Hello there. Happy Sabbath.
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Come on in. We're
about to meet with the King.
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Hello, I'm Auntie Cecily and I'm
so glad you've come back to join
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us in our worship time. And
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Auntie Nat I'm glad to see you
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here today as well.
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Thanks Auntie Cecily. I'm really
glad to be here too. And how are
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you today kids. Good.
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Now Auntie Nat, I know that you
want to send a big hello to some
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people who have
been watching us.
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Yes I would like to say a big
Hello to all the people watching
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in Papua, New Guinea. Hello.
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Auntie Nat,
that's a long way away.
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I know. Isn't technology
amazing. We can be sitting here
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in our lounge room in Australia
and someone in a different
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country is watching us. What
do you think, Auntie Cecily?
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Oh it is incredible. It's also
incredible that Teddy sits here
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and tries to be a
good bunny each week.
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Auntie Nat, would you like
to say a prayer for us before we
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commence our worship?
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Yes, I'd love to. Dearest
heavenly Father, we thank you
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Lord that we're here for another
worship time to welcome in the
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Sabbath and we just ask Lord
you'll be with the children at
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home. In Jesus's name. Amen.
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Amen. Auntie Nat, do you
know I'm so glad that it's the
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Sabbath and that I can just rest
from the week and just have a
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little, you know, quiet time
with the Lord. And speaking of
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blessings; we have our blessing
box again. Jeremiah would you
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like to open our blessing box
and read a blessing that we can
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be to others? I wonder
what our blessing is today.
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Invite some friends to come with
you and your family on a nature
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walk.
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O lovely. Do you sometimes like
to go walking with friends in
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nature. Where do you like to go
for a walk on Sabbath afternoon?
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How about you Jeremiah,
where do you like to go?
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In the bush.
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Oh yes, I love the Australian
bush. And I also like going to
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the beach for a walk on Sabbath
afternoon. Have you ever done
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that? Uh-huh. And have you
looked in the rock pools and
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seen the little fish? Starfish
and crabs? Have you been
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nipped by a crab? That's
a lovely way to just share.
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And how much better it is even
if we take friends. Isn't that
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exciting then. We can share
that enjoyment being out amongst
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God's nature. Boys and girls is
there a special spot where you
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you live that you love to
go for a walk and look at the
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beauty that God created. Perhaps
you could send us a picture of
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that place. We would love
to see it and share it with the
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children here. Our address
is www. adaywiththeking. com.
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Now Auntie Cecily you've been
sharing some blessings about
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Jesus' second coming.
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Yes remember the last few
Sabbaths we've spoken about
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preparing our hearts for Jesus
so we can enter the promised
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land, which is heaven. Well
today I want to talk with you
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about some promises in the
Bible that tell us that Jesus is
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coming soon to take us to
the heavenly promised land.
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Revelation 1:7 tells us, Behold
He is coming with clouds and
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every eye will see Him, even
those who pierced Him. Here's
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another promise found in James
5:7-8: Therefore, be patient
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brethren until the coming of
the Lord. Establish your hearts
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for the coming of the Lord is
at hand. Now later in our Bible
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study we're going to learn about
a man names Gideon. When God
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called Gideon to do a mighty
work for Him, Gideon tested God
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and we'll discover what those
tests were. God wants us to
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read and test the Bible and he
wants us to taste and see that
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the Lord is good. So test the
Bible for yourself and build up
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your trust in God and believe
in His promises. Because He
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wants you to be ready for Him
so He can take you back to live
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with Him and be
with him forever.
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Thanks Auntie Cecily for sharing
that with us. Jesus really wants
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us to read His word so we
can believe in his promises.
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Oh Pastor Rick, you just
snuck in. Thank you so much for
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sharing your musical talent with
us and joining with us in our
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worship time.
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It's great to be here and
it's great to be with you again
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children. And because
it's Sabbath, what if we sing
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Don't Forget the Sabbath? Ready?
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Pastor Rick can we please sing
I Just Keep Trusting My Lord?
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That is one of my favorite
songs So glad you chose it.
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Pastor Rick can we
sing Thank you Lord?
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We certainly can and we've got
so much to thank the Lord for.
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Sing it again.
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Thanks Pastor Rick. Singing
praises to God in song is such
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enjoyable part of our worship.
Now it's story time again with
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Dr. John. I wonder what
he's got for us this time.
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Hi boys and girls. I'm Dr. John
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and welcome back to story time
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and welcome to boys
and girls wherever you are.
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You know I used to live in Fiji
and the old missionaries there
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would tell the stories of
the old days. You know what the
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biggest danger was in the
old days. It wasn't sickness, it
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wasn't starvation, it was the
cannibals and it was a terrible,
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terrible thing and the last
missionary in Fiji to have an
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unfortunate end was this man
here. His name was Thomas Baker.
