Participants: Doug Batchelor
Series Code: CSH
Program Code: CSH021404
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00:46 >>WELCOME TO SACRAMENTO CENTRAL SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH 00:49 RIGHT HERE IN SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA. WE'RE SO GLAD 00:52 THAT YOU'RE TUNING IN AND YOU ARE A PART OF OUR PROGRAM 00:56 EVERY SINGLE WEEK. WHETHER YOU ARE LISTENING ON THE 00:59 RADIO, WATCHING LIVE ON OUR WEBSITE AT 'SACCENTRAL.ORG' OR 01:04 ON THE VARIOUS TELEVISION NETWORKS, IT DOES NOT MATTER HOW 01:06 YOU'RE JOINING US, WE'RE JUST VERY GLAD THAT YOU ARE AND WE'D 01:09 LOVE TO HEAR FROM YOU AS YOU SING YOUR FAVORITE SONGS WITH US 01:13 EACH WEEK AND WE OPEN UP GOD'S WORD AND WE STUDY TOGETHER. 01:16 TODAY IS NO EXCEPTION. WE'RE GOING TO START WITH YOUR 01:19 FAVORITES AND THE FIRST ONE IS #457. 01:22 SO IF YOU HAVE A HYMNAL AT HOME, PULL IT OUT AND SING WITH US. 01:25 'I LOVE TO TELL THE STORY' - THIS IS A REQUEST FROM DUSTIN IN 01:29 HONDURAS, PASCAL IN INDONESIA, RUT IN THE NETHERLANDS, AND 01:34 ANDRE IN RWANDA AND THERE WERE A FEW MORE FROM AROUND THE WORLD. 01:38 WE'RE GOING TO SING THE FIRST, SECOND, AND FOURTH STANZA. 01:41 JOIN WITH US. 'I LOVE TO TELL THE STORY'. 01:44 (MUSIC) 04:47 >>THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR SENDING IN ONE OF THOSE GOOD 04:50 OLD-FASHIONED FAVORITES. AND IF YOU HAVE ANOTHER SONG YOU 04:53 WOULD LIKE TO SING WITH US ON AN UPCOMING PROGRAM, IT'S VERY 04:57 SIMPLE. YOU JUST GO TO OUR WEBSITE AT 04:59 'SACCENTRAL.ORG', CLICK ON THE 'CONTACT US' LINK AND YOU CAN 05:03 SEND IN ANY SONG THAT IS IN THE HYMNAL. 05:05 IT IS RIGHT THERE FOR YOU TO SELECT AND WE WILL DO OUR BEST 05:08 TO SING THAT FOR YOU ON AN UPCOMING PROGRAM. 05:12 WE'RE BACK TO LEARNING THE ONES WE DON'T KNOW. 05:15 WE TOOK A LITTLE BREAK FOR THE CHRISTMAS SEASON AND WE'RE BACK 05:19 WITH #81 - 'THOUGH I SPEAK WITH CHRISTMAS SEASON AND WE'RE BACK 05:23 WITH #81 - 'THOUGH I SPEAK WITH TONGUES'. 05:28 THIS WAS NEW, I THINK, TO EVERY SINGLE PERSON HERE AT CENTRAL 05:31 CHURCH, BUT WE LEARNED IT SO WE ARE READY TO TEACH IT TO YOU AND 05:35 WE HOPE THAT YOU STARTED LEARNING IT THIS WEEK SO WE'RE 05:39 ALL READY FOR #81 TOGETHER. THIS IS A REQUEST FROM JOSEFIN 05:44 IN IRELAND, DOROTHEA IN THE BAHAMAS, AND JOYCE IN KENYA. 05:49 AND WE'RE GOING TO SING ALL THREE STANZAS SO WE MAKE SURE WE 05:51 REALLY KNOW THIS SONG. IT'S A BEAUTIFUL SONG BASED ON 05:54 1 CORINTHIANS 13. SO JOIN WITH US - #81 - 05:58 'THOUGH I SPEAK WITH TONGUES'. 06:00 (MUSIC) 09:11 >>THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR LEARNING THIS WITH US AND NEXT 09:15 WEEK WE'LL BE DOING #82. AT THIS TIME PLEASE BOW OUR 09:19 HEADS FOR PRAYER. FATHER IN HEAVEN, LIKE THE WORDS 09:26 THAT THIS SONG SAYS, THOUGH I SPEAK WITH BEAUTIFUL WORDS BUT I 09:35 HAVE NOT LOVE IN MY HEART, IT AMOUNTS TO NOTHING. 09:40 AND YOU CAME DOWN HERE TO THIS WORLD WITH SO MUCH LOVE IN YOUR 09:45 HEART AND YOU GAVE YOUR LIFE. YOUR ENEMIES - YOU GLADLY GAVE 09:52 IT UP BECAUSE YOU KNEW THAT ONE DAY THE REWARD - THE RESULTS OF 09:59 YOUR DECISION WOULD BE WORTH IT AND YOU LOVE US SO MUCH AND I 10:04 PRAY THAT WE WOULD HAVE YOUR LOVE IN OUR HEARTS FOR THOSE 10:09 AROUND US - THOSE THAT TALK BAD AND ARE MEAN AND RUDE AND I JUST 10:15 PRAY THAT YOU WOULD HELP US TO HAVE THE ATTITUDE AND THE SPIRIT 10:21 OF YOU SO THAT WE CAN SHOW LOVE TO EVERYBODY. 10:26 WE THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR COMING TO THIS WORLD AND FOR LOVING US 10:30 AND FOR DYING FOR US AND I PRAY RIGHT NOW, AS WE OPEN UP YOUR 10:33 WORD AND WE STUDY TOGETHER, THAT YOU WOULD FILL US - THAT WE CAN 10:37 BE LIGHTS IN THIS UGLY WORLD. IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN. 10:43 AT THIS TIME OUR LESSON STUDY IS GOING TO BE BROUGHT TO US BY 10:46 PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR. HE IS OUR SENIOR PASTOR HERE AT 10:49 SACRAMENTO CENTRAL SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH. 10:57 >>THANK YOU, DEBBIE. MORNING EVERYBODY. 11:02 YOU KNOW, I'VE HEARD MOST OF THE SONGS IN THE HYMNAL JUST IN MY 11:05 TRAVELS - A PIECE OF IT HERE AND THERE - BUT I DON'T THINK I'D 11:08 EVER HEARD THAT ONE EITHER. BUT IT'S A VERY PRETTY SONG. 11:10 I LIKE THE BASS NOTES IN IT. 11:12 I WANT TO WELCOME OUR FRIENDS WHO ARE WATCHING VIA THE 11:15 INTERNET AND SOME OF OUR EXTENDED CLASS. 11:17 WELCOME TO ANY VISITORS THAT ARE HERE. 11:19 SOMETIMES IT'S CONFUSING TO PEOPLE WHEN YOU SEE THIS PROGRAM 11:23 TO REALIZE IT WAS ACTUALLY RECORDED THREE WEEKS PRIOR TO 11:26 WHEN MOST SATELLITE STATIONS ARE AIRING IT, BUT IT'S ALSO LIVE 11:29 NOW ON THE INTERNET SO IS IT APPROPRIATE FOR ME TO WISH YOU 11:32 A BLESSED NEW YEAR? I HAVEN'T TALKED TO MANY OF YOU 11:35 SINCE LAST YEAR, WHICH WAS LAST WEEK. 11:41 BUT WE HAVE - WE'RE GOING TO BE CONTINUING IN OUR SABBATH SCHOOL 11:43 STUDY ON DISCIPLESHIP IN JUST A MOMENT. 11:46 SOMETIMES DURING A SABBATH SCHOOL WE HAVE A LITTLE MISSION 11:50 FEATURE. TODAY WE HAVE A GUEST THAT WE 11:52 WOULD LIKE TO BRING UP HERE AND HILOKO - IS THAT RIGHT? 11:57 AND SHE'S GOING TO SHARE WITH US A LITTLE BIT - THERE YOU GO - 12:00 THERE'S YOUR MICROPHONE. THANK YOU BOB. AND - 12:02 >>GOOD MORNING. 12:03 >>SHE DID SOMETHING VERY UNIQUE. YOU HAVE TRANSLATED 12:08 AN ENTIRE SET OF BIBLE STUDY GUIDES INTO JAPANESE. 12:11 >>WITH GOD'S GRACE. 12:12 >>AND NOW, ARE YOU A PROFESSIONAL TRANSLATOR? 12:15 >>OH, NOT AT ALL. I - 12:16 ENGLISH AND JAPANESE IS NOT MY THING BUT THE LORD HELPED ME. 12:21 >>SO IN YOUR NOTE YOU SAID YOU WERE ACTUALLY STILL 12:23 LEARNING ENGLISH. 12:24 >>THAT'S TRUE. 12:26 >>AND YOU FELT IMPRESSED - YOU WERE LOOKING AT THE STORACLES - 12:28 YOU WERE DOING THE STORACLES LESSONS WITH SOMEBODY ELSE. 12:30 >>THAT'S CORRECT - IN ENGLISH. 12:32 >>AND YOU THOUGHT, 'WE REALLY NEED TO PUT' - THE LORD 12:34 IMPRESSED YOU - 'WE NEED TO PUT THESE IN JAPANESE. 12:36 >>YES. 12:37 >>AND THAT WAS A PRETTY BIG PROJECT. 12:39 >>IT TOOK FOUR MONTHS FOR JUST THE DRAFT AND I WORKED ON IT 12:48 EVERY WEEK - I MEAN EVERY DAY - AND SO AFTER I WORKED ON IT - 12:54 TIL MIDNIGHT I WORKED ON IT AND BY 4:00 THE LORD WAKES ME UP AND 12:58 I'M READY TO TRANSLATE AGAIN BEFORE GO BACK TO THE - 13:01 TO MY WORK. 13:03 >>SO AS YOU WERE DOING THE TRANSLATION FROM ENGLISH TO 13:05 JAPANESE DID YOU USE A DICTIONARY SOMETIMES TO FIND OUT 13:08 >>ALL THE TIME. I MEAN, 13:10 I WANT TO MAKE SURE - SOMETIMES EACH SENTENCE - 13:13 SEVERAL WORDS I MAKE SURE THAT I'M TRANSLATING CORRECTLY. 13:19 >>NOW IN THE TRANSLATION PROCESS SOMETHING HAPPENED 13:21 IN YOUR FAMILY. 