Hello there. Happy Sabbath.
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Come on in. We're
about to meet with the King.
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Hello, it's wonderful
to have you back with us
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to join us in our worship time.
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How are you going, Aunty Nat?
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I'm really good, Aunty Cecily,
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and I'm so happy
to be back here again
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with you and the kids.
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Yes, I'm really looking forward
to our worship times together.
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Aunty Cecily, can I
say hello to someone?
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Yes, who would you
like to say hello to?
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William and James.
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Yes.
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Hello, William and James.
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And Lily is visiting us again.
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Lily's a bit of a funny bunny,
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she might try and
burrow in behind us
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and just do what bunnies do.
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But we love having here with us.
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Aunty Nat, would you
like to say a prayer for us
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before we
commence our worship time?
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Sure, I'd love to.
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Dearest Heavenly Father,
we thank and praise Your name
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for allowing us
to be all here today,
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Lord worshiping
You and worshiping You
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on the Sabbath
and remembering You
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on the Sabbath.
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We ask, Lord, a special blessing
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on the children at home.
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We ask, Lord, that this message
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and this worship
time warms their hearts.
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We thank You and
we love You, Lord,
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in Jesus' name, amen.
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Do you remember what number
key we're up to this week?
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Number 10.
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Yes, and I'm going to
ask Hannah if you'd like
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to open our gift box
and tell us what our key
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to the kingdom is today?
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What does it tell us?
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Talk with God.
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Thank you.
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And what's the text on
the other side of the tag?
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1 Thessalonians 5:17.
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Thank you, Hannah.
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Bethany, could you read
that text for us please.
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Yes, "Pray without ceasing."
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Thanks, Bethany.
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Remember last Sabbath we talked
about getting to know Jesus
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through prayer,
studying His Word,
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and spending time
with human nature.
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Well, today we're going
to learn more about talking
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to God in prayer.
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Prayer is very powerful.
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Aunty Nat is going to
tell us later about Elisha,
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who prayed
often and God answered
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many of his
prayers with miracles.
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Now we need to pray to God
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because we cannot have
a friendship with someone
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who we never talk to, can we?
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Imagine how long your friendship
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would last with another person
if you never talked with them?
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We can talk with
God in the same way
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that we can talk to our friend.
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Bethany, when can we pray?
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At any time.
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Yes, that's right.
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We can talk to God any time.
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God never tires of listening
to us and about our lives,
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or about our struggles,
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or our request
for help to obey Him
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and to serve others.
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Luke 22:40 says,
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"We should pray
for help not to give in
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when we attempted to do wrong."
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And 1 Corinthians 10:13 says,
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"God promises to make a
way to escape the temptation."
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In Luke Chapter 11,
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God promises to
answer all our prayers
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if we ask according to His will,
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and not just for
selfish purposes.
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So remember, you
can pray to God anytime
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and you can talk
to Him about anything.
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So as we spend time
with the King this Sabbath,
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let's think about our
10th key to the kingdom.
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Talk to God in prayer.
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Thanks, Aunt Cecily.
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Our key is a good reminder
that Jesus is ever ready
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to listen to us
and answer our prayers.
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Hello, Braedan,
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it's so wonderful to
have you back with us
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to help us praise God in song.
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Thanks, Aunty Nat.
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Hi, boys and girls, let's
sing "Don't forget the Sabbath."
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Don't forget the Sabbath
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The Lord our God has blest
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Of all the week the brightest
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Of all the week the best
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It brings repose from labor
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It tells of joy divine
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Its beams of light descending
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With heavenly beauty shine
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Welcome, welcome, ever welcome
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Blessed Sabbath day
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Welcome, welcome, ever welcome
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Blessed Sabbath day
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Keep the Sabbath holy
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And worship Him today
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Who said to His disciples
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I am the living Way
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And if we meekly follow
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Our Savior here below
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He'll give us of the fountain
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Whose streams eternal flow
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Welcome, welcome, ever welcome
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Blessed Sabbath day
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Welcome, welcome, ever welcome
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Blessed Sabbath day
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Braedan, can we please
sing "Standing on the promises?"