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Thomas Baker went to a village
called Nambutautau. Say that
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with me - Nambatautua. Oh you'd
make good little Fijians. And
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the people from Nandrau, the
big village nearby, they said,
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we don't like this man. He does
not understand our culture and
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we want rid of him. Wow. He
came to the village and he did
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did several things wrong. One
was when he met the chief, he
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had his head higher than the
chief and even when I lived in
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Fiji, when I went to a village
with a chief, my head was never
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higher than his. But before
he went to bed he did something
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that was to cost him his life.
He decided to comb his hair and
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he combed his hair and when he
finished the chief reached out
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and took it, just like that.
And he stuck it in his hair. Now
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your hair is very short.
Can you stick that in your hair?
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I don't think so.
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Yeah and you know what Thomas
Baker did. You hold it on your
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head, you hold it on your head.
He reached over and he took it
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back, like that. And that was
his death sentence. Because that
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night they came with the clubs
and they killed him and they ate
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him and they ate everything.
And there was one part of him
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they couldn't eat. They chewed
and they chewed and they chewed
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and they could never quite
finish because they'd never seen
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shoes before. They tried to eat
his shoes. So they keep those in
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in the museum in Suva, the
capital of Fiji. You will still
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the shoes of the one Reverend
Thomas Baker. But you know
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the missionaries made peace and
when you make peace in Fiji they
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give you this. This is the
most valuable thing you can have
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in the Pacific Islands. Does
anybody know what it might be?
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Take a guess. A tooth? My tooth?
What's it off. You are quite
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right What sort of an animal is
this off? A whale. And these are
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worth hundreds and thousands of
dollars and if you and I have a
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fight and we make up and I
give you this and you reach out.
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You've got both hands, that's
the way you do it. And then I go
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like this (claps hand together
three times), we can never be
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enemies again. And that is
why Christianity came to Fiji so
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quickly and they gave up
cannibalism. And you know
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one of the chiefs from Nandrel
which was near, what was the
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name of the village? Nambutautau
He came to me. He was on my
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staff, and I was leaving, and he
started to cry. He said I have
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a present for you. And I
said what have you got. His name
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was Taniella which means Daniel.
He said, this is my ancestral
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war club. It has killed 19 men.
And he cried as he gave the name
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of every one of the people that
he had killed. Not him, but his
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ancestors. And you know. This
is my most treasured possession.
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Because when a Fijian gives you
a present, you have to accept it
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just like the tamboura. But you
know the Fijians are the most
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wonderful Christian people.
There is no more cannibalism.
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They gave it away. They had to
eat fish instead because there
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were no other wild animals
and they liked to eat meat. And
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Taniella and his friends and his
family all became Christians and
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wonderful, wonderful people.
Thank you boys and girls.
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Bye Bye.
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Hi boys and girls. Welcome to
our Bible study. If you haven't
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got your Bibles ready yet, go
get them now so you can follow
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along with us. Caleb could you
please say a prayer for us to
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open our Bible study.
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Yes thank you. Dear Father,
help us to understand what we
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read in our Bibles today. Turn
our hearts to You. Please be
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especially with the children
at home and bless them this day.
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In Jesus' name. Amen.
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Amen. Now J J we studied about
something that stood still last
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week. What was that about?
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The sun stood still.
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Yes, God did an amazing thing
for Joshua, didn't He, so that
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he and his army could fight the
Canaanites and win the battle.
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But something else happened.
There was something that was
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divided up for the children
of Israel. What was that?
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The land.
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The land, yes, and they all had
their territories to inhabit.
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Now something happened, and
we're going to study about that,
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because of what the children of
Israel didn't do. We are going
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to study the book of Judges.
Okay, Anna could you please read
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our first
reading, Judges 2:11-12.
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Then the children of Israel did
evil in the sight of the Lord
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and served the Baals and they
forsook the Lord God of their
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fathers who had brought them out
of the land of Egypt and they
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followed other gods from
among the gods of the people who
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overran them and they bowed to
them and they provoked the Lord
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to anger.
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Thanks Anna. Yes, so the
children of Israel did not do
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what God asked them and to
destroy all the idols in the
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land and they did not drive out
the Canaanites. So instead of
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worshipping the one true God
that delivered them from Egypt,
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they began to worship the
gods of the Canaanites. Was God
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happy? No. No He wasn't. So
because the Israelites chose to
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worship the false gods of
the Canaanites, God allowed the
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Canaanites to go to war against
them and make their lives very
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hard. But in God's mercy,
He didn't utterly forsake them.
