(MUSIC)
00:00:00.36\00:00:46.06
>>WELCOME TO SACRAMENTO CENTRAL
SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH
00:00:46.06\00:00:49.43
RIGHT HERE IN SACRAMENTO,
CALIFORNIA. WE'RE SO GLAD
00:00:49.43\00:00:52.23
THAT YOU'RE TUNING IN AND
YOU ARE A PART OF OUR PROGRAM
00:00:52.23\00:00:56.10
EVERY SINGLE WEEK.
WHETHER YOU ARE LISTENING ON THE
00:00:56.10\00:00:59.43
RADIO, WATCHING LIVE ON OUR
WEBSITE AT 'SACCENTRAL.ORG' OR
00:00:59.43\00:01:04.13
ON THE VARIOUS TELEVISION
NETWORKS, IT DOES NOT MATTER HOW
00:01:04.13\00:01:06.73
YOU'RE JOINING US, WE'RE JUST
VERY GLAD THAT YOU ARE AND WE'D
00:01:06.73\00:01:09.90
LOVE TO HEAR FROM YOU AS YOU
SING YOUR FAVORITE SONGS WITH US
00:01:09.90\00:01:13.03
EACH WEEK AND WE OPEN UP GOD'S
WORD AND WE STUDY TOGETHER.
00:01:13.03\00:01:16.80
TODAY IS NO EXCEPTION.
WE'RE GOING TO START WITH YOUR
00:01:16.80\00:01:19.00
FAVORITES AND THE
FIRST ONE IS #457.
00:01:19.00\00:01:22.56
SO IF YOU HAVE A HYMNAL AT HOME,
PULL IT OUT AND SING WITH US.
00:01:22.56\00:01:25.86
'I LOVE TO TELL THE STORY' -
THIS IS A REQUEST FROM DUSTIN IN
00:01:25.86\00:01:29.93
HONDURAS, PASCAL IN INDONESIA,
RUT IN THE NETHERLANDS, AND
00:01:29.93\00:01:34.20
ANDRE IN RWANDA AND THERE WERE A
FEW MORE FROM AROUND THE WORLD.
00:01:34.20\00:01:38.26
WE'RE GOING TO SING THE FIRST,
SECOND, AND FOURTH STANZA.
00:01:38.26\00:01:41.76
JOIN WITH US. 'I
LOVE TO TELL THE STORY'.
00:01:41.76\00:01:44.53
(MUSIC)
00:01:44.53\00:01:45.26
>>THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR
SENDING IN ONE OF THOSE GOOD
00:04:47.70\00:04:50.56
OLD-FASHIONED FAVORITES.
AND IF YOU HAVE ANOTHER SONG YOU
00:04:50.56\00:04:53.86
WOULD LIKE TO SING WITH US ON
AN UPCOMING PROGRAM, IT'S VERY
00:04:53.86\00:04:57.33
SIMPLE. YOU JUST
GO TO OUR WEBSITE AT
00:04:57.33\00:04:59.30
'SACCENTRAL.ORG', CLICK ON THE
'CONTACT US' LINK AND YOU CAN
00:04:59.30\00:05:03.36
SEND IN ANY SONG
THAT IS IN THE HYMNAL.
00:05:03.36\00:05:05.86
IT IS RIGHT THERE FOR YOU TO
SELECT AND WE WILL DO OUR BEST
00:05:05.86\00:05:08.76
TO SING THAT FOR YOU
ON AN UPCOMING PROGRAM.
00:05:08.76\00:05:12.23
WE'RE BACK TO LEARNING
THE ONES WE DON'T KNOW.
00:05:12.23\00:05:15.70
WE TOOK A LITTLE BREAK FOR THE
CHRISTMAS SEASON AND WE'RE BACK
00:05:15.70\00:05:19.93
WITH #81 - 'THOUGH I SPEAK WITH
CHRISTMAS SEASON AND WE'RE BACK
00:05:19.93\00:05:23.40
WITH #81 - 'THOUGH
I SPEAK WITH TONGUES'.
00:05:23.40\00:05:28.06
THIS WAS NEW, I THINK, TO EVERY
SINGLE PERSON HERE AT CENTRAL
00:05:28.06\00:05:31.90
CHURCH, BUT WE LEARNED IT SO WE
ARE READY TO TEACH IT TO YOU AND
00:05:31.90\00:05:35.46
WE HOPE THAT YOU STARTED
LEARNING IT THIS WEEK SO WE'RE
00:05:35.46\00:05:39.80
ALL READY FOR #81 TOGETHER.
THIS IS A REQUEST FROM JOSEFIN
00:05:39.80\00:05:44.73
IN IRELAND, DOROTHEA IN THE
BAHAMAS, AND JOYCE IN KENYA.
00:05:44.73\00:05:49.23
AND WE'RE GOING TO SING ALL
THREE STANZAS SO WE MAKE SURE WE
00:05:49.23\00:05:51.70
REALLY KNOW THIS SONG.
IT'S A BEAUTIFUL SONG BASED ON
00:05:51.70\00:05:54.70
1 CORINTHIANS 13.
SO JOIN WITH US - #81 -
00:05:54.70\00:05:58.63
'THOUGH I SPEAK WITH TONGUES'.
00:05:58.63\00:06:00.96
(MUSIC)
00:06:00.96\00:06:01.86
>>THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR
LEARNING THIS WITH US AND NEXT
00:09:11.40\00:09:15.36
WEEK WE'LL BE DOING #82.
AT THIS TIME PLEASE BOW OUR
00:09:15.36\00:09:19.40
HEADS FOR PRAYER. FATHER
IN HEAVEN, LIKE THE WORDS
00:09:19.40\00:09:26.66
THAT THIS SONG SAYS, THOUGH I
SPEAK WITH BEAUTIFUL WORDS BUT I
00:09:26.66\00:09:35.30
HAVE NOT LOVE IN MY
HEART, IT AMOUNTS TO NOTHING.
00:09:35.30\00:09:40.90
AND YOU CAME DOWN HERE TO THIS
WORLD WITH SO MUCH LOVE IN YOUR
00:09:40.90\00:09:45.90
HEART AND YOU GAVE YOUR LIFE.
YOUR ENEMIES - YOU GLADLY GAVE
00:09:45.90\00:09:52.63
IT UP BECAUSE YOU KNEW THAT ONE
DAY THE REWARD - THE RESULTS OF
00:09:52.63\00:09:59.46
YOUR DECISION WOULD BE WORTH
IT AND YOU LOVE US SO MUCH AND I
00:09:59.46\00:10:04.70
PRAY THAT WE WOULD HAVE YOUR
LOVE IN OUR HEARTS FOR THOSE
00:10:04.70\00:10:09.06
AROUND US - THOSE THAT TALK BAD
AND ARE MEAN AND RUDE AND I JUST
00:10:09.06\00:10:15.80
PRAY THAT YOU WOULD HELP US TO
HAVE THE ATTITUDE AND THE SPIRIT
00:10:15.80\00:10:21.43
OF YOU SO THAT WE CAN
SHOW LOVE TO EVERYBODY.
00:10:21.43\00:10:26.53
WE THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR COMING
TO THIS WORLD AND FOR LOVING US
00:10:26.53\00:10:30.26
AND FOR DYING FOR US AND I PRAY
RIGHT NOW, AS WE OPEN UP YOUR
00:10:30.26\00:10:33.40
WORD AND WE STUDY TOGETHER, THAT
YOU WOULD FILL US - THAT WE CAN
00:10:33.40\00:10:37.23
BE LIGHTS IN THIS UGLY
WORLD. IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN.
00:10:37.23\00:10:43.50
AT THIS TIME OUR LESSON STUDY
IS GOING TO BE BROUGHT TO US BY
00:10:43.50\00:10:46.60
PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR. HE
IS OUR SENIOR PASTOR HERE AT
00:10:46.60\00:10:49.50
SACRAMENTO CENTRAL
SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH.
00:10:49.50\00:10:57.66
>>THANK YOU,
DEBBIE. MORNING EVERYBODY.
00:10:57.66\00:11:02.30
YOU KNOW, I'VE HEARD MOST OF THE
SONGS IN THE HYMNAL JUST IN MY
00:11:02.30\00:11:05.60
TRAVELS - A PIECE OF IT HERE AND
THERE - BUT I DON'T THINK I'D
00:11:05.60\00:11:08.46
EVER HEARD THAT ONE EITHER.
BUT IT'S A VERY PRETTY SONG.
00:11:08.46\00:11:10.96
I LIKE THE BASS NOTES IN IT.
00:11:10.96\00:11:12.90
I WANT TO WELCOME OUR
FRIENDS WHO ARE WATCHING VIA THE
00:11:12.90\00:11:15.26
INTERNET AND SOME
OF OUR EXTENDED CLASS.
00:11:15.26\00:11:17.50
WELCOME TO ANY
VISITORS THAT ARE HERE.
00:11:17.50\00:11:19.83
SOMETIMES IT'S CONFUSING TO
PEOPLE WHEN YOU SEE THIS PROGRAM
00:11:19.83\00:11:23.00
TO REALIZE IT WAS ACTUALLY
RECORDED THREE WEEKS PRIOR TO
00:11:23.00\00:11:26.23
WHEN MOST SATELLITE STATIONS ARE
AIRING IT, BUT IT'S ALSO LIVE
00:11:26.23\00:11:29.83
NOW ON THE INTERNET SO IS IT
APPROPRIATE FOR ME TO WISH YOU
00:11:29.83\00:11:32.70
A BLESSED NEW YEAR? I
HAVEN'T TALKED TO MANY OF YOU
00:11:32.70\00:11:35.96
SINCE LAST YEAR,
WHICH WAS LAST WEEK.
00:11:35.96\00:11:41.36
BUT WE HAVE - WE'RE GOING TO BE
CONTINUING IN OUR SABBATH SCHOOL
00:11:41.36\00:11:43.96
STUDY ON
DISCIPLESHIP IN JUST A MOMENT.
00:11:43.96\00:11:46.33
SOMETIMES DURING A SABBATH
SCHOOL WE HAVE A LITTLE MISSION
00:11:46.33\00:11:50.40
FEATURE. TODAY WE
HAVE A GUEST THAT WE
00:11:50.40\00:11:52.66
WOULD LIKE TO BRING UP
HERE AND HILOKO - IS THAT RIGHT?
00:11:52.66\00:11:57.43
AND SHE'S GOING TO SHARE WITH
US A LITTLE BIT - THERE YOU GO -
00:11:57.43\00:12:00.30
THERE'S YOUR
MICROPHONE. THANK YOU BOB. AND -
00:12:00.30\00:12:02.60
>>GOOD MORNING.
00:12:02.60\00:12:03.76
>>SHE DID SOMETHING VERY
UNIQUE. YOU HAVE TRANSLATED
00:12:03.76\00:12:08.23
AN ENTIRE SET OF BIBLE
STUDY GUIDES INTO JAPANESE.
00:12:08.23\00:12:11.50
>>WITH GOD'S GRACE.
00:12:11.50\00:12:12.96
>>AND NOW, ARE YOU A
PROFESSIONAL TRANSLATOR?
00:12:12.96\00:12:15.33
>>OH, NOT AT ALL. I -
00:12:15.33\00:12:16.63
ENGLISH AND JAPANESE IS NOT
MY THING BUT THE LORD HELPED ME.
00:12:16.63\00:12:21.46
>>SO IN YOUR NOTE YOU
SAID YOU WERE ACTUALLY STILL
00:12:21.46\00:12:23.63
LEARNING ENGLISH.
00:12:23.63\00:12:24.80
>>THAT'S TRUE.
00:12:24.80\00:12:26.16
>>AND YOU FELT IMPRESSED - YOU
WERE LOOKING AT THE STORACLES -
00:12:26.16\00:12:28.26
YOU WERE DOING THE STORACLES
LESSONS WITH SOMEBODY ELSE.
00:12:28.26\00:12:30.86
>>THAT'S CORRECT - IN ENGLISH.
00:12:30.86\00:12:32.50
>>AND YOU THOUGHT, 'WE
REALLY NEED TO PUT' - THE LORD
00:12:32.50\00:12:34.36
IMPRESSED YOU - 'WE NEED
TO PUT THESE IN JAPANESE.
00:12:34.36\00:12:36.03
>>YES.
00:12:36.03\00:12:37.20
>>AND THAT WAS A
PRETTY BIG PROJECT.
00:12:37.20\00:12:39.93
>>IT TOOK FOUR MONTHS FOR JUST
THE DRAFT AND I WORKED ON IT
00:12:39.93\00:12:48.53
EVERY WEEK - I MEAN EVERY DAY
- AND SO AFTER I WORKED ON IT -
00:12:48.53\00:12:54.40
TIL MIDNIGHT I WORKED ON IT AND
BY 4:00 THE LORD WAKES ME UP AND
00:12:54.40\00:12:58.63
I'M READY TO TRANSLATE
AGAIN BEFORE GO BACK TO THE -
00:12:58.63\00:13:01.76
TO MY WORK.
00:13:01.76\00:13:03.23
>>SO AS YOU WERE DOING THE
TRANSLATION FROM ENGLISH TO
00:13:03.23\00:13:05.73
JAPANESE DID YOU USE A
DICTIONARY SOMETIMES TO FIND OUT
00:13:05.73\00:13:08.63
>>ALL THE TIME. I MEAN,
00:13:08.63\00:13:10.96
I WANT TO MAKE SURE -
SOMETIMES EACH SENTENCE -
00:13:10.96\00:13:13.56
SEVERAL WORDS I MAKE SURE
THAT I'M TRANSLATING CORRECTLY.
00:13:13.56\00:13:19.03
>>NOW IN THE TRANSLATION
PROCESS SOMETHING HAPPENED
00:13:19.03\00:13:21.53
IN YOUR FAMILY.
00:13:21.53\00:13:22.80
>>THAT'S CORRECT. I'M
THE ONLY CHRISTIAN BESIDE MY
00:13:22.80\00:13:27.63
LATE GRANDMOTHER AND AS I WAS
TRANSLATING, I WAS SENDING EACH
00:13:27.63\00:13:32.60
LESSON TO JAPAN TO TAKE TO MY
HOME TOWN CHURCH AND I SEND IT
00:13:32.60\00:13:38.43
TO MY SISTER IN JAPAN AND TWO
YEARS LATER SHE CALLED ME AND
00:13:38.43\00:13:44.20
SAID, 'I READ THOSE STUDIES.
I DECIDED TO GET BAPTIZED.
00:13:44.20\00:13:49.83
WHEN CAN YOU COME
TO ATTEND THE BAPTISM?'
00:13:49.83\00:13:52.96
>>AMEN. ISN'T THAT EXCITING?
