barabbas's cross, the cross that 13:29 was meant to kill a criminal was laid on Jesus's bleeding 13:34 shoulders. The whips that they used would have little pieces of 13:37 rock or metal in them and so those would dig into their back 13:41 and it was just horrific. And then they put that wood, which 13:45 I'm sure was not sanded, um what do you call, sanded? Right? 13:48 When we do projects we sand it so it's nice and smooth. 13:51 I'm sure the wood from the cross was not sanded and so then they 13:54 placed that on Jesus's shoulders Jesus was just simply too weak 13:57 at that point and He staggered under the weight of the cross 14:00 and fell. It wasn't just the weight of the cross He felt 14:03 though. We talked about that before. It was also the weight 14:05 of all the sins of the world. They put the cross on his 14:08 shoulders yet again and He fell again. He was carrying something 14:13 even heavier, like I said, than the cross. In Mark 15:21 it'll 14:18 tell us what happened next. All the gospels talk about this very 14:23 important story in the life of Jesus, Right? Mark 15 verse 21 14:28 says: Then they compelled a certain man, Simon a Cyrenian, 14:33 the father of Alexander and Rufus as he was coming out of 14:37 the country passing by, to bear Jesus's cross. And they brought 14:41 him to the place Golgotha which is translated The place of a skull 14:46 Now Simon didn't know Jesus but we know that actually his sons 14:51 were followers of Jesus and later he became a disciple as 14:55 well. Jesus's special disciples, where were they at this point 14:59 Well thankfully they were not hurt by the Jewish council or by 15:03 the Roman soldiers. They were following along behind in the 15:07 crowd and Mary Jesus' mother was with John. She was full of 15:11 sadness and pain and doubt at this point as to whether her son 15:16 was, in fact, the Messiah. And they had hoped that He would use 15:23 His special power, that Jesus would use His special power and 15:27 yet as they nailed Jesus to the cross, Mary fainted. She fainted 15:31 She fell and they took her away. She couldn't imagine that this 15:35 was actually happening to her little boy. Pilot was angry at 15:38 himself at this point and so he decided to do something else 15:42 besides just wash his hands. He thought, I'm going to nail a 15:45 sign to the top of the cross to say exactly who this is and he 15:50 was correct in what he said. Let's see what it says here in 15:53 John 19:19. So that's easy to remember 19:19. It says: Now 16:02 Pilot wrote a title and put it on the cross and the writing was 16:06 this: Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews. Then many of 16:12 the Jews read this title for the place where Jesus was crucified 16:15 was near the city and if he wrote it in three languages, in 16:18 Hebrew, Greek, and Latin, so everybody could read what it 16:21 said. Therefore the chief priests of the Jews said to 16:24 Pilot, Do not write The King of the Jews but He said I am the 16:28 King of the Jews. And Pilot answered, What I have written, I 16:31 have written. He was up to here with those priests and leaders 16:34 wasn't he? Then the soldiers when they had crucified Jesus 16:38 took His garments and made four parts, to each soldier a part, 16:41 and also the tunic and the tunic was without seam woven 16:44 from the top in one piece. They said therefore among themselves 16:47 Let us not tear it but cast lots for it whose it shall be that 16:52 the scripture might be fulfilled which says they divided my 16:54 garments among them and for my clothing they cast lots. What 16:59 happened then at this point? Jesus hung in between two 17:03 thieves as we know, we see many scenes of the crucifixion and 17:06 there are three crosses, right? One thief mocked him and made 17:11 fun of him just like everyone else was doing around them. 17:13 But the other thief was thinking maybe He is the Son of God. 17:18 Maybe He can help me. He was watching and remembering what He 17:22 had heard Jesus say. He heard Jesus say, Father, forgive them 17:26 for they know not what they do. And he asked Jesus to save him. 17:31 Jesus was always thinking of others, even on the cross, and 17:33 Jesus spoke to the thief that day and said: Surely today you 17:39 you will be with me in Paradise. It's very important where the 17:42 comma is in that sentence. You can talk to your parents about 17:43 that one. But He was saying, I'm telling you right now today as 17:47 we hang on this cross when I come again you're going to be 17:51 with me because you've asked for forgiveness. Isn't that amazing? 