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When my heart begins
to fear, He is my Light.
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I can smile for He
is near, Jesus my Light.
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When I'm blue and
feeling sad, He is my Light.
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He reminds me I can
be glad, Jesus my Light.
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He is the Light,
yes, Jesus my Light
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In Him is no
darkness, In Him is no night.
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Wherever He leads me,
He makes my way bright.
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I'll shine for
Jesus, Jesus my Light.
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Look, here comes Aunt Francine.
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Hi kids. How are you? I'm so
excited to see you. High fives.
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Oh Yay! I had a busy week.
Aren't you glad to be here in
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our tree house? Yeah!
Yes! To learn about Jesus. Yes!
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I sure am. Jesus wanted people
to follow Him and love Him just
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as much as they could and give
their whole heart to Him. You
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know, this is a funny story. I
like this one because I believe
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Jesus must have had a sense of
humor on this one because we're
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going to talk about the fishers
of men. Do you know that song?
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Yeah! Let's
sing it together. ¤ ¤
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You ready to sing it with us.
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On thank you. Don't you want to
follow Jesus? I hope so. Are you
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ready for a Bible
story? Yeah! Yes! All right.
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Jesus wanted to meditate along
the Sea of Galilee and He was
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talking to His heavenly Father
while He was walking. And you
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know as usual what was happening
behind Him? A crowd of people
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were following Jesus sees them
and he decided to go and walk
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Take me on the boat so
that I may talk with the people.
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Sounds of water and music.
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And so today Jesus is talking
about His heavenly Father and
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saying how much He loves each
one of them and that someday
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soon you will get to meet Him.
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Launch out into the deep and
let your nets down for a catch.
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Master, we worked hard all night
and caught nothing. But if you
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say I should put my
nets in the water, so I will.
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Hey guys, can we
get some help over here.
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Go away from me Lord
for I am a sinful man.
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Do not be afraid. From now
on you will be fishers of men.
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Then the crowd started
dispersing and Jesus is asking
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Have you caught any fish? Now
the disciples were a little bit
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sad because after all, you know
that they're fishermen, right?
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Mm-huh, right. Yes.
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And did they catch any fish?
No! No. You know the story. They
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didn't catch a single fish.
So Jesus said, Let's even go
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farther out. And then what does
He say? Cast you nets on the
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other side. You know the story
well. And here the disciples
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they're thinking, what is Jesus
talking about? But nevertheless
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they knew that they had to
trust their new master. And so
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nevertheless, they threw it
in and you know the story well.
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what happened. The fish come and
they're pulling it up and ah,
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there's so many fish. And you
know it's really wonderful just
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to see that Jesus loved them so
much. He knew that they were sad
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not only because they hadn't
caught any fish but He also knew
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that John the Baptist was now in
prison. And so Jesus wanted to
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encourage them. You know, that's
the character of Jesus. He's
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always there to encourage you.
Did you know that? Yeah! Yeah.
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Sometimes we can encourage
each other. Have you encouraged
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somebody else by a helping
hand? Yeah! Or sometimes we can
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encourage each other by just
a smile or doing something nice.
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But Jesus knew their hearts and
decided I need to encourage them
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and so He did a miracle. But
you know the rest of the story?
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What happened to them? You know
what happened next? I love this
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part. They just left everything,
the boat, their fish, a whole
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boatload of fish left it there
in the boat, and realized that
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they had to follow Jesus. No
matter what they were going to
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follow Jesus, leave everything
behind and follow Jesus. Do you
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think you could do that? That
would be hard because after all
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that's the whole trade that they
knew. They were fishers of men
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and now...I mean before they
were fishermen and now they were
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going to be fishers of men.
Right? Yeah. And what does that
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mean to be fishers of men?
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Go reach others...
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Reach others for Christ. You're
right. And that's exactly what
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happened. And so they were so
excited. You know what, I know
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some people that have had
to leave everything behind,
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everything. You know there's
a story...Let me show you the
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story of Joseph Bates. Do you
know who Joseph Bates...Have you
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heard of him. Yeah! Yes! Do you
know that he was a sailor just
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like those fishermen. Here's a
picture of Joseph Bates. Come on
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close. Here's a picture of
Joseph Bates. And you know what?
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He was a crude sailor. He said
some very unkind words, used
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unkind words, but you know what
his wife decided one time that
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she would put a Bible in his
suitcase. And Joseph Bates, on
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one of his voyages decided to
open up his Bible and he opened
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it up and learned about Jesus.