00:13:52.96\00:13:54.26
NOW FRIENDS, YOU JUST NEED
TO UNDERSTAND. THERE ARE ABOUT
00:13:54.26\00:13:57.50
126 MILLION PEOPLE IN JAPAN -
ONLY ONE PERCENT IS CHRISTIAN.
00:13:57.50\00:14:04.56
IT'S A LARGELY ATHEIST AND A
NUMBER OF OTHER RELIGIONS THERE,
00:14:04.56\00:14:10.13
BUT - SO HAVING THESE STUDY
GUIDES - AND THE STUDY GUIDES
00:14:10.13\00:14:13.80
THEY HAD WERE OVER THIRTY
YEARS OLD. THEY REALLY NEEDED
00:14:13.80\00:14:16.13
UPDATING. AND SO THESE
ARE THE NEW STORACLES LESSONS.
00:14:16.13\00:14:18.73
WHAT, ARE THERE TWENTY-TWO?
00:14:18.73\00:14:19.70
>>TWENTY-FOUR.
00:14:19.70\00:14:20.93
>>TWENTY-FOUR LESSONS. THAT'S
A FABULOUS AMOUNT OF WORK.
00:14:20.93\00:14:23.40
WELL, THAT IS VERY EXCITING.
00:14:23.40\00:14:24.66
AND WE HAD BOB CURTICE WHO
HELPED WITH - GO AHEAD, STAND UP
00:14:24.66\00:14:27.73
BOB - BOB HELPED - HE DEVELOPED
A COMPUTER PROGRAM WITH AMAZING
00:14:27.73\00:14:31.23
FACTS, YEARS AGO, TO HELP PEOPLE
TO TRANSLATE IF OTHERS AROUND
00:14:31.23\00:14:35.56
THE WORLD - YOU DON'T HAVE
TO BE PROFESSIONAL TRANSLATORS.
00:14:35.56\00:14:38.23
IF YOU WANT TO SEE THE
BIBLE STUDY GUIDES IN YOUR OWN
00:14:38.23\00:14:40.30
LANGUAGE, THERE'S SOFTWARE AND A
PROGRAM NOW THAT MAKES THAT ALL
00:14:40.30\00:14:43.66
POSSIBLE. AND SO
THAT IS JUST MARVELOUS.
00:14:43.66\00:14:46.46
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR
DOING THE WORK THAT YOU'VE DONE.
00:14:46.46\00:14:50.90
>>AND THE ADDRESS IS
'BIBLEUNIVERSITY.COM' AND YOU'LL
00:14:50.90\00:14:55.20
FIND OUT MORE THERE. WE
HAVE THE STUDY GUIDES IN
00:14:55.20\00:14:57.20
FARSI AND ROMANIAN AND
MANY DIFFERENT LANGUAGES.
00:14:57.20\00:15:00.83
'BIBLEUNIVERSITY.COM' AND
WE'RE SO EXCITED, AND THIS IS -
00:15:00.83\00:15:03.83
I HAVE NOT TOUCHED THEM
YET. THIS IS THE FIRST TIME I'M
00:15:03.83\00:15:07.00
SEEING THE
JAPANESE STUDY GUIDES.
00:15:07.00\00:15:09.13
>>THAT'S CORRECT.
00:15:09.13\00:15:10.50
>>PRAISE THE LORD.
00:15:10.50\00:15:11.66
THANK YOU SO MUCH AND -
THANK YOU SO MUCH HILOKO -
00:15:11.66\00:15:14.13
I SURE APPRECIATE
IT. GOD BLESS YOU.
00:15:14.13\00:15:15.53
CAN YOU SAY 'AMEN'
FRIENDS? ISN'T THAT WONDERFUL?
00:15:15.53\00:15:18.13
NOW HOPEFULLY THERE WON'T BE
A TEST ON THESE BECAUSE I CAN'T
00:15:18.13\00:15:20.60
READ JAPANESE BUT WE'RE GOING TO
TREASURE THESE. I'LL TAKE THEM
00:15:20.60\00:15:23.70
TO THE AMAZING FACTS
OFFICE AND IT'S A REMINDER.
00:15:23.70\00:15:26.56
I BETTER PUT THEM RIGHT HERE SO
THEY DON'T SLIDE OFF THE PODIUM.
00:15:26.56\00:15:29.33
IT'S A REMINDER OF THE -
EVERYBODY CAN GET INVOLVED IN
00:15:29.33\00:15:33.90
DOING MISSION WORK, RIGHT?
00:15:33.90\00:15:35.56
AND THAT GOES ALONG PERFECTLY
WITH OUR LESSON ON DISCIPLESHIP.
00:15:35.56\00:15:39.40
ALL OF US ARE CALLED TO BE
DISCIPLES AND JESUS, WHEN HE
00:15:39.40\00:15:42.50
SAID, 'GO, THEREFORE, AND TEACH
ALL NATIONS' IS THAT JUST FOR
00:15:42.50\00:15:47.70
THE TWELVE APOSTLES OR CAN EVERY
BELIEVER BE INVOLVED IN SOME
00:15:47.70\00:15:51.36
CAPACITY IN HELPING TO TEACH
- USING YOUR DIFFERENT GIFTS.
00:15:51.36\00:15:55.80
AND SO I THINK THIS IS JUST
WONDERFUL AND WE'RE VERY EXCITED
00:15:55.80\00:15:57.83
ABOUT THAT. WELL, TODAY WE'RE
DOING LESSON #4 AND IT'S DEALING
00:15:57.83\00:16:02.00
WITH DISCIPLING CHILDREN.
YOU KNOW, WHENEVER I SEE
00:16:02.00\00:16:05.90
THAT WORD 'DISCIPLING' CHILDREN
- I KEPT PUTTING IN THE WORD
00:16:05.90\00:16:08.93
'DISCIPLINING' -
I DON'T KNOW WHY.
00:16:08.93\00:16:11.23
IT JUST SEEMED - SOME FREUDIAN
SLIP - BUT DISCIPLING CHILDREN.
00:16:11.23\00:16:16.80
AND WE HAVE A MEMORY -
AND THAT'S LESSON #4 - AND THE
00:16:16.80\00:16:19.53
MEMORY VERSE IS FROM
MATTHEW CHAPTER 21, VERSE 16.
00:16:19.53\00:16:23.50
IF YOU'D LIKE TO SAY THIS WITH
ME HERE IN YOUR STUDY GUIDE,
00:16:23.50\00:16:25.60
IT'S FROM THE NIV
VERSION. ARE YOU READY?
00:16:25.60\00:16:28.40
MATTHEW 21:16, "'DO YOU HEAR
WHAT THESE CHILDREN ARE SAYING?'
00:16:28.40\00:16:33.90
THEY ASKED HIM. 'YES,'
REPLIED JESUS, 'HAVE YOU
00:16:33.90\00:16:37.43
NEVER READ, 'FROM THE LIPS OF
CHILDREN AND INFANTS YOU LORD,
00:16:37.43\00:16:41.63
HAVE CALLED FORTH YOUR
PRAISE'?'" THE BIBLE HAS A LOT
00:16:41.63\00:16:45.00
TO SAY ABOUT DISCIPLING CHILDREN
AND THE VALUE OF CHILDREN.
00:16:45.00\00:16:49.86
I'D LIKE TO TELL YOU, BEFORE
I GET TOO DEEP IN THE LESSON, WE
00:16:49.86\00:16:53.20
ALWAYS HAVE A FREE OFFER
THAT GOES ALONG WITH OUR STUDY.
00:16:53.20\00:16:56.13
WE'RE OFFERING SOMETHING
WE'VE NEVER OFFERED BEFORE.
00:16:56.13\00:16:58.76
A FEW YEARS AGO AMAZING FACTS
DEVELOPED A NEW SET OF STUDY
00:16:58.76\00:17:01.86
GUIDES CALLED 'AMAZING
ADVENTURE' AND IT'S A BRIEF
00:17:01.86\00:17:06.43
10-PART EVANGELISTIC
PROGRAM FOR CHILDREN.
00:17:06.43\00:17:09.20
AND ONE OF THESE LESSONS,
IT TALKS ABOUT SALVATION, IT'S
00:17:09.20\00:17:11.63
ESPECIALLY WRITTEN FOR CHILDREN
AND WE'LL GIVE THIS TO ANYBODY
00:17:11.63\00:17:14.46
WHO ASKS FOR IT.
00:17:14.46\00:17:15.70
ALL YOU'VE GOT TO DO IS
CALL THE NUMBER ON YOUR SCREEN.
00:17:15.70\00:17:17.53
IT'S CALLED 'THE ONLY LIFEBOAT'
AND OH, THEY'RE REALLY GREAT
00:17:17.53\00:17:20.53
LESSONS FOR CHILDREN BECAUSE
THEY'RE ALL FULLY ILLUSTRATED
00:17:20.53\00:17:23.06
AND - ASK FOR OFFER #805 AND THE
PHONE NUMBER IS 866-STUDY-MORE -
00:17:23.06\00:17:29.60
THAT'S 866-788-3966
AND WE'LL SEND THIS TO YOU.
00:17:29.60\00:17:34.86
LOOK AT IT WITH A CHILD.
00:17:34.86\00:17:36.33
GET INVOLVED IN
DISCIPLING CHILDREN.
00:17:36.33\00:17:38.46
THAT'S THE IDEA
OF SENDING THAT OUT.
00:17:38.46\00:17:40.26
YOU MIGHT KNOW
SOME YOUNG PERSON.
00:17:40.26\00:17:42.16
THESE LESSONS ARE REALLY
DESIGNED FOR YOUNG PEOPLE FROM
00:17:42.16\00:17:45.30
SEVEN TO TWELVE YEARS OF AGE AND
- DID ANY OF YOU EVER SEE THE
00:17:45.30\00:17:51.20
'AMAZING ADVENTURES' PROGRAM?
00:17:51.20\00:17:53.63
YOU KNOW, WHEN WE DID THAT WITH
3ABN A FEW YEARS AGO, JIM GILLEY
00:17:53.63\00:17:57.40
TOLD ME - HE SAID, 'DOUG, I WANT
TO LET YOU KNOW, YOU'LL END UP
00:17:57.40\00:17:59.73
BAPTIZING AS MANY ADULTS
FROM THIS PROGRAM AS YOU WILL
00:17:59.73\00:18:02.46
CHILDREN, BECAUSE' - HE SAID
- 'WHEN YOU MAKE THE MESSAGE
00:18:02.46\00:18:05.83
SIMPLE SO CHILDREN CAN
UNDERSTAND' - HE SAID - 'THAT'S
00:18:05.83\00:18:08.76
WHEN THE ADULTS FINALLY GET IT.'
AND SO WE FOUND THAT TO BE TRUE.
00:18:08.76\00:18:13.40
A LOT OF PEOPLE SAID, 'YEAH, I
WANTED MY CHILDREN TO SEE THIS'
00:18:13.40\00:18:15.76
- AND THEY WATCHED IT WITH THEIR
CHILDREN AND OTHER PEOPLE IN
00:18:15.76\00:18:18.13
THE FAMILY WERE THERE AND THEY
GOT IT AND THEY GOT BAPTIZED.
00:18:18.13\00:18:21.43
HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE HEARD
STORIES OF MOTHERS THAT BEGAN TO
00:18:21.43\00:18:24.90
TAKE THEIR CHILDREN TO SABBATH
SCHOOL AND IN THE PROCESS OF
00:18:24.90\00:18:29.00
WATCHING THE CHILDREN HEAR THE
GOSPEL IN SOME SABBATH SCHOOL
00:18:29.00\00:18:31.93
CLASS, THEY BECOME
CONVICTED AND CONVERTED?
00:18:31.93\00:18:35.50
AND SO WHEN YOU WORK FOR
CHILDREN YOU'RE ALSO WORKING FOR
00:18:35.50\00:18:39.23
ADULTS AT THE SAME TIME AND
IT'S AN INTERESTING DYNAMIC.
00:18:39.23\00:18:41.83
ANYWAY, THERE'S A SPECIAL
MINDSET THAT THE HEBREWS HAD FOR
00:18:41.83\00:18:47.40
CHILDREN AND THAT MINDSET WAS
DIFFERENT FROM WHAT YOU FIND IN
00:18:47.40\00:18:51.93
THE AVERAGE RELIGION OR EVEN
AMONG THE AVERAGE CULTURES OF
00:18:51.93\00:18:55.10
THE WORLD. FOR
EXAMPLE, I'VE BEEN TO
00:18:55.10\00:18:57.93
DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE WORLD
AND THEY SAY, 'OH, THE CHRISTIAN
00:18:57.93\00:19:00.93
MISSIONARIES CAME IN HERE
AND THEY JUST RUINED EVERYTHING.
00:19:00.93\00:19:04.43
THEY BROUGHT IN THEIR BELIEFS
AND THEY TOOK AWAY THE NATURAL
00:19:04.43\00:19:07.03
BELIEFS OF THE PEOPLE.
YOU KNOW, IN SOME CULTURES,
00:19:07.03\00:19:10.10
CHILDREN WERE NOT EVEN COUNTED
TO BE HUMANS UNTIL THEY GOT TO
00:19:10.10\00:19:13.56
BE ABOUT EIGHT OR TEN YEARS
OLD OR THEY COULD DO WORK AND IF
00:19:13.56\00:19:18.60
THEY SEEMED TO BE ANY KIND OF
A PROBLEM - THEY CRIED A LOT -
00:19:18.60\00:19:23.20
FATHERS WOULD KILL THEM.
THEY'D THROW THEM OFF OF CLIFFS.
00:19:23.20\00:19:26.33
THEY DIDN'T RECOGNIZE
THE VALUE OF CHILDREN.
00:19:26.33\00:19:28.96
AND SO WHEN YOU HEAR THINGS IN
THE BIBLE AND IT TALKS ABOUT -
00:19:28.96\00:19:31.76
WELL, LET ME READ YOU PSALM 127,
VERSE 3, "BEHOLD, CHILDREN ARE A
00:19:31.76\00:19:38.20
HERITAGE FROM THE LORD, THE
FRUIT OF THE WOMB IS A REWARD.
00:19:38.20\00:19:43.33
LIKE ARROWS IN THE HAND
OF A WARRIOR, SO ARE THE
00:19:43.33\00:19:46.20
CHILDREN OF ONE'S YOUTH.
00:19:46.20\00:19:47.93
HAPPY IS THE MAN WHO HAS HIS
QUIVER FULL OF THEM; THEY SHALL
00:19:47.93\00:19:52.03
NOT BE ASHAMED, BUT SHALL SPEAK
WITH THEIR ENEMIES IN THE GATE."
