Hello there, happy
Sabbath. Come on in.
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We're about to
meet with the King.
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Hello there, everyone.
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It's lovely to see you again.
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Hi, Aunty Cecily,
how are you going?
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I'm well, thank you, Aunty Nat,
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and it's great to be back
again with you and the children.
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Yes, I can't believe
another week has whizzed by.
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Aunty, Nat, can I
say hello to someone?
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You sure can, Alesha.
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Who would you
like to say hello to?
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Uncle David.
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Yes, let's all say
hello to Uncle David.
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Hello, Uncle David.
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Speaking of hellos,
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we can't forget to
say hello to Teddy.
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Hello Teddy, you're
such a good boy sitting there
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on the couch with us.
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Aunty Cecily, would you
like to say a prayer for us
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before we
commence our worship time?
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Yes, I'd love to.
Let's bow our heads.
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Dear Heavenly Father,
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we just thank You
for keeping us safe
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through another week.
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We thank You so
much for the Sabbath day.
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And we pray
that Your Holy Spirit
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would speak to our
hearts as we worship
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You now, in Jesus' name, amen.
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Amen. Thanks, Aunty Cecily.
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Now, let's find out
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what our next key
to the kingdom is.
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Liana, are you able
to open that for us?
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Can you tell us
what's on the key?
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Hold it up, so we can see.
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Grow to be like Jesus.
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Oh, okay, can you switch it over
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and let's see what
the memory verse says.
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Ephesians 4:15.
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Sophie, can you
look that up for us
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and read it to
us from the Bible?
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"Speaking the truth in love
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may grow up in
all things into Him
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who is the head, Christ.
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Thanks, Sophie.
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Aunty, Cecily, can you
tell us more about this key?
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Yes.
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Remember last
Sabbath we discovered that
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being a Christian
means to follow Christ
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and His example
of life and service.
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Well, today we're
going to learn more of
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what it means to
grow to be like Jesus.
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When we were babies, we
had a lot of growing to do,
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didn't we?
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And when we're baby Christians,
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we have a lot of
growing to do too.
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The Bible talks about
growing in John 15:4-5.
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Jesus said, "Abide
in Me and I in you,
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as the branch
cannot bear fruit of itself
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unless it abides in the vine,
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neither can you,
unless you abide in Me."
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I'm the vine and
you are the branches.
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"He who abides in Me and
I in him bears much fruit.
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For without Me,
you can do nothing."
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Now I have a
picture here of a grapevine,
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with fruit on it.
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Sophie, would the
fruit grow on the branches,
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if it wasn't
connected to the vine?
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No.
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What would happen
to it? It would die.
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Yes, that's right.
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So if we want to
grow to be like Jesus,
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we must be connected to Jesus.
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Later in our study
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we'll learn about
Elijah's willingness
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to obey God
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and how God gave him
the courage to stand up
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for what was right and
follow his instructions.
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Growing to be like Jesus,
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we too can do great
things for God as well.
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Philippians 4:13 says,
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"I can do all
things through Christ
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who strengthens me."
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Jesus came to
this earth as a baby.
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And like you and me,
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He had to grow up into
a child and then an adult.
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Jesus prayed and
spoke to His Father
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all the time.
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And that's one way we
can grow to be like Jesus.
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If we listen to Him and obey,
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we'll naturally bear fruit,
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just the same way
that grapes will appear
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on a healthy grapevine.
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Galatians 5:22-23 says
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that when we stay connected
to God through His Holy Spirit,
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like the branches to the vine,
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we will bear the fruit
of love, and joy, and peace,
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and patience,
gentleness, and meekness,
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and kindness, and self control.
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So this Sabbath, as we
spend time with the King,
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we need to ask for the desire
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and the power to grow to
be more and more like Jesus.
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Thanks, Aunty Cecily.
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We can all ask God to help
us to grow more like Jesus.
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Do you know what?
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I can say that
Braedan has arrived to help us
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with our worship time.
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Thanks, Braedan.
Thanks, Aunty Nat.
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Hi, boys and girls.
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I hope you're up
for a challenge today
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because we're going to
sing "The Books of the Bible."