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We sure can.
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Standing on the
promises of Christ my King
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Through eternal
ages let His praises ring
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Glory in the highest
I will shout and sing
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Standing on the promises of God
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Standing, standing
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Standing on the
promises of God my Savior
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Standing, standing
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I'm standing on
the promises of God
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Braedan, can we please
sing "Whisper a prayer?"
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I love that song.
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Let's sing it together.
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Whisper a prayer in the morning
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Whisper a prayer at noon
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Whisper a prayer in the evening
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To keep your heart in tune
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God answers
prayer in the morning
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God answers prayer at noon
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God answers
prayer in the evening
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To keep your heart in tune
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Thanks, Braedan.
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Singing songs to our
Creator makes me so happy.
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Jesus has done so much for us.
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Now let's join
Dr. John in his study.
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Find out what surprise
he has for us this week?
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Hello, boys and girls,
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it's wonderful to
have you back here.
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And I want to tell
you a story from the Bible
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and then a modern counterpart.
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A little boy was
born in biblical times,
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way back in the
time of the Judges.
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And God said that this
boy is going to be different.
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He's going to be special,
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and he will be
the strongest person
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who ever lived.
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What was his name?
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Samson.
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But there's one condition,
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you mustn't cut his hair, ever.
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Because if you cut his hair,
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it'll be a sign that
he is no longer a Nazarene
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which was what they called them.
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And he will be just as
weak as every other man.
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But while his hair is long,
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he will have
incredible strength.
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Now as I look around here,
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I think we must have
some very strong girls.
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Bethany, I love your hair.
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Hold it up so we can all see it.
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And all the boys
and girls around,
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that's beautiful.
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How often do you
cut it? Not very often.
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Not very often, you just
trim and your sister Amber.
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I want all the girls to hold out
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their nice long hair.
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Oh, it's beautiful.
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I love your hair too, Abigail.
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I wonder whether I can
have a haircut like that.
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Boys,
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if you turned up at
school with hair like the girls,
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do you think you'd get teased?
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What do you think
they would call you?
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They would call you girly,
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or sissy, or something.
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There are some cultures
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where the boys
do grow their hair
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until they're
about 12 years of age
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and some other will do that,
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and they are not embarrassed.
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And if I hold up this picture,
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and you saw it
for the first time,
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you'll say, oh,
there's a nice looking girl,
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that the girl's name was Colon
and when he was four years old,
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he said to his mummy,
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I don't want to get
my hair cut any longer.
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And his mother said,
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"Why, why don't you
want your hair cut?"
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He gave the
answer that you and I
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when we are children often give,
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why not, because
it was his secret.
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And so his mother said,
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"If you want to
have your hair long,
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I'm warning you
when you go to school,
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the boys will tease you.
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They'll make names
and call you girly."
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Colon was only four
years old and he said,
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"That's all right."
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And his hair grew, and grew,
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and grew until
he was 10 years old.
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Six years has gone by,
and he said, "All right,
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it's time to go
to the hairdresser."
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And he had a haircut and
he looked quite different.
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Why do you
think he grew his hair
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for all those years, six years?
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He wrote a letter and
he says what he wrote,
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"Hi, there my name is
Colon and I'm 10 years old.
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I have been growing my
hair since I was four years old.
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I wondered what to do with it,
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and thought it would be a
great idea to donate my hair
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to people and kids who
lost their hair to cancer."
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You know, when
people get cancer,
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sometimes they have
to give them a treatment.
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And that makes
their hair fall out.
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And it grows back again
later, but it's terrible,
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particularly if you're a girl,
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if you go around
without your hair,
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and particularly if
you're a little girl,
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and Colon went for six
years to let his hair grow long
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so he could help restore
the hair and give them a wig
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while their hair
was growing again.
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I think that's amazing
that a four year old boy
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decided to grow his
hair and all the people
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would mock him
for all those years
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and you know, he
had so much courage,
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he had so much determination,
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he really had a goal in
life and he followed it.
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And we have the
same goal and that is
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"If you serve God
and you focus on God
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and do nothing but
want to follow Him,
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and all your
friends can laugh at you,
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and you follow God,
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you will be as brave
and as wonderful as Colon."