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He would raise up a judge
to help deliver them. After the
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Israelites had repented and been
delivered peace would come for
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many years but then something
would happen. Bethany can you
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please read Judges 2:19.
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And then it came to pass that
when the judge was dead that
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they reverted and behaved more
corruptly than their fathers by
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following other gods to serve
them and bow down to them. They
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did not cease from their
own doings nor from their
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stubborn way.
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So as soon as the judge had
raised up to deliver them died
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Israel went into apostasy again.
Sad isn't it? We are now going
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study about one of the judges
and his name was Gideon. Kate
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can you read
Judges 6:1 and 5-6 please.
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Then the children of Israel did
evil in the sight of the Lord,
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so the Lord delivered them into
hands of Midian for seven years.
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So they would come up with their
livestock and their tents coming
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in as numerous as locusts;
both they and their camels were
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without number and they would
enter the land to destroy it. So
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Israel was greatly impoverished
because of the Midianites and
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children of Israel
cried out to the Lord.
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Thanks Kate. So the children of
Israel started worshipping false
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gods again and this time
the Midianites came and ate
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everything up and they were like
locusts and they stripped the
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land of food. The Israelites
became impoverished or very
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hungry and cried out to the
Lord. Let's see what God does.
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Caleb can you
please read Judges 6:11-12.
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Now the angel of the Lord came
and sat under the terebinth tree
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which was in Ophrah which
belonged to Joash the Abiezrite,
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while his son Gideon threshed
wheat in the winepress in order
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to hide it from the Midianites.
And the Angel of the Lord
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appeared to him and said to him,
The Lord is with you, you mighty
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man of valor.
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Thanks Caleb. So and angel of
the Lord came to speak to Gideon
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J J can you please
read Judges 6:14-16.
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Then the Lord turned to him and
said go in this might of yours
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you shall save Israel from the
hand of the Midianites. Have I
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not sent you? So he said to Him,
O my Lord, how can I save Israel
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Indeed my clan is the weakest in
Manasseh and I am the least in
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my father's house. And the Lord
said to him, Surely I will be
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with you and you shall defeat
the Midianites as one man.
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Thanks J J. So God wants to use
Gideon to deliver Israel from
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the Midianites. Gideon, like
Moses, was a bit unsure about
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the job that God had given him
and asked God for a sign. We're
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going to read about
that. Anna, can you please read
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Judges 6:36-38.
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So Gideon said to God, if you
will save Israel by my hand as
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you have said, Look I shall
put a fleece of wool on the
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threshing floor. If there is dew
on the fleece only and it is dry
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on all the ground, then I shall
know that you will save Israel
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by my hand as you have said. And
it was so. When he rose early
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the next morning and squeezed
the fleece together he wrung the
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dew out of the
fleece, a bowl full of water.
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Mmm. Now boys and girls if you
go for a walk out on your grass
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in your front or back
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yard in the morning, it's
usually got some dew on it,
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hasn't it? It feels a little
bit wet? So Gideon asked God for
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sign that if the fleece was
wet and the grass or the ground
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around the fleece was dry, he
knew that God was with him. Now
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I'm going to give this to Aunt
Cecily and I want J J to feel
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for me, I've got some samples
here. Now J J, you put your hand
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on the fleece and
tell me what it is.
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It's wet.
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Now put your other hand on
the grass and what is the grass?
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It's dry, isn't it? So God
answered his prayer didn't He?
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Thanks Auntie Cecily. Okay. But
Gideon wanted to be doubly sure.
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Now Matthew can you
please read Judges 6:39-40.
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Then Gideon said to God, Do
not be angry with me, but let me
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speak just once more: Let
me test, I pray, just once more
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with the fleece. Let it be dry
only on the fleece but on all
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the ground let there be
dew. And God did so that night.
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It was dry on the fleece only
but there was dew on all the
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ground.
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Okay, so this time Gideon wanted
the grass to be wet and the
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fleece to be dry. Caleb can
you put your hand on the fleece?
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What is it? It's dry. All right
put you other hand on the grass
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and what is it.
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The grass is wet.
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Ah, is your hand all wet? Yeah.
Yeah. So did God answer his
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prayer again. He did. So
Gideon was now satisfied and he
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gathered the men of war together
Bethany can you please read
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Judges 7:2-3?
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And the Lord said to Gideon,
the people who are with you are
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too many for me to give the
Midianites into their hands.
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Lest Israel claim glory for
itself against me saying my own
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hand has saved me. Now therefore
proclaim in the hearing of the
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people saying, Whoever is
fearful and afraid, let him turn
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and depart at once from Mount
Gilead and 22,000 of the people
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returned and 10,000 remained.