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Genesis, Exodus,
Leviticus, Numbers
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Deuteronomy, Joshua Judges, Ruth
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1st and 2nd
Samuel 1st and 2nd Kings
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1st and 2nd Chronicles
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Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther, Job
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Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes
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Song of Solomon Isaiah, Jeremiah
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Lamentations, Ezekiel
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Daniel, Hosea, Joel, Amos
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Obadiah, Jonah, Micah
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Nahum, Habakkuk,
Zephaniah, Haggai
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Zechariah, Malachi
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Matthew, Mark, Luke and John
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Acts, Romans, 1st
and 2nd Corinthians
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Galatians, Ephesians,
Philippians, Colossians
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1st and 2nd Thessalonians
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1st and 2nd
Timothy, Titus, Philemon
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Hebrews, James,
1st and 2nd Peter
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1st and 2nd, 3rd
John, Jude and Revelation
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That's the Old and New Testament
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Amen!
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Braedan, can we
please sing "The B-I-B-L-E."
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We certainly can.
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The B-I-B-L-E Yes,
that's the book for me
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I stand alone on the word of God
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The B-I-B-L-E
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The B-I-B-L-E Yes,
that's the book for me
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I stand alone on the word of God
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The B-I-B-L-E
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Braedan, can we please sing
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"Read your
Bible Pray Every day."
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I love songs about
the Bible. Let's sing it.
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Read your Bible, pray every day
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Pray every day, pray every day
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Read your Bible, pray every day
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And you'll grow, grow, grow
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And you'll grow, grow, grow
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And you'll grow, grow, grow
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Read your Bible, pray every day
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And you'll grow, grow, grow
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Thanks, Braedan,
that was wonderful.
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Now Dr. John's
back with another story.
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Let's go and
join him in his study.
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Hello, boys and girls,
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it's wonderful to see you again.
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And this time,
we are saying hello
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to the boys and girls in
America, the United States
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because this story
happened over there.
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And it is about a girl
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who died over 60 years ago,
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but parts of
her are still alive.
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Her name was Henrietta.
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And they called her Henny.
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In fact her first
name was Henny Pleasant.
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She was so sweet.
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But she was so poor,
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and they were tobacco farmers.
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I'm not sure that I would
want to be a tobacco farmer
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but they got almost no money.
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In fact,
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she got married
because her mother died
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and she had nowhere to go.
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She was only 14 years old
when she had her first baby.
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And she ended up
with five babies.
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And because of the
unhealthy living conditions,
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she got sick and
she went to hospital.
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And they discovered
that she had cancer,
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and it was going to kill her.
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Now it's not all doom and gloom.
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A lot of people
get cancer today.
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We have wonderful
treatments for cancer
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because of Henrietta.
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She died, and they took
some cells from her body,
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so they could put
them under the microscope
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and check to see
what the problem was.
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Now, everybody and you and I,
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when they take our
cells from our body
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just by a little injection
or a scrape on the skin,
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our cells can only
live for about two days,
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and then they die.
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You just can't keep them alive.
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And they checked
Henny's cells after two days,
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they were still alive.
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He put them away in the fridge
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and about a week
later, he had another look,
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he saw something amazing,
her cells was still living.
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And they said, "This is strange.
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We have never seen
anybody like this."
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And they kept those cells
and they managed to grow them.
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And almost every disease
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that they are
treating today from polio,
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we don't get polio now,
because they developed vaccines
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because they're
able to test cells
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that weren't dying.
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And every person who had polio,
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and doesn't have it today
can thanks Henrietta Lacks
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and they call these cells,
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HeLa cells from
H-E, for Henrietta
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and L-A for her surname Lacks
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and they have grown
over 20 tons of these cells.
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They are used all over Australia
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and Henrietta's
cells are still living.
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And she is the
only person in history
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with immortal cells.
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And she knows nothing about...
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They don't even
know where her grave is.
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They only had two
photographs of her.
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That is a very poor photograph.
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Because the
photograph I took this from
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is a very poor one.
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She has a sweet face,
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she lived and died
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without knowing that
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she was going to save the lives
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of millions, and millions,
and millions of people.
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How many of us are immortal?
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We will be immortal
when Jesus gives us life.
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But He was living on this earth.
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And Satan was doing
everything he could to kill Him.
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And we are told that
Satan and all his angels
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and the hosts of
heaven were watching the day
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that Jesus died on the cross.
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Heaven was so sorry,
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but Satan and his
angels had a wild party
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because they had killed Jesus,
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He was put in a
tomb and they had
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the strongest soldiers
in the world guarding it,
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so nobody could steal the body.
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And he said, Jesus
is dead, I have won.
