Hello there. Happy Sabbath.
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Come on in, we're
about to meet with the King.
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Good day, I am Aunty Nat.
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And I'm Aunty Cecily.
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We're so glad you have
come to join us for worship,
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aren't we kids?
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Yeah! Yes!
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Aunty Cecily, is
there someone today
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we need to send a big hello to?
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Yes, I'd like to
send a big hello to Emily,
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Evelyn and Eli from Tasmania.
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Hello.
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Hi!
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It was great to meet you
guys when I was in Tasmania.
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It's lovely that
we have so many people
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joining in our worship time.
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Now, we can't forget
to say hello to Teddy.
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Hello Teddy, we love
having you on the program.
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You're such a good boy.
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Aunty Cecily, can you
please say a prayer for us
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to open our worship time?
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Yes. Let's bow our heads.
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Dear Heavenly Father,
thank You for the Sabbath day
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where we can find rest in You.
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We pray a special
blessing on the children
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who have joined us at home.
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We pray that Your Holy Spirit
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would be in each of
our hearts and minds
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as we worship you
now in Jesus' name.
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Amen. Amen.
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Now, Aunty Cecily,
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we've come to our
last key of the kingdom.
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It's our 13th key.
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Can you tell us all about it?
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Yes, we've been on
such a rich journey
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full of gifts and promises
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that God offers to help
us to get to the kingdom.
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Alesha, would you
like to open our gift box
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and see what our 13th
key to the kingdom is?
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Love.
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This is a very special key.
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And can you tell us
what's on the other side?
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1 Corinthians 13:2, 3.
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Thanks Alesha.
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Could you read those
verses for us from the Bible,
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please Caleb?
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"And though I have
the gift of prophecy,
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and understand all
mysteries and all knowledge,
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and though I have all faith,
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so that I could
remove mountains,
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but have not love, I am nothing.
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And though I bestow all
my goods to feed the poor,
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and though I give
my body to be burned,
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but have not love,
it profits me nothing."
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Thanks, Caleb.
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That was a long passage today.
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So love is everything.
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It's like the master key
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that unlocks all the other doors
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that lead to the
kingdom of heaven.
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Let's review our other
12 keys to the kingdom.
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Our first key was
accept God's love,
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then repent,
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confess your wrongs and
give your heart to Jesus,
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at each step of the way
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God gives us the
keys of trust and faith
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to follow Jesus
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and grow to be more like
Him and share God's love.
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And 9th key was get to know
God and the 10th, talk with God.
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Another important gift or key
to the kingdom was to trust God
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when tempted,
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and last week's key
was about witnessing.
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And what's our 13th key?
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Love!
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Yes, without love,
the other keys won't work.
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Do you remember
our 5th key was faith.
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Our Bible verse today tells us
that we can have lots of faith
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but without love,
it doesn't help us.
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The faith key won't
work without the love key.
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So remember to ask God every day
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to help you use these keys.
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These are gifts from God
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that we must always
use in the spirit of love.
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Thanks, Aunty Cecily.
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I've been blessed
these past few weeks
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learning about the
keys to the kingdom.
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Boys and girls, if
you would like to learn
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more about the
keys to the kingdom,
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you could read the
little book Steps to Christ
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by Mrs. White.
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I'm sure mom or dad
or even your grandparents
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may help you to
read it, if you ask them.
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It's now time
though for some music.
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Thanks, Braedan,
for joining us today.
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Thanks, Aunty Nat,
it's good to be here.
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Hi, boys and girls, let's sing
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"The Seventh is the
Sabbath of the Lord."
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One, two, three,
four, five, six days a week
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God gave to us for work and play
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One, two, three,
four, five, six days He made
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Then rested on the seventh day
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God invites us all to join
Him On the seventh day of rest
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For He called
that day the Sabbath
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And He promised we'd be blessed
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One, two, three,
four, five, six days for us
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The seventh is the
Sabbath of the Lord
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Amen!
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Braedan, can we please sing
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"The King has a Treasure House."
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We certainly can.