00:19:52.03\00:19:56.23
YOU SEE, IT SAYS 'HAPPY IS THE
MAN THAT HAS HIS QUIVER FULL OF
00:19:56.23\00:20:00.53
THEM.' A PERSON HAVING A LOT OF
CHILDREN WAS SEEN AS A BLESSING.
00:20:00.53\00:20:03.86
WHAT DID GOD SAY TO ADAM
AND EVE IN THE BEGINNING?
00:20:03.86\00:20:07.16
HE SAID, 'GO FORTH,
BE FRUITFUL AND MULTIPLY.
00:20:07.16\00:20:10.96
IT WAS TO BE SEEN
AS A GREAT BLESSING.
00:20:10.96\00:20:13.63
SOMEONE LOOK UP FOR
ME GENESIS 16, VERSE 2.
00:20:13.63\00:20:16.83
I WANT TO READ
ANOTHER VERSE THAT'S RELATED.
00:20:16.83\00:20:18.96
IF YOU LOOK IN GENESIS 30, VERSE
1, "NOW WHEN RACHEL SAW THAT SHE
00:20:18.96\00:20:24.60
BORE JACOB NO CHILDREN, RACHEL
ENVIED HER SISTER, AND SAID TO
00:20:24.60\00:20:28.66
JACOB, 'GIVE ME
CHILDREN, OR ELSE I DIE!'"
00:20:28.66\00:20:32.70
NOW, JACOB WAS A
LITTLE UPSET ABOUT THAT.
00:20:32.70\00:20:36.53
WHAT WOULD BE YOUR RESPONSE?
00:20:36.53\00:20:41.26
HOW IMPORTANT WAS IT TO A
HEBREW MOTHER TO HAVE CHILDREN?
00:20:41.26\00:20:45.10
IT WAS - NOT JUST THE
MOTHER - TO THE FATHER?
00:20:45.10\00:20:48.46
GO AHEAD, READ FOR US -
WHAT DID I SAY? GENESIS 16:2.
00:20:48.46\00:20:53.13
>>"AND SARAI SAID UNTO ABRAM,
'BEHOLD NOW, THE LORD HATH
00:20:53.13\00:20:57.20
RESTRAINED ME FROM BEARING: I
PRAY THEE, GO IN UNTO MY MAID;
00:20:57.20\00:21:02.30
IT MAY BE THAT I MAY
OBTAIN CHILDREN BY HER.
00:21:02.30\00:21:06.03
AND ABRAM HEARKENED
TO THE VOICE OF SARAI.'"
00:21:06.03\00:21:09.30
>>HOW DESPERATE - HOW IMPORTANT
WAS IT TO ABRAHAM AND TO SARAH
00:21:09.30\00:21:13.13
TO HAVE CHILDREN? SO MUCH
SO THAT WHEN THEY COULDN'T HAVE
00:21:13.13\00:21:16.20
CHILDREN, THEY INVITED A
SURROGATE TO GET INVOLVED.
00:21:16.20\00:21:19.96
WHAT WAS - WHAT WAS
THE PRAYER OF HANNAH?
00:21:19.96\00:21:23.80
DO YOU REMEMBER THE STORY?
HOW THE BOOK OF SAMUEL BEGINS?
00:21:23.80\00:21:26.06
THIS MAN ELKANAH, HE
LOVES THIS WOMAN NAMED HANNAH -
00:21:26.06\00:21:29.63
HE MARRIES HER.
BUT THERE'S A PROBLEM.
00:21:29.63\00:21:31.10
SHE'S BARREN AND SO HE TAKES
ANOTHER WIFE BECAUSE IT WAS
00:21:31.10\00:21:34.40
ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL - YOUR ONLY
SOCIAL SECURITY IN HEBREW TIMES
00:21:34.40\00:21:38.36
WAS THAT CHILDREN WOULD TAKE
CARE OF YOU IN YOUR OLD AGE.
00:21:38.36\00:21:41.46
IF YOU HAD NO CHILDREN
YOU COULD END UP DESTITUTE.
00:21:41.46\00:21:43.96
AND SO HAVING CHILDREN WAS
REALLY SEEN AS VERY IMPORTANT.
00:21:43.96\00:21:47.00
AND, YOU KNOW, THEY SAW THAT
PART OF THE WAY THAT YOU DEALT
00:21:47.00\00:21:50.30
WITH ETERNITY WAS THAT YOU LIVED
THROUGH YOUR CHILDREN AFTER YOU
00:21:50.30\00:21:53.73
AND SO CHILDREN WERE
VERY VALUED AND CHERISHED.
00:21:53.73\00:21:57.43
AND THE BOOK OF SAMUEL BEGINS BY
THIS CONFLICT BETWEEN ELKANAH -
00:21:57.43\00:22:04.40
OR HANNAH AND PENINNAH AND
HANNAH IS THERE AT THE TEMPLE -
00:22:04.40\00:22:08.50
WHAT IS SHE PRAYING ABOUT?
SHE'S ROCKING BACK AND FORTH.
00:22:08.50\00:22:11.90
SHE'S IN GREAT DISTRESS - SO
MUCH SO THAT ELI THINKS SHE'S
00:22:11.90\00:22:14.53
DRUNK AND SHE'S BEGGING
THE LORD TO GIVE HER CHILDREN.
00:22:14.53\00:22:18.00
SHE MAKES A VOW AND SAYS,
'IF YOU'LL GIVE ME A SON I WILL
00:22:18.00\00:22:21.93
RAISE HIM UP AND
GIVE HIM BACK TO YOU.
00:22:21.93\00:22:24.90
AND DID GOD ANSWER HER PRAYER?
00:22:24.90\00:22:27.30
AND I THINK SHE HAD, WAS IT FIVE
MORE CHILDREN AFTER SAMUEL SO
00:22:27.30\00:22:31.63
THE LORD, HE
BLESSED HER ABUNDANTLY.
00:22:31.63\00:22:33.46
YOU KNOW, I ALWAYS THOUGHT
IT WAS INTERESTING THAT THE
00:22:33.46\00:22:37.00
PATRIARCHS - THE PATRIARCHS
ABRAHAM, ISAAC, AND JACOB,
00:22:37.00\00:22:44.33
THROUGH WHOM GOD WAS GOING TO
RAISE UP THIS GREAT NATION, ALL
00:22:44.33\00:22:47.73
OF THEM, AT SOME POINT, HAD
PROBLEM WITH THE WIVES BEING
00:22:47.73\00:22:51.33
BARREN. SARAH WAS BARREN AND GOD
00:22:51.33\00:22:54.23
PERFORMED A MIRACLE. SHE
HAD ISAAC. REBEKAH WAS BARREN -
00:22:54.23\00:22:58.90
I THINK SHE WAS MARRIED 20 YEARS
TO ISAAC BEFORE SHE HAD TWINS -
00:22:58.90\00:23:03.53
JACOB AND ESAU. THEN
RACHEL, THE PRINCIPLE WIFE
00:23:03.53\00:23:06.96
THAT JACOB
WANTED - SHE WAS BARREN.
00:23:06.96\00:23:08.70
SHE WAS THE ONE THAT SAID, 'GIVE
ME CHILDREN E'RE I DIE.' BUT YOU
00:23:08.70\00:23:12.20
KNOW WHAT HAPPENED TO THE
ISRAELITES WHEN THEY WENT DOWN
00:23:12.20\00:23:14.33
TO EGYPT? IT SAYS
THE LORD BLESSED THEM.
00:23:14.33\00:23:17.73
EVEN THOUGH THEY WERE IN
SLAVERY, WHAT WAS THE BLESSING?
00:23:17.73\00:23:21.20
THEY MULTIPLIED GREATLY.
MATTER OF FACT, YOU READ IT.
00:23:21.20\00:23:24.60
IT SAYS THEY
MULTIPLIED, THEY MULTIPLIED,
00:23:24.60\00:23:26.76
THEY MULTIPLIED
EXCEEDINGLY GREAT.
00:23:26.76\00:23:29.56
IT SEEMS TO SAY IT EVEN
MORE - SO MUCH SO THE EGYPTIANS
00:23:29.56\00:23:32.40
THOUGHT, 'WHAT IN THE WORLD
IS GOING ON HERE? THESE PEOPLE,
00:23:32.40\00:23:36.13
IN JUST A COUPLE HUNDRED
YEARS, THEY'RE FILLING THE LAND.
00:23:36.13\00:23:39.93
YOU KNOW, THERE'S SOMETHING OF
A DEMOGRAPHIC CRISIS IN CERTAIN
00:23:39.93\00:23:46.96
COUNTRIES OF EUROPE RIGHT NOW IN
THAT THE AVERAGE FRENCH CITIZEN
00:23:46.96\00:23:52.43
HAS LIKE .8 CHILDREN.
DO YOU REALIZE THAT OVER A
00:23:52.43\00:23:56.23
PERIOD OF TIME, IF YOU ONLY
HAVE .8 CHILDREN, YOU GO INTO
00:23:56.23\00:23:59.36
DECLINE. YOU
NEED TO HAVE, I THINK,
00:23:59.36\00:24:01.56
2.1 CHILDREN. HOW YOU HAVE
THAT .1 I DON'T KNOW, BUT YOU'RE
00:24:01.56\00:24:04.86
SUPPOSED TO HAVE LIKE 2.1
CHILDREN IN A CULTURE TO GROW.
00:24:04.86\00:24:07.56
WELL, THE AVERAGE FRENCH
CITIZEN, THEY'RE GOING INTO
00:24:07.56\00:24:10.20
DECLINE BUT THERE HAS BEEN
SO MUCH IMMIGRATION FROM THE
00:24:10.20\00:24:13.06
ISLAMIC COUNTRIES - WHOSE
AVERAGE FAMILY IS LIKE 8 TO 10 -
00:24:13.06\00:24:17.33
THAT THEY'RE
SEEING THIS EXPLOSION.
00:24:17.33\00:24:20.33
NOW, I UNDERSTAND, IN ENGLAND
THERE ARE MORE MOSQUES THAT ARE
00:24:20.33\00:24:23.63
OPENED THAN CHURCHES. SO
THAT'S - THE EGYPTIANS WERE
00:24:23.63\00:24:27.76
REALLY WORRIED WHEN THEY SAW
THE ISRAELITES JUST GROWING LIKE
00:24:27.76\00:24:30.90
THIS BECAUSE THEY THOUGHT,
'WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN?
00:24:30.90\00:24:32.90
THEY'RE GOING TO TAKE OVER THE
COUNTRY.' AND THAT'S WHY THEY
00:24:32.90\00:24:34.70
TRIED TO SUBJUGATE THEM.
BUT GOD SAW CHILDREN AS A
00:24:34.70\00:24:38.10
BLESSING. THAT'S THE MAIN
POINT WE'RE TRYING TO MAKE HERE.
00:24:38.10\00:24:40.46
THIS WAS THE HEBREW MIND
SET. CONVERSELY, THE VALUE OF
00:24:40.46\00:24:45.43
CHILDREN WAS NOT RECOGNIZED
BY A NUMBER OF OTHER CULTURES.
00:24:45.43\00:24:49.63
FOR INSTANCE, YOU CAN READ
IN JEREMIAH 7 - THIS IS IN YOUR
00:24:49.63\00:24:53.96
LESSON - JEREMIAH 7:31.
THE ISRAELITES STARTED TO
00:24:53.96\00:24:58.63
FOLLOW SOME OF
THE PAGAN CUSTOMS.
00:24:58.63\00:25:00.93
IT SAYS, AND THEY HAVE BUILT THE
HIGH PLACES OF TOPHET, WHICH IS
00:25:00.93\00:25:03.93
IN THE VALLEY OF THE SON OF
HINNOM, TO BURN THEIR SONS AND
00:25:03.93\00:25:07.53
THEIR DAUGHTERS IN THE FIRE;
WHICH I COMMANDED THEM NOT,
00:25:07.53\00:25:11.86
NEITHER CAME IT INTO MY HEART."
AND WHY WERE SOME OF THE PAGAN
00:25:11.86\00:25:14.73
NATIONS CAST OUT OF ISRAEL?
THE CANAANITES - WHEN THE
00:25:14.73\00:25:18.60
CHILDREN OF ISRAEL
CAME IN - CHILD SACRIFICE.
00:25:18.60\00:25:22.43
THEY DIDN'T UNDERSTAND
THE VALUE OF HUMAN LIFE.
00:25:22.43\00:25:26.30
WHAT WAS GOD'S
PLAN FOR CHILDREN?
00:25:26.30\00:25:29.16
THAT THEY WERE TO BE PROTECTED.
THAT THEY WOULD BE PRESERVED.
00:25:29.16\00:25:32.30
THEY REPRESENTED THE FUTURE
AND THEY WERE TO BE TRAINED
00:25:32.30\00:25:35.53
FOR THAT. THEY
WERE TO BE DISCIPLED.
00:25:35.53\00:25:41.80
LET ME ASK YOU ONE OF
THOSE, KIND OF A MORAL CONUNDRUM
00:25:41.80\00:25:44.70
QUESTIONS. YOU'RE IN
A SHIP THAT'S SINKING.
00:25:44.70\00:25:52.30
YOU'VE GOT A SMALL LIFEBOAT AND
YOU HAVE TO PLACE A COUPLE OF
00:25:52.30\00:26:01.36
PEOPLE IN THE LIFEBOAT.
YOU FINALLY GET DOWN TO WHERE
00:26:01.36\00:26:04.96
THERE'S ONLY ROOM FOR ONE MORE
AND YOU'VE GOT A 70-YEAR-OLD
00:26:04.96\00:26:09.63
WOMAN AND A 7-YEAR-OLD GIRL.
WHO DO YOU PUT IN THE LIFEBOAT.
00:26:09.63\00:26:18.06
SHALL I VOTE? LET ME
SEE. LET'S DO A SHOW OF HANDS.
00:26:18.06\00:26:20.00
IT'S KIND OF - NO ONE
WANTS TO VOTE, DO THEY?
00:26:20.00\00:26:23.46
YOU PRAY FOR A BIGGER BOAT.
00:26:23.46\00:26:24.66
YOU CAN'T - NO, NO, NO - I
KNOW, NO ONE WANTS TO DO THIS.
00:26:24.66\00:26:28.90
BUT HOW MANY WOULD THINK THAT IT
WOULD BE THE RIGHT DECISION TO
00:26:28.90\00:26:31.76
PUT THE 7-YEAR-OLD GIRL THERE?
ANYONE THE 70-YEAR-OLD WOMAN?
00:26:31.76\00:26:37.70
IT COULD BE A
MAN, IT DOESN'T MATTER.
00:26:37.70\00:26:39.03
I JUST WANTED TO MAKE IT MORE
DIFFICULT FOR YOU BECAUSE, YOU
00:26:39.03\00:26:40.96
KNOW, YOU SAY, 'WOMEN
AND CHILDREN FIRST, RIGHT?