13:22 >>THAT'S CORRECT. I'M THE ONLY CHRISTIAN BESIDE MY 13:27 LATE GRANDMOTHER AND AS I WAS TRANSLATING, I WAS SENDING EACH 13:32 LESSON TO JAPAN TO TAKE TO MY HOME TOWN CHURCH AND I SEND IT 13:38 TO MY SISTER IN JAPAN AND TWO YEARS LATER SHE CALLED ME AND 13:44 SAID, 'I READ THOSE STUDIES. I DECIDED TO GET BAPTIZED. 13:49 WHEN CAN YOU COME TO ATTEND THE BAPTISM?' 13:52 >>AMEN. ISN'T THAT EXCITING? 13:54 NOW FRIENDS, YOU JUST NEED TO UNDERSTAND. THERE ARE ABOUT 13:57 126 MILLION PEOPLE IN JAPAN - ONLY ONE PERCENT IS CHRISTIAN. 14:04 IT'S A LARGELY ATHEIST AND A NUMBER OF OTHER RELIGIONS THERE, 14:10 BUT - SO HAVING THESE STUDY GUIDES - AND THE STUDY GUIDES 14:13 THEY HAD WERE OVER THIRTY YEARS OLD. THEY REALLY NEEDED 14:16 UPDATING. AND SO THESE ARE THE NEW STORACLES LESSONS. 14:18 WHAT, ARE THERE TWENTY-TWO? 14:19 >>TWENTY-FOUR. 14:20 >>TWENTY-FOUR LESSONS. THAT'S A FABULOUS AMOUNT OF WORK. 14:23 WELL, THAT IS VERY EXCITING. 14:24 AND WE HAD BOB CURTICE WHO HELPED WITH - GO AHEAD, STAND UP 14:27 BOB - BOB HELPED - HE DEVELOPED A COMPUTER PROGRAM WITH AMAZING 14:31 FACTS, YEARS AGO, TO HELP PEOPLE TO TRANSLATE IF OTHERS AROUND 14:35 THE WORLD - YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE PROFESSIONAL TRANSLATORS. 14:38 IF YOU WANT TO SEE THE BIBLE STUDY GUIDES IN YOUR OWN 14:40 LANGUAGE, THERE'S SOFTWARE AND A PROGRAM NOW THAT MAKES THAT ALL 14:43 POSSIBLE. AND SO THAT IS JUST MARVELOUS. 14:46 THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR DOING THE WORK THAT YOU'VE DONE. 14:50 >>AND THE ADDRESS IS 'BIBLEUNIVERSITY.COM' AND YOU'LL 14:55 FIND OUT MORE THERE. WE HAVE THE STUDY GUIDES IN 14:57 FARSI AND ROMANIAN AND MANY DIFFERENT LANGUAGES. 15:00 'BIBLEUNIVERSITY.COM' AND WE'RE SO EXCITED, AND THIS IS - 15:03 I HAVE NOT TOUCHED THEM YET. THIS IS THE FIRST TIME I'M 15:07 SEEING THE JAPANESE STUDY GUIDES. 15:09 >>THAT'S CORRECT. 15:10 >>PRAISE THE LORD. 15:11 THANK YOU SO MUCH AND - THANK YOU SO MUCH HILOKO - 15:14 I SURE APPRECIATE IT. GOD BLESS YOU. 15:15 CAN YOU SAY 'AMEN' FRIENDS? ISN'T THAT WONDERFUL? 15:18 NOW HOPEFULLY THERE WON'T BE A TEST ON THESE BECAUSE I CAN'T 15:20 READ JAPANESE BUT WE'RE GOING TO TREASURE THESE. I'LL TAKE THEM 15:23 TO THE AMAZING FACTS OFFICE AND IT'S A REMINDER. 15:26 I BETTER PUT THEM RIGHT HERE SO THEY DON'T SLIDE OFF THE PODIUM. 15:29 IT'S A REMINDER OF THE - EVERYBODY CAN GET INVOLVED IN 15:33 DOING MISSION WORK, RIGHT? 15:35 AND THAT GOES ALONG PERFECTLY WITH OUR LESSON ON DISCIPLESHIP. 15:39 ALL OF US ARE CALLED TO BE DISCIPLES AND JESUS, WHEN HE 15:42 SAID, 'GO, THEREFORE, AND TEACH ALL NATIONS' IS THAT JUST FOR 15:47 THE TWELVE APOSTLES OR CAN EVERY BELIEVER BE INVOLVED IN SOME 15:51 CAPACITY IN HELPING TO TEACH - USING YOUR DIFFERENT GIFTS. 15:55 AND SO I THINK THIS IS JUST WONDERFUL AND WE'RE VERY EXCITED 15:57 ABOUT THAT. WELL, TODAY WE'RE DOING LESSON #4 AND IT'S DEALING 16:02 WITH DISCIPLING CHILDREN. YOU KNOW, WHENEVER I SEE 16:05 THAT WORD 'DISCIPLING' CHILDREN - I KEPT PUTTING IN THE WORD 16:08 'DISCIPLINING' - I DON'T KNOW WHY. 16:11 IT JUST SEEMED - SOME FREUDIAN SLIP - BUT DISCIPLING CHILDREN. 16:16 AND WE HAVE A MEMORY - AND THAT'S LESSON #4 - AND THE 16:19 MEMORY VERSE IS FROM MATTHEW CHAPTER 21, VERSE 16. 16:23 IF YOU'D LIKE TO SAY THIS WITH ME HERE IN YOUR STUDY GUIDE, 16:25 IT'S FROM THE NIV VERSION. ARE YOU READY? 16:28 MATTHEW 21:16, "'DO YOU HEAR WHAT THESE CHILDREN ARE SAYING?' 16:33 THEY ASKED HIM. 'YES,' REPLIED JESUS, 'HAVE YOU 16:37 NEVER READ, 'FROM THE LIPS OF CHILDREN AND INFANTS YOU LORD, 16:41 HAVE CALLED FORTH YOUR PRAISE'?'" THE BIBLE HAS A LOT 16:45 TO SAY ABOUT DISCIPLING CHILDREN AND THE VALUE OF CHILDREN. 16:49 I'D LIKE TO TELL YOU, BEFORE I GET TOO DEEP IN THE LESSON, WE 16:53 ALWAYS HAVE A FREE OFFER THAT GOES ALONG WITH OUR STUDY. 16:56 WE'RE OFFERING SOMETHING WE'VE NEVER OFFERED BEFORE. 16:58 A FEW YEARS AGO AMAZING FACTS DEVELOPED A NEW SET OF STUDY 17:01 GUIDES CALLED 'AMAZING ADVENTURE' AND IT'S A BRIEF 17:06 10-PART EVANGELISTIC PROGRAM FOR CHILDREN. 17:09 AND ONE OF THESE LESSONS, IT TALKS ABOUT SALVATION, IT'S 17:11 ESPECIALLY WRITTEN FOR CHILDREN AND WE'LL GIVE THIS TO ANYBODY 17:14 WHO ASKS FOR IT. 17:15 ALL YOU'VE GOT TO DO IS CALL THE NUMBER ON YOUR SCREEN. 17:17 IT'S CALLED 'THE ONLY LIFEBOAT' AND OH, THEY'RE REALLY GREAT 17:20 LESSONS FOR CHILDREN BECAUSE THEY'RE ALL FULLY ILLUSTRATED 17:23 AND - ASK FOR OFFER #805 AND THE PHONE NUMBER IS 866-STUDY-MORE - 17:29 THAT'S 866-788-3966 AND WE'LL SEND THIS TO YOU. 17:34 LOOK AT IT WITH A CHILD. 17:36 GET INVOLVED IN DISCIPLING CHILDREN. 17:38 THAT'S THE IDEA OF SENDING THAT OUT. 17:40 YOU MIGHT KNOW SOME YOUNG PERSON. 17:42 THESE LESSONS ARE REALLY DESIGNED FOR YOUNG PEOPLE FROM 17:45 SEVEN TO TWELVE YEARS OF AGE AND - DID ANY OF YOU EVER SEE THE 17:51 'AMAZING ADVENTURES' PROGRAM? 17:53 YOU KNOW, WHEN WE DID THAT WITH 3ABN A FEW YEARS AGO, JIM GILLEY 17:57 TOLD ME - HE SAID, 'DOUG, I WANT TO LET YOU KNOW, YOU'LL END UP 17:59 BAPTIZING AS MANY ADULTS FROM THIS PROGRAM AS YOU WILL 18:02 CHILDREN, BECAUSE' - HE SAID - 'WHEN YOU MAKE THE MESSAGE 18:05 SIMPLE SO CHILDREN CAN UNDERSTAND' - HE SAID - 'THAT'S 18:08 WHEN THE ADULTS FINALLY GET IT.' AND SO WE FOUND THAT TO BE TRUE. 18:13 A LOT OF PEOPLE SAID, 'YEAH, I WANTED MY CHILDREN TO SEE THIS' 18:15 - AND THEY WATCHED IT WITH THEIR CHILDREN AND OTHER PEOPLE IN 18:18 THE FAMILY WERE THERE AND THEY GOT IT AND THEY GOT BAPTIZED. 18:21 HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE HEARD STORIES OF MOTHERS THAT BEGAN TO 18:24 TAKE THEIR CHILDREN TO SABBATH SCHOOL AND IN THE PROCESS OF 18:29 WATCHING THE CHILDREN HEAR THE GOSPEL IN SOME SABBATH SCHOOL 18:31 CLASS, THEY BECOME CONVICTED AND CONVERTED? 18:35 AND SO WHEN YOU WORK FOR CHILDREN YOU'RE ALSO WORKING FOR 18:39 ADULTS AT THE SAME TIME AND IT'S AN INTERESTING DYNAMIC. 18:41 ANYWAY, THERE'S A SPECIAL MINDSET THAT THE HEBREWS HAD FOR 18:47 CHILDREN AND THAT MINDSET WAS DIFFERENT FROM WHAT YOU FIND IN 18:51 THE AVERAGE RELIGION OR EVEN AMONG THE AVERAGE CULTURES OF 18:55 THE WORLD. FOR EXAMPLE, I'VE BEEN TO 18:57 DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE WORLD AND THEY SAY, 'OH, THE CHRISTIAN 19:00 MISSIONARIES CAME IN HERE AND THEY JUST RUINED EVERYTHING. 19:04 THEY BROUGHT IN THEIR BELIEFS AND THEY TOOK AWAY THE NATURAL 19:07 BELIEFS OF THE PEOPLE. YOU KNOW, IN SOME CULTURES, 19:10 CHILDREN WERE NOT EVEN COUNTED TO BE HUMANS UNTIL THEY GOT TO 19:13 BE ABOUT EIGHT OR TEN YEARS OLD OR THEY COULD DO WORK AND IF 19:18 THEY SEEMED TO BE ANY KIND OF A PROBLEM - THEY CRIED A LOT - 19:23 FATHERS WOULD KILL THEM. THEY'D THROW THEM OFF OF CLIFFS. 