Hello there, happy
Sabbath. Come on in.
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We're about to
meet with the King.
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Hello, I'm Aunty Cecily.
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And I'm Aunty Nat.
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We're so glad you have come back
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to join us in our worship time.
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Aunty Nat, do you have
someone to say hello to today?
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I sure do.
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I'd like to say hello
to Jireh in New Zealand.
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Hello, Jireh. Hi, Jireh.
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We miss having you here with
us in our lounge room, Jireh.
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Now, we can't forget
to say hello to Teddy,
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and we have Lilly
visiting with us today too.
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Do you know Lilly is
Teddy's very best friend?
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Hope you're nice and
comfy there, you two.
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Amber, would you like
to say a prayer for us
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to open our
worship time together?
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Yes.
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Dear Father, we praise You
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and thank You for bringing
us safely through another week.
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Thank You for the Sabbath day.
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In Jesus' name, amen.
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Amen. Amen.
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That was
beautiful. Thank you, Amber.
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Do you remember what
number key we're up to?
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Number six.
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Yes, it is.
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Aunty Cecily, what
have you got for us today?
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Well, let's have a look
at our gift box and find out.
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Chemiah, would you
like to open our gift box,
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and tell us what our key
to the kingdom says this week?
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Follow Jesus. Follow Jesus.
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And what does the text say
on the other side of the tag?
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1 Peter 2:21-22.
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Thanks, Chemiah.
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Abi, could you
read that text to us
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from the Bible please?
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"For to this you were called,
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because Christ
also suffered for us,
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leaving us an example,
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that you should
follow His steps:
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'Who committed no sin,
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Nor was deceit
found in His mouth.'"
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Thanks, Abi.
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Jesus left us an
example to follow.
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We are to follow in His steps
and should become like Him.
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In fact, the word Christian
means a follower of Christ.
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Christ is
another name for Jesus.
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So we cannot be a Christian
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unless we follow
Christ's example of
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how to live,
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and to be a witness to others.
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Being a follower of
Jesus means to obey Him
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because He says in John 14:15,
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"If you love me,
keep My commandments."
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We'll avoid lots of trouble
in our lives if we obey God.
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Later, we're going to learn
that when Solomon turned away
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from following God,
life got very messy,
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and he brought a lot of
unnecessary pain on himself
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and heartache
for others as well.
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Now we cannot
obey God on our own.
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We need the Holy
Spirit to give us a new heart,
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so that we want
to obey God's laws.
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In Psalm 40:8, it says,
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"I delight to do
Your will, O my God,
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and Your law is
within my heart."
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In Hebrews 10:16,
this is God's promise,
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"I will put My
laws in their hearts,
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and in their minds
I will write them."
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If we're to obey God,
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we'll need to have God's
laws written in our heart,
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so that we'll want to do them.
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That's the secret
to following Jesus.
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Abi, what's one way
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you could follow Jesus' example?
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Being kind to others.
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Yes, that's one
thing that Jesus did
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that we can all do.
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Do you know I have
some other examples here,
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of a boy who is helping
his sister who can't walk.
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So he's taking her for a
ride out in the sunshine.
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And we've got another boy,
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he is showing his
appreciation for mom
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by taking her a flower
and giving her a flower.
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And we've got another boy,
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he's following Jesus' example
of just taking responsibility
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for his own pet lamb.
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And he cares for that
lamb and feeds it each day.
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So as we spend time
with the King this Sabbath,
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let's think about our
sixth key to the kingdom,
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and ask Jesus to
help us to follow Him.
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Thanks, Aunty Cecily.
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We certainly are building
up our keys to the kingdom.
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I'm looking
forward to finding out
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what the seventh key
will be next Sabbath.
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We can see that Braedan
has just snuck in the door.
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Thanks, Braedan, for coming
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and sharing your talent with us.
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Thanks, Aunty Nat.
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Hi, boys and girls, let's sing,
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"We Will Gather to
Meet with the King."
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On Friday eve
when the sun goes down
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A special day of
the week comes 'round
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On Friday eve
when the sun goes down
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We will gather to
meet with the King
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On Friday eve
when the sun goes down
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When all of our
work and our play is done
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On Friday eve
when the sun goes down
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We will
joyfully worship the King
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Braedan, can we please sing,
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"I Have Decided
to Follow Jesus?"
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We certainly can.