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But Jesus had
the immortal strength
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within Him.
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And He came back to life.
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I tell you, the day
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that Jesus
walked out of that tomb,
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Satan, knew that he was doomed.
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By the fact that
He came back to life
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and He died for us,
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He gave us the
chance of immortality.
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And I hope
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that Henrietta Lacks
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will come back to life one day.
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I think she was a good woman,
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and she will be
with us in heaven.
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Are you looking forward to that?
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I certainly am. Thank you.
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Hi, boys and girls.
Welcome to our Bible study.
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If you haven't got
your Bibles ready yet,
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go get them now
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so you can follow along with us.
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Matthew, can you
please say a prayer for us
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before we commence our study?
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Dear Father, thank
You for our Bibles.
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Please help us to understand
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what we are reading today
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and may warm the hearts of those
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who are joining us at home,
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in Jesus' name, amen.
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Thanks, Matthew.
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Now, Sophie, what did we
learn about last Sabbath?
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That King Solomon
followed the gods of his wives.
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Yes, he did, didn't he?
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And today we're going
to look at what happened
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as a result of Solomon,
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allowing the worship of
the idols in his kingdom.
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Before Solomon died,
his servant Jeroboam,
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who was an
officer of his labor force
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was given a message
from the Prophet Ahijah.
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Let's see what he says.
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Erin, can you please
read 1 Kings 11:30-32?
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"Then Ahijah took
hold of the new garment
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that was on him, and
tore it into twelve pieces.
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He said to Jeroboam,
'Take for yourself ten pieces,'
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for thus says the
Lord, the God of Israel,
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'Behold, I will tear the kingdom
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out of the hand of Solomon
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and will give ten tribes to you,
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but he shall have one tribe
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for the sake of
My servant David,
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and for the sake of Jerusalem,
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the city which I have chosen
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out of all the
tribes of Israel.'"
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So the prophecy that
God pronounced on Solomon
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that we looked at
last Sabbath came true.
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Let's see what else
the prophet had to say.
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Caleb, can you please
read 1 Kings 11:37-38?
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"So I will take you,
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and you shall reign
over all your heart desires,
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and you shall be
king over Israel.
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Then it shall be,
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if you heed all
that I command you,
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walk in My ways,
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and do what is
right in My sight,
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to keep My statutes
and My commandments,
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as My servant David did,
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then I will be with
you and build for you
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an enduring house,
as I built for David,
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and I will give Israel to you."
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So God reassured Jeroboam
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that if he followed
Him and His commandments,
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God would bless him.
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A short time later,
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Solomon died and Rehoboam,
his son was proclaimed king.
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But Jeroboam and Rehoboam
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got into a
disagreement about taxes.
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And with this the
split was made final,
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Jeroboam and the 10
tribes split off from Rehoboam.
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Aunty Cecily, can
you just show us the map
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that we have the
northern tribe now,
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which is the kingdom
of Israel, all that there.
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And then we have
the southern tribe,
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which was now
the kingdom of Judah.
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Okay, Bethany,
can you please read
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1 Kings 12:28-29?
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"Therefore the
king asked advice,
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made two calves of
gold, and said to the people,
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'It is too much for
you to go up to Jerusalem.
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Here are your gods, O Israel,
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which brought you up
from the land of Egypt.'
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And he set up one in Bethel,
and the other one in Dan."
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So Jeroboam had the opportunity
to do good in Israel.
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God promised he
would be with him
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if he followed His
commandments but instead,
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Jeroboam encouraged the people
00:16:15.07\00:16:16.87
to worship the
golden calf, an idol.
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God sent a prophet to
warn King Jeroboam, of his sin,
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but King
Jeroboam did not repent,
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he continued in
his idol worship,
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and lead the kingdom
of Israel into apostasy.
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He ruled for 22 years.
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And after he died, six
other kings followed him.
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But the Bible tells us
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they all did evil in
the sight of the Lord.
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And you can see here
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that we have a
chart of the kings
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and you see
Jeroboam the first there,
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king of Israel, northern tribes,
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and he died and
six kings followed him
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and they all did evil
in the sight of the Lord.
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Let's look at what's going
on in the southern kingdom.
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Sophie, can you please
read 2 Chronicles 11:16-17?
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"And after the Levites left,
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those from all
the tribes of Israel,
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such as set their heart to
seek the Lord God of Israel,
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came to Jerusalem
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to sacrifice to the
Lord God of their fathers.