And he says you know what I need
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to change my life around, turn
it totally around and follow
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this Jesus that I've just
learned about in my Bible.
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And you know that's exactly what
we can do is learn about Jesus
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Right? Yeah. So you know it's
wonderful that we can follow
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Jesus in everything that we do.
Okay. And we can be fishers of
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men. Did you notice how Peter
was clinging onto Jesus? Did you
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see him at His feet? How he
was just clinging onto Jesus. He
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said, Get away from me, but
yet he still was clinging onto
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Jesus. You know why he was doing
that? He knew he was so sinful,
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so full of sin, and yet he
didn't want Jesus to leave him.
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Wow. Just clinging onto Jesus.
Can we cling onto Jesus? Yes,
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Yeah. Yeah. He didn't want Jesus
to leave him. He knew he was a
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sinner but he wanted to stay
close to Jesus. And I'm so glad
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that these disciples decided
to follow Jesus, no matter what,
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leaving everything behind.
That's a hard task to do isn't
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it? Yeah. You know that reminds
me that sometimes we need to
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have a new beginning. Do you
know what that means? Start over
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Starting over. Mm-huh. And
you know, I think I have another
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video, a picture, here and it's
about some caterpillars. Do you
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know about a caterpillar? Yes.
Here's another caterpillar and
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you know how it goes from a
larva, right? and then it turns
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into a beautiful butterfly,
right? Yeah. Mm-huh. Do they
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have to have a change? Yeah!
Yes, they have to make a change.
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And you know scientists decided
to do an experiment on them. Do
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you like experiments?
Yeah! I like experiments. And so
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scientists decided that they
would test these caterpillars
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and they would put them and
try to teach them not to like a
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certain smell. And then when
it changed into a butterfly, you
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know what they did? They
introduced the same scent to see
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if the butterfly would not like
the same scent. And you know
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what happened? What? They would
They were the same; they did not
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like the same smell that they
were testing them on. That's
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kind of interesting, right?
We can have a new beginning but
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Jesus can make us beautiful like
the butterfly, right? Yes. Would
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you like to see the picture book
Yeah, yeah. Let's look at our
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picture book because these are
my favorite stories. One of my
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favorite stories. And look at
these disciples are like, What!
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You want us to go farther out.
And here are the followers, they
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wanted to follow Jesus. I hope
that you want to follow Jesus
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too because everything is a
lot better when we follow Jesus.
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Right? Yeah. We can put a new
leaf, a new change in life. So
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are you ready for some questions
Yeah! I hope you were listening.
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Now I have to tell you one thing
You know what, I forgot to say
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something, but here is...do you
know that Peter means? A rock.
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A rock. You do know it. Peter
means like a pebble, like a
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small rock, not worth of
anything, you're right. So here
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is what...some of the questions.
Okay. That was supposed to be
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the first question. Okay
so, whose name means Pebble?
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Peter! Peter. What is the
best time to go fishing? Is it
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A - Early in the morning or late
in the evening. B - Noon; or
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C - When the temperature is
warm A! You said A. You were all
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correct. What did the disciples
do with all the fish they caught
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Is it A - Sold them to have
money, after all they can use it
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to help; B - Throw them back
into the water; or C - Left them
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in the boat. C! I'm sure you
got this one right. It's C, they
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left them in the boat to follow
Jesus. Don't you want to follow
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Jesus with everything, you can
leave everything behind. Just
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to follow Jesus. I hope that you
will do that. We are so thankful
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that Jesus was our example.
We can follow His life in
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everything that we do. Are you
ready to do that? Yeah! Are you
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ready to say Yes Jesus I want
to follow you. You want to say
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it with me? Yes Jesus, I want
to follow you. Yes, we want to
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follow Jesus in everything that
we do because things go a lot
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better when we're with Jesus.
Don't you agree? Yes, Yeah.
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Do you think that the disciples
agreed to have Jesus in their
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hearts. I'm sure they did and
I know we want to invite Jesus
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into our hearts in everything
that we do. You know this
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reminds me of times when we are
in difficult times and we are
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discouraged. But Jesus wants to
let you know how much He really
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really loves you. Will you put
your trust in Him? I hope you
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will join us to the next Jesus
my Light. Can you say goodbye
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to us kids. Good bye! bye!
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