00:26:40.96\00:26:43.76
WHY? WHY DO WE SAY THAT?
00:26:43.76\00:26:45.96
BECAUSE THEY'VE GOT
THEIR LIFE SPREAD BEFORE THEM.
00:26:45.96\00:26:48.53
AND SO THE ISRAELITES RECOGNIZED
THAT - THAT THE FUTURE - THEIR
00:26:48.53\00:26:52.46
LIVES WERE SPREAD BEFORE THEM.
YOU WANTED TO PROTECT THEM.
00:26:52.46\00:26:55.06
YOU WOULD LAY DOWN YOUR
LIFE TO PROTECT THE CHILDREN.
00:26:55.06\00:26:59.83
GENESIS 18 - THIS IS
GOD SPEAKING OF ABRAHAM -
00:26:59.83\00:27:03.10
GENESIS 18, VERSE 19.
00:27:03.10\00:27:04.70
THIS IS AN IMPORTANT VERSE
FOR OUR WHOLE LESSON TODAY.
00:27:04.70\00:27:07.36
"FOR I HAVE KNOWN HIM," -
ABRAHAM - "IN ORDER THAT HE MAY
00:27:07.36\00:27:10.86
COMMAND HIS CHILDREN AND HIS
HOUSEHOLD AFTER HIM, THAT THEY
00:27:10.86\00:27:15.73
KEEP THE WAY OF THE LORD, TO DO
RIGHTEOUSNESS AND JUSTICE, THAT
00:27:15.73\00:27:19.40
THE LORD MAY BRING TO ABRAHAM
WHAT HE HAS SPOKEN TO HIM."
00:27:19.40\00:27:24.13
WHAT WOULD HAPPEN TODAY IF -
IF A FATHER SAID, 'THE LORD HAS
00:27:24.13\00:27:30.50
SPOKEN TO ME AND GOD HAS TOLD
ME THAT ALL OF THE MALE CHILDREN
00:27:30.50\00:27:38.10
ARE TO BE CIRCUMCISED' - IF IT
HAD NEVER BEEN DONE BEFORE? NOW
00:27:38.10\00:27:41.96
KEEP IN MIND, BACK IN ABRAHAM'S
DAY THAT WAS A NEW THING.
00:27:41.96\00:27:44.86
IF THAT HAD NEVER BEEN
DONE BEFORE, WHAT WOULD HAPPEN?
00:27:44.86\00:27:49.10
WOULD CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES
UNDERSTAND THAT? CAN YOU
00:27:49.10\00:27:54.53
UNDERSTAND ABRAHAM TRYING
TO EXPLAIN THAT TO HIS FAMILY?
00:27:54.53\00:27:58.03
THE VERY FACT THAT HE WAS ABLE
TO SAY, 'THIS IS WHAT GOD HAS
00:27:58.03\00:28:01.03
TOLD ME' AND THEY
DIDN'T QUESTION MEANT THAT THEY
00:28:01.03\00:28:04.76
RESPECTED THEIR ELDERS
AND THE CHILDREN FOLLOWED.
00:28:04.76\00:28:07.80
THE FACT THAT HE SAID TO HIS
SON, ISAAC - HE DIDN'T WRESTLE
00:28:07.80\00:28:10.90
ISAAC TO THE GROUND AND TIE HIM
UP LIKE A CALF AT A RODEO WHEN
00:28:10.90\00:28:14.90
HE OFFERED HIM. ISAAC
WAS A WILLING SACRIFICE.
00:28:14.90\00:28:19.56
WHEN THE FATHER COMMANDED
SOMETHING THEY LISTENED.
00:28:19.56\00:28:22.30
AND SO PART OF DISCIPLING
CHILDREN IS CHILDREN LEARNING
00:28:22.30\00:28:25.56
THE IMPORTANCE OF OBEDIENCE.
00:28:25.56\00:28:27.23
LET ME READ SOMETHING TO YOU
HERE FROM - THIS IS 'COUNSEL TO
00:28:27.23\00:28:31.26
SABBATH SCHOOL WORKERS'
PAGE 44, "PARENTS HAVE A SACRED
00:28:31.26\00:28:35.56
RESPONSIBILITY AND A CHARGE
COMMITTED TO THEM AND THEY ARE
00:28:35.56\00:28:39.03
CALLED UPON TO KEEP
THEIR CHARGE, TO BEAR THEIR
00:28:39.03\00:28:41.60
RESPONSIBILITY IN THE FEAR OF
GOD, WATCHING FOR THE SOULS OF
00:28:41.60\00:28:45.46
THEIR CHILDREN AS THEY
WHO MUST GIVE AN ACCOUNT."
00:28:45.46\00:28:48.63
NOW, AM I THE ONLY ONE HERE
THAT WOULD CONFESS THAT I WISH I
00:28:48.63\00:28:52.56
KNEW ABOUT RAISING
CHILDREN - WHAT I KNOW NOW -
00:28:52.56\00:28:58.03
I WISH I KNEW IT
WHEN I HAD MY FIRST ONE.
00:28:58.03\00:29:03.10
HOW MANY OF YOU WISH YOU COULD
DO IT AGAIN KNOWING WHAT YOU
00:29:03.10\00:29:05.60
KNOW NOW. IT'S KIND OF
LIKE YOU LEARN AS YOU GO.
00:29:05.60\00:29:09.06
I THINK, YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES YOU
HAVE TO PRAY, 'LORD, I HOPE YOU
00:29:09.06\00:29:10.86
WILL OVERRULE THE MISTAKES
THAT I'VE MADE. BUT IT'S
00:29:10.86\00:29:13.90
VERY IMPORTANT TO KNOW THAT
CHILDREN REALLY AREN'T OURS.
00:29:13.90\00:29:17.30
THEY ARE A SACRED
CHARGE. THEY BELONG TO GOD.
00:29:17.30\00:29:19.86
AND SO, WE NOT ONLY
HAVE THE PRIVILEGE, WE HAVE A
00:29:19.86\00:29:22.76
RESPONSIBILITY TO DISCIPLE THEM.
FOR THE CHILDREN, THE PARENTS
00:29:22.76\00:29:27.00
AND THE GRANDPARENTS STAND IN
THE POSITION OF GOD AND THEY ARE
00:29:27.00\00:29:31.73
TO - THROUGH RESPECT AND
THROUGH OBEDIENCE AND THROUGH
00:29:31.73\00:29:35.33
UNDERSTANDING OF THE WILL OF
THE PARENTS, THAT WILL LATER BE
00:29:35.33\00:29:38.63
SUPERIMPOSED ON
GOD AS THEY GROW.
00:29:38.63\00:29:41.16
AND IT'S A VERY
IMPORTANT RESPONSIBILITY.
00:29:41.16\00:29:43.93
LOOK HERE, FOR A MOMENT IN
DEUTERONOMY - SOMEONE LOOK UP
00:29:43.93\00:29:47.20
FOR ME PROVERBS - I GAVE IT
TO YOU SO YOU ALREADY HAVE IT.
00:29:47.20\00:29:50.00
PROVERBS 22:6. I DON'T
KNOW WHO HAS THAT VERSE.
00:29:50.00\00:29:53.00
JOLYNE? YOUR HAND
WENT UP FIRST, I THINK.
00:29:53.00\00:29:55.16
SO WE'LL GET YOU A MICROPHONE.
MAYBE YOU ALREADY HAVE IT. OKAY.
00:29:55.16\00:29:58.56
IN THE MEANTIME, I'M
GOING TO READ DEUTERONOMY 4:9.
00:29:58.56\00:30:03.56
GOT YOUR BIBLES?
00:30:03.56\00:30:05.86
"ONLY TAKE HEED TO YOURSELF, AND
DILIGENTLY KEEP YOURSELF, LEST
00:30:05.86\00:30:09.66
YOU FORGET THE THINGS YOUR EYES
HAVE SEEN, AND LEST THEY DEPART
00:30:09.66\00:30:12.93
FROM YOUR HEART ALL
THE DAYS OF YOUR LIFE.
00:30:12.93\00:30:14.86
AND TEACH THEM TO YOUR
CHILDREN AND YOUR GRANDCHILDREN.
00:30:14.86\00:30:18.56
ESPECIALLY CONCERNING THE DAY
YOU STOOD BEFORE THE LORD AND
00:30:18.56\00:30:21.30
YOUR GOD IN HOREB, WHEN THE LORD
SAID TO ME, 'GATHER THE PEOPLE
00:30:21.30\00:30:25.16
TO ME, AND I WILL LET THEM HEAR
MY WORDS, THAT THEY MAY LEARN TO
00:30:25.16\00:30:29.30
FEAR ME ALL THE DAYS THEY LIVE
ON THE EARTH, AND THAT THEY MAY
00:30:29.30\00:30:32.66
TEACH THEIR CHILDREN.'" AND YOU
KNOW WHAT HE SAYS AS YOU READ
00:30:32.66\00:30:35.50
ON? ESPECIALLY
CONCERNING THE DAY
00:30:35.50\00:30:38.36
THAT HE DELIVERED
UNTO YOU HIS COVENANT.
00:30:38.36\00:30:40.83
SO WHEN YOU'RE TEACHING YOUR
CHILDREN, WHAT'S A GOOD STARTING
00:30:40.83\00:30:43.00
POINT? TEN COMMANDMENTS, RIGHT?
00:30:43.00\00:30:47.50
JUST LET THEM KNOW
WHAT THE LAW OF GOD SAYS.
00:30:47.50\00:30:50.50
TEACH YOUR CHILDREN - AND THEN
GO TO DEUTERONOMY 6 - AND THIS
00:30:50.50\00:30:53.50
IS WHERE YOU ALSO HEAR THAT
GREAT STATEMENT, 'HEAR O ISRAEL,
00:30:53.50\00:30:55.73
THE LORD OUR GOD IS ONE.
THOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD THY
00:30:55.73\00:30:57.80
GOD.' GO TO VERSE - DEUTERONOMY
CHAPTER 6, VERSE 6, "AND THESE
00:30:57.80\00:31:02.66
WORDS WHICH I COMMAND
YOU TODAY" - WHAT WORDS?
00:31:02.66\00:31:06.56
DEUTERONOMY 5 -
TEN COMMANDMENTS.
00:31:06.56\00:31:08.50
DEUTERONOMY 6 HE SAYS, 'THESE
WORDS I'VE COMMANDED YOU TODAY
00:31:08.50\00:31:11.83
"YOU SHALL TEACH
THEM DILIGENTLY" -
00:31:11.83\00:31:14.23
NOW WHAT DOES DILIGENTLY MEAN?
00:31:14.23\00:31:16.66
NOT JUST TEACHING THEM,
TEACHING THEM DILIGENTLY.
00:31:16.66\00:31:20.10
DILIGENTLY ALMOST HAS THE IDEA
IN THE HEBREW 'TO THE POINT OF
00:31:20.10\00:31:25.50
PERSPIRATION'. IT'S AEROBICALLY.
IT MEANS THERE'S INTENSE EFFORT.
00:31:25.50\00:31:30.86
IT MEANS IT'S NOT AN
AFTER THOUGHT, IT'S A FOCUS.
00:31:30.86\00:31:34.10
THERE'S AN INTENSITY TO
IT. TEACH THEM DILIGENTLY.
00:31:34.10\00:31:37.23
MAKE IT A PRIORITY.
00:31:37.23\00:31:38.80
"...TEACH THEM DILIGENTLY
TO YOUR CHILDREN" - THEN HE
00:31:38.80\00:31:42.03
EXPLAINS WHAT THAT MEANS -
"...TALK OF THEM WHEN YOU SIT IN
00:31:42.03\00:31:44.86
YOUR HOUSE, WHEN YOU WALK BY
THE WAY, WHEN YOU LIE DOWN" -
00:31:44.86\00:31:49.20
EVENING WORSHIP -
"AND WHEN YOU RISE UP."
00:31:49.20\00:31:51.06
- MORNING WORSHIP. AND
SO - AND IT SAYS YOU SHOULD
00:31:51.06\00:31:54.80
PUT THEM ON THE POSTS OF YOUR
GATE AND ON THE DOORS OF YOUR
00:31:54.80\00:31:57.26
HOUSE. SURROUND THEM WITH THE
00:31:57.26\00:31:59.83
PRINCIPLES AND TRUTHS OF GOD'S
WORD SO THAT IT'S INGRAINED IN
00:31:59.83\00:32:03.76
THEIR CHARACTERS. NOW
WHY IS THIS IMPORTANT?
00:32:03.76\00:32:06.00
GO AHEAD AND READ
FOR US PROVERBS 22:6.
00:32:06.00\00:32:09.53
>>"TRAIN UP A CHILD IN THE WAY
HE SHOULD GO, AND WHEN HE IS OLD
00:32:09.53\00:32:14.33
HE WILL NOT DEPART FROM IT."
00:32:14.33\00:32:16.53
>>WE ARE ALL, TO A GREAT EXTENT,
WHO WE ARE BECAUSE OF WHAT WE'VE
00:32:16.53\00:32:22.30
TAKEN INTO OUR SENSES
OVER THE COURSE OF OUR LIVES.
00:32:22.30\00:32:27.36
YOU'VE HEARD IT SAID BEFORE THAT
IF YOU SLEEP WITH DOGS YOU GET
00:32:27.36\00:32:30.23
FLEAS. AND EVIL COMPANIONS WILL
CORRUPT A PERSON. CHOOSE YOUR
00:32:30.23\00:32:38.06
FRIENDS CAREFULLY BECAUSE
YOU WILL BECOME LIKE THEM.
00:32:38.06\00:32:41.16
AND SO, IF YOUNG PEOPLE
ARE SPENDING MORE TIME WITH
00:32:41.16\00:32:45.63
TELEVISION THAN WITH THEIR
PARENTS, WHAT IS DEFINING THEIR
00:32:45.63\00:32:49.56
VALUES? IT'S
GOING TO BE THE MEDIA.
00:32:49.56\00:32:54.26
AND IF THEY'RE SPENDING MORE
TIME WITH THEIR FRIENDS THAN
00:32:54.26\00:32:57.10
WITH THEIR PARENTS, WHAT'S
GOING TO DEFINE THEIR VALUES?
00:32:57.10\00:33:00.86
IT'S GOING TO BE THEIR FRIENDS.
YOU KNOW, WE'RE - WE'RE AT A
00:33:00.86\00:33:05.13
DISADVANTAGE TODAY BECAUSE FOR
THE FIRST 6,000 YEARS - 5,900
00:33:05.13\00:33:11.86
YEARS OF THE WORLD'S HISTORY,
FAMILIES HAD TO WORK TOGETHER.
00:33:11.86\00:33:17.06
FAMILIES THAT HAD A
FARM, THEY ALL WORKED TOGETHER.