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I have decided to follow Jesus
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I have decided
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To follow Jesus
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I have decided to follow Jesus
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No turning back, no turning back
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The world behind
me, the cross before me
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The world behind me
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The cross before me
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The world behind
me, the cross before me
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No turning back No turning back
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Braedan, can we please
sing "Praise Him Praise Him?"
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I love that song.
Let's sing it together.
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Praise Him, praise
Him All ye little children
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God is love, God is love
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Praise Him, praise
Him All ye little children
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God is love, God is love
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Serve Him, serve Him
All ye little children
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God is love, God is love
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Serve Him, serve Him
All ye little children
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God is love, God is love.
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Thanks, Braedan.
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Singing praises to God
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is such an
enjoyable part of our worship.
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And having stories
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is an enjoyable
part of our worship too,
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isn't it?
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And Dr. John has
another story to share with us.
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Let's go and listen.
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Hello, boys and girls,
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it's wonderful to
be back here with you.
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And I want to say
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hello to all the
boys and girls in England
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because this story happened here
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in England, many years ago.
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And there was a
little boy called Joseph.
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Joseph Merrick born
in the city of Leicester.
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And unfortunately,
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when he got through
about five or six years of age,
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and here is a painting of him,
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he didn't look quite normal.
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What's the problem here?
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Yeah.
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His lip started to grow,
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top lip and bottom lip.
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And it got worse and worse
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until one day at school
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one unkind kid said,
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"Here's the elephant boy."
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And for the rest of his life,
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he was to be
called the elephant boy.
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He was so ugly,
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he had to leave
school and leave home.
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And he joined the circus.
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And they would put him
in a tent with a big sign,
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"Pay one penny and come
and see the Elephant Man."
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Do you think he
was happy in his work?
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He was so miserable
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and he was abandoned.
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They stole his money.
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And he ended up
in the waiting room
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of a railway station,
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sobbing and crying.
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And a big crowd of
people laughing and pointing,
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"It's the Elephant Man."
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And at that moment, a
big tall gentleman walked in.
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His name was Dr.
Treves, Dr. Frederick Treves.
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He said, "What's going on here?"
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"It's the Elephant
Man." They were all laughing.
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He said, "This is not funny."
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He didn't see a
man with a long nose
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and they've been
chopping it off all the time,
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kept on growing.
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He saw a man who
was desperately unhappy.
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He had one of
the rarest diseases
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in the whole world
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that didn't even
have a name for it.
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He said, "Come with me.
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I will take you
over to the hospital,
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I will examine you.
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I'll see if there's
something we can do for you.
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But better than that,
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I got a room for you
underneath in the basement,
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and that will be your home.
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And you can live
there as long as you wish.
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You know, he took
him over to the hospital.
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And he took some photographs.
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He would have to
be the ugliest person
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you have ever seen.
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He examined him closely.
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And his whole
body was disfigured.
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He was okay on the left side,
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but on the right
side he was terrible.
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Imagine if you were like that?
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It would be dreadful.
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Well, Joseph
Merrick had one wish.
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He only had one wish, and
that was to see the queen.
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The Queen, Princess Alexandra,
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whose husband was
the king of England.
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And he knew he
could never see her
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because he was too ugly.
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He went for a holiday one day,
and he went to a country home,
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and he was doing
what he loved most,
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he was kneeling down
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and he was weeding the garden
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amongst the beautiful flowers.
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He was so
concentrating on his work,
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he didn't hear
someone coming up behind,
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until he saw the
feet and he thought,
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"Those are expensive shoes."
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And he turned around.
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And to his absolute amazement,
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it was the queen.
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You know what she did?
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No one had ever done
this, she reached out,
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and she touched him.
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And no one ever
touched the Elephant Man.
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He was so ugly,
he had to wear a hat
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whenever he went out in public.
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And he was now
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the happiest
person in the world.
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He lived in a
hospital for a couple of years,
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but he died one night
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because he had to
sit in a chair to sleep
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because his head was too heavy.
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And he decided to
be a normal human being
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and he slept in the bed,
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and he
suffocated during the night.
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But, you know, that
man, his wish was granted,
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he saw the king
and my biggest wish...
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He didn't see the
king, he saw the queen,
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but my greatest
wish is to see the King.
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And our program is
called A Day with the King.
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And I think that's the cutest,
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most wonderful name
for a kids' program.
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One day, we're going to change
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that from a day with the King
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to a million
years with the King,
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a trillion years with the King.
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And we will live
with Him forever.
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In fact, when Jesus meets you,
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He's gonna go
for a walk with you.