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The King has a
treasure house of promises
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Gifts from heaven above
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In His word are
many, many promises
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Offered us in love
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God gives us courage to repent
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And turn away from every sin
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He gives us
wisdom, faith and trust
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And power to follow Him
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The King has a
treasure house of promises
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Promises for you and me
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In His word are
many, many promises
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To give us the victory
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To give us the victory
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Victory!
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Braedan, can we please
sing "Give Your Heart to Jesus."
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We certainly can.
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Giving your heart to Jesus
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is the best
thing you can ever do.
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Let's sing it together.
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Give your heart to Jesus
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He is calling you
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Give your heart to Jesus
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He is calling you
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Give your heart to Jesus
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He is calling you
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Give Him your heart today
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Let's sing it again.
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Give your heart to Jesus
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He is calling you
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Give your heart to Jesus
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He is calling you
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Give your heart to Jesus
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He is calling you
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Give Him your heart today
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Thanks, Braedan,
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singing praises to
God's a great way to tell Him
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that we love Him.
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Children, are you enjoying
Dr. John's stories each week?
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Yes!
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Well, I wonder
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what he has in
store for us this time.
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Let's go and see.
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Hello, boys and girls,
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it's wonderful to
be back together again.
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And I want to say hello
to all the boys and girls
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in South America
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'cause that's where
this story happened.
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There was a little
girl, her name was Juliane,
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Juliane Koepcke,
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and she had a mummy and
a daddy and she loved them.
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In fact, I've got a photograph
of the three of them together.
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And her daddy was a
very clever scientist
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and he worked in the jungle,
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studying wild life
and so is her mummy,
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but she had to
go away to school.
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And as a reward on the
day after she graduated,
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and here she is
graduating from school,
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she's 17.
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They said you can
get on an airplane
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and fly right across the jungle
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and come and spend some
time with mummy and daddy.
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She was so excited.
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And she got on a plane.
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And I don't want you to
be frightened about airplanes
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'cause this was a very old plane
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and it wasn't that strong
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and she was in seat F on row 19.
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And the plane took
off and flew into the sky
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and ran into some
very, very rough weather.
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And in that
weather, lightning struck
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and because the plane was old
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and its wings couldn't
flap the way modern airplanes do
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and allows them
to go through storms,
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the wings broke off.
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And Juliane was
sitting by the window
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row 19 seat F.
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And she suddenly realized
the plane had broken up.
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She could hear a loud mutter,
she could hear people screaming
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and then silence
and she looked down
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and the jungle looked
like a giant piece of broccoli,
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the same green but
it was spinning around.
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The jungle wasn't
spinning, but she was,
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you know,
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she fell five
kilometers through the air
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and somehow
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she was the
only one in her seat,
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she had a safety
belt on so tight,
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she could hardly breathe.
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She went unconscious,
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but her seat must
have hit some branches
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and it landed and she
woke up a few hours later
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and, you know what
her first thought was?
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I'm alive.
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She called out for her mother.
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Her mother had died
and she finally got out
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and she said, "I'm
the only one alive."
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Now, she was a smart girl,
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and she knew how to do
what her father had told her.
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He said, "If you get lost,
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make sure that
you walk downstream
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and follow the stream
because sooner or later
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you'll come to people
who live by the streams.
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But you must go down
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because that's
where the people live.
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She'd lost her
glasses, she only had one shoe
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and, you know, what she did?
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She didn't wear that shoe.
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There were so many snakes there,
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every time she saw
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she threw a shoe
into the long leaves
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to make sure there
wasn't a snake underneath.
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She found a packet of lollies
or candy as we might call it
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or sweets
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and that was the only
food she had for 10 days.
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And when she had
to cross the river,
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she had to go in the middle
because she knew the piranhas
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that would eat her
alive, like the shallow water.
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And finally, after
nine days she found a hut.
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And when they found her,
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they thought
that she was a devil
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because she was all
bloodshot from the accident.
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And many years
later she went back.
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She's sitting in an
airplane here in 19 F
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because she want to
get it out of her system.
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And here she is
grown up, she's a scientist
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and they trekked
back into the jungle
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and she sat in the
seat that was still there.