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Wow. So out of 32,000 men
22,000 went home. So only 10,000
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remained. In a worldly
perspective, do you think it's
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better to have as many men as
possible to go to war and it is.
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But do you know what, God
wanted to show that He would
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fight the battle for them. God
wanted them to rely on Him and
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not themselves. But God tells
Gideon there's still too many
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men and God directs Gideon
to take them down to the water
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or the river bank to
drink. Kate can you please read
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Judges 7:6-7.
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And the number of those who
lapped putting their hand to
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their mouth was 300 men, but all
the rest of the people who went
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down on their knees to drink
water. Then the Lord God said
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to Gideon, by 300 men who
lapped, I will save you and
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deliver the Midianites into your
hand. Let all the other people
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go, every man to his place.
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Thanks Kate. So the men that
got on their hands and knees to
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drink by the river went home but
the men who scooped the water
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up as they were going and licked
or lapped it from their hands,
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they were the ones that God
wanted. So how many were chosen
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to stay? Three hundred.
Three hundred. Do you know what?
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God was testing their character.
The 300 men were chosen for the
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was they drank the water. It
showed that they had a job to
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do and they were putting God
before serving themselves. Let's
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read the Torch Light. Caleb
can you read that for us, to see
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what Mrs. White
shines on that verse for us.
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Success does not depend upon
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numbers. God can deliver by few
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well as by many. He is honored
not so much by the great numbers
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as by the character
of those who serve him.
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Thank you Caleb. So it wasn't
about the numbers, it was about
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their hearts and where their
hearts were for God. God can
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do amazing things with a small
amount of people. Okay, Gideon
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divided the 300 men into three
groups, that was 100 in each and
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got them to come in three
different directions of the
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enemy encampment and it was at
night while they were sleeping.
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With the trumpet sound from
Gideon, all 300 men blew their
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trumpets and gave a shout and
they broke their clay pitchers
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to show their torches and it
created such a panic with the
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Midianites and they became
confused and guess what? They
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all killed each other while
running away. We are told in
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Judges 8:10 that the Midianites
consisted of 120,000 men, but
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God won the battle
through Gideon with how many?
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Three hundred. Three hundred
men. Wow. Let's look at our
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memory verse found in Isaiah
35:4. Let's read this together.
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Say to those who are fearful-
hearted, Be strong, do not fear
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He will come and save you.
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Wow. So just like God saved the
Israelites, we can claim this
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verse when we are scared or
frightened or we are going up
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with some overwhelming event
in our lives. God is mighty to
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save. Thank you boys and girls
for reading along with us. We
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have a devotional available that
goes into more depth than what
00:25:12.64\00:25:16.08
we studied today. Here
is how you can get that.
00:25:16.11\00:25:18.58
Hey boys and girls. Like Auntie
Nat said, you can download our
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devotional free from our website
at www.adaywiththeking.com
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Hey Nick, don't
forget about Teddy.
00:25:29.76\00:25:32.09
Oh yes. While you're there
you can visit Teddy's blog. He's
00:25:32.16\00:25:35.96
posted some videos of his
intense training for the show.
00:25:36.00\00:25:39.73
Boys and girls, we want to hear
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dwk@3abnaustralia.org.au on
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So hop online today.
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Thanks Nick and Sarah. God
has so many blessings for us.
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Remember to download the
devotionals and read God's word
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every day. Auntie Nat, can
you tell us what we're going to
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study about next week?
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Sure. Yes, next Sabbath we're
going to study about someone who
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was very strong. I'll give you
a clue. it's someone with long
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hair. We look forward to
studying that with you next
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week. Aunt Cecily shall we
go over our memory verse that we
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learned in our
Bible study today?
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Yes children you
want to say this together?
00:26:15.90\00:26:17.61
Isaiah 35:4-Say to those who
are fearful-hearted, Be strong,
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do not fear. He
will come and save you.
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Our time always goes so
fast, Doesn't it Auntie Cecily?
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Yes. Bethany what did you
learn about the King today?
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That Jesus promises to come
soon to take us home to heaven.
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Yes. We have so much to look
forward to. Children, are you
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ready to sing our blessing song
to the girls and boys at home?
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Yes. Okay, let's
turn around and do that.
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¤May God bless you and keep you,
And fill your heart with love¤
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¤May God guide and protect
you and watch you from above¤
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¤As Sabbath after Sabbath
we greet the day of rest¤
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¤The day the King of glory
has sanctified and blessed. ¤
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¤Good bye my
friends till we meet again¤
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¤For another day with the King¤
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Bye, Bye, See you next Sabbath.
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¤ ¤
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