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And the Book of Revelation says,
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He gonna give you a secret name
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that you and He
will be the only ones
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who will know that name.
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Are you looking forward to that?
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I certainly am.
Thank you, boys and girls.
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Come on in and join
us for our Bible study.
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Don't forget to grab your Bible,
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so you can follow along with us.
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Erin, can you
please say a prayer for us
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before we commence our study?
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Dear Father, please
send us Your Holy Spirit
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to help us understand
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what we are
reading in our Bibles.
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May these words
change our hearts,
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in Jesus' name, amen.
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Thanks, Erin.
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Now, Mia,
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what did we study
about last Sabbath?
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Solomon's temple.
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Yes, he built it,
didn't he with all that help
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and all the workers?
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And did God's
presence fill the temple
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after he dedicated it?
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Yes, it did.
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So today, we're going to
look at the life of Solomon,
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and what happened
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that changed the course of
history for the Israelites.
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God appeared to
Solomon for the second time
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and we're now
going to read about that.
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Erin, can you
please read 1 Kings 9:4, 5?
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"Now if you walk before Me
as your father David walked,
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in integrity of
heart and in uprightness,
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to do according to all
that I have commanded you,
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and if you keep My
statutes and My judgments,
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then I will establish
the throne of your kingdom
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over Israel forever,
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as I promised David
your father, saying,
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You shall not fail to have a man
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on the throne of Israel."
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Thanks, Erin.
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So God reminded Solomon
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just as He had reminded
David and the leaders before him
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that if he kept
God's commandments,
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then all would go well.
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Caleb, can you
please read 1 Kings 9:6, 7?
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"But if you or your sons
at all turn from following Me,
00:14:18.35\00:14:22.22
and do not keep My
commandments and My statutes
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which I have set before you,
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but go and serve
other gods and worship them,
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then I will cut off
Israel from the land
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which I have given them,
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and this house
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which I have
consecrated for My name
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and I will cast out of My sight.
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Israel will be a proverb
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and a byword among all peoples."
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Thanks, Caleb.
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So God warned Solomon
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that he was not
to worship idols.
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And if he did,
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God would dispossess the
Israelites from the land.
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A very sobering thought.
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Okay, let's see what happened
with King Solomon's reign.
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Bethany, can you
please read 1 Kings 9:26-28?
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"King Solomon also
built a fleet of ships
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at Ezion Geber,
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which is near Elath on
the shore of the Red Sea,
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in the land of Edom.
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When Hiram sent his
servants with the fleet,
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seamen who knew the sea,
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to work with the
servants of Solomon.
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And they went to Ophir,
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and acquired 420
talents of gold from there,
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and brought it to
the King Solomon."
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Okay, we're going to
have a look at our map now
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and show you where Elath is,
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which is at the
bottom of Israel there.
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That's where
Solomon's ships were,
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and they would make
their way down the Red Sea.
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And we have some
black dots there on the map
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because we're not
sure where Ophir was.
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There's a couple of black dots.
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There's one Saudi Arabia,
one down there in Ethiopia,
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one at Yemen, they say,
one at Oman, and they say,
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it could have even been India,
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or down further
the coast of Africa.
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So we're not
sure where Ophir is.
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But that is where,
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that Solomon got his gold from.
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Now, 420 talents of gold
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are worth hundreds of
millions of dollars today.
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So it's a lot of gold, isn't it?
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As well as wise,
Solomon was a very rich man.
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Okay, Sophie, can you
please read 1 Kings 10:1-3.
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"Now when the queen of Sheba
heard of the fame of Solomon
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concerning the name of the Lord,
00:16:23.78\00:16:25.58
she came to test
him with hard questions.
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She came to Jerusalem
with a very great retinue,
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with camels that bore
spices, very much gold,
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and precious stones.
00:16:33.69\00:16:35.02
And when she came to Solomon,
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she spoke with him
00:16:36.46\00:16:38.26
about all that was in her heart.
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So Solomon
answered all her questions,
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there was nothing so
difficult for the king
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that he could not
explain it to her."
00:16:44.70\00:16:47.17
Thanks, Sophie.
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Now again, where
Queen of Sheba was from
00:16:48.57\00:16:50.54
was also a bit of a mystery.
00:16:50.57\00:16:52.24
Some say that she came
from the area of Yemen,
00:16:52.27\00:16:55.84
and some say the
area of Ethiopia.