19:26 THEY DIDN'T RECOGNIZE THE VALUE OF CHILDREN. 19:28 AND SO WHEN YOU HEAR THINGS IN THE BIBLE AND IT TALKS ABOUT - 19:31 WELL, LET ME READ YOU PSALM 127, VERSE 3, "BEHOLD, CHILDREN ARE A 19:38 HERITAGE FROM THE LORD, THE FRUIT OF THE WOMB IS A REWARD. 19:43 LIKE ARROWS IN THE HAND OF A WARRIOR, SO ARE THE 19:46 CHILDREN OF ONE'S YOUTH. 19:47 HAPPY IS THE MAN WHO HAS HIS QUIVER FULL OF THEM; THEY SHALL 19:52 NOT BE ASHAMED, BUT SHALL SPEAK WITH THEIR ENEMIES IN THE GATE." 19:56 YOU SEE, IT SAYS 'HAPPY IS THE MAN THAT HAS HIS QUIVER FULL OF 20:00 THEM.' A PERSON HAVING A LOT OF CHILDREN WAS SEEN AS A BLESSING. 20:03 WHAT DID GOD SAY TO ADAM AND EVE IN THE BEGINNING? 20:07 HE SAID, 'GO FORTH, BE FRUITFUL AND MULTIPLY. 20:10 IT WAS TO BE SEEN AS A GREAT BLESSING. 20:13 SOMEONE LOOK UP FOR ME GENESIS 16, VERSE 2. 20:16 I WANT TO READ ANOTHER VERSE THAT'S RELATED. 20:18 IF YOU LOOK IN GENESIS 30, VERSE 1, "NOW WHEN RACHEL SAW THAT SHE 20:24 BORE JACOB NO CHILDREN, RACHEL ENVIED HER SISTER, AND SAID TO 20:28 JACOB, 'GIVE ME CHILDREN, OR ELSE I DIE!'" 20:32 NOW, JACOB WAS A LITTLE UPSET ABOUT THAT. 20:36 WHAT WOULD BE YOUR RESPONSE? 20:41 HOW IMPORTANT WAS IT TO A HEBREW MOTHER TO HAVE CHILDREN? 20:45 IT WAS - NOT JUST THE MOTHER - TO THE FATHER? 20:48 GO AHEAD, READ FOR US - WHAT DID I SAY? GENESIS 16:2. 20:53 >>"AND SARAI SAID UNTO ABRAM, 'BEHOLD NOW, THE LORD HATH 20:57 RESTRAINED ME FROM BEARING: I PRAY THEE, GO IN UNTO MY MAID; 21:02 IT MAY BE THAT I MAY OBTAIN CHILDREN BY HER. 21:06 AND ABRAM HEARKENED TO THE VOICE OF SARAI.'" 21:09 >>HOW DESPERATE - HOW IMPORTANT WAS IT TO ABRAHAM AND TO SARAH 21:13 TO HAVE CHILDREN? SO MUCH SO THAT WHEN THEY COULDN'T HAVE 21:16 CHILDREN, THEY INVITED A SURROGATE TO GET INVOLVED. 21:19 WHAT WAS - WHAT WAS THE PRAYER OF HANNAH? 21:23 DO YOU REMEMBER THE STORY? HOW THE BOOK OF SAMUEL BEGINS? 21:26 THIS MAN ELKANAH, HE LOVES THIS WOMAN NAMED HANNAH - 21:29 HE MARRIES HER. BUT THERE'S A PROBLEM. 21:31 SHE'S BARREN AND SO HE TAKES ANOTHER WIFE BECAUSE IT WAS 21:34 ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL - YOUR ONLY SOCIAL SECURITY IN HEBREW TIMES 21:38 WAS THAT CHILDREN WOULD TAKE CARE OF YOU IN YOUR OLD AGE. 21:41 IF YOU HAD NO CHILDREN YOU COULD END UP DESTITUTE. 21:43 AND SO HAVING CHILDREN WAS REALLY SEEN AS VERY IMPORTANT. 21:47 AND, YOU KNOW, THEY SAW THAT PART OF THE WAY THAT YOU DEALT 21:50 WITH ETERNITY WAS THAT YOU LIVED THROUGH YOUR CHILDREN AFTER YOU 21:53 AND SO CHILDREN WERE VERY VALUED AND CHERISHED. 21:57 AND THE BOOK OF SAMUEL BEGINS BY THIS CONFLICT BETWEEN ELKANAH - 22:04 OR HANNAH AND PENINNAH AND HANNAH IS THERE AT THE TEMPLE - 22:08 WHAT IS SHE PRAYING ABOUT? SHE'S ROCKING BACK AND FORTH. 22:11 SHE'S IN GREAT DISTRESS - SO MUCH SO THAT ELI THINKS SHE'S 22:14 DRUNK AND SHE'S BEGGING THE LORD TO GIVE HER CHILDREN. 22:18 SHE MAKES A VOW AND SAYS, 'IF YOU'LL GIVE ME A SON I WILL 22:21 RAISE HIM UP AND GIVE HIM BACK TO YOU. 22:24 AND DID GOD ANSWER HER PRAYER? 22:27 AND I THINK SHE HAD, WAS IT FIVE MORE CHILDREN AFTER SAMUEL SO 22:31 THE LORD, HE BLESSED HER ABUNDANTLY. 22:33 YOU KNOW, I ALWAYS THOUGHT IT WAS INTERESTING THAT THE 22:37 PATRIARCHS - THE PATRIARCHS ABRAHAM, ISAAC, AND JACOB, 22:44 THROUGH WHOM GOD WAS GOING TO RAISE UP THIS GREAT NATION, ALL 22:47 OF THEM, AT SOME POINT, HAD PROBLEM WITH THE WIVES BEING 22:51 BARREN. SARAH WAS BARREN AND GOD 22:54 PERFORMED A MIRACLE. SHE HAD ISAAC. REBEKAH WAS BARREN - 22:58 I THINK SHE WAS MARRIED 20 YEARS TO ISAAC BEFORE SHE HAD TWINS - 23:03 JACOB AND ESAU. THEN RACHEL, THE PRINCIPLE WIFE 23:06 THAT JACOB WANTED - SHE WAS BARREN. 23:08 SHE WAS THE ONE THAT SAID, 'GIVE ME CHILDREN E'RE I DIE.' BUT YOU 23:12 KNOW WHAT HAPPENED TO THE ISRAELITES WHEN THEY WENT DOWN 23:14 TO EGYPT? IT SAYS THE LORD BLESSED THEM. 23:17 EVEN THOUGH THEY WERE IN SLAVERY, WHAT WAS THE BLESSING? 23:21 THEY MULTIPLIED GREATLY. MATTER OF FACT, YOU READ IT. 23:24 IT SAYS THEY MULTIPLIED, THEY MULTIPLIED, 23:26 THEY MULTIPLIED EXCEEDINGLY GREAT. 23:29 IT SEEMS TO SAY IT EVEN MORE - SO MUCH SO THE EGYPTIANS 23:32 THOUGHT, 'WHAT IN THE WORLD IS GOING ON HERE? THESE PEOPLE, 23:36 IN JUST A COUPLE HUNDRED YEARS, THEY'RE FILLING THE LAND. 23:39 YOU KNOW, THERE'S SOMETHING OF A DEMOGRAPHIC CRISIS IN CERTAIN 23:46 COUNTRIES OF EUROPE RIGHT NOW IN THAT THE AVERAGE FRENCH CITIZEN 23:52 HAS LIKE .8 CHILDREN. DO YOU REALIZE THAT OVER A 23:56 PERIOD OF TIME, IF YOU ONLY HAVE .8 CHILDREN, YOU GO INTO 23:59 DECLINE. YOU NEED TO HAVE, I THINK, 24:01 2.1 CHILDREN. HOW YOU HAVE THAT .1 I DON'T KNOW, BUT YOU'RE 24:04 SUPPOSED TO HAVE LIKE 2.1 CHILDREN IN A CULTURE TO GROW. 24:07 WELL, THE AVERAGE FRENCH CITIZEN, THEY'RE GOING INTO 24:10 DECLINE BUT THERE HAS BEEN SO MUCH IMMIGRATION FROM THE 24:13 ISLAMIC COUNTRIES - WHOSE AVERAGE FAMILY IS LIKE 8 TO 10 - 24:17 THAT THEY'RE SEEING THIS EXPLOSION. 24:20 NOW, I UNDERSTAND, IN ENGLAND THERE ARE MORE MOSQUES THAT ARE 24:23 OPENED THAN CHURCHES. SO THAT'S - THE EGYPTIANS WERE 24:27 REALLY WORRIED WHEN THEY SAW THE ISRAELITES JUST GROWING LIKE 24:30 THIS BECAUSE THEY THOUGHT, 'WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN? 24:32 THEY'RE GOING TO TAKE OVER THE COUNTRY.' AND THAT'S WHY THEY 24:34 TRIED TO SUBJUGATE THEM. BUT GOD SAW CHILDREN AS A 24:38 BLESSING. THAT'S THE MAIN POINT WE'RE TRYING TO MAKE HERE. 24:40 THIS WAS THE HEBREW MIND SET. CONVERSELY, THE VALUE OF 24:45 CHILDREN WAS NOT RECOGNIZED BY A NUMBER OF OTHER CULTURES. 24:49 FOR INSTANCE, YOU CAN READ IN JEREMIAH 7 - THIS IS IN YOUR 24:53 LESSON - JEREMIAH 7:31. THE ISRAELITES STARTED TO 24:58 FOLLOW SOME OF THE PAGAN CUSTOMS. 25:00 IT SAYS, AND THEY HAVE BUILT THE HIGH PLACES OF TOPHET, WHICH IS 25:03 IN THE VALLEY OF THE SON OF HINNOM, TO BURN THEIR SONS AND 25:07 THEIR DAUGHTERS IN THE FIRE; WHICH I COMMANDED THEM NOT, 25:11 NEITHER CAME IT INTO MY HEART." AND WHY WERE SOME OF THE PAGAN 25:14 NATIONS CAST OUT OF ISRAEL? THE CANAANITES - WHEN THE 25:18 CHILDREN OF ISRAEL CAME IN - CHILD SACRIFICE. 25:22 THEY DIDN'T UNDERSTAND THE VALUE OF HUMAN LIFE. 25:26 WHAT WAS GOD'S PLAN FOR CHILDREN? 25:29 THAT THEY WERE TO BE PROTECTED. THAT THEY WOULD BE PRESERVED. 25:32 THEY REPRESENTED THE FUTURE AND THEY WERE TO BE TRAINED 25:35 FOR THAT. THEY WERE TO BE DISCIPLED. 25:41 LET ME ASK YOU ONE OF THOSE, KIND OF A MORAL CONUNDRUM 25:44 QUESTIONS. YOU'RE IN A SHIP THAT'S SINKING. 25:52 YOU'VE GOT A SMALL LIFEBOAT AND YOU HAVE TO PLACE A COUPLE OF 26:01 PEOPLE IN THE LIFEBOAT. YOU FINALLY GET DOWN TO WHERE 26:04 THERE'S ONLY ROOM FOR ONE MORE AND YOU'VE GOT A 70-YEAR-OLD 26:09 WOMAN AND A 7-YEAR-OLD GIRL. WHO DO YOU PUT IN THE LIFEBOAT. 