00:33:17.06\00:33:20.00
IF THEY RAN A TANNERY,
THEY ALL MADE LEATHER TOGETHER.
00:33:20.00\00:33:22.90
IF THEY DID THE BLACKSMITHING,
THEN THE CHILDREN IN THE FAMILY
00:33:22.90\00:33:26.36
ALL WORKED TOGETHER
SOMEHOW IN THE BUSINESS.
00:33:26.36\00:33:29.26
WHETHER THEY MADE BROOMS OR
WHATEVER THEY DID - IF THEY WERE
00:33:29.26\00:33:31.26
CARPENTERS - JESUS, WHAT DO
YOU THINK HIS PRIMARY SKILL WAS?
00:33:31.26\00:33:35.60
HE GREW UP IN
THE HOUSE OF JOSEPH.
00:33:35.60\00:33:36.90
YOU LEARNED THE
TRADE. YOU BECAME EXPERTS.
00:33:36.90\00:33:38.96
YOU LEARN FROM A VERY EARLY
AGE TO WORK AND BECAUSE YOU'RE
00:33:38.96\00:33:42.60
WORKING DAY BY DAY - YOU'RE
OUT IN THE FIELDS, YOU'RE IN THE
00:33:42.60\00:33:45.10
SHOP WITH YOUR MOM AND
WITH YOUR DAD, THERE'S A LOT OF
00:33:45.10\00:33:48.53
INTEGRATION. YOU LEARN.
YOU'RE ABLE TO EMBED THAT.
00:33:48.53\00:33:52.13
BUT HOW IS IT TODAY?
PARENTS GET UP IN A SCRAMBLE.
00:33:52.13\00:33:56.20
MOM AND DAD COMMUTE OFF TO WORK.
KIDS COMMUTE OFF TO SCHOOL AND
00:33:56.20\00:34:00.53
THEN THEY COME HOME AND THE
PARENTS - AND SOMETIMES THEY'RE
00:34:00.53\00:34:04.76
LATCHKEY KIDS AND THEY TURN ON
THEIR VIDEO GAMES, THEY TURN ON
00:34:04.76\00:34:09.13
- THEY HOPEFULLY DO SOME
HOMEWORK - THEY TURN ON THE
00:34:09.13\00:34:11.33
TELEVISION AND AT THE END OF
THE DAY THE PARENTS COME HOME.
00:34:11.33\00:34:14.30
YOU RACE AROUND, DO SOME
HOUSEHOLD CHORES AND LAUNDRY AND
00:34:14.30\00:34:16.43
THINGS LIKE THAT - TALK A LITTLE
BIT AROUND THE DINNER TABLE.
00:34:16.43\00:34:20.50
THEN THERE'S MORE TV
AND THEN YOU GO TO SLEEP.
00:34:20.50\00:34:25.13
THERE'S NEVER BEEN A GENERATION
THAT'S FACED WITH THAT KIND OF
00:34:25.13\00:34:28.60
DYNAMIC THAT WE HAVE TODAY.
AND SO WHAT'S MOLDING THE MINDS
00:34:28.60\00:34:33.50
OF SO MANY OF THE YOUNG PEOPLE?
THE PARENTS OR THE OTHER MEDIA?
00:34:33.50\00:34:39.40
AND SO THAT'S A REAL DIFFICULT
DYNAMIC THAT WE HAVE TODAY THAT
00:34:39.40\00:34:42.56
WE HAVEN'T ALWAYS HAD.
ALRIGHT, JESUS' CHILDHOOD.
00:34:42.56\00:34:45.23
LET'S LOOK AT
CHRIST AS OUR EXAMPLE HERE.
00:34:45.23\00:34:47.86
LUKE 2:40, IT SAYS, "AND THE
CHILD GREW" - SOMEONE LOOK UP
00:34:47.86\00:34:51.76
FOR ME LUKE 2:51. WHO HAS THAT?
WE'VE GOT A HAND BACK HERE -
00:34:51.76\00:34:56.00
JAN - WHERE'S THE MICROPHONE?
OH, YOU'VE GOT IT. GOOD.
00:34:56.00\00:34:59.30
OKAY, WE'LL GET TO
YOU IN JUST A MOMENT.
00:34:59.30\00:35:01.10
I'M GOING TO READ LUKE 2:40.
"AND THE CHILD" - WHAT CHILD IS
00:35:01.10\00:35:04.16
IT TALKING ABOUT? THIS IS JESUS.
"AND THE CHILD GREW AND BECAME
00:35:04.16\00:35:08.50
STRONG IN SPIRIT, FILLED WITH
WISDOM; AND THE GRACE OF GOD WAS
00:35:08.50\00:35:12.36
UPON HIM." NOW
THERE'S A LOT OF THEORIES
00:35:12.36\00:35:15.76
AND SPECULATION ABOUT
WHERE JESUS LEARNED HIS WISDOM.
00:35:15.76\00:35:20.26
DID JESUS LEARN HIS WISDOM FROM
THE RABBIS IN INDIA OR FROM SOME
00:35:20.26\00:35:29.13
- PEOPLE SAY, 'WHERE - YOU
KNOW, THERE'S THE HIDDEN YEARS.
00:35:29.13\00:35:31.40
THERE'S THE MISSING
YEARS OF JESUS' CHILDHOOD.
00:35:31.40\00:35:34.00
WHERE DID HE GO
AND WHAT DID HE DO?'
00:35:34.00\00:35:35.83
AND 'WAS HE OFF LEARNING FROM
SOME GURUS IN PERSIA OR WAS HE
00:35:35.83\00:35:41.06
DOWN IN EGYPT READING IN
THE LIBRARIES OF ALEXANDER?
00:35:41.06\00:35:43.93
WHERE DID HE GET THIS WISDOM?"
00:35:43.93\00:35:45.26
THEY EVEN HAD A BOOK THAT CAME
OUT YEARS AGO - POPULAR FOR A
00:35:45.26\00:35:48.83
SHORT TIME WHEN I WAS A YOUNG
HIPPIE AND IT'S CALLED 'THE
00:35:48.83\00:35:52.36
AQUARIAN GOSPEL OF JESUS' AND
SOMEONE SAID, YOU KNOW, 'JESUS
00:35:52.36\00:35:55.10
HAD GONE AND LEARNED
THESE THINGS FROM THE MYSTICS.
00:35:55.10\00:35:57.46
DURING THOSE YEARS - THOSE
MYSTERY YEARS - HE DISAPPEARED.'
00:35:57.46\00:36:02.10
THE BIBLE DOESN'T
SAY THAT HE DISAPPEARED.
00:36:02.10\00:36:05.40
AND YOU CAN READ, FOR INSTANCE,
WHERE WAS HE DURING THOSE YEARS?
00:36:05.40\00:36:08.60
YOU READ IN THE BOOK 'DESIRE OF
AGES' PAGE 70, "THE CHILD JESUS
00:36:08.60\00:36:12.23
DID NOT RECEIVE INSTRUCTION
IN THE SYNAGOGUE SCHOOL.
00:36:12.23\00:36:15.13
HIS MOTHER WAS HIS
FIRST HUMAN TEACHER.
00:36:15.13\00:36:17.93
FROM HER LIPS AND FROM
THE SCROLLS OF THE PROPHETS HE
00:36:17.93\00:36:20.70
LEARNED OF HEAVENLY THINGS.
THE VERY WORDS WHICH HE HIMSELF
00:36:20.70\00:36:24.13
HAD SPOKEN TO MOSES FOR
ISRAEL HE WAS NOW TAUGHT AT HIS
00:36:24.13\00:36:27.63
MOTHER'S KNEE." SO
WHERE DID JESUS LEARN?
00:36:27.63\00:36:31.46
FROM THE SCRIPTURES
FROM HIS MOTHER'S KNEE.
00:36:31.46\00:36:33.70
WHY DIDN'T SHE SEND HIM
TO THE SCHOOLS OF THE RABBIS?
00:36:33.70\00:36:38.20
WELL, A COUPLE OF REASONS.
00:36:38.20\00:36:40.30
ONE IS, I THINK MARY UNDERSTOOD
THAT A LOT OF MAN-MADE
00:36:40.30\00:36:42.73
TRADITIONS HAD, AT THAT TIME,
BECOME EMBEDDED IN THE HEBREW
00:36:42.73\00:36:48.63
TEACHINGS. AND THERE
MIGHT HAVE BEEN ANOTHER DYNAMIC.
00:36:48.63\00:36:52.03
IN SMALL COMMUNITIES, WAS
THERE SOME QUESTION ABOUT JESUS'
00:36:52.03\00:36:55.26
BIRTH? DID THE
RELIGIOUS LEADERS SAY,
00:36:55.26\00:36:59.76
'WE DON'T KNOW
WHERE THIS MAN IS FROM'?
00:36:59.76\00:37:02.40
THERE'S SOME QUESTION ABOUT
'DIDN'T MARY SEEM TO BE PREGNANT
00:37:02.40\00:37:06.66
BEFORE THEY HAD THEIR WEDDING?
WHAT WAS GOING ON THERE?'
00:37:06.66\00:37:11.50
AND SO THERE WAS, YOU KNOW, A
LOT OF RUMORS AND INNUENDO AND
00:37:11.50\00:37:14.76
PART OF THE REASON THAT HE MAYBE
WAS NOT SUBJECTED TO THAT WAS HE
00:37:14.76\00:37:18.40
MAY HAVE BEEN A LITTLE BIT
OF AN OUTCAST IN THAT COMMUNITY.
00:37:18.40\00:37:22.10
BUT HE LEARNED THE SCRIPTURES
FROM MARY. IT'S INTERESTING,
00:37:22.10\00:37:25.76
THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE CHANGED
THE WORLD THE MOST - MOSES AND
00:37:25.76\00:37:31.70
DAVID, YOU KNOW, HANNAH - SAMUEL
- THOSE YOUNG PEOPLE THEY SPENT
00:37:31.70\00:37:37.66
A LOT OF TIME LEARNING FROM
THEIR MOTHERS THE WORD OF GOD
00:37:37.66\00:37:40.53
AND IT IMPRESSED IT ON THEIR
TENDER HEARTS FROM AN EARLY AGE.
00:37:40.53\00:37:44.10
AND IF THEY DIDN'T RECEIVE IT
THEN, SOMETIMES IT JUST DIDN'T
00:37:44.10\00:37:47.23
TAKE THE WAY IT COULD.
00:37:47.23\00:37:49.33
ALRIGHT, READ FOR
US LUKE 2, VERSE 51.
00:37:49.33\00:37:54.16
>>"THEN HE WENT DOWN WITH
THEM AND CAME TO NAZARETH,
00:37:54.16\00:37:57.10
AND WAS SUBJECT TO THEM, BUT
HIS MOTHER KEPT ALL THESE THINGS
00:37:57.10\00:38:00.23
IN HER HEART."
00:38:00.23\00:38:01.93
>>YEAH, READ THE
NEXT VERSE TOO, JAN.
00:38:01.93\00:38:05.03
>>"AND JESUS INCREASED IN WISDOM
AND STATURE, AND IN FAVOR WITH
00:38:05.03\00:38:08.50
GOD AND MEN."
00:38:08.50\00:38:10.30
>>ALRIGHT, SO PEOPLE
SAY, 'WHERE DID HE GO?'
00:38:10.30\00:38:12.03
WELL, IT TELLS US WHERE HE WENT.
00:38:12.03\00:38:13.66
HE WENT DOWN AND WENT TO
NAZARETH, HE WAS SUBJECT TO THEM
00:38:13.66\00:38:18.20
AND HE INCREASED IN WISDOM AND
STATURE - HE GREW UP - AND THIS
00:38:18.20\00:38:22.66
IS TALKING ABOUT WHEN HE WAS
TWELVE YEARS OLD AND HE WENT TO
00:38:22.66\00:38:24.70
THE TEMPLE AND THE PARENTS LOST
TRACK OF HIM FOR A FEW DAYS AND
00:38:24.70\00:38:28.36
THEY FOUND HIM - HE WAS IN
THE TEMPLE EXCHANGING AND ASKING
00:38:28.36\00:38:31.10
QUESTIONS WITH
THE SCHOLARS THERE.
00:38:31.10\00:38:34.70
ANYWAY, SO IS THERE A QUESTION
ABOUT WHAT JESUS DID WITH HIS
00:38:34.70\00:38:37.90
CHILDHOOD OR DOES THE BIBLE TELL
US? NOW, CHILDREN NEED TO BE
00:38:37.90\00:38:42.83
TREATED DIFFERENTLY THAN ADULTS.
CHILDREN ARE CHILDREN, THEY'RE
00:38:42.83\00:38:47.66
NOT ADULTS AND THE WAY THAT YOU
TEACH CHILDREN IS GOING TO BE
00:38:47.66\00:38:52.40
DIFFERENT THAN THE
WAY YOU TEACH ADULTS.
00:38:52.40\00:38:54.43
WHEN YOU HAVE FAMILY WORSHIP
AND YOU'VE GOT CHILDREN IN THE
00:38:54.43\00:38:57.20
FAMILY, YOU MAY NOT WANT TO PULL
DOWN, YOU KNOW, MATTHEW HENRY'S
00:38:57.20\00:39:02.90
COMMENTARY AND
READ EIGHT CHAPTERS.
00:39:02.90\00:39:06.46
IS IT GOING TO - ARE THEY
GOING TO GET A LOT OUT OF THAT?
00:39:06.46\00:39:10.50
SO WHEN THERE'S YOUNG CHILDREN,
YOU KNOW - AND IF YOU'VE GOT
00:39:10.50\00:39:12.63
CHILDREN THAT ARE SPREAD
ACROSS THE SPECTRUM - I'VE GOT
00:39:12.63\00:39:14.70
ONE FRIEND THAT HE'S GOT LIKE
EIGHT KIDS AND SO AT THE SAME
00:39:14.70\00:39:17.86
TIME HE'S GOT TEENAGERS,
HE'S GOT TODDLERS. AND SO THEIR
00:39:17.86\00:39:21.03
FAMILY WORSHIP, THEY'VE
GOT TO DO SOME SINGING AND
00:39:21.03\00:39:23.46
STUFF THAT THE LITTLE ONES
UNDERSTAND, THEN SAY SOMETHING A
00:39:23.46\00:39:25.40
LITTLE MORE CHALLENGING AND
PROFOUND THAT WILL APPEAL TO THE
00:39:25.40\00:39:29.40
OLDER KIDS AND
STILL MAKE IT RELEVANT.