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We're not really sure,
00:16:59.31\00:17:00.88
but it was somewhere down there.
00:17:00.92\00:17:02.25
But wherever she came from,
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she traveled a great distance
to hear the Wisdom of Solomon.
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Abigail, can you
please read 1 Kings 10:6-7, 9?
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"Then she said to the king,
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'It was a true report
which I heard in my own land
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about your
words and your wisdom.
00:17:17.30\00:17:19.47
However I did
not believe the words
00:17:19.50\00:17:21.30
until I came and
saw with my own eyes.
00:17:21.34\00:17:23.74
And indeed the
half was not told me.
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Your wisdom and prosperity
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exceed the fame
of which I heard.
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Blessed be the Lord your
God, who delighted in you,
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setting you on
the throne of Israel
00:17:34.88\00:17:37.19
because the Lord has
loved Israel forever,
00:17:37.22\00:17:40.22
therefore He made you king,
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to do justice
and righteousness."
00:17:41.66\00:17:43.73
Thanks, Abi.
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The Queen of Sheba realized
00:17:45.13\00:17:46.46
that God was the giver of
Solomon's riches and wisdom
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and this caused
her to praise God.
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It was at this
time of Solomon's life
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that he
acknowledged God in everything,
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and pointed
everyone to the goodness
00:17:57.04\00:17:59.24
and greatness of God.
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It was God's purpose
00:18:01.18\00:18:02.84
that the Israelite kingdom
00:18:02.88\00:18:04.21
would be a
spectacle to the world,
00:18:04.25\00:18:06.41
shining God's character,
00:18:06.45\00:18:08.15
and leading them into
a relationship with God.
00:18:08.18\00:18:11.39
Okay, Mia, can you
please read 1 Kings 10:10?
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"Then she gave the king
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one hundred and
twenty talents of gold,
00:18:17.13\00:18:19.86
spices in great
quantity, and precious stones.
00:18:19.89\00:18:23.33
There never again came
such abundance of spices
00:18:23.37\00:18:27.27
as the queen of Sheba
gave to King Solomon."
00:18:27.30\00:18:30.87
Thanks, Mia.
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That was some pretty
amazing gifts that she gave.
00:18:32.27\00:18:35.11
Do you know
what spices back then
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were very precious
and worth a lot of money?
00:18:36.71\00:18:39.25
Aunty Cecily, can you
please read 1 Kings 10:14-15?
00:18:39.28\00:18:44.92
"The weight of gold
that came to Solomon yearly
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was 666 talents of gold,
00:18:48.02\00:18:51.76
besides that from
the traveling merchants,
00:18:51.79\00:18:54.40
from the income of traders,
from all the kings of Arabia,
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and from the
governors of the country."
00:18:59.07\00:19:02.90
So one talent of
gold is about 33 kilos
00:19:02.94\00:19:06.61
in our measurement today
00:19:06.64\00:19:07.98
and remember the bricks
00:19:08.01\00:19:09.34
that we had on the
table a few Sabbaths ago
00:19:09.38\00:19:11.65
all covered in gold,
00:19:11.68\00:19:13.01
remember that's one talent.
00:19:13.05\00:19:14.98
Okay, so 660 talents
of gold in today's prices
00:19:15.02\00:19:19.75
are worth over $1 billion.
00:19:19.79\00:19:22.62
King Solomon received
that on a yearly basis.
00:19:22.66\00:19:26.29
Besides what his merchants
brought in on the ships.
00:19:26.33\00:19:30.43
Verse 23 tells
us that King Solomon
00:19:30.47\00:19:33.50
was one of the richest
kings of the then known world.
00:19:33.54\00:19:37.11
But something happened
that turned him away from God.
00:19:37.14\00:19:41.31
Erin, can you please
read 1 Kings 11: 1-3?
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"But King Solomon
loved many foreign women,
00:19:45.61\00:19:49.05
as well as the
daughter of Pharaoh:
00:19:49.08\00:19:51.12
women from the
Moabites, Ammonites,
00:19:51.15\00:19:55.02
Edomites,
Sidonians, and Hittites.
00:19:55.06\00:19:57.93
From the nations of
whom the Lord had said
00:19:57.96\00:20:00.46
to the children of Israel,
00:20:00.50\00:20:02.53
'You shall not intermarry
with them, nor they with you.
00:20:02.56\00:20:05.67
Surely they will turn away
your hearts after their gods.'
00:20:05.70\00:20:09.37
Solomon clung to these in love.