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I think that's a
beautiful story, don't you?
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Thank you, boys and girls.
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Hi, boys and girls,
welcome to our Bible study.
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If you haven't got your Bible,
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go get it now so you
can follow along with us.
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Abigail, can you
please say a prayer
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before we open our Bible study?
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Dear Father, thank
You for our Bibles.
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Help us to
understand what we read
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and allow to warm our hearts.
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Be with the children
who are watching at home,
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in Jesus' name, amen.
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Thanks Abby.
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Now, Bethany,
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do you remember what we
studied about last Sabbath?
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Elisha's ascension to heaven.
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And who was the prophet
that took Elijah's place?
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Elisha? Yes.
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Before we study
more about Elisha,
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we're going to
look at those kings
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and see what's
going on up there.
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Let's look at
the northern kingdom
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of our map of kings
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and let's point
out King Ahaziah.
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Now when he died,
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his brother became
king and took his place.
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And we're going to
study about that now.
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Erin, can you
please read 2 Kings 3:1-3?
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"Now Jehoram son of
Ahab became king of Israel
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at Samaria in the 18th year
of Jehoshaphat king of Judah,
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and reigned 12 years.
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And he did evil in
the sight of the Lord,
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but not like his
father and mother,
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for he put away the
sacred pillar of Baal
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that his father had made.
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Nevertheless he persisted
in the sins of Jeroboam,
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the son of Nebat,
who had made Israel sin,
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he did not depart from them."
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So again, King
Jehoram was not much better
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than his father or his brother.
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Though he did take
down the idols to bow,
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but he still
worshiped the golden calf
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set up by Jeroboam.
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Okay, so let's now
go over to 2 Chronicles
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and let's find out
what's going on down
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in the southern kingdom.
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Now we read in
the Bible last Sabbath
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that Jehoshaphat was a good king
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and he ruled for 25 years.
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When he died, his
son took his place.
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Aunt Cecily, can you
show us that on the map
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of the southern tribes?
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So Jehoshaphat was a good
king and then his son Jehoram,
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also name as
Joram took his place.
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Okay, so Abigail,
can you please read
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2 Chronicles 21:5-6?
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"Jehoram was 32 years
old when he became king,
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and he reigned
eight years in Jerusalem.
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And he walked in the
way of the kings of Israel,
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just as the
house of Ahab had done,
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for he had the
daughter of Ahab as a wife,
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and he did evil in
the sight of the Lord."
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So because
Jehoram was so wicked,
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especially since his
father and grandfather
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had been good kings,
00:15:07.17\00:15:08.80
Elijah before he went to heaven
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wrote a letter to Jehoram,
00:15:10.84\00:15:12.67
telling him he would become sick
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in his intestines
or down in the tummy.
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This did happen
and Jehoram died.
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After this
Jehoram's younger son,
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Ahaziah became king
and only ruled a year
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because he did evil
in sight of the Lord.
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Aunt Cecily, can
you just show us that,
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Ahaziah up there?
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There's two
Ahaziahs, gets a bit confusing,
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but there was Ahaziah on
both sides of the kingdom.
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So the kings were
not tracking very well.
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So far, only two
have been good kings
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out of the 16 spread
out over the two kingdoms.
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They were kings
Asa and Jehoshaphat.
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Let's go back to 2 Kings
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and continue to
read about Elisha.
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Bethany, can you
please read 2 Kings 4:1-4?
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"So Elisha said to her,
'What shall I do for you?
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Tell me, what do
you have in the house?'
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And she said, 'Your maidservant
has nothing in the house
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but a jar of oil.'
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Then he said, 'Go,
borrow vessels from everywhere,
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from all your
neighbors empty vessels,
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do not gather just a few.
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And when you have come in,
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you shall shut the door
behind you and your sons,
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then pour it into
all those vessels,
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and set aside the full ones.'
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" Okay, Sophie, can
you read verses 5-7 please?
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"So she went from
him and shut the door
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behind her and her sons,
who brought the vessels to her,
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and she poured it out.