00:39:29.40\00:39:32.66
AND THAT TAKES SOME THINKING
TO DO IT THAT WAY AND YOU MIGHT
00:39:32.66\00:39:35.20
EVEN HAVE SOME PRIVATE TIME WITH
THE OLDER KIDS WHERE YOU DO A
00:39:35.20\00:39:37.73
STUDY WITH THEM - DO SOMETHING
SIMPLE WITH THE LITTLE ONES
00:39:37.73\00:39:40.23
BEFORE YOU PUT THEM TO BED -
BUT YOU'VE GOT TO BE CREATIVE
00:39:40.23\00:39:43.26
SO THAT YOU MAKE IT RELEVANT.
00:39:43.26\00:39:45.23
THE BIBLE TELLS US
CHILDREN SPEAK DIFFERENTLY.
00:39:45.23\00:39:48.63
1 CORINTHIANS CHAPTER 13, VERSE
11, "WHEN I WAS A CHILD, I SPOKE
00:39:48.63\00:39:53.30
AS A CHILD, I UNDERSTOOD AS A
CHILD, I THOUGHT AS A CHILD; BUT
00:39:53.30\00:39:57.53
WHEN I BECAME A MAN, I
PUT AWAY CHILDISH THINGS."
00:39:57.53\00:40:01.40
AND SO CHILDREN
SPEAK DIFFERENTLY.
00:40:01.40\00:40:03.20
CHILDREN THINK DIFFERENTLY.
I JUST SORT OF READ THAT.
00:40:03.20\00:40:07.03
1 CORINTHIANS 14:20,
"BRETHREN, DO NOT BE CHILDREN IN
00:40:07.03\00:40:11.63
UNDERSTANDING;
HOWEVER, IN MALICE BE BABES,
00:40:11.63\00:40:15.36
BUT IN UNDERSTANDING BE MATURE."
00:40:15.36\00:40:18.10
SO BABES HAVE
BABE-LIKE UNDERSTANDING.
00:40:18.10\00:40:21.33
PARENTS SOMETIMES BECOME ANGRY
WITH THEIR CHILDREN FOR THINKING
00:40:21.33\00:40:24.00
LIKE CHILDREN AND
FOR ACTING LIKE CHILDREN.
00:40:24.00\00:40:26.53
HAVE YOU EVER SEEN
THAT? IT'S KIND OF SAD.
00:40:26.53\00:40:28.40
A FATHER WILL COME DOWN REAL
HARD ON THE BOY OR CHILD FOR
00:40:28.40\00:40:32.56
DOING SOMETHING CHILDISH AND
BE VERY SEVERE AND EXACTING AND
00:40:32.56\00:40:36.66
PUNISH THEM AND THEY JUST
- THEY DO SILLY THINGS THAT
00:40:36.66\00:40:39.16
CHILDREN DO. AND SO YOU'VE
GOT TO SOMETIMES REMEMBER THAT.
00:40:39.16\00:40:42.83
CHILDREN EAT DIFFERENTLY
WHEN THEY'RE YOUNG. HEBREWS 5:13
00:40:42.83\00:40:47.43
AND 14, "FOR EVERYONE WHO
PARTAKES OF MILK IS UNSKILLED IN
00:40:47.43\00:40:52.70
THE WORD OF RIGHTEOUSNESS,
FOR HIS IS A BABE.
00:40:52.70\00:40:55.20
BUT SOLID FOOD BELONGS TO THOSE
WHO ARE OF FULL AGE, THAT IS,
00:40:55.20\00:40:59.13
THOSE WHO BY REASON OF USE
HAVE THEIR SENSES EXERCISED TO
00:40:59.13\00:41:02.66
DISCERN BOTH GOOD AND EVIL."
00:41:02.66\00:41:04.30
IT'S FUN TO WATCH AS CHILDREN
START TRANSITIONING INTO
00:41:04.30\00:41:10.03
TEENAGERS AND THEY START ASKING
SOME DEEPER MORE PHILOSOPHICAL
00:41:10.03\00:41:14.30
QUESTIONS. YOU KNOW
WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT?
00:41:14.30\00:41:16.93
AND YOU CAN JUST SEE THEIR
REASONING POWERS BEGIN TO MATURE
00:41:16.93\00:41:20.40
AS THEY GROW UP.
00:41:20.40\00:41:21.70
AND, YOU KNOW, SO WHEN THEY'RE
REAL YOUNG THEY ASK QUESTIONS.
00:41:21.70\00:41:24.03
AND EVEN WHEN THEY'RE REAL
YOUNG, ALL OF A SUDDEN YOU CAN
00:41:24.03\00:41:25.63
SEE THEIR MINDS WORKING AND
THEY'RE STARTING TO RATIONALIZE
00:41:25.63\00:41:28.23
AND PROCESS IN WAYS
THAT ONLY HUMANS CAN.
00:41:28.23\00:41:31.30
ONLY HUMANS CAN THINK
ABSTRACTLY. IT'S A GIFT.
00:41:31.30\00:41:35.93
IT'S ONE OF THE THINGS
THAT GOD GIVES US WHERE HE SAYS,
00:41:35.93\00:41:37.93
'COME, LET US REASON TOGETHER'.
00:41:37.93\00:41:40.03
AND WHEN YOU SEE CHILDREN
BEGINNING TO REASON THESE THINGS
00:41:40.03\00:41:42.23
OUT IN THEIR MINDS AND PROCESS
THESE PROFOUND TRUTHS OF LIFE,
00:41:42.23\00:41:45.56
DOESN'T IT MAKE YOU HAPPY?
00:41:45.56\00:41:47.43
BUT THERE'S A PROGRESSION
THERE AND IT TAKES TIME TO GROW.
00:41:47.43\00:41:52.36
WHAT'S SAD IS THAT WHEN PEOPLE
ARE IN THE CHURCH FOR YEARS AND
00:41:52.36\00:41:57.60
- YOU UNDERSTAND WHEN YOU'RE
STUDYING THE BIBLE WITH YOUNG
00:41:57.60\00:42:01.00
CHILDREN, YOU WALK OUT
HERE TO THE CRADLE ROLL CLASS
00:42:01.00\00:42:03.86
AND IT'S GOING
TO BE PRETTY SIMPLE.
00:42:03.86\00:42:05.80
THEY'RE GOING TO BE BANGING
STICKS TOGETHER AND SINGING
00:42:05.80\00:42:07.43
ABOUT HEAVEN AND THEY'LL
HAVE LITTLE LAMBS AND THINGS AND
00:42:07.43\00:42:09.33
THEY'RE JUST GIVEN
THE BASIC PRINCIPLES.
00:42:09.33\00:42:11.86
IF I START TEACHING SABBATH
SCHOOL THAT WAY, FOR ALL OF YOU,
00:42:11.86\00:42:15.66
EVENTUALLY YOU'D SAY, 'PASTOR
DOUG, FINALLY I'M GETTING IT.'
00:42:15.66\00:42:20.63
NO. EVENTUALLY YOU'D SAY, 'CAN
WE HAVE SOMETHING A LITTLE MORE
00:42:20.63\00:42:28.16
SOLID?' YOU
KNOW, ALL THIS PABLAM -
00:42:28.16\00:42:32.13
ALL THIS JUST
SWEET STUFF, YOU KNOW?
00:42:32.13\00:42:36.73
I REMEMBER ONCE WHEN I WAS
REALLY POOR - LIVING ON THE
00:42:36.73\00:42:39.90
STREETS - THAT A FRIEND, WHO WAS
GETTING GOVERNMENT ASSISTANCE,
00:42:39.90\00:42:45.63
ENDED UP GETTING A CASE OF BABY
FOOD AND HE WAS WILLING TO SHARE
00:42:45.63\00:42:49.63
IT WITH ME. ALL I
HAD TO EAT WAS BABY FOOD.
00:42:49.63\00:42:54.33
AND, YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU'RE REAL
HUNGRY, THAT FIRST JAR TASTED
00:42:54.33\00:42:58.33
REALLY GOOD. BUT,
YOU KNOW, YOU CAN'T GET
00:42:58.33\00:42:59.80
FULL ON ONE OF THOSE
LITTLE GLASS GERBER JARS.
00:42:59.80\00:43:03.86
AND I REMEMBER SITTING DOWN
AND THINKING, 'ALRIGHT, THIS IS
00:43:03.86\00:43:06.13
BREAKFAST' AND GOING THROUGH
A WHOLE BUNCH OF LITTLE PEACHES.
00:43:06.13\00:43:10.63
AND YOU'RE JUST...IT TASTED
GOOD BUT, YOU KNOW, YOU FEEL -
00:43:10.63\00:43:15.40
IT'S ALSO VERY EMBARRASSING.
00:43:15.40\00:43:17.90
I HEARD ABOUT A PRISON WARDEN
THAT THE PRISONERS WERE RIOTING
00:43:17.90\00:43:23.23
AND MISBEHAVING AND, YOU KNOW,
ONE OF THE WARDENS HE SAID,
00:43:23.23\00:43:26.56
IF YOU MISBEHAVE THEY PUT
YOU ON BREAD AND WATER.' AND ALL
00:43:26.56\00:43:29.36
THE PRISONERS SAID, 'YEAH, WE'RE
ON BREAD AND WATER NOW BECAUSE
00:43:29.36\00:43:31.86
WE'VE BEEN TOUGH.' AND WHAT THIS
NEW PRISON WARDEN DECIDED TO DO
00:43:31.86\00:43:35.66
- HE SAYS, 'WE'RE GIVING YOU
BABY FOOD.' AND SO HE JUST FED
00:43:35.66\00:43:39.26
THEM BABY FOOD WHEN
THEY WERE MISBEHAVING.
00:43:39.26\00:43:41.56
IT WAS SO HUMILIATING
THEY STARTED BEHAVING.
00:43:41.56\00:43:43.66
THEY DIDN'T WANT
THE BABY FOOD ANYMORE.
00:43:43.66\00:43:45.53
BUT, YOU KNOW, YOU'VE GOT SOME
PEOPLE WHO ARE CHRISTIANS FOR
00:43:45.53\00:43:47.50
YEARS AND IT'S
STILL JUST BABY FOOD.
00:43:47.50\00:43:50.30
AND YOU WANT TO BE ABLE
TO, YOU KNOW, CHALLENGE PEOPLE.
00:43:50.30\00:43:54.10
IT'S A CHALLENGE FOR PASTORS
BECAUSE WHEN YOU PREACH, WHAT
00:43:54.10\00:43:59.00
SOME CHURCHES DO IS THEY
SEPARATE THE CHILDREN FROM THE
00:43:59.00\00:44:01.30
ADULTS FOR THE WORSHIP SERVICE
AND THEY HAVE - I THINK IT'S
00:44:01.30\00:44:06.26
IMPORTANT FOR THE WORSHIP
SERVICE FOR ALL THE FAMILIES TO
00:44:06.26\00:44:09.66
COME TOGETHER AND TO WORSHIP
GOD AND CHILDREN LEARN ABOUT
00:44:09.66\00:44:12.76
APPROPRIATE WORSHIP
FROM OBSERVING THE PARENTS.
00:44:12.76\00:44:14.70
AND THEY SAY, 'OH BUT, YOU KNOW,
THEY'RE FIDDLING AND THEY NEED'
00:44:14.70\00:44:17.00
- THEY NEED TO
LEARN TO SIT STILL.
00:44:17.00\00:44:18.93
IT DOES TAKE TIME BUT THEY
CAN LEARN THAT AND, YOU KNOW,
00:44:18.93\00:44:21.86
WE HAVE A MOTHER'S ROOM.
00:44:21.86\00:44:23.20
AND THE IDEA - IT'S
REALLY A TRAINING ROOM.
00:44:23.20\00:44:25.26
SO WHEN THEY START TO SQUIRM
AND GET OUT OF HAND AND YOU TAKE
00:44:25.26\00:44:27.33
THEM BACK THERE AND
YOU TEACH THEM HOW TO SIT.
00:44:27.33\00:44:30.00
AND THAT'S WHY THERE'S A
GLASS - SO THEY CAN LOOK IN AND
00:44:30.00\00:44:32.00
THEY CAN PARTICIPATE.
00:44:32.00\00:44:33.43
BUT THEY'RE EVENTUALLY
SUPPOSED TO LEARN TO COME IN.
00:44:33.43\00:44:36.43
SO WE ALL TOGETHER
WORSHIP GOD TOGETHER.
00:44:36.43\00:44:39.53
BUT A LOT OF THESE CHURCHES
THEY KIND OF SEPARATE OUT.
00:44:39.53\00:44:43.70
AND THEY SAY THEY'VE GOT THE
CHILD CHURCH AND THE KIDS DON'T
00:44:43.70\00:44:46.80
EVEN WORSHIP WITH THEIR PARENTS.
00:44:46.80\00:44:49.26
BUT IT IS A CHALLENGE FOR
A PASTOR, WHEN YOU PREACH THE
00:44:49.26\00:44:52.03
SERMON, TO SAY SOMETHING THAT
NOT ONLY THE ADULTS WILL GET
00:44:52.03\00:44:55.30
SOME MEAT, BUT IT'S - YOU'RE NOT
SHOOTING SO FAR OVER EVERYONE'S
00:44:55.30\00:44:59.13
HEAD THAT THE CHILDREN
DON'T GET ANYTHING EITHER.
00:44:59.13\00:45:02.13
THAT'S WHY WE HAVE A CHILDREN'S
STORY AS PART OF OUR WORSHIP
00:45:02.13\00:45:04.53
SERVICE. BUT IT
STILL OUGHT TO BE SIMPLE.
00:45:04.53\00:45:06.43
JESUS WAS A MASTER AT THAT.
JESUS WOULD - HE WOULD, IN A
00:45:06.43\00:45:11.46
PARABLE, SAY SOMETHING THAT
CHILDREN UNDERSTOOD IT BUT THE
00:45:11.46\00:45:16.40
BOTTOM-LINE TEACHING OF IT
WAS SO DEEP AND PROFOUND THAT
00:45:16.40\00:45:20.43
EVEN THE ADULTS WOULD
GET SOME MEAT OUT OF IT.
00:45:20.43\00:45:23.66
AND THAT'S A
CHALLENGE TO BE ABLE TO DO THAT.
00:45:23.66\00:45:27.76
YOU FIND THAT JESUS WAS
INTERESTED IN HEALING CHILDREN -
00:45:27.76\00:45:31.26
UNDER OUR NEXT SECTION.
00:45:31.26\00:45:33.00
IF YOU LOOK, FOR INSTANCE,
IN MATTHEW CHAPTER 9, VERSE 18.