00:20:09.40\00:20:12.07
And he had seven
hundred wives, princesses,
00:20:12.11\00:20:14.94
and three hundred concubines,
00:20:14.98\00:20:17.88
and his wives
turned away his heart."
00:20:17.91\00:20:20.08
Oh, dear.
00:20:20.12\00:20:21.48
So God had warned the Israelites
00:20:21.52\00:20:23.05
not to intermarry,
00:20:23.08\00:20:24.45
meaning not to marry someone
who doesn't believe in God.
00:20:24.49\00:20:28.12
As God knew,
00:20:28.16\00:20:29.72
if they did, their hearts
would be turned away from Him.
00:20:29.76\00:20:33.19
Now how many wives
does a man supposed to have?
00:20:33.23\00:20:36.20
One. One.
00:20:36.23\00:20:37.57
How many did Solomon have?
00:20:37.60\00:20:39.53
Seven hundred.
00:20:39.57\00:20:40.90
He had 700, far too many wives.
00:20:40.94\00:20:43.20
Caleb, can you
please read 1 Kings 11:6-8?
00:20:43.24\00:20:48.44
"Solomon did evil in
the sight of the Lord,
00:20:48.48\00:20:51.15
and did not
fully follow the Lord,
00:20:51.18\00:20:53.48
as did his father David.
00:20:53.52\00:20:55.55
Then Solomon built a
high place for Chemosh
00:20:55.58\00:20:58.62
the abomination of Moab,
00:20:58.65\00:21:00.39
on the hill that
is east of Jerusalem,
00:21:00.42\00:21:02.92
and for Molech the abomination
of the people of Ammon.
00:21:02.96\00:21:07.33
And he did likewise
for all his foreign wives,
00:21:07.36\00:21:10.50
who burned incense and
sacrificed to their gods."
00:21:10.53\00:21:14.67
So was Solomon
keeping God's commandments?
00:21:14.70\00:21:17.01
No.
00:21:17.04\00:21:18.37
No, he was worshiping the idols
and gods of his foreign wives.
00:21:18.41\00:21:22.04
Let's see what God says.
00:21:22.08\00:21:23.41
Bethany, can you
please read 1 Kings 11:11-13?
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"Therefore the
Lord said to Solomon,
00:21:28.45\00:21:30.39
'Because you have done this,
and have not kept My covenant
00:21:30.42\00:21:33.12
and My statutes,
which I have commanded you,
00:21:33.15\00:21:35.66
I will surely tear
the kingdom away from you
00:21:35.69\00:21:37.53
and give it to your servant.
00:21:37.56\00:21:39.79
Nevertheless I
will do it in your days,
00:21:39.83\00:21:41.96
for the sake of
your father David
00:21:42.00\00:21:43.80
I will tear it out
of the hand of your son.
00:21:43.83\00:21:46.27
However I will not
tear away the whole kingdom,
00:21:46.30\00:21:48.50
I will give one
tribe to your son
00:21:48.54\00:21:50.57
for the sake of
My servant David,
00:21:50.61\00:21:52.37
and for the sake of
Jerusalem which I have chosen."
00:21:52.41\00:21:55.54
Thanks, Bethany.
00:21:55.58\00:21:56.91
Because of the sin
that Solomon had committed,
00:21:56.95\00:21:58.78
God was going to end
Solomon's magnificent kingdom
00:21:58.81\00:22:02.55
and tear it apart
00:22:02.58\00:22:03.92
during the
reign of his children.
00:22:03.95\00:22:06.05
This was Solomon's wake up call,
00:22:06.09\00:22:08.36
and he repented
00:22:08.39\00:22:09.82
and he returned
his heart to God.
00:22:09.86\00:22:11.93
Let's have a look at
this in our torchlight,
00:22:11.96\00:22:14.43
Mrs. White's writings.
00:22:14.46\00:22:17.40
"Though the king
confessed his sin
00:22:17.43\00:22:19.83
and wrote out for the
benefit of after generations
00:22:19.87\00:22:23.41
a record of his
folly and repentance,
00:22:23.44\00:22:26.47
he could never hope entirely
00:22:26.51\00:22:28.71
to destroy the baleful influence
00:22:28.74\00:22:31.21
of his wrong deeds."
00:22:31.25\00:22:33.11
Thanks.
00:22:33.15\00:22:34.85
So Solomon wrote the
Book of Ecclesiastes,
00:22:34.88\00:22:37.62
as a warning
against the folly of sin.