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Now it came to pass,
when the vessels were full,
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that she said to her son,
'Bring me another vessel.'
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And he said to her,
'There is not another vessel.'
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So the oil ceased.
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Then she came and
told the man of God.
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And he said, 'Go, sell
the oil and pay your debt,
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and you and your
sons live on the rest.'"
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Wow, what an amazing miracle
God performed through Elisha
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for the widow and her sons.
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God is so good.
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Let's continue reading.
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Matthew, can you
please read 2 Kings 4:8-10?
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"Now it happened one day
that Elisha went to Shunem,
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where there was a notable woman,
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and she persuaded
him to eat some food.
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So it was, as
often as he passed by,
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he would turn in
there to eat some food.
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And she said to
her husband, 'Look now,
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I know that there
is a holy man of God,
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who passes by us regularly.
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Please, let us make a
small upper room on the wall,
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and let us put a
bed for him there,
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and a table and a
chair and a lampstand,
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so it will be,
whenever he comes to us,
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he can turn in there.'"
00:17:47.36\00:17:49.03
Thanks, Matthew.
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So this Shunammite woman
was a woman of prominence
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and wealth in her community.
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She recognized that
Elisha was a man of God
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and she wanted
to provide a place
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that he could
retreat during his travels.
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After the room was built,
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she invited Elisha and
his servant Gehazi to stay.
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Let's see what Elisha's
response was to this kindness.
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Mia, can you please
read 2 Kings 4:14-16?
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"So he said, 'What
then is to be done for her?'
00:18:18.49\00:18:23.37
And Gehazi answered, 'Actually,
00:18:23.40\00:18:26.27
she has no son, and
her husband is old.'
00:18:26.30\00:18:30.14
So he said, 'Call her.'
00:18:30.17\00:18:32.37
When he had called her,
she stood in the doorway.
00:18:32.41\00:18:36.61
Then he said,
'About this time next year
00:18:36.64\00:18:39.21
you shall embrace a son.'
00:18:39.25\00:18:40.88
And she said, 'No, my lord.
00:18:40.92\00:18:42.85
Man of God, do not
lie to my maidservant!'"
00:18:42.88\00:18:45.69
To your maidservant.
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Okay.
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Elisha told the Shunammite woman
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that she was finally
after many years of trying,
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going to have a baby.
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And verse 17 tells us
that was exactly what happened.
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Aunty Cecily, can
you read 2 Kings 4:18-21?
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And the child grew.
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Now it happened one day
that he went out to his father,
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to the reapers.
00:19:11.35\00:19:12.95
And he said to his
father, 'My head, my head!'
00:19:12.98\00:19:17.29
So he said to a servant,
'Carry him to his mother.'
00:19:17.32\00:19:21.69
When he had taken him and
brought him to his mother,
00:19:21.72\00:19:26.03
he sat on her knees
till noon, and then died.
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And she went up and laid him
on the bed of the man of God,
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shut the door upon
him, and went out.'"
00:19:34.14\00:19:37.04
No, no, the
Shunammite woman knew
00:19:37.07\00:19:40.94
that Elisha had
gone to Mount Carmel,
00:19:40.98\00:19:43.81
and she left
immediately to go after him.
00:19:43.85\00:19:46.88
When she arrived,
she refused to leave
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until Elisha came
back home with her.
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Let's see what happens next.
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Erin, can you
read 2 Kings 4:32-34?
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"When Elisha
came into the house,
00:19:58.43\00:20:00.60
there was the child,
lying dead on his bed.
00:20:00.63\00:20:03.83
He went in therefore,
00:20:03.87\00:20:05.20
shut the door
behind the two of them,
00:20:05.23\00:20:07.17
and prayed to the Lord.
00:20:07.20\00:20:08.70
And he went up
and lay on the child,
00:20:08.74\00:20:11.47
he put his mouth on his
mouth, his eyes on his eyes,
00:20:11.51\00:20:15.51
and his hands on his hands,
00:20:15.54\00:20:17.25
and he stretched
himself out on the child,
00:20:17.28\00:20:20.42
and the flesh of
the child became warm."