26:18 SHALL I VOTE? LET ME SEE. LET'S DO A SHOW OF HANDS. 26:20 IT'S KIND OF - NO ONE WANTS TO VOTE, DO THEY? 26:23 YOU PRAY FOR A BIGGER BOAT. 26:24 YOU CAN'T - NO, NO, NO - I KNOW, NO ONE WANTS TO DO THIS. 26:28 BUT HOW MANY WOULD THINK THAT IT WOULD BE THE RIGHT DECISION TO 26:31 PUT THE 7-YEAR-OLD GIRL THERE? ANYONE THE 70-YEAR-OLD WOMAN? 26:37 IT COULD BE A MAN, IT DOESN'T MATTER. 26:39 I JUST WANTED TO MAKE IT MORE DIFFICULT FOR YOU BECAUSE, YOU 26:40 KNOW, YOU SAY, 'WOMEN AND CHILDREN FIRST, RIGHT? 26:43 WHY? WHY DO WE SAY THAT? 26:45 BECAUSE THEY'VE GOT THEIR LIFE SPREAD BEFORE THEM. 26:48 AND SO THE ISRAELITES RECOGNIZED THAT - THAT THE FUTURE - THEIR 26:52 LIVES WERE SPREAD BEFORE THEM. YOU WANTED TO PROTECT THEM. 26:55 YOU WOULD LAY DOWN YOUR LIFE TO PROTECT THE CHILDREN. 26:59 GENESIS 18 - THIS IS GOD SPEAKING OF ABRAHAM - 27:03 GENESIS 18, VERSE 19. 27:04 THIS IS AN IMPORTANT VERSE FOR OUR WHOLE LESSON TODAY. 27:07 "FOR I HAVE KNOWN HIM," - ABRAHAM - "IN ORDER THAT HE MAY 27:10 COMMAND HIS CHILDREN AND HIS HOUSEHOLD AFTER HIM, THAT THEY 27:15 KEEP THE WAY OF THE LORD, TO DO RIGHTEOUSNESS AND JUSTICE, THAT 27:19 THE LORD MAY BRING TO ABRAHAM WHAT HE HAS SPOKEN TO HIM." 27:24 WHAT WOULD HAPPEN TODAY IF - IF A FATHER SAID, 'THE LORD HAS 27:30 SPOKEN TO ME AND GOD HAS TOLD ME THAT ALL OF THE MALE CHILDREN 27:38 ARE TO BE CIRCUMCISED' - IF IT HAD NEVER BEEN DONE BEFORE? NOW 27:41 KEEP IN MIND, BACK IN ABRAHAM'S DAY THAT WAS A NEW THING. 27:44 IF THAT HAD NEVER BEEN DONE BEFORE, WHAT WOULD HAPPEN? 27:49 WOULD CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES UNDERSTAND THAT? CAN YOU 27:54 UNDERSTAND ABRAHAM TRYING TO EXPLAIN THAT TO HIS FAMILY? 27:58 THE VERY FACT THAT HE WAS ABLE TO SAY, 'THIS IS WHAT GOD HAS 28:01 TOLD ME' AND THEY DIDN'T QUESTION MEANT THAT THEY 28:04 RESPECTED THEIR ELDERS AND THE CHILDREN FOLLOWED. 28:07 THE FACT THAT HE SAID TO HIS SON, ISAAC - HE DIDN'T WRESTLE 28:10 ISAAC TO THE GROUND AND TIE HIM UP LIKE A CALF AT A RODEO WHEN 28:14 HE OFFERED HIM. ISAAC WAS A WILLING SACRIFICE. 28:19 WHEN THE FATHER COMMANDED SOMETHING THEY LISTENED. 28:22 AND SO PART OF DISCIPLING CHILDREN IS CHILDREN LEARNING 28:25 THE IMPORTANCE OF OBEDIENCE. 28:27 LET ME READ SOMETHING TO YOU HERE FROM - THIS IS 'COUNSEL TO 28:31 SABBATH SCHOOL WORKERS' PAGE 44, "PARENTS HAVE A SACRED 28:35 RESPONSIBILITY AND A CHARGE COMMITTED TO THEM AND THEY ARE 28:39 CALLED UPON TO KEEP THEIR CHARGE, TO BEAR THEIR 28:41 RESPONSIBILITY IN THE FEAR OF GOD, WATCHING FOR THE SOULS OF 28:45 THEIR CHILDREN AS THEY WHO MUST GIVE AN ACCOUNT." 28:48 NOW, AM I THE ONLY ONE HERE THAT WOULD CONFESS THAT I WISH I 28:52 KNEW ABOUT RAISING CHILDREN - WHAT I KNOW NOW - 28:58 I WISH I KNEW IT WHEN I HAD MY FIRST ONE. 29:03 HOW MANY OF YOU WISH YOU COULD DO IT AGAIN KNOWING WHAT YOU 29:05 KNOW NOW. IT'S KIND OF LIKE YOU LEARN AS YOU GO. 29:09 I THINK, YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES YOU HAVE TO PRAY, 'LORD, I HOPE YOU 29:10 WILL OVERRULE THE MISTAKES THAT I'VE MADE. BUT IT'S 29:13 VERY IMPORTANT TO KNOW THAT CHILDREN REALLY AREN'T OURS. 29:17 THEY ARE A SACRED CHARGE. THEY BELONG TO GOD. 29:19 AND SO, WE NOT ONLY HAVE THE PRIVILEGE, WE HAVE A 29:22 RESPONSIBILITY TO DISCIPLE THEM. FOR THE CHILDREN, THE PARENTS 29:27 AND THE GRANDPARENTS STAND IN THE POSITION OF GOD AND THEY ARE 29:31 TO - THROUGH RESPECT AND THROUGH OBEDIENCE AND THROUGH 29:35 UNDERSTANDING OF THE WILL OF THE PARENTS, THAT WILL LATER BE 29:38 SUPERIMPOSED ON GOD AS THEY GROW. 29:41 AND IT'S A VERY IMPORTANT RESPONSIBILITY. 29:43 LOOK HERE, FOR A MOMENT IN DEUTERONOMY - SOMEONE LOOK UP 29:47 FOR ME PROVERBS - I GAVE IT TO YOU SO YOU ALREADY HAVE IT. 29:50 PROVERBS 22:6. I DON'T KNOW WHO HAS THAT VERSE. 29:53 JOLYNE? YOUR HAND WENT UP FIRST, I THINK. 29:55 SO WE'LL GET YOU A MICROPHONE. MAYBE YOU ALREADY HAVE IT. OKAY. 29:58 IN THE MEANTIME, I'M GOING TO READ DEUTERONOMY 4:9. 30:03 GOT YOUR BIBLES? 30:05 "ONLY TAKE HEED TO YOURSELF, AND DILIGENTLY KEEP YOURSELF, LEST 30:09 YOU FORGET THE THINGS YOUR EYES HAVE SEEN, AND LEST THEY DEPART 30:12 FROM YOUR HEART ALL THE DAYS OF YOUR LIFE. 30:14 AND TEACH THEM TO YOUR CHILDREN AND YOUR GRANDCHILDREN. 30:18 ESPECIALLY CONCERNING THE DAY YOU STOOD BEFORE THE LORD AND 30:21 YOUR GOD IN HOREB, WHEN THE LORD SAID TO ME, 'GATHER THE PEOPLE 30:25 TO ME, AND I WILL LET THEM HEAR MY WORDS, THAT THEY MAY LEARN TO 30:29 FEAR ME ALL THE DAYS THEY LIVE ON THE EARTH, AND THAT THEY MAY 30:32 TEACH THEIR CHILDREN.'" AND YOU KNOW WHAT HE SAYS AS YOU READ 30:35 ON? ESPECIALLY CONCERNING THE DAY 30:38 THAT HE DELIVERED UNTO YOU HIS COVENANT. 30:40 SO WHEN YOU'RE TEACHING YOUR CHILDREN, WHAT'S A GOOD STARTING 30:43 POINT? TEN COMMANDMENTS, RIGHT? 30:47 JUST LET THEM KNOW WHAT THE LAW OF GOD SAYS. 30:50 TEACH YOUR CHILDREN - AND THEN GO TO DEUTERONOMY 6 - AND THIS 30:53 IS WHERE YOU ALSO HEAR THAT GREAT STATEMENT, 'HEAR O ISRAEL, 30:55 THE LORD OUR GOD IS ONE. THOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD THY 30:57 GOD.' GO TO VERSE - DEUTERONOMY CHAPTER 6, VERSE 6, "AND THESE 31:02 WORDS WHICH I COMMAND YOU TODAY" - WHAT WORDS? 31:06 DEUTERONOMY 5 - TEN COMMANDMENTS. 31:08 DEUTERONOMY 6 HE SAYS, 'THESE WORDS I'VE COMMANDED YOU TODAY 31:11 "YOU SHALL TEACH THEM DILIGENTLY" - 31:14 NOW WHAT DOES DILIGENTLY MEAN? 31:16 NOT JUST TEACHING THEM, TEACHING THEM DILIGENTLY. 31:20 DILIGENTLY ALMOST HAS THE IDEA IN THE HEBREW 'TO THE POINT OF 31:25 PERSPIRATION'. IT'S AEROBICALLY. IT MEANS THERE'S INTENSE EFFORT. 31:30 IT MEANS IT'S NOT AN AFTER THOUGHT, IT'S A FOCUS. 31:34 THERE'S AN INTENSITY TO IT. TEACH THEM DILIGENTLY. 31:37 MAKE IT A PRIORITY. 31:38 "...TEACH THEM DILIGENTLY TO YOUR CHILDREN" - THEN HE 31:42 EXPLAINS WHAT THAT MEANS - "...TALK OF THEM WHEN YOU SIT IN 31:44 YOUR HOUSE, WHEN YOU WALK BY THE WAY, WHEN YOU LIE DOWN" - 31:49 EVENING WORSHIP - "AND WHEN YOU RISE UP." 31:51 - MORNING WORSHIP. AND SO - AND IT SAYS YOU SHOULD 31:54 PUT THEM ON THE POSTS OF YOUR GATE AND ON THE DOORS OF YOUR 31:57 HOUSE. SURROUND THEM WITH THE 31:59 PRINCIPLES AND TRUTHS OF GOD'S WORD SO THAT IT'S INGRAINED IN 32:03 THEIR CHARACTERS. NOW WHY IS THIS IMPORTANT? 32:06 GO AHEAD AND READ FOR US PROVERBS 22:6. 32:09 >>"TRAIN UP A CHILD IN THE WAY HE SHOULD GO, AND WHEN HE IS OLD 32:14 HE WILL NOT DEPART FROM IT." 32:16 >>WE ARE ALL, TO A GREAT EXTENT, WHO WE ARE BECAUSE OF WHAT WE'VE 32:22 TAKEN INTO OUR SENSES OVER THE COURSE OF OUR LIVES. 