00:22:37.65\00:22:40.72
Solomon wanted
to let people know
00:22:40.76\00:22:42.92
that happiness does not
come through wealth and power,
00:22:42.96\00:22:47.00
but through having a
relationship with God
00:22:47.03\00:22:49.86
and surrendering
our hearts to Him.
00:22:49.90\00:22:52.57
Let's have a look at that.
00:22:52.60\00:22:53.94
Let's go to our memory
verse in Ecclesiastes 12:13.
00:22:53.97\00:22:59.47
"Let us hear the
conclusion of the whole matter,
00:22:59.51\00:23:03.78
fear God and
keep His commandments,
00:23:03.81\00:23:06.88
for this is man's all."
00:23:06.92\00:23:09.48
So the story of
Solomon is something
00:23:09.52\00:23:11.75
that we can all learn from.
00:23:11.79\00:23:14.02
Thank you, boys and girls,
for reading along with us.
00:23:14.06\00:23:16.06
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00:23:16.09\00:23:18.83
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00:23:18.86\00:23:20.43
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00:23:56.90\00:23:58.23
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00:23:58.27\00:23:59.73
to help encourage you to
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00:23:59.77\00:24:03.54
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00:24:03.57\00:24:05.67
The more we get to know Jesus,
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the more of a
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00:24:07.68\00:24:10.45
Aunty Nat, can you tell us
00:24:10.48\00:24:11.81
what we're going to
learn about next week?
00:24:11.85\00:24:13.28
Sure, I'd love to.
00:24:13.31\00:24:14.82
Next Sabbath we
are gonna study about
00:24:14.85\00:24:16.95
what happened to
the kingdom of Solomon.
00:24:16.99\00:24:19.22
And we're going to look
00:24:19.25\00:24:20.59
at the life of
an amazing prophet.
00:24:20.62\00:24:22.82
Make sure you
come back next Sabbath
00:24:22.86\00:24:24.59
to find out more
00:24:24.63\00:24:26.06
Aunty Cecily, shall we
go over our memory verse
00:24:26.09\00:24:28.23
that we learned in
our Bible study today?
00:24:28.26\00:24:29.86
Yes.
00:24:29.90\00:24:31.23
Ready to say it
all together, children?
00:24:31.27\00:24:32.73
Ecclesiastes 12:13,
00:24:32.77\00:24:36.30
"Let us hear the
conclusion of the whole matter.
00:24:36.34\00:24:40.31
Fear God and
keep His commandments,
00:24:40.34\00:24:43.55
for this is man's all."
00:24:43.58\00:24:46.41
Abi, we've come to the
end of another worship time.
00:24:46.45\00:24:49.45
What did you learn
from the King today?
00:24:49.48\00:24:51.39
That having lots
and lots of money
00:24:51.42\00:24:52.85
doesn't make you happy.
00:24:52.89\00:24:54.22
Yes.
00:24:54.26\00:24:55.59
That's what Solomon
eventually found out.
00:24:55.62\00:24:57.33
What did Solomon
recommend instead?
00:24:57.36\00:24:59.53
Surrender your heart to
God and do things God's way.
00:24:59.56\00:25:02.30
Yes.
00:25:02.33\00:25:03.67
The whole Book of
Ecclesiastes tell us,
00:25:03.70\00:25:05.40
tells us about that.
00:25:05.43\00:25:06.84
Aunty Cecily,
are we ready to sing
00:25:06.87\00:25:08.34
our blessing song to
the children at home?
00:25:08.37\00:25:10.51
Yes, let's turn around
00:25:10.54\00:25:11.97
and sing to the
boys and girls at home.
00:25:12.01\00:25:14.24
May God bless you and keep you
00:25:20.32\00:25:25.45
And fill your heart with love
00:25:25.49\00:25:30.53
May God guide and protect you
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And watch you from above
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And Sabbath after Sabbath
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We greet the day of rest
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The day the King of glory
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Has sanctified and blessed
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Goodbye my friend
till we meet again
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For another day with the King
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Goodbye!
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See you next Sabbath!
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My favorite story in
the Bible was Noah's Ark
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because he obeyed God
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and all the animals
were saved in the ark.
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My favorite story in the
Bible is about the 12 spies
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and how Caleb and Joshua
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stood up in front of everybody.
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My favorite story in the Bible
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is Mary and
Joseph and baby Jesus
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'cause He's the
Savior of the world.
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