17:54 Jesus was also thinking of His mother and he saw His mother 17:57 therewith John and He asked John to take care of His mother. 17:59 Jesus felt how God hates sin because He felt that separation 18:03 and He couldn't see beyond the cross at this point. When He was 18:07 here on earth, He told people you know I will rise again in three 18:10 days, Right? But now as He hung on the cross, He couldn't see 18:13 that. At noon as Jesus hung on the cross it became dark and it 18:18 stayed pitch dark for three hours. This was Satan's last 18:23 attempt. Jesus couldn't see beyond the cross and he thought 18:26 maybe at this point, He would give up. Matthew 27 verse 45 18:34 says...Matthew 27 verse 45. Let's jump over there. 27:45 18:42 Here we go. Now from the sixth hour until the ninth hour there 18:45 was darkness and at the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud 18:48 voice saying...And He said in the language of their day but 18:52 I'm going to use it in English so we can understand, My God, My 18:55 God, why have you forsaken me? Some of those who stood there 19:02 thought that they heard something and they said, Is He 19:05 calling for Elijah. But He hadn't. He cried out and with a 19:09 loud voice He yielded up His spirit and He died. And Jesus 19:16 though, He kept trusting God and He didn't give up even when He 19:20 felt that complete separation from His heavenly Father. Even 19:23 though He felt like God had left Him He knew that that couldn't 19:28 be true. The angels were there. They were watching and they 19:31 longed to help their Savior, their friend, their Lord. But 19:36 they couldn't, they weren't allowed to. The darkness left 19:38 and that's when Jesus cried It Is Finished! and He died. Oh 19:42 how He loves us. He loves us so much. Our memory verse says 19:50 Greater love has no one that this than to lay down one's life 19:55 for his friends. John 15 verse 13. That's what Jesus did for us 20:03 that day. It wasn't just a physical death that He died 20:07 although He did. He died a spiritual death as well because 20:11 He felt that separation from God You might say, the second death, 20:15 Miss Michelle, what does that mean? Well, I'm glad you asked. 20:18 The second death. So the first death like Adam and Eve they 20:22 said the wages of sin is death. And so Adam and Eve, they did 20:24 die, right? But then it says the gift of God is eternal life. 20:29 Well there's technically two deaths, right? My grandma died 20:32 but I know I'm going to see her again and she'll rise again. 20:35 And yet people who make evil, wicked decisions in life and 20:39 decide not to be on Jesus' team they may die now but then 20:42 they're dead for forever. So the second death is the forever 20:46 death. The first death is the I'll see you soon death. And 20:50 that's the kind of death that we die at the end of our lives, 20:53 right? If we believe in Jesus. Jesus died the second death for 20:57 us and He conquered death, He conquered sin and He reigned 21:02 victorious and next week we're going to find out about how that 21:06 happened, right? I can't wait because it's probably one of the 21:11 most exciting stories in the Bible. This to me is one of the 21:12 most sad stories in the Bible and yet happy at the same time. 21:15 It's like a mixture of emotions isn't it? And yet our next story 21:19 next Sabbath, don't miss it, it's one of the most joyous 21:23 stories and I can't wait to tell it to you guys. Blessings always 21:27 Take care. 21:28 ♪ ♪ 21:32 Thank you Miss Michelle for that Bible story. And thank you, Jesus 21:35 for the wonderful gift of His life for us. Now it's time for 21:42 our answers to our questions. Let's see what those answers 21:46 were and if you got them right. 