32:27 YOU'VE HEARD IT SAID BEFORE THAT IF YOU SLEEP WITH DOGS YOU GET 32:30 FLEAS. AND EVIL COMPANIONS WILL CORRUPT A PERSON. CHOOSE YOUR 32:38 FRIENDS CAREFULLY BECAUSE YOU WILL BECOME LIKE THEM. 32:41 AND SO, IF YOUNG PEOPLE ARE SPENDING MORE TIME WITH 32:45 TELEVISION THAN WITH THEIR PARENTS, WHAT IS DEFINING THEIR 32:49 VALUES? IT'S GOING TO BE THE MEDIA. 32:54 AND IF THEY'RE SPENDING MORE TIME WITH THEIR FRIENDS THAN 32:57 WITH THEIR PARENTS, WHAT'S GOING TO DEFINE THEIR VALUES? 33:00 IT'S GOING TO BE THEIR FRIENDS. YOU KNOW, WE'RE - WE'RE AT A 33:05 DISADVANTAGE TODAY BECAUSE FOR THE FIRST 6,000 YEARS - 5,900 33:11 YEARS OF THE WORLD'S HISTORY, FAMILIES HAD TO WORK TOGETHER. 33:17 FAMILIES THAT HAD A FARM, THEY ALL WORKED TOGETHER. 33:20 IF THEY RAN A TANNERY, THEY ALL MADE LEATHER TOGETHER. 33:22 IF THEY DID THE BLACKSMITHING, THEN THE CHILDREN IN THE FAMILY 33:26 ALL WORKED TOGETHER SOMEHOW IN THE BUSINESS. 33:29 WHETHER THEY MADE BROOMS OR WHATEVER THEY DID - IF THEY WERE 33:31 CARPENTERS - JESUS, WHAT DO YOU THINK HIS PRIMARY SKILL WAS? 33:35 HE GREW UP IN THE HOUSE OF JOSEPH. 33:36 YOU LEARNED THE TRADE. YOU BECAME EXPERTS. 33:38 YOU LEARN FROM A VERY EARLY AGE TO WORK AND BECAUSE YOU'RE 33:42 WORKING DAY BY DAY - YOU'RE OUT IN THE FIELDS, YOU'RE IN THE 33:45 SHOP WITH YOUR MOM AND WITH YOUR DAD, THERE'S A LOT OF 33:48 INTEGRATION. YOU LEARN. YOU'RE ABLE TO EMBED THAT. 33:52 BUT HOW IS IT TODAY? PARENTS GET UP IN A SCRAMBLE. 33:56 MOM AND DAD COMMUTE OFF TO WORK. KIDS COMMUTE OFF TO SCHOOL AND 34:00 THEN THEY COME HOME AND THE PARENTS - AND SOMETIMES THEY'RE 34:04 LATCHKEY KIDS AND THEY TURN ON THEIR VIDEO GAMES, THEY TURN ON 34:09 - THEY HOPEFULLY DO SOME HOMEWORK - THEY TURN ON THE 34:11 TELEVISION AND AT THE END OF THE DAY THE PARENTS COME HOME. 34:14 YOU RACE AROUND, DO SOME HOUSEHOLD CHORES AND LAUNDRY AND 34:16 THINGS LIKE THAT - TALK A LITTLE BIT AROUND THE DINNER TABLE. 34:20 THEN THERE'S MORE TV AND THEN YOU GO TO SLEEP. 34:25 THERE'S NEVER BEEN A GENERATION THAT'S FACED WITH THAT KIND OF 34:28 DYNAMIC THAT WE HAVE TODAY. AND SO WHAT'S MOLDING THE MINDS 34:33 OF SO MANY OF THE YOUNG PEOPLE? THE PARENTS OR THE OTHER MEDIA? 34:39 AND SO THAT'S A REAL DIFFICULT DYNAMIC THAT WE HAVE TODAY THAT 34:42 WE HAVEN'T ALWAYS HAD. ALRIGHT, JESUS' CHILDHOOD. 34:45 LET'S LOOK AT CHRIST AS OUR EXAMPLE HERE. 34:47 LUKE 2:40, IT SAYS, "AND THE CHILD GREW" - SOMEONE LOOK UP 34:51 FOR ME LUKE 2:51. WHO HAS THAT? WE'VE GOT A HAND BACK HERE - 34:56 JAN - WHERE'S THE MICROPHONE? OH, YOU'VE GOT IT. GOOD. 34:59 OKAY, WE'LL GET TO YOU IN JUST A MOMENT. 35:01 I'M GOING TO READ LUKE 2:40. "AND THE CHILD" - WHAT CHILD IS 35:04 IT TALKING ABOUT? THIS IS JESUS. "AND THE CHILD GREW AND BECAME 35:08 STRONG IN SPIRIT, FILLED WITH WISDOM; AND THE GRACE OF GOD WAS 35:12 UPON HIM." NOW THERE'S A LOT OF THEORIES 35:15 AND SPECULATION ABOUT WHERE JESUS LEARNED HIS WISDOM. 35:20 DID JESUS LEARN HIS WISDOM FROM THE RABBIS IN INDIA OR FROM SOME 35:29 - PEOPLE SAY, 'WHERE - YOU KNOW, THERE'S THE HIDDEN YEARS. 35:31 THERE'S THE MISSING YEARS OF JESUS' CHILDHOOD. 35:34 WHERE DID HE GO AND WHAT DID HE DO?' 35:35 AND 'WAS HE OFF LEARNING FROM SOME GURUS IN PERSIA OR WAS HE 35:41 DOWN IN EGYPT READING IN THE LIBRARIES OF ALEXANDER? 35:43 WHERE DID HE GET THIS WISDOM?" 35:45 THEY EVEN HAD A BOOK THAT CAME OUT YEARS AGO - POPULAR FOR A 35:48 SHORT TIME WHEN I WAS A YOUNG HIPPIE AND IT'S CALLED 'THE 35:52 AQUARIAN GOSPEL OF JESUS' AND SOMEONE SAID, YOU KNOW, 'JESUS 35:55 HAD GONE AND LEARNED THESE THINGS FROM THE MYSTICS. 35:57 DURING THOSE YEARS - THOSE MYSTERY YEARS - HE DISAPPEARED.' 36:02 THE BIBLE DOESN'T SAY THAT HE DISAPPEARED. 36:05 AND YOU CAN READ, FOR INSTANCE, WHERE WAS HE DURING THOSE YEARS? 36:08 YOU READ IN THE BOOK 'DESIRE OF AGES' PAGE 70, "THE CHILD JESUS 36:12 DID NOT RECEIVE INSTRUCTION IN THE SYNAGOGUE SCHOOL. 36:15 HIS MOTHER WAS HIS FIRST HUMAN TEACHER. 36:17 FROM HER LIPS AND FROM THE SCROLLS OF THE PROPHETS HE 36:20 LEARNED OF HEAVENLY THINGS. THE VERY WORDS WHICH HE HIMSELF 36:24 HAD SPOKEN TO MOSES FOR ISRAEL HE WAS NOW TAUGHT AT HIS 36:27 MOTHER'S KNEE." SO WHERE DID JESUS LEARN? 36:31 FROM THE SCRIPTURES FROM HIS MOTHER'S KNEE. 36:33 WHY DIDN'T SHE SEND HIM TO THE SCHOOLS OF THE RABBIS? 36:38 WELL, A COUPLE OF REASONS. 36:40 ONE IS, I THINK MARY UNDERSTOOD THAT A LOT OF MAN-MADE 36:42 TRADITIONS HAD, AT THAT TIME, BECOME EMBEDDED IN THE HEBREW 36:48 TEACHINGS. AND THERE MIGHT HAVE BEEN ANOTHER DYNAMIC. 36:52 IN SMALL COMMUNITIES, WAS THERE SOME QUESTION ABOUT JESUS' 36:55 BIRTH? DID THE RELIGIOUS LEADERS SAY, 36:59 'WE DON'T KNOW WHERE THIS MAN IS FROM'? 37:02 THERE'S SOME QUESTION ABOUT 'DIDN'T MARY SEEM TO BE PREGNANT 37:06 BEFORE THEY HAD THEIR WEDDING? WHAT WAS GOING ON THERE?' 37:11 AND SO THERE WAS, YOU KNOW, A LOT OF RUMORS AND INNUENDO AND 37:14 PART OF THE REASON THAT HE MAYBE WAS NOT SUBJECTED TO THAT WAS HE 37:18 MAY HAVE BEEN A LITTLE BIT OF AN OUTCAST IN THAT COMMUNITY. 37:22 BUT HE LEARNED THE SCRIPTURES FROM MARY. IT'S INTERESTING, 37:25 THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE CHANGED THE WORLD THE MOST - MOSES AND 37:31 DAVID, YOU KNOW, HANNAH - SAMUEL - THOSE YOUNG PEOPLE THEY SPENT 37:37 A LOT OF TIME LEARNING FROM THEIR MOTHERS THE WORD OF GOD 37:40 AND IT IMPRESSED IT ON THEIR TENDER HEARTS FROM AN EARLY AGE. 37:44 AND IF THEY DIDN'T RECEIVE IT THEN, SOMETIMES IT JUST DIDN'T 37:47 TAKE THE WAY IT COULD. 37:49 ALRIGHT, READ FOR US LUKE 2, VERSE 51. 37:54 >>"THEN HE WENT DOWN WITH THEM AND CAME TO NAZARETH, 37:57 AND WAS SUBJECT TO THEM, BUT HIS MOTHER KEPT ALL THESE THINGS 38:00 IN HER HEART." 38:01 >>YEAH, READ THE NEXT VERSE TOO, JAN. 38:05 >>"AND JESUS INCREASED IN WISDOM AND STATURE, AND IN FAVOR WITH 38:08 GOD AND MEN." 38:10 >>ALRIGHT, SO PEOPLE SAY, 'WHERE DID HE GO?' 38:12 WELL, IT TELLS US WHERE HE WENT. 38:13 HE WENT DOWN AND WENT TO NAZARETH, HE WAS SUBJECT TO THEM 38:18 AND HE INCREASED IN WISDOM AND STATURE - HE GREW UP - AND THIS 38:22 IS TALKING ABOUT WHEN HE WAS TWELVE YEARS OLD AND HE WENT TO 38:24 THE TEMPLE AND THE PARENTS LOST TRACK OF HIM FOR A FEW DAYS AND 38:28 THEY FOUND HIM - HE WAS IN THE TEMPLE EXCHANGING AND ASKING 38:31 QUESTIONS WITH THE SCHOLARS THERE. 38:34 ANYWAY, SO IS THERE A QUESTION ABOUT WHAT JESUS DID WITH HIS 38:37 CHILDHOOD OR DOES THE BIBLE TELL US? NOW, CHILDREN NEED TO BE 38:42 TREATED DIFFERENTLY THAN ADULTS. CHILDREN ARE CHILDREN, THEY'RE 38:47 NOT ADULTS AND THE WAY THAT YOU TEACH CHILDREN IS GOING TO BE 38:52 DIFFERENT THAN THE WAY YOU TEACH ADULTS. 38:54 WHEN YOU HAVE FAMILY WORSHIP AND YOU'VE GOT CHILDREN IN THE 38:57 FAMILY, YOU MAY NOT WANT TO PULL DOWN, YOU KNOW, MATTHEW HENRY'S 39:02 COMMENTARY AND READ EIGHT CHAPTERS. 