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You know what kept her alive?
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She had one goal
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and that was to find her father.
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She wanted an every
step that she took she said,
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"I will find my father."
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And, you know, what
the lesson is there?
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We need to find
our Heavenly Father.
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And that will keep us
alive if we constantly focus
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on getting to
our Heavenly Father
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'cause He's waiting for us.
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Thank you, boys and girls.
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Hi, boys and girls.
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Welcome to our Bible study.
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If you haven't got your Bibles
ready yet, go get them now
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so you can follow along with us.
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Bethany, can you
please say a prayer first,
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before we commence our study.
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Dear, Father,
thank You for our Bibles
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so will we can
learn more about You
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and Your great love for us.
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Please be with the children
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who are at home
reading along with us,
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in Jesus' name.
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Amen. Amen.
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Thank you, Bethany.
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Now, Erin, what did we
study about last Sabbath?
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We looked at the life of Jonah.
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Yes, we did, and he was a
bit of a reluctant prophet,
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wasn't he?
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Yeah. Yes.
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And now something else happened
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with the northern
kingdom of Israel.
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What happened to them?
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They were
captured by the Assyrian.
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Yes, the northern
kingdom ceased to exist.
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So all that was left
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was the southern
kingdom of Judah,
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which Aunt
Cecily's pointing to there.
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Now, we talked about King
Joash a couple of Sabbaths ago
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and that he ruled for 40 years.
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Three other kings followed Joash
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and all four of them,
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the Bible says did right
in the sight of the Lord,
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which was a nice change.
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So now we're going
to come to King Ahaz
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and he was an evil king.
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Let's see what he did.
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Erin, can you please
read 2 Chronicles 28:24?
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"So Ahaz gathered the
articles of the house of God,
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cut in pieces the
articles of the house of God,
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shut up the doors of
the house of the Lord,
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and made for himself altars
in every corner of Jerusalem."
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So Ahaz shut up
the doors of the temple
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and set up his own idol
images in the temple court.
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It was during this time
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that God sent the
prophets Micah and Isaiah
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to warn the people
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and rulers of
their idol worship.
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So Ahaz ruled for 16 years
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and then he died and
his son took his place.
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Can you just show us
that, we're gonna talk about.
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Here's Ahaz, yep,
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and you can see
the prophets there,
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Isaiah and Micah.
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Thank you.
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Caleb, can you please
read 2 Chronicles 29:1-2?
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"Hezekiah became king
when he was 25 years old,
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and he reigned 29
years in Jerusalem.
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His mother's name was Abijah
the daughter of Zechariah.
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And he did what was
right in the sight of the Lord,
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according to all that
his father David had done."
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So, Hezekiah
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did not follow the
evilness of his father,
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he chose to follow God.
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Hezekiah opened
up the temple doors
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and gathered all the
priests and levites together
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to speak to them.
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Bethany, can you
read 2 Chronicles 29:5-6?
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"And said to
them, 'Hear me, Levites!
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Now sanctify yourselves,
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sanctify the
house of the Lord God
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of your fathers,
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and carry out the
rubbish from the holy place.
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For our fathers have trespassed
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and done evil in the
eyes of the Lord our God,
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they have forsaken
Him, have turned their faces
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away from the
dwelling place of the Lord,
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and turned their backs on Him.'"
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Thanks, Bethany.
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So Hezekiah realized
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if he did not
get Judah in order,
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they were going
to be the next nation
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to go into captivity.
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The Bible tells us
that the priests and levites
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cleaned the temple
and put everything back
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that Ahaz had taken away.
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Hezekiah gathered the leaders,
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the levites and the priests
and offered sacrifices to God
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to seek forgiveness as a nation.
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There was a
great revival in Judah
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and because
Hezekiah did what was right,
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God blessed him
but something happened?
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The king of Assyria
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after taking
the northern kingdom
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into captivity
wanted Judah as well.
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They came and
encamped around Judah.
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Let's read what
Hezekiah said to the people.
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Sophie, can you
read 2 Chronicles 32:7-8?