00:20:20.45\00:20:25.35
Abigail, can you
please read verses 35-36?
00:20:25.39\00:20:29.59
"He returned and walked
back and forth in the house,
00:20:29.62\00:20:33.13
and again went up and
stretched himself out on him,
00:20:33.16\00:20:38.00
then the child
sneezed seven times,
00:20:38.03\00:20:40.14
and the child opened his eyes.
00:20:40.17\00:20:42.17
And he called Gehazi and said,
'Call this Shunammite woman.'
00:20:42.20\00:20:46.37
So he called her.
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And when she came in to him,
he said, 'Pick up your son.'"
00:20:47.84\00:20:53.18
Wow, what an amazing miracle
God performed through Elisha.
00:20:53.21\00:20:57.32
God raised the
Shunammite son from the dead.
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God is so good.
00:21:01.09\00:21:03.09
Elisha spent a lot of
time with the students
00:21:03.12\00:21:05.93
from the school of the prophets
as these schools were important
00:21:05.96\00:21:09.80
to restoring the
spirituality of Israel.
00:21:09.83\00:21:12.67
Let's read about
one of the miracles
00:21:12.70\00:21:14.80
that happened at
one of these schools.
00:21:14.84\00:21:17.07
Bethany, can you
please read 2 Kings 4:42-44?
00:21:17.11\00:21:23.21
"Then a man came
from Baal Shalisha,
00:21:23.24\00:21:25.08
and brought the man of God bread
00:21:25.11\00:21:27.08
of the first fruits,
twenty loaves of barley bread,
00:21:27.12\00:21:30.65
and newly ripened
grain in his knapsack.
00:21:30.69\00:21:34.52
And he said,
'Give it to the people
00:21:34.56\00:21:36.42
that they may eat.'
00:21:36.46\00:21:38.73
But his servant said, 'What?
00:21:38.76\00:21:40.40
Shall I set this
before one hundred men?'
00:21:40.43\00:21:43.83
He said again,
'Give it to the people,
00:21:43.87\00:21:45.53
that they may eat,
for thus says the Lord:
00:21:45.57\00:21:47.94
'They shall eat and
have some left over.'
00:21:47.97\00:21:50.47
So he set it before them,
00:21:50.51\00:21:51.84
and they ate and
had some left over,
00:21:51.87\00:21:53.88
according to the
word of the Lord.'"
00:21:53.91\00:21:55.51
Wow, so the miracle was
that a small amount of food
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given by very kind man
to feed 100 hungry young men
00:21:59.51\00:22:03.82
was enough to fill
them with some leftover.
00:22:03.85\00:22:07.36
God is so good.
00:22:07.39\00:22:08.72
Let's look at our
torchlight Mrs. White's writings
00:22:08.76\00:22:11.39
to see what they shine
on what we've been reading.
00:22:11.43\00:22:14.26
Erin, can you
please read that for us?
00:22:14.30\00:22:18.13
"The work of Elisha as a prophet
00:22:18.17\00:22:20.20
was in some respects
00:22:20.24\00:22:21.70
very different
from that of Elijah.
00:22:21.74\00:22:24.04
To Elijah had
been committed messages
00:22:24.07\00:22:28.74
of condemnation and judgment,
00:22:28.78\00:22:31.01
his was the voice
of fearless reproof,
00:22:31.05\00:22:33.98
calling king and people
to turn from their evil ways.
00:22:34.02\00:22:37.49
Elisha's was a
more peaceful mission,
00:22:37.52\00:22:40.06
his it was to build up
and strengthen the work
00:22:40.09\00:22:43.02
that Elijah had begun,
00:22:43.06\00:22:44.49
to teach the people
the way of the Lord."
00:22:44.53\00:22:47.60
Thanks, Erin.
00:22:47.63\00:22:48.96
So Elisha was a very
kind and faithful man
00:22:49.00\00:22:52.37
whose ministry was one
of healing and teaching.
00:22:52.40\00:22:56.40
Even though Elisha's ministry
was very different to Elijah's,
00:22:56.44\00:23:00.38
God used both of them
in a very powerful way
00:23:00.41\00:23:04.41
to bring reformation to Israel.