39:06 IS IT GOING TO - ARE THEY GOING TO GET A LOT OUT OF THAT? 39:10 SO WHEN THERE'S YOUNG CHILDREN, YOU KNOW - AND IF YOU'VE GOT 39:12 CHILDREN THAT ARE SPREAD ACROSS THE SPECTRUM - I'VE GOT 39:14 ONE FRIEND THAT HE'S GOT LIKE EIGHT KIDS AND SO AT THE SAME 39:17 TIME HE'S GOT TEENAGERS, HE'S GOT TODDLERS. AND SO THEIR 39:21 FAMILY WORSHIP, THEY'VE GOT TO DO SOME SINGING AND 39:23 STUFF THAT THE LITTLE ONES UNDERSTAND, THEN SAY SOMETHING A 39:25 LITTLE MORE CHALLENGING AND PROFOUND THAT WILL APPEAL TO THE 39:29 OLDER KIDS AND STILL MAKE IT RELEVANT. 39:32 AND THAT TAKES SOME THINKING TO DO IT THAT WAY AND YOU MIGHT 39:35 EVEN HAVE SOME PRIVATE TIME WITH THE OLDER KIDS WHERE YOU DO A 39:37 STUDY WITH THEM - DO SOMETHING SIMPLE WITH THE LITTLE ONES 39:40 BEFORE YOU PUT THEM TO BED - BUT YOU'VE GOT TO BE CREATIVE 39:43 SO THAT YOU MAKE IT RELEVANT. 39:45 THE BIBLE TELLS US CHILDREN SPEAK DIFFERENTLY. 39:48 1 CORINTHIANS CHAPTER 13, VERSE 11, "WHEN I WAS A CHILD, I SPOKE 39:53 AS A CHILD, I UNDERSTOOD AS A CHILD, I THOUGHT AS A CHILD; BUT 39:57 WHEN I BECAME A MAN, I PUT AWAY CHILDISH THINGS." 40:01 AND SO CHILDREN SPEAK DIFFERENTLY. 40:03 CHILDREN THINK DIFFERENTLY. I JUST SORT OF READ THAT. 40:07 1 CORINTHIANS 14:20, "BRETHREN, DO NOT BE CHILDREN IN 40:11 UNDERSTANDING; HOWEVER, IN MALICE BE BABES, 40:15 BUT IN UNDERSTANDING BE MATURE." 40:18 SO BABES HAVE BABE-LIKE UNDERSTANDING. 40:21 PARENTS SOMETIMES BECOME ANGRY WITH THEIR CHILDREN FOR THINKING 40:24 LIKE CHILDREN AND FOR ACTING LIKE CHILDREN. 40:26 HAVE YOU EVER SEEN THAT? IT'S KIND OF SAD. 40:28 A FATHER WILL COME DOWN REAL HARD ON THE BOY OR CHILD FOR 40:32 DOING SOMETHING CHILDISH AND BE VERY SEVERE AND EXACTING AND 40:36 PUNISH THEM AND THEY JUST - THEY DO SILLY THINGS THAT 40:39 CHILDREN DO. AND SO YOU'VE GOT TO SOMETIMES REMEMBER THAT. 40:42 CHILDREN EAT DIFFERENTLY WHEN THEY'RE YOUNG. HEBREWS 5:13 40:47 AND 14, "FOR EVERYONE WHO PARTAKES OF MILK IS UNSKILLED IN 40:52 THE WORD OF RIGHTEOUSNESS, FOR HIS IS A BABE. 40:55 BUT SOLID FOOD BELONGS TO THOSE WHO ARE OF FULL AGE, THAT IS, 40:59 THOSE WHO BY REASON OF USE HAVE THEIR SENSES EXERCISED TO 41:02 DISCERN BOTH GOOD AND EVIL." 41:04 IT'S FUN TO WATCH AS CHILDREN START TRANSITIONING INTO 41:10 TEENAGERS AND THEY START ASKING SOME DEEPER MORE PHILOSOPHICAL 41:14 QUESTIONS. YOU KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT? 41:16 AND YOU CAN JUST SEE THEIR REASONING POWERS BEGIN TO MATURE 41:20 AS THEY GROW UP. 41:21 AND, YOU KNOW, SO WHEN THEY'RE REAL YOUNG THEY ASK QUESTIONS. 41:24 AND EVEN WHEN THEY'RE REAL YOUNG, ALL OF A SUDDEN YOU CAN 41:25 SEE THEIR MINDS WORKING AND THEY'RE STARTING TO RATIONALIZE 41:28 AND PROCESS IN WAYS THAT ONLY HUMANS CAN. 41:31 ONLY HUMANS CAN THINK ABSTRACTLY. IT'S A GIFT. 41:35 IT'S ONE OF THE THINGS THAT GOD GIVES US WHERE HE SAYS, 41:37 'COME, LET US REASON TOGETHER'. 41:40 AND WHEN YOU SEE CHILDREN BEGINNING TO REASON THESE THINGS 41:42 OUT IN THEIR MINDS AND PROCESS THESE PROFOUND TRUTHS OF LIFE, 41:45 DOESN'T IT MAKE YOU HAPPY? 41:47 BUT THERE'S A PROGRESSION THERE AND IT TAKES TIME TO GROW. 41:52 WHAT'S SAD IS THAT WHEN PEOPLE ARE IN THE CHURCH FOR YEARS AND 41:57 - YOU UNDERSTAND WHEN YOU'RE STUDYING THE BIBLE WITH YOUNG 42:01 CHILDREN, YOU WALK OUT HERE TO THE CRADLE ROLL CLASS 42:03 AND IT'S GOING TO BE PRETTY SIMPLE. 42:05 THEY'RE GOING TO BE BANGING STICKS TOGETHER AND SINGING 42:07 ABOUT HEAVEN AND THEY'LL HAVE LITTLE LAMBS AND THINGS AND 42:09 THEY'RE JUST GIVEN THE BASIC PRINCIPLES. 42:11 IF I START TEACHING SABBATH SCHOOL THAT WAY, FOR ALL OF YOU, 42:15 EVENTUALLY YOU'D SAY, 'PASTOR DOUG, FINALLY I'M GETTING IT.' 42:20 NO. EVENTUALLY YOU'D SAY, 'CAN WE HAVE SOMETHING A LITTLE MORE 42:28 SOLID?' YOU KNOW, ALL THIS PABLAM - 42:32 ALL THIS JUST SWEET STUFF, YOU KNOW? 42:36 I REMEMBER ONCE WHEN I WAS REALLY POOR - LIVING ON THE 42:39 STREETS - THAT A FRIEND, WHO WAS GETTING GOVERNMENT ASSISTANCE, 42:45 ENDED UP GETTING A CASE OF BABY FOOD AND HE WAS WILLING TO SHARE 42:49 IT WITH ME. ALL I HAD TO EAT WAS BABY FOOD. 42:54 AND, YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU'RE REAL HUNGRY, THAT FIRST JAR TASTED 42:58 REALLY GOOD. BUT, YOU KNOW, YOU CAN'T GET 42:59 FULL ON ONE OF THOSE LITTLE GLASS GERBER JARS. 43:03 AND I REMEMBER SITTING DOWN AND THINKING, 'ALRIGHT, THIS IS 43:06 BREAKFAST' AND GOING THROUGH A WHOLE BUNCH OF LITTLE PEACHES. 43:10 AND YOU'RE JUST...IT TASTED GOOD BUT, YOU KNOW, YOU FEEL - 43:15 IT'S ALSO VERY EMBARRASSING. 43:17 I HEARD ABOUT A PRISON WARDEN THAT THE PRISONERS WERE RIOTING 43:23 AND MISBEHAVING AND, YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE WARDENS HE SAID, 43:26 IF YOU MISBEHAVE THEY PUT YOU ON BREAD AND WATER.' AND ALL 43:29 THE PRISONERS SAID, 'YEAH, WE'RE ON BREAD AND WATER NOW BECAUSE 43:31 WE'VE BEEN TOUGH.' AND WHAT THIS NEW PRISON WARDEN DECIDED TO DO 43:35 - HE SAYS, 'WE'RE GIVING YOU BABY FOOD.' AND SO HE JUST FED 43:39 THEM BABY FOOD WHEN THEY WERE MISBEHAVING. 43:41 IT WAS SO HUMILIATING THEY STARTED BEHAVING. 43:43 THEY DIDN'T WANT THE BABY FOOD ANYMORE. 43:45 BUT, YOU KNOW, YOU'VE GOT SOME PEOPLE WHO ARE CHRISTIANS FOR 43:47 YEARS AND IT'S STILL JUST BABY FOOD. 43:50 AND YOU WANT TO BE ABLE TO, YOU KNOW, CHALLENGE PEOPLE. 43:54 IT'S A CHALLENGE FOR PASTORS BECAUSE WHEN YOU PREACH, WHAT 43:59 SOME CHURCHES DO IS THEY SEPARATE THE CHILDREN FROM THE 44:01 ADULTS FOR THE WORSHIP SERVICE AND THEY HAVE - I THINK IT'S 44:06 IMPORTANT FOR THE WORSHIP SERVICE FOR ALL THE FAMILIES TO 44:09 COME TOGETHER AND TO WORSHIP GOD AND CHILDREN LEARN ABOUT 44:12 APPROPRIATE WORSHIP FROM OBSERVING THE PARENTS. 44:14 AND THEY SAY, 'OH BUT, YOU KNOW, THEY'RE FIDDLING AND THEY NEED' 44:17 - THEY NEED TO LEARN TO SIT STILL. 44:18 IT DOES TAKE TIME BUT THEY CAN LEARN THAT AND, YOU KNOW, 44:21 WE HAVE A MOTHER'S ROOM. 44:23 AND THE IDEA - IT'S REALLY A TRAINING ROOM. 44:25 SO WHEN THEY START TO SQUIRM AND GET OUT OF HAND AND YOU TAKE 44:27 THEM BACK THERE AND YOU TEACH THEM HOW TO SIT. 44:30 AND THAT'S WHY THERE'S A GLASS - SO THEY CAN LOOK IN AND 44:32 THEY CAN PARTICIPATE. 44:33 BUT THEY'RE EVENTUALLY SUPPOSED TO LEARN TO COME IN. 44:36 SO WE ALL TOGETHER WORSHIP GOD TOGETHER. 44:39 BUT A LOT OF THESE CHURCHES THEY KIND OF SEPARATE OUT. 44:43 AND THEY SAY THEY'VE GOT THE CHILD CHURCH AND THE KIDS DON'T 44:46 EVEN WORSHIP WITH THEIR PARENTS. 44:49 BUT IT IS A CHALLENGE FOR A PASTOR, WHEN YOU PREACH THE 44:52 SERMON, TO SAY SOMETHING THAT NOT ONLY THE ADULTS WILL GET 44:55 SOME MEAT, BUT IT'S - YOU'RE NOT SHOOTING SO FAR OVER EVERYONE'S 44:59 HEAD THAT THE CHILDREN DON'T GET ANYTHING EITHER. 