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"Be strong and courageous,
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do not be afraid nor dismayed
before the king of Assyria,
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nor before all the
multitude that is with him,
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for there are more
with us than with him.
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With him is an army of flesh,
00:17:22.67\00:17:24.67
but with us is the Lord our God,
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to help us and
to fight our battles
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and the people were strengthened
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by the words of
Hezekiah king of Judah."
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Wow, what faith Hezekiah had.
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Let's see what the
king of Assyria had to say.
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Abigail, can you
read 2 Chronicles 32:15?
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"Now therefore, do not
let Hezekiah deceive you
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or persuade you like
this, and do not believe him,
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for no god of
any nation or kingdom
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was able to deliver
his people from my hand
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or the hand of my fathers.
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How much less will your
God deliver you from my hand?"
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The king of Assyria mocked God,
00:18:05.75\00:18:07.65
saying that he
was not strong enough
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to come up against him.
00:18:09.85\00:18:11.42
Do we mock God? No.
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No, we don't.
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2 Chronicles 32:20 tells us
00:18:14.32\00:18:16.89
that King Hezekiah
and the prophet Isaiah
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came together and prayed.
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Mia, can you read
2 Chronicles 32:21?
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"Then the Lord sent an angel
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who cut down every
mighty man of valor, leader,
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and captain in the
camp of the king of Assyria.
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So he returned
shamefaced to his own land.
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And when he had gone
into the temple of his god,
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some of his own
offspring struck him down
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with the sword there."
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So who was stronger,
God or the king of Assyria?
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God! God.
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God fought
their battle for them.
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Hezekiah ruled for 29
years and then he died
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and his son
Manasseh became king.
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Can you just show us Manasseh
on the chart, Aunty Cecily?
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Manasseh did evil in
the sight of the Lord.
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He put all the idols back
00:19:05.87\00:19:07.58
that his father
Hezekiah had torn down
00:19:07.61\00:19:10.71
and chose to follow the
path of his grandfather Ahaz
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and filled up the temple of
God with images and false gods,
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but something
happened to Manasseh
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that's worth a look at.
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Aunty Cecily, can you
read 2 Chronicles 33:11-13?
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"Therefore the
Lord brought upon them
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the captains of the
army of the king of Assyria,
00:19:30.40\00:19:33.94
who took Manasseh with hooks,
bound him with bronze fetters,
00:19:33.97\00:19:38.64
and carried him off to Babylon.
00:19:38.67\00:19:41.14
Now when he was in affliction,
he implored the Lord his God,
00:19:41.18\00:19:45.55
and humbled himself greatly
before the God of his fathers,
00:19:45.58\00:19:50.19
and prayed to Him, and
He received his entreaty,
00:19:50.22\00:19:54.46
heard his supplication,
00:19:54.49\00:19:56.52
and brought him back to
Jerusalem into his kingdom.
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Then Manasseh knew
that the Lord was God."
00:20:00.70\00:20:04.07
Wow. What a
merciful God we serve.
00:20:04.10\00:20:07.50
Manasseh in his affliction
turned his heart to God
00:20:07.54\00:20:10.27
and repented of
all his wickedness
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and God forgave him
00:20:12.94\00:20:14.38
and returned him to
Jerusalem to his throne.
00:20:14.41\00:20:17.61
Manasseh took down all the idols
00:20:17.65\00:20:20.25
and told Judah
00:20:20.28\00:20:21.85
that they must
worship the true God.
00:20:21.88\00:20:24.65
After Manasseh died,
his son Amon became king,
00:20:24.69\00:20:28.22
but he did great wickedness
and only ruled for two.
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But we have another bright spot,
00:20:32.76\00:20:34.53
after King Amon
died, his son became king
00:20:34.56\00:20:37.83
and that's King Josiah.
00:20:37.87\00:20:39.67
Let's read about him.
00:20:39.70\00:20:41.04
Erin, can you read
2 Chronicles 34:1-3?
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"Josiah was eight years
old when he became king,
00:20:46.27\00:20:49.58
and he reigned 31
years in Jerusalem.