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So they strengthened
the kingdom of Judah,
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and made Rehoboam
the son of Solomon
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strong for three years,
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because they
walked in the way of
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David and
Solomon for three years."
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So the people
from the northern tribe
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who wanted to worship God alone,
00:17:33.01\00:17:35.32
moved with the Levites
to the southern kingdom.
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And for the first three years
Rehoboam's reign, all went well
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as they followed God
and did what was right.
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But something happened.
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Matthew, can you please
read 2 Chronicles 12:1-2?
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"Now it came to pass,
00:17:53.13\00:17:54.47
when Rehoboam had
established the kingdom
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and had strengthened himself,
00:17:57.07\00:17:59.04
that he forsook
the law of the Lord,
00:17:59.07\00:18:01.54
and all Israel along with him.
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And it happened
in the fifth year
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of King Rehoboam
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that Shishak, the king of
Egypt came up against Jerusalem,
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because they had
transgressed against the Lord."
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Good reading
Matthew, thank you so much.
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So Rehoboam
started to worship idols.
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And the king of Egypt
came to attack Jerusalem.
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God sent a prophet to warn Judah
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of their apostasy.
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This time the king
and the people repented.
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God heard this and
calls the king of Egypt
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not to destroy them,
00:18:34.44\00:18:35.98
but take away all
the beautiful treasures
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from the palace
and the temple instead.
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King Rehoboam did
humble himself for a while,
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but before he died, he
returned to his evil ways.
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His son Abijah
ruled for three years,
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but he did not follow God.
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Asa his son then
came to the throne.
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Abigail, can you please
read 2 Chronicles 14:2-4?
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"Asa did what was good
00:19:01.37\00:19:02.70
and right in the
eyes of the Lord his God,
00:19:02.74\00:19:04.94
for he removed the
altars of the foreign gods
00:19:04.97\00:19:07.64
and the high places,
00:19:07.68\00:19:09.18
and broke down
all sacred pillars
00:19:09.21\00:19:11.25
and cut down the wooden images.
00:19:11.28\00:19:13.42
He commanded Judah to seek
the Lord God of their fathers,
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and to observe the
law and the commandment."
00:19:16.92\00:19:19.39
Wow.
00:19:19.42\00:19:20.76
So finally we have a king
00:19:20.79\00:19:22.12
who chose to
follow and worship God
00:19:22.16\00:19:24.46
and he led the kingdom
of Judah to do the same.
00:19:24.49\00:19:27.40
Now can you please
find King Asa on our chart,
00:19:27.43\00:19:30.47
please, Aunt Cecily?
00:19:30.50\00:19:31.83
There, he is there. Okay.
00:19:31.87\00:19:33.87
Okay, so let's see
what happened in Israel
00:19:33.90\00:19:36.04
in the northern kingdom.
00:19:36.07\00:19:37.71
And, Aunty Cecily,
I'm going to get you
00:19:37.74\00:19:39.27
to read 1 Kings 16:29-30.
00:19:39.31\00:19:43.51
"In the 38th year
of Asa king of Judah,
00:19:43.55\00:19:47.72
Ahab the son of Omri
became king over Israel,
00:19:47.75\00:19:51.69
and Ahab the son of
Omri reigned over Israel
00:19:51.72\00:19:55.26
in Samaria 22 years.
00:19:55.29\00:19:58.49
Now Ahab the son of Omri
00:19:58.53\00:20:00.50
did evil in the
sight of the Lord,
00:20:00.53\00:20:02.93
more than all
who were before him."
00:20:02.96\00:20:05.73
Can you show us where
King Ahab is on the chart?
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There, he is there.
00:20:09.00\00:20:10.34
Okay, Erin,
00:20:10.37\00:20:11.71
can you please
read 1 Kings 16:31-32?
00:20:11.74\00:20:16.14
"And it came to pass,
00:20:16.18\00:20:17.51
as though it had been
a trivial thing for him
00:20:17.55\00:20:20.12
to walk in the sins of
Jeroboam the son of Nebat,
00:20:20.15\00:20:23.79
that he took as wife
Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal,
00:20:23.82\00:20:28.36
king of the Sidonians.
00:20:28.39\00:20:29.72
And he went and served
Baal and worshiped him.