00:45:33.00\00:45:37.53
IT SAYS, "WHILE HE SPOKE THESE
THINGS TO THEM, BEHOLD, A RULER"
00:45:37.53\00:45:41.23
- RULER OF THE SYNAGOGUE - "CAME
AND WORSHIPED HIM, SAYING, 'MY
00:45:41.23\00:45:44.33
DAUGHTER HAS JUST DIED, BUT COME
AND LAY YOUR HAND ON HER AND SHE
00:45:44.33\00:45:48.76
WILL LIVE.' SO JESUS
AROSE AND FOLLOWED HIM,
00:45:48.76\00:45:52.43
AND SO DID HIS DISCIPLES."
00:45:52.43\00:45:54.60
NOW, YOU REALIZE THIS STORY
IS TOLD IN A COUPLE OF DIFFERENT
00:45:54.60\00:45:57.40
GOSPELS AND WHEN CHRIST FIRST
GOT APPROACHED BY JARIUS, SHE
00:45:57.40\00:46:02.06
WAS JUST SICK. BUT
WHILE JESUS WAS ON HIS WAY -
00:46:02.06\00:46:05.96
AND THIS IS IN THE GOSPEL OF
MARK - TO HEAL JARIUS' DAUGHTER,
00:46:05.96\00:46:10.76
IT'S PRONOUNCED JAH-RI-US AND
JARIUS - BOTH DIFFERENT WAYS.
00:46:10.76\00:46:14.53
AND WHILE HE WAS ON HIS WAY,
WORD CAME FROM THE RULER OF THE
00:46:14.53\00:46:17.66
SYNAGOGUE'S HOUSE AND IT
SAID, 'DON'T TROUBLE THE MASTER
00:46:17.66\00:46:20.03
ANYMORE, YOUR DAUGHTER HAS
DIED.' AND SO JESUS SAW HOW
00:46:20.03\00:46:25.36
DOWNCAST THE FATHER WAS.
WHEN YOU GET THE NEWS THAT YOUR
00:46:25.36\00:46:28.63
CHILD HAS DIED
IT'S JUST LIKE A SHOCK.
00:46:28.63\00:46:32.16
AND HE SAW HOW - HE
SAID, 'DON'T LOSE HOPE.
00:46:32.16\00:46:36.76
DON'T STOP BELIEVING.' AND THEY
WENT TO THE HOUSE AND THIS IS
00:46:36.76\00:46:39.60
WHERE IT TAKES UP
AND WE CAN READ THIS.
00:46:39.60\00:46:42.23
HE BRINGS HIM IN AND PUTS OUT
EVERYBODY WHO DOESN'T BELIEVE -
00:46:42.23\00:46:47.40
JUST BRINGS IN
PETER, JAMES AND JOHN.
00:46:47.40\00:46:49.83
AND WHEN HE BRINGS THEM INTO THE
HOUSE WHY DID HE - WHY DID JESUS
00:46:49.83\00:46:52.70
EVICT FROM THE HOUSE
ALL THOSE WHO WERE MOURNING?
00:46:52.70\00:46:55.46
JESUS SAID, 'SHE'S NOT
DEAD. SHE'S JUST SLEEPING.'
00:46:55.46\00:46:59.26
BECAUSE WELL, YOU
KNOW, JESUS DID A LOT OF HIS
00:46:59.26\00:47:01.56
MIRACLES - HE WOULD PUT
OUT THOSE WHO DIDN'T BELIEVE.
00:47:01.56\00:47:05.13
I MEAN, HERE HE'S GETTING
READY TO DO A RESURRECTION.
00:47:05.13\00:47:07.53
HE BROUGHT IN THE FATHER AND THE
MOTHER OF THE LITTLE GIRL AND HE
00:47:07.53\00:47:11.33
BROUGHT IN PETER, JAMES, AND
JOHN AND HE TOOK HOLD OF HER BY
00:47:11.33\00:47:14.03
THE HAND - SHE WAS
TWELVE YEARS OLD THE BIBLE SAYS.
00:47:14.03\00:47:17.10
INTERESTING - SAME AGE AS JESUS
WHEN HE WENT TO THE TEMPLE.
00:47:17.10\00:47:21.23
THE OTHER INTERESTING THING
ABOUT THAT STORY - THIS REALLY
00:47:21.23\00:47:23.73
DOESN'T RELATE TO DISCIPLING
CHILDREN BUT IN THAT STORY TWO
00:47:23.73\00:47:28.33
WOMEN TOUCHED
JESUS IN THE CHAPTER.
00:47:28.33\00:47:31.43
JESUS IS ON HIS WAY TO RESURRECT
THIS LITTLE GIRL AND ON HIS WAY,
00:47:31.43\00:47:39.70
A WOMAN WHO HAD BEEN BLEEDING
FOR TWELVE YEARS TOUCHES HIM AND
00:47:39.70\00:47:43.73
THEN HE RAISES A GIRL
WHO'S TWELVE YEARS OLD.
00:47:43.73\00:47:46.63
I ALWAYS WONDERED IF THAT WAS
SORT OF AN ANALOGY OF HOW YOU'VE
00:47:46.63\00:47:49.96
GOT THE OLD TESTAMENT CHURCH
WITH ALL THE SACRIFICES AND SHE
00:47:49.96\00:47:53.66
DOESN'T GET ANY BETTER - SHE
TOUCHES JESUS AND THAT SAME DAY
00:47:53.66\00:47:56.30
JESUS THEN TOUCHES A
TWELVE-YEAR-OLD GIRL.
00:47:56.30\00:47:58.43
A WOMAN SORT OF IS AN ANALOGY
FOR A CHURCH IN MANY BIBLE
00:47:58.43\00:48:00.63
STORIES AND IN THE OLD TESTAMENT
PEOPLE ARE SAVED BY LOOKING
00:48:00.63\00:48:05.06
FORWARD TO CHRIST - BECAUSE IT
WASN'T THE BLOOD OF LAMBS, IT'S
00:48:05.06\00:48:08.46
THE BLOOD OF CHRIST. OLD
TESTAMENT - CONTINUAL FLOW
00:48:08.46\00:48:11.70
OF SACRIFICIAL OFFERINGS BUT NOT
BETTER - ONLY BETTER WHEN YOU
00:48:11.70\00:48:15.13
TOUCH JESUS. NEW
TESTAMENT - JESUS DIED BUT
00:48:15.13\00:48:18.66
HE RISES. IT'S
LIKE THE NEW TESTAMENT
00:48:18.66\00:48:20.86
CHURCH - BOTH TWELVE YEARS OLD.
I THOUGHT THAT WAS INTERESTING.
00:48:20.86\00:48:24.13
IT MIGHT JUST BE A
COINCIDENCE, WHAT DO YOU THINK?
00:48:24.13\00:48:26.76
BUT SO HERE HE
RAISES THIS GIRL TO LIFE.
00:48:26.76\00:48:30.30
DID JESUS CARE ABOUT CHILDREN?
AND THEN YOU HAVE THIS OTHER
00:48:30.30\00:48:34.46
STORY IN LUKE 9:38.
MATTER OF FACT, WILL YOU GIVE ME
00:48:34.46\00:48:38.43
A LITTLE LIBERTY RIGHT NOW?
THIS STORY IS ALSO IN MARK 9.
00:48:38.43\00:48:42.06
I'D RATHER READ IT IN
MARK 9 IF THAT'S OKAY WITH YOU.
00:48:42.06\00:48:44.46
IT'S THE SAME STORY. MARK
SEEMS TO GIVE MORE DETAIL.
00:48:44.46\00:48:47.23
GO IN YOUR BIBLES TO MARK
CHAPTER 9 - I THINK IT STARTS
00:48:47.23\00:48:49.66
WITH VERSE 14 IF
I'M NOT MISTAKEN.
00:48:49.66\00:48:52.43
THIS IS ANOTHER AMAZING HEALING.
THIS TAKES PLACE RIGHT AFTER THE
00:48:52.43\00:48:56.03
MOUNT OF
TRANSFIGURATION EXPERIENCE.
00:48:56.03\00:49:00.86
AND HE COMES DOWN FROM THE
MOUNTAIN - VERSE 14 - MARK 9:14,
00:49:00.86\00:49:04.46
"AND WHEN HE CAME TO THE
DISCIPLES, HE SAW A GREAT
00:49:04.46\00:49:06.63
MULTITUDE AROUND THEM, AND
SCRIBES DISPUTING WITH THEM.
00:49:06.63\00:49:10.90
IMMEDIATELY, WHEN THEY SAW
HIM, ALL THE PEOPLE WERE GREATLY
00:49:10.90\00:49:14.50
AMAZED, AND RUNNING
TO HIM, GREETED HIM.
00:49:14.50\00:49:17.66
AND HE ASKED THE SCRIBES, 'WHAT
ARE YOU DISCUSSING WITH THEM?'
00:49:17.66\00:49:20.50
THEN ONE OF THE CROWD ANSWERED
AND SAID, 'TEACHER, I BROUGHT
00:49:20.50\00:49:23.46
YOU MY SON, WHO
HAS A MUTE SPIRIT.
00:49:23.46\00:49:27.30
AND WHEREVER IT SEIZES HIM,, IT
THROWS HIM DOWN; HE FOAMS AT THE
00:49:27.30\00:49:31.13
MOUTH, GNASHES HIS
TEETH, AND BECOMES RIGID.
00:49:31.13\00:49:34.96
SO I SPOKE TO YOUR DISCIPLES,'"
- HE HAD THIS CONVULSION - "SO
00:49:34.96\00:49:38.43
I SPOKE TO YOUR DISCIPLES, THAT
THEY SHOULD CAST IT OUT, BUT
00:49:38.43\00:49:40.50
THEY COULD NOT.'" - OH,
THAT MUST HAVE BEEN KIND OF A -
00:49:40.50\00:49:44.46
A DRAMATIC SCENE.
00:49:44.46\00:49:46.06
THIS FATHER HAS THIS SON, HE'S
GOT THIS SPIRIT, HE WOULD BE
00:49:46.06\00:49:48.83
OVERWHELMED - HE WOULDN'T BE
ABLE TO SPEAK - A MUTE SPIRIT,
00:49:48.83\00:49:52.20
AND THEN HE WOULD GO INTO
CONVULSIONS AND THE DISCIPLES
00:49:52.20\00:49:55.66
SAID, 'OH, WE'LL CAST HIM
OUT.' HAD THE DISCIPLES CAST OUT
00:49:55.66\00:49:58.13
DEVILS BEFORE AND HEALED
BEFORE? YEAH. AND THEY SAID,
00:49:58.13\00:50:02.03
'IN THE NAME OF JESUS
COME OUT.' NOTHING HAPPENED.
00:50:02.03\00:50:05.16
MAYBE PETER SAID,
'HERE, LET ME TRY IT.
00:50:05.16\00:50:06.60
MOVE OVER JOHN.' HE
SAYS IT AND NOTHING HAPPENED.
00:50:06.60\00:50:09.66
AND THEN OVER COMES ANDREW AND
HE TRIES IT AND NOTHING HAPPENS.
00:50:09.66\00:50:12.40
NOW THE SCRIBES THINK, 'THIS
IS THE MOMENT WE'VE BEEN WAITING
00:50:12.40\00:50:14.53
FOR. JESUS IS A
FRAUD. HE'S A CHARLATAN.'
00:50:14.53\00:50:17.13
AND THEY SAID, 'WE TOLD
YOU. THEY DON'T HAVE ANY POWER.'
00:50:17.13\00:50:20.03
AND SO THERE'S THIS
BIG DISPUTE GOING ON.
00:50:20.03\00:50:22.46
THIS POOR FATHER, HE
JUST WANTS HIS SON HEALED.
00:50:22.46\00:50:25.00
HE DOESN'T WANT TO GET
INVOLVED IN AN ARGUMENT.
00:50:25.00\00:50:28.33
AND SO THEY ALL CAME RUNNING TO
JESUS - ACTUALLY, I SAID PETER,
00:50:28.33\00:50:31.66
JAMES AND JOHN, THEY WERE UP
ON THE MOUNTAIN WITH JESUS SO IT
00:50:31.66\00:50:33.83
WASN'T THEM. IT
MIGHT HAVE BEEN ANDREW AND
00:50:33.83\00:50:35.46
PHILIP AND THOMAS, WHO
KNOWS? AND IT SAYS JESUS SAID,
00:50:35.46\00:50:42.06
"'O FAITHLESS GENERATION,'" -
VERSE 19 - "'HOW LONG SHALL I BE
00:50:42.06\00:50:44.93
WITH YOU? HOW LONG SHALL I BEAR
WITH YOU? BRING HIM TO ME.'"
00:50:44.93\00:50:49.10
ALRIGHT, I WANT TO STOP RIGHT
THERE. IF YOU HAVE A CHILD AND
00:50:49.10\00:50:54.86
THEY NEED HEALING, WHAT DOES
JESUS SAY? 'BRING HIM TO ME.'
00:50:54.86\00:50:58.56
DOES THAT MEAN THAT YOU
DON'T GET ANY MEDICAL ADVICE?
00:50:58.56\00:51:02.63
NO, ONE OF THE WAYS JESUS HEALS
OUR CHILDREN IS BY HAVING MODERN
00:51:02.63\00:51:07.03
MEDICAL ADVANCES AND IT MIGHT
MEAN THAT YOU ULTIMATELY GET
00:51:07.03\00:51:11.16
SOME MEDICAL ATTENTION AND, YOU
KNOW, I'VE SEEN AND WE'VE ALL
00:51:11.16\00:51:17.53
HEARD STORIES OF PEOPLE WHO
SAID, 'IF YOU HAVE FAITH YOU
00:51:17.53\00:51:19.86
DON'T EVER GO SEE THE
DOCTOR.' THAT'S NOT WHAT IT'S
00:51:19.86\00:51:22.36
TALKING ABOUT.
SOMETIMES GOD WORKS THROUGH
00:51:22.36\00:51:25.26
DOCTORS, ISN'T THAT RIGHT?
BUT FIRST AND FOREMOST, WHEN
00:51:25.26\00:51:29.43
THERE'S SICKNESS, I THINK
WE BRING EVERY CASE TO JESUS,
00:51:29.43\00:51:31.90
RIGHT? 'OH, BUT
I'VE GOT A SORE THROAT.
00:51:31.90\00:51:34.60
I'M NOT GOING TO BOTHER HIM WITH
THAT.' HOW DOES THAT - CAN YOU
00:51:34.60\00:51:37.33
BOTHER THE LORD? YOU
PRAY ABOUT EVERYTHING.
00:51:37.33\00:51:40.80
I REMEMBER I DID GET WOKEN UP
ONCE BY A CHURCH MEMBER CALLED
00:51:40.80\00:51:44.56
ME AT 2:00 IN THE MORNING AND
SAID, 'PASTOR, CAN YOU PLEASE
00:51:44.56\00:51:46.63
PRAY?' I SAID, 'YEAH, WHAT'S THE
00:51:46.63\00:51:48.70
PROBLEM?' HE SAID,
'I'VE GOT A TOOTHACHE.'