00:20:49.61\00:20:52.21
And he did what was
right in the sight of the Lord,
00:20:52.25\00:20:54.88
and walked in the
ways of his father David,
00:20:54.92\00:20:57.55
he did not turn
aside to the left or right.
00:20:57.59\00:21:02.72
For in the eighth
year of his reign,
00:21:02.76\00:21:04.56
while he was still young,
00:21:04.59\00:21:06.03
he began to seek the
God of his father David,
00:21:06.06\00:21:09.46
and in the twelfth
year he began to purge Judah
00:21:09.50\00:21:12.53
and Jerusalem
of the high places,
00:21:12.57\00:21:14.94
the wooden
images, the carved images,
00:21:14.97\00:21:17.61
and the molded images."
00:21:17.64\00:21:20.21
So Josiah was
only eight years old
00:21:20.24\00:21:22.84
when he became king.
00:21:22.88\00:21:24.81
At his young age he took a stand
00:21:24.85\00:21:27.58
and decided he was
going to worship God alone.
00:21:27.62\00:21:31.95
Let's have a
look at our torchlight
00:21:31.99\00:21:33.59
Mrs. White's writings
to see what they shine
00:21:33.62\00:21:36.62
on these verses.
00:21:36.66\00:21:38.09
Aunty Cecily, can
you read that for us?
00:21:38.13\00:21:42.30
"Born of a wicked
king, beset with temptations
00:21:42.33\00:21:46.00
to follow in his father's steps,
00:21:46.03\00:21:48.47
and with few counselors
00:21:48.50\00:21:50.04
to encourage him
in the right way,
00:21:50.07\00:21:52.77
Josiah nevertheless was
true to the God of Israel.
00:21:52.81\00:21:57.25
Warned by the
errors of past generations,
00:21:57.28\00:22:00.68
he chose to do right,
00:22:00.72\00:22:02.68
instead of descending
to the low level of sin
00:22:02.72\00:22:06.19
and degradation
to which his father
00:22:06.22\00:22:08.86
and his grandfather had fallen."
00:22:08.89\00:22:12.23
So Josiah was a
remarkable young man.
00:22:12.26\00:22:15.40
Now in the process
00:22:15.43\00:22:16.77
of getting rid of all the idols,
00:22:16.80\00:22:19.27
Josiah also repaired the temple
00:22:19.30\00:22:22.34
and they found
the Book of the Law
00:22:22.37\00:22:24.11
written by Moses,
it had gone missing
00:22:24.14\00:22:27.14
during the time
of Manasseh and Amon.
00:22:27.18\00:22:30.35
When King
Josiah heard the words,
00:22:30.38\00:22:32.38
he ripped his clothes in grief.
00:22:32.41\00:22:34.68
Let's see what he says, Caleb,
00:22:34.72\00:22:36.69
I'm going to get you
to read in 2 Kings 22:13.
00:22:36.72\00:22:43.56
"Go, inquire of the Lord for me,
00:22:43.59\00:22:46.53
for the people
and for all Judah,
00:22:46.56\00:22:49.10
concerning the
words of this book
00:22:49.13\00:22:50.83
that has been found,
00:22:50.87\00:22:52.27
for great is the
wrath of the Lord
00:22:52.30\00:22:54.14
that is aroused against us,
00:22:54.17\00:22:55.97
because our fathers
have not obeyed the words
00:22:56.00\00:22:58.34
of this book,
00:22:58.37\00:22:59.71
to do according to all
that is written concerning us."
00:22:59.74\00:23:03.98
Thanks, Caleb.
00:23:04.01\00:23:05.35
So King Josiah found out
from the prophetess Huldah
00:23:05.38\00:23:09.22
that God was going to
end the kingdom of Judah
00:23:09.25\00:23:12.35
because of the
evil that had happened
00:23:12.39\00:23:14.16
in the history
of Judah and Israel.
00:23:14.19\00:23:16.93
But because of
Josiah's faithfulness
00:23:16.96\00:23:19.03
to serve the Lord,
00:23:19.06\00:23:20.40
he was not going to
take the kingdom away
00:23:20.43\00:23:22.90
during Josiah's reign.