00:20:29.76\00:20:33.60
And he set up an altar for
Baal in the temple of Baal,
00:20:33.63\00:20:37.00
which he had built in Samaria."
00:20:37.03\00:20:39.10
So Ahab was a wicked king.
00:20:39.13\00:20:41.40
King Ahab and his wife Jezebel
00:20:41.44\00:20:43.91
brought Baal worship
into the Israel big time.
00:20:43.94\00:20:47.48
Everywhere you looked in Israel,
00:20:47.51\00:20:49.51
there were
temples and idol images
00:20:49.54\00:20:51.58
built to worship
Baal and Ashtoreth.
00:20:51.61\00:20:54.35
Let's have a look
at our torchlight,
00:20:54.38\00:20:56.15
Mrs. White's writings
00:20:56.18\00:20:57.82
to see what they shine
on what we've been reading.
00:20:57.85\00:21:00.56
Caleb, can you do
that for us please?
00:21:00.59\00:21:03.66
"Yet the Lord did
not give Israel up
00:21:03.69\00:21:05.63
without first doing
all that could be done
00:21:05.66\00:21:07.86
to lead them back to
their allegiance to Him.
00:21:07.90\00:21:12.03
Through long, dark years
00:21:12.07\00:21:13.40
when ruler after ruler stood
up in bold defiance of Heaven
00:21:13.44\00:21:17.17
and led Israel deeper and
still deeper into idolatry,
00:21:17.21\00:21:21.38
God sent message after message
to His backslidden people.
00:21:21.41\00:21:26.48
Through His prophets He
gave them every opportunity
00:21:26.51\00:21:29.35
to stay the tide of
apostasy and to return to Him."
00:21:29.38\00:21:33.79
Well done. Thanks, Caleb.
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So God always has a plan.
00:21:35.69\00:21:38.23
He sends prophets and messengers
00:21:38.26\00:21:40.30
to warn His people.
00:21:40.33\00:21:41.96
Let's read about that.
00:21:42.00\00:21:43.33
Bethany, can you
please read 1 Kings 17:1?
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"And Elijah the Tishbite,
of the inhabitants of Gilead,
00:21:48.90\00:21:51.87
said to Ahab,
00:21:51.91\00:21:53.27
'As the Lord
God of Israel lives,
00:21:53.31\00:21:55.04
before whom I stand,
00:21:55.08\00:21:56.64
there shall not be
dew nor rain these years,
00:21:56.68\00:21:59.71
except at my word.'"
00:21:59.75\00:22:01.98
So God sent a
prophet named Elijah,
00:22:02.02\00:22:05.25
to warn King Ahab.
00:22:05.29\00:22:07.26
King Ahab and his wife Jezebel
had led the people of Israel
00:22:07.29\00:22:11.63
to believe it was Baal
00:22:11.66\00:22:13.46
who provided the dew
and rain to water the earth.
00:22:13.50\00:22:16.30
They worshiped
not God their Creator,
00:22:16.33\00:22:19.30
but they worshiped the creation.
00:22:19.33\00:22:22.14
God wanted to show the people
00:22:22.17\00:22:23.81
it was Him alone that
provided all their needs,
00:22:23.84\00:22:27.84
not a stone statue.
00:22:27.88\00:22:29.54
Let's look at our
memory verse in Matthew 4:10,
00:22:29.58\00:22:33.48
and let's read that together.
00:22:33.52\00:22:35.25
And for the
girls and boys at home,
00:22:35.28\00:22:36.69
Matthew is found
in the New Testament.
00:22:36.72\00:22:40.42
Okay.
00:22:40.46\00:22:43.26
"For it is written,
00:22:43.29\00:22:45.26
you shall worship
the Lord your God,
00:22:45.29\00:22:48.93
and Him only you shall serve."
00:22:48.96\00:22:53.03
Okay, let's see
what God said to Elijah,
00:22:53.07\00:22:56.74
after He had delivered
the message to King Ahab.
00:22:56.77\00:23:00.88
Sophie, can you
please read that for us
00:23:00.91\00:23:02.88
in 1 Kings 17:3-4?
00:23:02.91\00:23:07.12
"Get away from
here and turn eastward,
00:23:07.15\00:23:09.48
and hide by the Brook Cherith,
which flows into the Jordan.
00:23:09.52\00:23:12.79
And it will be that you
shall drink from the brook,
00:23:12.82\00:23:15.26
and I have commanded the
ravens to feed you there."