00:23:04.45\00:23:06.82
Let's look at our
memory verse in Ephesians 4:32,
00:23:06.85\00:23:10.09
and we'll read that together.
00:23:10.12\00:23:11.45
And for the boys
and girls at home,
00:23:11.49\00:23:13.09
Ephesians is in
the New Testament.
00:23:13.12\00:23:17.13
You all ready?
00:23:17.16\00:23:19.33
"And be kind to one
another, tenderhearted,
00:23:19.36\00:23:24.10
forgiving one another,
00:23:24.13\00:23:26.07
even as God in
Christ forgave you."
00:23:26.10\00:23:29.70
That's a good
verse to finish upon,
00:23:29.74\00:23:31.84
as it sums up our study today.
00:23:31.87\00:23:34.68
Thank you boys and girls,
for reading along with us.
00:23:34.71\00:23:37.21
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00:23:37.25\00:23:39.75
on what we studied today.
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00:23:43.95\00:23:45.72
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Aunty Nat, what are we
going to study about next week?
00:24:18.15\00:24:20.92
Yes, next Sabbath,
00:24:20.96\00:24:22.29
we're going to study
about a very faithful girl
00:24:22.32\00:24:25.16
who shared how
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00:24:25.19\00:24:27.86
Come back next week
to find out all about it.
00:24:27.90\00:24:30.70
Aunty Cecily, should we
go over our memory verse
00:24:30.73\00:24:32.70
that we learned
in our study today?
00:24:32.73\00:24:34.34
Yes, let's say it
all together children,
00:24:34.37\00:24:36.47
Ephesians 4:32, "And
be kind to one another,
00:24:36.50\00:24:42.88
tenderhearted,
forgiving one another,
00:24:42.91\00:24:46.92
even as God in
Christ forgave you."
00:24:46.95\00:24:51.15
That's a good
memory verse to remember.
00:24:51.19\00:24:54.12
Bethany, what did you
learn about the King today?
00:24:54.16\00:24:56.66
That God wants us to
talk with Him through prayer.
00:24:56.69\00:24:59.56
He does, He
loves to hear from us.
00:24:59.59\00:25:02.63
We can come to Him
anywhere and anytime
00:25:02.66\00:25:05.30
and talk to Him through prayer.
00:25:05.33\00:25:07.27
Aunty Cecily, shall
we sing our goodbye song?
00:25:07.30\00:25:09.50
Yes, would you
like to turn around
00:25:09.54\00:25:11.04
so we can sing to the
boys and girls at home?
00:25:11.07\00:25:16.58
May God bless you and keep you
00:25:19.58\00:25:24.69
And fill your heart with love
00:25:24.72\00:25:29.82
May God guide and protect you
00:25:29.86\00:25:34.96
And watch you from above
00:25:35.00\00:25:40.14
And Sabbath after Sabbath
00:25:40.17\00:25:45.31
We greet the day of rest
00:25:45.34\00:25:50.38
The day the King of glory
00:25:50.41\00:25:55.58
Has sanctified and blessed
00:25:55.62\00:26:00.76
Goodbye my friend
till we meet again
00:26:00.79\00:26:05.83
For another day with the King
00:26:05.86\00:26:11.43
Goodbye!
00:26:11.47\00:26:12.80
See you next Sabbath!
00:26:12.83\00:26:16.97
My favorite story in
the Bible was Noah's Ark
00:26:20.71\00:26:23.71
because he obeyed
God and all the animals
00:26:23.75\00:26:26.75
were saved in the ark.
00:26:26.78\00:26:29.92
My favorite story in the
Bible is about the 12 spies
00:26:29.95\00:26:32.89
and how Caleb and Joshua
stood up in front of everybody.
00:26:32.92\00:26:39.06
My favorite story in the
Bible is Mary, and Joseph,
00:26:39.46\00:26:42.30
and baby Jesus
00:26:42.33\00:26:43.67
'cause He's the
Savior of the world.
00:26:43.70\00:26:45.63