45:02 THAT'S WHY WE HAVE A CHILDREN'S STORY AS PART OF OUR WORSHIP 45:04 SERVICE. BUT IT STILL OUGHT TO BE SIMPLE. 45:06 JESUS WAS A MASTER AT THAT. JESUS WOULD - HE WOULD, IN A 45:11 PARABLE, SAY SOMETHING THAT CHILDREN UNDERSTOOD IT BUT THE 45:16 BOTTOM-LINE TEACHING OF IT WAS SO DEEP AND PROFOUND THAT 45:20 EVEN THE ADULTS WOULD GET SOME MEAT OUT OF IT. 45:23 AND THAT'S A CHALLENGE TO BE ABLE TO DO THAT. 45:27 YOU FIND THAT JESUS WAS INTERESTED IN HEALING CHILDREN - 45:31 UNDER OUR NEXT SECTION. 45:33 IF YOU LOOK, FOR INSTANCE, IN MATTHEW CHAPTER 9, VERSE 18. 45:37 IT SAYS, "WHILE HE SPOKE THESE THINGS TO THEM, BEHOLD, A RULER" 45:41 - RULER OF THE SYNAGOGUE - "CAME AND WORSHIPED HIM, SAYING, 'MY 45:44 DAUGHTER HAS JUST DIED, BUT COME AND LAY YOUR HAND ON HER AND SHE 45:48 WILL LIVE.' SO JESUS AROSE AND FOLLOWED HIM, 45:52 AND SO DID HIS DISCIPLES." 45:54 NOW, YOU REALIZE THIS STORY IS TOLD IN A COUPLE OF DIFFERENT 45:57 GOSPELS AND WHEN CHRIST FIRST GOT APPROACHED BY JARIUS, SHE 46:02 WAS JUST SICK. BUT WHILE JESUS WAS ON HIS WAY - 46:05 AND THIS IS IN THE GOSPEL OF MARK - TO HEAL JARIUS' DAUGHTER, 46:10 IT'S PRONOUNCED JAH-RI-US AND JARIUS - BOTH DIFFERENT WAYS. 46:14 AND WHILE HE WAS ON HIS WAY, WORD CAME FROM THE RULER OF THE 46:17 SYNAGOGUE'S HOUSE AND IT SAID, 'DON'T TROUBLE THE MASTER 46:20 ANYMORE, YOUR DAUGHTER HAS DIED.' AND SO JESUS SAW HOW 46:25 DOWNCAST THE FATHER WAS. WHEN YOU GET THE NEWS THAT YOUR 46:28 CHILD HAS DIED IT'S JUST LIKE A SHOCK. 46:32 AND HE SAW HOW - HE SAID, 'DON'T LOSE HOPE. 46:36 DON'T STOP BELIEVING.' AND THEY WENT TO THE HOUSE AND THIS IS 46:39 WHERE IT TAKES UP AND WE CAN READ THIS. 46:42 HE BRINGS HIM IN AND PUTS OUT EVERYBODY WHO DOESN'T BELIEVE - 46:47 JUST BRINGS IN PETER, JAMES AND JOHN. 46:49 AND WHEN HE BRINGS THEM INTO THE HOUSE WHY DID HE - WHY DID JESUS 46:52 EVICT FROM THE HOUSE ALL THOSE WHO WERE MOURNING? 46:55 JESUS SAID, 'SHE'S NOT DEAD. SHE'S JUST SLEEPING.' 46:59 BECAUSE WELL, YOU KNOW, JESUS DID A LOT OF HIS 47:01 MIRACLES - HE WOULD PUT OUT THOSE WHO DIDN'T BELIEVE. 47:05 I MEAN, HERE HE'S GETTING READY TO DO A RESURRECTION. 47:07 HE BROUGHT IN THE FATHER AND THE MOTHER OF THE LITTLE GIRL AND HE 47:11 BROUGHT IN PETER, JAMES, AND JOHN AND HE TOOK HOLD OF HER BY 47:14 THE HAND - SHE WAS TWELVE YEARS OLD THE BIBLE SAYS. 47:17 INTERESTING - SAME AGE AS JESUS WHEN HE WENT TO THE TEMPLE. 47:21 THE OTHER INTERESTING THING ABOUT THAT STORY - THIS REALLY 47:23 DOESN'T RELATE TO DISCIPLING CHILDREN BUT IN THAT STORY TWO 47:28 WOMEN TOUCHED JESUS IN THE CHAPTER. 47:31 JESUS IS ON HIS WAY TO RESURRECT THIS LITTLE GIRL AND ON HIS WAY, 47:39 A WOMAN WHO HAD BEEN BLEEDING FOR TWELVE YEARS TOUCHES HIM AND 47:43 THEN HE RAISES A GIRL WHO'S TWELVE YEARS OLD. 47:46 I ALWAYS WONDERED IF THAT WAS SORT OF AN ANALOGY OF HOW YOU'VE 47:49 GOT THE OLD TESTAMENT CHURCH WITH ALL THE SACRIFICES AND SHE 47:53 DOESN'T GET ANY BETTER - SHE TOUCHES JESUS AND THAT SAME DAY 47:56 JESUS THEN TOUCHES A TWELVE-YEAR-OLD GIRL. 47:58 A WOMAN SORT OF IS AN ANALOGY FOR A CHURCH IN MANY BIBLE 48:00 STORIES AND IN THE OLD TESTAMENT PEOPLE ARE SAVED BY LOOKING 48:05 FORWARD TO CHRIST - BECAUSE IT WASN'T THE BLOOD OF LAMBS, IT'S 48:08 THE BLOOD OF CHRIST. OLD TESTAMENT - CONTINUAL FLOW 48:11 OF SACRIFICIAL OFFERINGS BUT NOT BETTER - ONLY BETTER WHEN YOU 48:15 TOUCH JESUS. NEW TESTAMENT - JESUS DIED BUT 48:18 HE RISES. IT'S LIKE THE NEW TESTAMENT 48:20 CHURCH - BOTH TWELVE YEARS OLD. I THOUGHT THAT WAS INTERESTING. 48:24 IT MIGHT JUST BE A COINCIDENCE, WHAT DO YOU THINK? 48:26 BUT SO HERE HE RAISES THIS GIRL TO LIFE. 48:30 DID JESUS CARE ABOUT CHILDREN? AND THEN YOU HAVE THIS OTHER 48:34 STORY IN LUKE 9:38. MATTER OF FACT, WILL YOU GIVE ME 48:38 A LITTLE LIBERTY RIGHT NOW? THIS STORY IS ALSO IN MARK 9. 48:42 I'D RATHER READ IT IN MARK 9 IF THAT'S OKAY WITH YOU. 48:44 IT'S THE SAME STORY. MARK SEEMS TO GIVE MORE DETAIL. 48:47 GO IN YOUR BIBLES TO MARK CHAPTER 9 - I THINK IT STARTS 48:49 WITH VERSE 14 IF I'M NOT MISTAKEN. 48:52 THIS IS ANOTHER AMAZING HEALING. THIS TAKES PLACE RIGHT AFTER THE 48:56 MOUNT OF TRANSFIGURATION EXPERIENCE. 49:00 AND HE COMES DOWN FROM THE MOUNTAIN - VERSE 14 - MARK 9:14, 49:04 "AND WHEN HE CAME TO THE DISCIPLES, HE SAW A GREAT 49:06 MULTITUDE AROUND THEM, AND SCRIBES DISPUTING WITH THEM. 49:10 IMMEDIATELY, WHEN THEY SAW HIM, ALL THE PEOPLE WERE GREATLY 49:14 AMAZED, AND RUNNING TO HIM, GREETED HIM. 49:17 AND HE ASKED THE SCRIBES, 'WHAT ARE YOU DISCUSSING WITH THEM?' 49:20 THEN ONE OF THE CROWD ANSWERED AND SAID, 'TEACHER, I BROUGHT 49:23 YOU MY SON, WHO HAS A MUTE SPIRIT. 49:27 AND WHEREVER IT SEIZES HIM,, IT THROWS HIM DOWN; HE FOAMS AT THE 49:31 MOUTH, GNASHES HIS TEETH, AND BECOMES RIGID. 49:34 SO I SPOKE TO YOUR DISCIPLES,'" - HE HAD THIS CONVULSION - "SO 49:38 I SPOKE TO YOUR DISCIPLES, THAT THEY SHOULD CAST IT OUT, BUT 49:40 THEY COULD NOT.'" - OH, THAT MUST HAVE BEEN KIND OF A - 49:44 A DRAMATIC SCENE. 49:46 THIS FATHER HAS THIS SON, HE'S GOT THIS SPIRIT, HE WOULD BE 49:48 OVERWHELMED - HE WOULDN'T BE ABLE TO SPEAK - A MUTE SPIRIT, 49:52 AND THEN HE WOULD GO INTO CONVULSIONS AND THE DISCIPLES 49:55 SAID, 'OH, WE'LL CAST HIM OUT.' HAD THE DISCIPLES CAST OUT 49:58 DEVILS BEFORE AND HEALED BEFORE? YEAH. AND THEY SAID, 50:02 'IN THE NAME OF JESUS COME OUT.' NOTHING HAPPENED. 50:05 MAYBE PETER SAID, 'HERE, LET ME TRY IT. 50:06 MOVE OVER JOHN.' HE SAYS IT AND NOTHING HAPPENED. 50:09 AND THEN OVER COMES ANDREW AND HE TRIES IT AND NOTHING HAPPENS. 50:12 NOW THE SCRIBES THINK, 'THIS IS THE MOMENT WE'VE BEEN WAITING 50:14 FOR. JESUS IS A FRAUD. HE'S A CHARLATAN.' 50:17 AND THEY SAID, 'WE TOLD YOU. THEY DON'T HAVE ANY POWER.' 50:20 AND SO THERE'S THIS BIG DISPUTE GOING ON. 50:22 THIS POOR FATHER, HE JUST WANTS HIS SON HEALED. 50:25 HE DOESN'T WANT TO GET INVOLVED IN AN ARGUMENT. 50:28 AND SO THEY ALL CAME RUNNING TO JESUS - ACTUALLY, I SAID PETER, 50:31 JAMES AND JOHN, THEY WERE UP ON THE MOUNTAIN WITH JESUS SO IT 50:33 WASN'T THEM. IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN ANDREW AND 50:35 PHILIP AND THOMAS, WHO KNOWS? AND IT SAYS JESUS SAID, 50:42 "'O FAITHLESS GENERATION,'" - VERSE 19 - "'HOW LONG SHALL I BE 50:44 WITH YOU? HOW LONG SHALL I BEAR WITH YOU? BRING HIM TO ME.'" 50:49 ALRIGHT, I WANT TO STOP RIGHT THERE. IF YOU HAVE A CHILD AND 50:54 THEY NEED HEALING, WHAT DOES JESUS SAY? 'BRING HIM TO ME.' 50:58 DOES THAT MEAN THAT YOU DON'T GET ANY MEDICAL ADVICE? 