21:49 ♪ ♪ 22:15 It's time for our new questions. So are you ready? Questions 22:20 number one: On what day was Jesus crucified? On what day was 22:27 Jesus crucified? Question number two: What did Jesus say to the 22:35 thief on the cross? What did Jesus say to the thief on the 22:38 cross? And question number three What did the sign say that was 22:47 put above Jesus's head? What did the sign say that was put on the 22:52 cross about Jesus's head? Now you can send your answers to us 22:57 at answers@startingwithjesus.com and we'll give you a shout out 23:02 on our website at startingwithjesus so send us 23:05 your answers at answers@startingwithjesus.com 23:08 ♪ ♪ 23:13 Today's memory verse is found in John 15:13. 23:20 ♪ ♪ 23:36 Have you heard of Seed Pod Beginners? It's a 7-9 minute 23:40 Podcast just for kids ages 0-5 years old. It can be used for 23:45 family worship or your child's special daily devotional time 23:49 with Jesus. Each week has two programs that focus on a major 23:54 Bible story using guessing games nature lessons, memory verse, 23:59 Bible story, prayer time, _ _ and more to reinforce 24:08 the Bible story and character lessons. And I know that you and 24:13 your little ones will enjoy listening to these programs and 24:17 will learn so much about God's word. So to find out more 24:22 information go to startingwithjesus.com/seedpod 24:26 startingwithjesus.com/seedpod. 24:33 ♪ ♪ 24:37 Hi boys and girls. Sometimes when I hear certain sounds it 24:41 reminds me of Bible stories. I call those Bible Sounds. Does 24:44 that ever happen to you? Let's try it. I'll play some sounds 24:47 and we'll identify them together And when we do we'll see if it 24:51 reminds of anything we find in the Bible. Ready, Here's the 24:55 the first one. Listen carefully. (Wolves yapping and howling) 25:08 Wow. That's a little scary isn't 25:11 it? Well, those are wolves. In the book of Matthew it warns us 25:17 to beware of wolves in sheep's clothing and in the book of 25:20 Isaiah, it tells us that the wolf and lamb will be grazing 25:24 together in heaven. Wow, what a scene. Okay, let's try another 25:29 one. Ready? Listen carefully. (Baby goats and bird calls) 25:43 Ah isn't that so sweet? Those are sounds of baby goats. The 25:49 book of Leviticus mentions a scapegoat when it describes 25:52 the cleansing of the sanctuary. And in the book of Daniel a goat 25:57 represented the kingdom of Greece. Okay how about we try 26:01 one more. This one's going to be tricky so listen very carefully. 26:05 Ready? (sounds like birds or frogs chirping or trilling) 26:23 Did you guess frog because that's what they were. They were 26:25 frogs. Exodus tells us about the second plague, the plague of 26:29 frogs that were all over the land when Pharaoh wouldn't let 26:32 Israel go. I'm not sure they saw frogs as sacred anymore after 26:36 that, huh? That was fun listening to Bible sounds. Keep 26:40 your ears open this week and let me know what sounds you heard. 26:43 Bye. ♪ ♪ 26:49 Thank you for joining us today and I'm so glad you were here. 26:53 Now I know that you have been looking forward to our VBS 26:57 program On Guard Night and Day. And guess what? We're starting 27:01 in just a few days. We're going to have a great program. We're 27:04 going to have some cooking, learning about some Bible 27:07 characters and a really exciting evening storytime that you can 27:10 listen to on our website at startingwithjesus.com/onguard 27:13 that's startingwithjesus.com/onguard 27:17 and I can't wait to see you there. We also have a really 27:22 exciting event coming up. If any of you are going to be at 27:25 Michigan Camp Meeting, you'll be able to check out our booth, 27:28 Starting With Jesus Booth at Michigan Camp Meeting and you'll 27:33 get to meet some of the people that you see and hear in our 27:36 programs. So make sure to check those out if you're at Michigan 27:41 Camp Meeting. Before we go let's say a prayer. 27:44 Dear Jesus, thank you so much for how much you love us. Thank 27:49 for being willing to give your life for us. I pray that you 27:54 will help us to give our lives for others and to show your love 27:58 to those around us. Forgive us for our sins. Please cleanse us 28:02 from all unrighteousness and help us to be like you. 28:06 We love you, In Jesus name, Amen. 28:09 Thank you for watching. Have a blessed week, 28:11 and keep in touch. 28:13 ♪ ♪ |
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