00:23:15.29\00:23:19.16
Do you think that King
Ahab and Jezebel were angry,
00:23:19.19\00:23:22.10
when they heard the
message delivered by Elijah?
00:23:22.13\00:23:24.93
Yes. Yes, they were.
00:23:24.97\00:23:26.30
They were furious,
00:23:26.33\00:23:27.84
and God wanted to hide
Elijah to keep him safe.
00:23:27.87\00:23:31.41
Okay, let's find out
more about those ravens.
00:23:31.44\00:23:33.61
Matthew, can you
please read 1 Kings 17:5-6?
00:23:33.64\00:23:38.61
"So he went and did accordingly
to the word of the Lord,
00:23:38.65\00:23:42.38
for he went and
stayed by the Brook Cherith,
00:23:42.42\00:23:45.69
which flows into the Jordan.
00:23:45.72\00:23:47.76
The ravens brought him
bread and meat in the morning,
00:23:47.79\00:23:50.76
and bread and
meat in the evening,
00:23:50.79\00:23:53.03
and he drank from the brook."
00:23:53.06\00:23:54.46
Wow.
00:23:54.50\00:23:55.83
So twice a day, God commanded
the ravens to feed Elijah.
00:23:55.86\00:24:00.07
Pretty amazing, hey...
00:24:00.10\00:24:02.50
Because there was no rain,
00:24:02.54\00:24:04.21
the brooks and streams
eventually started to dry up
00:24:04.24\00:24:07.28
and God sent Elijah up
to Zarephath in Phoenicia,
00:24:07.31\00:24:10.81
where a widow would
supply his daily needs.
00:24:10.85\00:24:14.18
Next Sabbath
we'll show you a map
00:24:14.22\00:24:15.85
tracking Elijah's journey.
00:24:15.88\00:24:17.89
Thank you, boys and girls,
for reading along with us.
00:24:17.92\00:24:20.09
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00:24:20.12\00:24:22.76
on what we studied today.
00:24:22.79\00:24:24.39
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00:25:00.46\00:25:03.37
Aunty Nat, can you tell us
00:25:03.40\00:25:04.73
what we're going to be
studying about next week?
00:25:04.77\00:25:06.77
Yes, next Sabbath
we're going to study about
00:25:06.80\00:25:09.07
fire from heaven.
00:25:09.10\00:25:10.81
See if you can
work out from your Bible
00:25:10.84\00:25:13.17
what we are going
to look at next week.
00:25:13.21\00:25:15.34
Aunty Cecily, shall
we go over a memory verse
00:25:15.38\00:25:17.21
from our Bible study today?
00:25:17.25\00:25:18.58
Yes.
00:25:18.61\00:25:19.95
Do you like to
still say that together?
00:25:19.98\00:25:21.32
Matthew 4:10.
00:25:21.35\00:25:23.75
For it is written,
00:25:23.79\00:25:25.72
you shall worship
the Lord your God,
00:25:25.75\00:25:28.89
and Him only you shall serve."
00:25:28.92\00:25:32.43
Well, children
our worship time's
00:25:32.46\00:25:34.13
almost over again.
00:25:34.16\00:25:36.13
Sophie, what did you
learn about the King today?
00:25:36.16\00:25:38.77
That God wants us to
grow to be like Jesus.
00:25:38.80\00:25:41.60
Yes, He does.
00:25:41.64\00:25:43.34
And He wants us
to pray every day
00:25:43.37\00:25:45.37
to ask Him for help
00:25:45.41\00:25:47.54
because we can't
do it by ourselves.
00:25:47.58\00:25:50.25
Aunty Nat, do you think
we're ready to sing our song
00:25:50.28\00:25:52.81
to the children at home?
00:25:52.85\00:25:54.18
I think we are.
00:25:54.22\00:25:55.55
Let's turn around
and we can sing this,
00:25:55.58\00:25:57.79
our blessing song to
the boys and girls at home.
00:25:57.82\00:25:59.85
May God bless you and keep you
00:26:04.66\00:26:09.73
And fill your heart with love
00:26:09.76\00:26:14.97
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! See you next Sabbath!
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My favorite stories are
in the Bible is about Jesus
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because He loves children.
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My favorite Bible story is David
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'cause how he trusted
and had lots of faith in God
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through all the tough times.
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My favorite story is Ruth
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because she was
brave to follow Naomi
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to a foreign town.
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