51:02 NO, ONE OF THE WAYS JESUS HEALS OUR CHILDREN IS BY HAVING MODERN 51:07 MEDICAL ADVANCES AND IT MIGHT MEAN THAT YOU ULTIMATELY GET 51:11 SOME MEDICAL ATTENTION AND, YOU KNOW, I'VE SEEN AND WE'VE ALL 51:17 HEARD STORIES OF PEOPLE WHO SAID, 'IF YOU HAVE FAITH YOU 51:19 DON'T EVER GO SEE THE DOCTOR.' THAT'S NOT WHAT IT'S 51:22 TALKING ABOUT. SOMETIMES GOD WORKS THROUGH 51:25 DOCTORS, ISN'T THAT RIGHT? BUT FIRST AND FOREMOST, WHEN 51:29 THERE'S SICKNESS, I THINK WE BRING EVERY CASE TO JESUS, 51:31 RIGHT? 'OH, BUT I'VE GOT A SORE THROAT. 51:34 I'M NOT GOING TO BOTHER HIM WITH THAT.' HOW DOES THAT - CAN YOU 51:37 BOTHER THE LORD? YOU PRAY ABOUT EVERYTHING. 51:40 I REMEMBER I DID GET WOKEN UP ONCE BY A CHURCH MEMBER CALLED 51:44 ME AT 2:00 IN THE MORNING AND SAID, 'PASTOR, CAN YOU PLEASE 51:46 PRAY?' I SAID, 'YEAH, WHAT'S THE 51:48 PROBLEM?' HE SAID, 'I'VE GOT A TOOTHACHE.' 51:53 AND, YOU KNOW, SO I PRAYED. 51:55 BUT, NOW I'M NOT TRYING TO GIVE YOU ANY IDEAS RIGHT NOW BY 51:59 SHARING THAT WITH YOU. E-MAIL ME YOUR PRAYER REQUEST. 52:07 BUT, YOU KNOW, WE SHOULD TAKE EVERYTHING TO THE LORD IN PRAYER 52:09 BUT, ULTIMATELY, WHEN IT COMES TO OUR CHILDREN'S SALVATION - 52:12 OUR CHILDREN'S HEALING - BRING THESE THINGS TO JESUS. 52:15 JESUS SAID, "'BRING HIM TO ME.' THEN THEY BROUGHT HIM TO HIM. 52:19 AND WHEN HE SAW HIM" - THIS YOUNG CHILD SAW JESUS - HE MAY 52:23 HAVE BEEN TEN OR TWELVE YEARS OLD BECAUSE THE FATHER SAYS HE'S 52:25 HAD IT SINCE HE WAS VERY YOUNG - "IMMEDIATELY THE SPIRIT 52:28 CONVULSED HIM, AND HE FELL ON THE GROUND AND WALLOWED, 52:30 FOAMING AT THE MOUTH." - A FRESH, DRAMATIC DISPLAY OF 52:34 THIS SPIRIT - "SO HE ASKED HIS FATHER, 'HOW LONG HAS THIS BEEN 52:39 HAPPENING TO HIM?'" - NOW THIS IS INTERESTING 52:41 BECAUSE THIS IS ONE OF THE ONLY TIMES IN THE BIBLE JESUS 52:44 ACTUALLY ASKS A QUESTION TO GET A FURTHER DIAGNOSIS. 52:49 USUALLY THE LORD JUST DID A HEALING BUT HE - THEN HE 52:51 DIALOGUES WITH THE FATHER AND SAID, 'TELL ME ABOUT IT. 52:54 TELL ME HOW - "AND HE SAID, 'FROM CHILDHOOD.' - MEANING FROM 52:59 INFANCY - AND HE SAID, "AND OFTEN HE HAS THROWN HIM BOTH 53:03 INTO THE FIRE AND INTO THE WATER TO DESTROY HIM. 53:07 BUT IF YOU CAN DO ANYTHING, HAVE COMPASSION ON US.'" - 53:10 AGAIN, I WANT TO PAUSE. 53:12 WHAT COULD BE MORE OPPOSITE THAN FIRE AND WATER? 53:18 I MEAN, FIRE'S A GOOD THING WHEN YOU'RE COLD. 53:21 WATER'S A GOOD THING WHEN YOU'RE THIRSTY. 53:25 YOU CAN BURN TO DEATH IN FIRE AND YOU CAN DROWN IN WATER. 53:29 FIRE IS A WONDERFUL THING CONTROLLED AND SO IS WATER. 53:33 YOU KNOW, THE BIBLE SAYS YOU NEED TO BE BORN OF THE FIRE AND 53:35 YOU NEED TO BE BORN OF THE WATER. IT'S INTERESTING THAT 53:38 THIS SPIRIT WOULD TRY TO DESTROY THE CHILD IN THE FIRE AND 53:41 IN THE WATER. TWO EXTREMES. TWO OPPOSITES. 53:44 YOU KNOW, DOES THE DEVIL CARE WHETHER YOU FALL OFF THE RIGHT 53:47 SIDE OF THE ROAD OR THE LEFT SIDE OF THE ROAD? 53:50 DOES HE CARE WHETHER YOU BURN OR DROWN? 53:52 DOES HE CARE WHETHER YOU BECOME TOO CONSERVATIVE OR TOO LIBERAL? 53:56 AS LONG AS YOU GET OFF THE ROAD, HE DOESN'T CARE HOW HE DESTROYS 54:00 YOUR CHILDREN, RIGHT? AND SO THAT JUST REALLY IS SORT 54:04 OF A PICTURE OF THE EXTREMES. AND THIS POOR BOY NEARLY 54:09 DROWNED. HE PROBABLY HAD BURNS ON HIM. 54:10 THE DEVIL - HE HAD THESE CONVULSIONS NEAR THE CAMPFIRE, 54:13 IN THE KITCHEN, OR BY THE LAKE AND THE FATHER'S AT HIS - HE 54:17 SAYS, 'LORD, IF YOU CAN DO ANYTHING.' AND WHAT DOES JESUS 54:20 SAY? 'OH, DON'T SAY 'IF' TO JESUS. 54:26 JESUS SAYS, "'IF YOU CAN BELIEVE, ALL THINGS ARE 54:27 POSSIBLE.'" IF YOU'RE GOING TO PRAY, PRAY BELIEVING. 54:32 AND YOU KNOW WHAT THE FATHER SAID? 54:33 "'LORD I BELIEVE; HELP MY UNBELIEF.'" HE SAYS, 'I DO HAVE 54:35 A MEASURE OF FAITH BUT I NEED MORE FAITH.' AND THEN JESUS, HE 54:40 CAST OUT THE DEVIL AND THE BOY WENT THROUGH THIS TREMENDOUS 54:42 FRESH CONVULSION AND THEN IT LOOKED LIKE HE DIED. 54:47 THEY ALL THOUGHT, 'OH, THAT'S IT. HE DIED.' AND JESUS TOOK HIM 54:50 BY THE HAND, RAISED HIM UP, AND HE WAS HEALED. 54:52 AND SO DOES THE LORD CARE ABOUT OUR CHILDREN? 54:56 'DESIRE OF AGES' PAGE 511 - HERE'S A GREAT QUOTE FROM THAT 54:59 BOOK ON THE LIFE OF CHRIST, "AMONG THE JEWS IT WAS CUSTOMARY 55:02 FOR CHILDREN TO BE BROUGHT TO SOME RABBI THAT HE MIGHT LAY HIS 55:05 HANDS ON THEM IN BLESSING, BUT THE SAVIOR'S DISCIPLES THOUGHT 55:09 HIS WORK TOO IMPORTANT TO BE INTERRUPTED IN THIS WAY. 55:12 WHEN THE MOTHERS CAME TO HIM WITH THEIR LITTLE ONES, THE 55:15 DISCIPLES LOOKED UPON THEM WITH DISFAVOR. 55:17 THEY THOUGHT, 'THESE CHILDREN ARE TOO YOUNG TO BE BENEFITED 55:20 BY A VISIT FROM JESUS' AND CONCLUDED THAT HE WOULD BE 55:23 DISPLEASED AT THEIR PRESENCE. 55:25 BUT IT WAS THE DISCIPLES WITH WHOM HE WAS DISPLEASED. 55:28 THE SAVIOR UNDERSTOOD THE CARE AND THE BURDEN OF THE MOTHERS 55:31 WHO WERE SEEKING TO TRAIN THEIR CHILDREN ACCORDING TO THE WORD 55:34 OF GOD. HE HAD HEARD THEIR PRAYERS. 55:37 HE HIMSELF HAD DRAWN THEM INTO HIS PRESENCE. 55:40 DOESN'T JESUS SAY THAT UNLESS YOU BECOME CONVERTED AND BECOME 55:44 AS LITTLE CHILDREN YOU WILL IN NO WAY ENTER THE KINGDOM OF 55:46 HEAVEN? YEAH, ALL OF US NEED TO BECOME 55:49 LIKE CHILDREN OR WE CAN'T BE SAVED. 55:51 NOW DOES THAT MEAN THAT WE'RE SUPPOSED TO ACT LIKE CHILDREN 55:54 AND NOT BE MATURE OR TO ACT SILLY? 55:59 OR DOES HE MEAN TO HAVE THAT SIMPLE FAITH THAT CHILDREN HAVE? 56:02 AND THEN WE ALSO TOUCHED ABOUT ON THAT STORY WHERE THE MOTHERS 56:05 BROUGHT THEIR CHILDREN TO JESUS AND THE DISCIPLES THOUGHT, 'OH, 56:08 YOU KNOW, HE'S TOO BUSY. HE CAN'T DO THAT.' AND JESUS 56:11 SAID, 'NO, THAT'S THE MOST IMPORTANT THING. 56:13 LET THE CHILDREN COME UNTO ME.' WHEN DOES EVANGELISM BEGIN? 56:16 ONCE A PERSON TURNS 20 YEARS OF AGE? 56:19 OR DOES THE LORD CARE ABOUT REACHING AND EVANGELIZING 56:21 CHILDREN FROM THE VERY BEGINNING? 56:24 AND THE LORD WANTS US TO BRING OUR CHILDREN TO HIM. 56:27 HE SAID, 'UNLESS YOU BECOME CONVERTED AND BECOME AS A LITTLE 56:29 CHILD, YOU CANNOT ENTER THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN. AND THAT, BY 56:33 THE WAY, IS MATTHEW 18, VERSES 2 TO 6. WELL, I'M LOOKING AT THE 56:37 CLOCK AND IT'S TELLING US THAT WE'RE OUT OF TIME. 56:40 WE'VE LEARNED SOMETHING HERE ABOUT DISCIPLING CHILDREN AND 56:43 HOW IMPORTANT THAT IS TO JESUS, TODAY. WE NEED TO MAKE THAT A 56:46 PRIORITY BECAUSE THAT'S REALLY THE NEXT GENERATION. 56:49 WHENEVER GOD'S PEOPLE, THROUGH HISTORY, HAVE NOT PUT AN 56:52 EMPHASIS ON TRAINING AND PREPARING THE CHILDREN, THEN THE 56:55 CHURCH - THAT NEXT GENERATION STARTS TO DRIFT AWAY. 56:58 AND ONE OF THE IMPORTANT WAYS IS GET THEM INVOLVED IN EVANGELISM 57:01 AND MISSION WORK. 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