00:51:48.70\00:51:53.10
AND, YOU KNOW, SO I PRAYED.
00:51:53.10\00:51:55.50
BUT, NOW I'M NOT TRYING TO
GIVE YOU ANY IDEAS RIGHT NOW BY
00:51:55.50\00:51:59.60
SHARING THAT WITH YOU.
E-MAIL ME YOUR PRAYER REQUEST.
00:51:59.60\00:52:07.96
BUT, YOU KNOW, WE SHOULD TAKE
EVERYTHING TO THE LORD IN PRAYER
00:52:07.96\00:52:09.80
BUT, ULTIMATELY, WHEN IT COMES
TO OUR CHILDREN'S SALVATION -
00:52:09.80\00:52:12.60
OUR CHILDREN'S HEALING -
BRING THESE THINGS TO JESUS.
00:52:12.60\00:52:15.80
JESUS SAID, "'BRING HIM TO ME.'
THEN THEY BROUGHT HIM TO HIM.
00:52:15.80\00:52:19.80
AND WHEN HE SAW HIM" - THIS
YOUNG CHILD SAW JESUS - HE MAY
00:52:19.80\00:52:23.30
HAVE BEEN TEN OR TWELVE YEARS
OLD BECAUSE THE FATHER SAYS HE'S
00:52:23.30\00:52:25.46
HAD IT SINCE HE WAS VERY
YOUNG - "IMMEDIATELY THE SPIRIT
00:52:25.46\00:52:28.33
CONVULSED HIM, AND HE FELL
ON THE GROUND AND WALLOWED,
00:52:28.33\00:52:30.96
FOAMING AT THE MOUTH." -
A FRESH, DRAMATIC DISPLAY OF
00:52:30.96\00:52:34.63
THIS SPIRIT - "SO HE ASKED HIS
FATHER, 'HOW LONG HAS THIS BEEN
00:52:34.63\00:52:39.13
HAPPENING TO HIM?'" -
NOW THIS IS INTERESTING
00:52:39.13\00:52:41.00
BECAUSE THIS IS ONE OF THE
ONLY TIMES IN THE BIBLE JESUS
00:52:41.00\00:52:44.16
ACTUALLY ASKS A QUESTION
TO GET A FURTHER DIAGNOSIS.
00:52:44.16\00:52:49.40
USUALLY THE LORD JUST DID
A HEALING BUT HE - THEN HE
00:52:49.40\00:52:51.63
DIALOGUES WITH THE FATHER
AND SAID, 'TELL ME ABOUT IT.
00:52:51.63\00:52:54.36
TELL ME HOW - "AND HE SAID,
'FROM CHILDHOOD.' - MEANING FROM
00:52:54.36\00:52:59.80
INFANCY - AND HE SAID, "AND
OFTEN HE HAS THROWN HIM BOTH
00:52:59.80\00:53:03.00
INTO THE FIRE AND INTO
THE WATER TO DESTROY HIM.
00:53:03.00\00:53:07.73
BUT IF YOU CAN DO ANYTHING,
HAVE COMPASSION ON US.'" -
00:53:07.73\00:53:10.03
AGAIN, I WANT TO PAUSE.
00:53:10.03\00:53:12.76
WHAT COULD BE MORE
OPPOSITE THAN FIRE AND WATER?
00:53:12.76\00:53:18.10
I MEAN, FIRE'S A GOOD
THING WHEN YOU'RE COLD.
00:53:18.10\00:53:21.76
WATER'S A GOOD
THING WHEN YOU'RE THIRSTY.
00:53:21.76\00:53:25.53
YOU CAN BURN TO DEATH IN
FIRE AND YOU CAN DROWN IN WATER.
00:53:25.53\00:53:29.80
FIRE IS A WONDERFUL THING
CONTROLLED AND SO IS WATER.
00:53:29.80\00:53:33.03
YOU KNOW, THE BIBLE SAYS YOU
NEED TO BE BORN OF THE FIRE AND
00:53:33.03\00:53:35.00
YOU NEED TO BE BORN OF THE
WATER. IT'S INTERESTING THAT
00:53:35.00\00:53:38.16
THIS SPIRIT WOULD TRY TO DESTROY
THE CHILD IN THE FIRE AND
00:53:38.16\00:53:41.33
IN THE WATER. TWO
EXTREMES. TWO OPPOSITES.
00:53:41.33\00:53:44.76
YOU KNOW, DOES THE DEVIL CARE
WHETHER YOU FALL OFF THE RIGHT
00:53:44.76\00:53:47.80
SIDE OF THE ROAD OR
THE LEFT SIDE OF THE ROAD?
00:53:47.80\00:53:50.60
DOES HE CARE
WHETHER YOU BURN OR DROWN?
00:53:50.60\00:53:52.73
DOES HE CARE WHETHER YOU BECOME
TOO CONSERVATIVE OR TOO LIBERAL?
00:53:52.73\00:53:56.96
AS LONG AS YOU GET OFF THE ROAD,
HE DOESN'T CARE HOW HE DESTROYS
00:53:56.96\00:54:00.13
YOUR CHILDREN, RIGHT? AND
SO THAT JUST REALLY IS SORT
00:54:00.13\00:54:04.00
OF A PICTURE OF THE EXTREMES.
AND THIS POOR BOY NEARLY
00:54:04.00\00:54:09.10
DROWNED. HE
PROBABLY HAD BURNS ON HIM.
00:54:09.10\00:54:10.56
THE DEVIL - HE HAD THESE
CONVULSIONS NEAR THE CAMPFIRE,
00:54:10.56\00:54:13.13
IN THE KITCHEN, OR BY THE LAKE
AND THE FATHER'S AT HIS - HE
00:54:13.13\00:54:17.63
SAYS, 'LORD, IF YOU CAN DO
ANYTHING.' AND WHAT DOES JESUS
00:54:17.63\00:54:20.80
SAY? 'OH, DON'T
SAY 'IF' TO JESUS.
00:54:20.80\00:54:26.43
JESUS SAYS, "'IF YOU
CAN BELIEVE, ALL THINGS ARE
00:54:26.43\00:54:27.83
POSSIBLE.'" IF YOU'RE
GOING TO PRAY, PRAY BELIEVING.
00:54:27.83\00:54:32.13
AND YOU KNOW
WHAT THE FATHER SAID?
00:54:32.13\00:54:33.46
"'LORD I BELIEVE; HELP MY
UNBELIEF.'" HE SAYS, 'I DO HAVE
00:54:33.46\00:54:35.96
A MEASURE OF FAITH BUT I NEED
MORE FAITH.' AND THEN JESUS, HE
00:54:35.96\00:54:40.20
CAST OUT THE DEVIL AND THE
BOY WENT THROUGH THIS TREMENDOUS
00:54:40.20\00:54:42.90
FRESH CONVULSION AND
THEN IT LOOKED LIKE HE DIED.
00:54:42.90\00:54:47.33
THEY ALL THOUGHT, 'OH, THAT'S
IT. HE DIED.' AND JESUS TOOK HIM
00:54:47.33\00:54:50.50
BY THE HAND, RAISED
HIM UP, AND HE WAS HEALED.
00:54:50.50\00:54:52.70
AND SO DOES THE LORD
CARE ABOUT OUR CHILDREN?
00:54:52.70\00:54:56.06
'DESIRE OF AGES' PAGE 511 -
HERE'S A GREAT QUOTE FROM THAT
00:54:56.06\00:54:59.10
BOOK ON THE LIFE OF CHRIST,
"AMONG THE JEWS IT WAS CUSTOMARY
00:54:59.10\00:55:02.86
FOR CHILDREN TO BE BROUGHT TO
SOME RABBI THAT HE MIGHT LAY HIS
00:55:02.86\00:55:05.96
HANDS ON THEM IN BLESSING, BUT
THE SAVIOR'S DISCIPLES THOUGHT
00:55:05.96\00:55:09.96
HIS WORK TOO IMPORTANT TO
BE INTERRUPTED IN THIS WAY.
00:55:09.96\00:55:12.90
WHEN THE MOTHERS CAME TO
HIM WITH THEIR LITTLE ONES, THE
00:55:12.90\00:55:15.06
DISCIPLES LOOKED
UPON THEM WITH DISFAVOR.
00:55:15.06\00:55:17.33
THEY THOUGHT, 'THESE CHILDREN
ARE TOO YOUNG TO BE BENEFITED
00:55:17.33\00:55:20.16
BY A VISIT FROM JESUS'
AND CONCLUDED THAT HE WOULD BE
00:55:20.16\00:55:23.26
DISPLEASED AT THEIR PRESENCE.
00:55:23.26\00:55:25.56
BUT IT WAS THE DISCIPLES
WITH WHOM HE WAS DISPLEASED.
00:55:25.56\00:55:28.80
THE SAVIOR UNDERSTOOD THE CARE
AND THE BURDEN OF THE MOTHERS
00:55:28.80\00:55:31.73
WHO WERE SEEKING TO TRAIN THEIR
CHILDREN ACCORDING TO THE WORD
00:55:31.73\00:55:34.73
OF GOD. HE HAD
HEARD THEIR PRAYERS.
00:55:34.73\00:55:37.13
HE HIMSELF HAD DRAWN
THEM INTO HIS PRESENCE.
00:55:37.13\00:55:40.30
DOESN'T JESUS SAY THAT UNLESS
YOU BECOME CONVERTED AND BECOME
00:55:40.30\00:55:44.06
AS LITTLE CHILDREN YOU WILL
IN NO WAY ENTER THE KINGDOM OF
00:55:44.06\00:55:46.66
HEAVEN? YEAH, ALL
OF US NEED TO BECOME
00:55:46.66\00:55:49.56
LIKE CHILDREN OR
WE CAN'T BE SAVED.
00:55:49.56\00:55:51.36
NOW DOES THAT MEAN THAT WE'RE
SUPPOSED TO ACT LIKE CHILDREN
00:55:51.36\00:55:54.53
AND NOT BE
MATURE OR TO ACT SILLY?
00:55:54.53\00:55:59.16
OR DOES HE MEAN TO HAVE THAT
SIMPLE FAITH THAT CHILDREN HAVE?
00:55:59.16\00:56:02.46
AND THEN WE ALSO TOUCHED ABOUT
ON THAT STORY WHERE THE MOTHERS
00:56:02.46\00:56:05.13
BROUGHT THEIR CHILDREN TO JESUS
AND THE DISCIPLES THOUGHT, 'OH,
00:56:05.13\00:56:08.16
YOU KNOW, HE'S TOO BUSY.
HE CAN'T DO THAT.' AND JESUS
00:56:08.16\00:56:11.10
SAID, 'NO, THAT'S
THE MOST IMPORTANT THING.
00:56:11.10\00:56:13.00
LET THE CHILDREN COME UNTO
ME.' WHEN DOES EVANGELISM BEGIN?
00:56:13.00\00:56:16.70
ONCE A PERSON
TURNS 20 YEARS OF AGE?
00:56:16.70\00:56:19.13
OR DOES THE LORD CARE
ABOUT REACHING AND EVANGELIZING
00:56:19.13\00:56:21.30
CHILDREN FROM
THE VERY BEGINNING?
00:56:21.30\00:56:24.26
AND THE LORD WANTS US TO
BRING OUR CHILDREN TO HIM.
00:56:24.26\00:56:27.10
HE SAID, 'UNLESS YOU BECOME
CONVERTED AND BECOME AS A LITTLE
00:56:27.10\00:56:29.83
CHILD, YOU CANNOT ENTER THE
KINGDOM OF HEAVEN. AND THAT, BY
00:56:29.83\00:56:33.33
THE WAY, IS MATTHEW 18, VERSES
2 TO 6. WELL, I'M LOOKING AT THE
00:56:33.33\00:56:37.30
CLOCK AND IT'S TELLING
US THAT WE'RE OUT OF TIME.
00:56:37.30\00:56:40.63
WE'VE LEARNED SOMETHING HERE
ABOUT DISCIPLING CHILDREN AND
00:56:40.63\00:56:43.73
HOW IMPORTANT THAT IS TO JESUS,
TODAY. WE NEED TO MAKE THAT A
00:56:43.73\00:56:46.73
PRIORITY BECAUSE THAT'S
REALLY THE NEXT GENERATION.
00:56:46.73\00:56:49.40
WHENEVER GOD'S PEOPLE,
THROUGH HISTORY, HAVE NOT PUT AN
00:56:49.40\00:56:52.10
EMPHASIS ON TRAINING AND
PREPARING THE CHILDREN, THEN THE
00:56:52.10\00:56:55.30
CHURCH - THAT NEXT
GENERATION STARTS TO DRIFT AWAY.
00:56:55.30\00:56:58.20
AND ONE OF THE IMPORTANT WAYS IS
GET THEM INVOLVED IN EVANGELISM
00:56:58.20\00:57:01.86
AND MISSION WORK. FREE
LESSON FOR YOU WE'LL SEND -
00:57:01.86\00:57:05.00
ABOUT REACHING CHILDREN.
YOU CAN USE THIS TO STUDY
00:57:05.00\00:57:07.46
WITH CHILDREN. IT'S
CALLED 'THE ONLY LIFEBOAT'
00:57:07.46\00:57:09.70
FROM THE 'AMAZING
ADVENTURE' SERIES.
00:57:09.70\00:57:11.86
ASK FOR OFFER #805 AND CALL
866-788-3966 AND WE'LL SEND THAT
00:57:11.86\00:57:18.46
TO YOU FOR FREE.
THANK YOU FRIENDS.
00:57:18.46\00:57:20.00
GOD BLESS UNTIL WE
CAN STUDY TOGETHER AGAIN.
00:57:20.00\00:57:25.30
>>IN SIX DAYS GOD CREATED
THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH.
00:57:25.30\00:57:29.16
FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS MAN HAS
WORSHIPED GOD ON THE SEVENTH DAY
00:57:29.16\00:57:33.10
OF THE WEEK. NOW,
EACH WEEK MILLIONS OF
00:57:33.10\00:57:36.13
PEOPLE WORSHIP ON THE
FIRST DAY. WHAT HAPPENED?
00:57:36.13\00:57:39.66
WHY DID GOD
CREATE A DAY OF REST?
00:57:39.66\00:57:42.00
DOES IT REALLY
MATTER WHAT DAY WE WORSHIP?
00:57:42.00\00:57:44.90
WHO IS BEHIND THIS GREAT SHIFT?
DISCOVER THE TRUTH BEHIND GOD'S
00:57:44.90\00:57:48.36
LAW AND HOW IT WAS CHANGED.
VISIT 'SABBATHTRUTH.COM'.
00:57:48.36\00:57:56.03
(MUSIC)
00:57:56.03\00:57:57.03