00:23:22.93\00:23:25.13
If we were to read on,
00:23:25.17\00:23:26.97
the king himself
went before his people
00:23:27.00\00:23:30.07
and read the Book of Moses.
00:23:30.11\00:23:32.14
The people took a
stand to worship God alone,
00:23:32.17\00:23:35.28
and there was a great
reformation in the land.
00:23:35.31\00:23:37.81
Do you know what?
00:23:37.85\00:23:39.18
There is power in the word,
that's why we read our Bibles.
00:23:39.21\00:23:42.82
It has power to
change our lives.
00:23:42.85\00:23:45.42
Let's look at our memory
verse found in Psalm 119:105.
00:23:45.45\00:23:52.13
And let's read that together.
00:23:52.16\00:23:55.53
"Your word is a lamp to my
feet and a light to my path."
00:23:55.56\00:24:01.37
So the Bible can
guide us and show us
00:24:01.40\00:24:04.37
how to live a life for God
00:24:04.41\00:24:06.57
and to be a blessing for others.
00:24:06.61\00:24:09.78
Thank you, boys and girls,
for reading along with us.
00:24:09.81\00:24:12.38
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00:24:12.41\00:24:15.32
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00:24:59.36\00:25:01.93
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00:25:01.96\00:25:05.10
Yes, and Jesus needs
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00:25:05.13\00:25:08.07
if we're going to be
ready for His second coming.
00:25:08.10\00:25:10.67
Aunty Cecily, should
we read our memory verse
00:25:10.71\00:25:12.61
that we learned in
our Bible study today?
00:25:12.64\00:25:14.58
Yes.
00:25:14.61\00:25:15.94
Would you like to read
that all together, children?
00:25:15.98\00:25:18.28
Psalm 119:105,
00:25:18.31\00:25:23.65
"Your word is a lamp to my
feet and a light to my path."
00:25:23.69\00:25:29.66
Well, children,
00:25:29.69\00:25:31.03
we have almost come to the
end of another worship time.
00:25:31.06\00:25:34.13
Caleb, what did you
learn from the King today?
00:25:34.16\00:25:37.20
That the Bible has
the power to change us.
00:25:37.23\00:25:39.97
Yes.
00:25:40.00\00:25:41.34
We learned about that today
00:25:41.37\00:25:42.70
with the reformation
that happened in Israel
00:25:42.74\00:25:45.11
when God's Word was read
to the people by King Josiah.
00:25:45.14\00:25:49.31
Aunty Natty, are you
ready to sing our blessing song
00:25:49.34\00:25:51.85
to the children at home?
00:25:51.88\00:25:53.21
Yes, let's do that.
00:25:53.25\00:25:54.58
Children, can you turn around
00:25:54.62\00:25:55.95
so the children
at home can see you.
00:25:55.98\00:25:58.65
May God bless you and keep you
00:26:04.16\00:26:09.30
And fill your heart with love
00:26:09.33\00:26:14.37
May God guide and protect you
00:26:14.40\00:26:19.57
And watch you from above
00:26:19.61\00:26:24.71
And Sabbath after Sabbath
00:26:24.75\00:26:29.88
We greet the day of rest
00:26:29.92\00:26:34.99
The day the King of glory
00:26:35.02\00:26:40.20
Has sanctified and blessed
00:26:40.23\00:26:45.30
Goodbye my friend
till we meet again
00:26:45.33\00:26:50.41
For another day with the King
00:26:50.44\00:26:56.21
Goodbye!
00:26:56.24\00:26:57.58
See you next Sabbath!
00:26:57.61\00:27:00.92
My favorite stories in
the Bible is about Jesus
00:27:06.82\00:27:10.86
because He loves children.
00:27:10.89\00:27:12.63
My favorite Bible story is David
00:27:16.36\00:27:18.53
'cause how he trusted
and had lots of faith in God
00:27:18.57\00:27:21.80
through the tough times.
00:27:21.84\00:27:23.30
My favorite story is Ruth
00:27:25.37\00:27:26.98
'cause she was brave to fight
and land into a foreign town.
00:27:27.01\00:27:30.35