Hi boys and girls.
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How would you like to
take a ride on this ship?
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This is a very old ship.
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Look at all the sails on it.
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Quite a few sails on
this ship, isn't there?
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That makes the
ship go very fast.
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And what do you think this is?
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You're right, it's and anchor.
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Long ago sailing ships were
the only kind of ships around
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in which people
could take long journeys.
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There were no steam ships,
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or motors or fancy cruise ships.
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Our Bible story today
will tell you about a man
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who had the
adventure of a lifetime
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when he boarded a sailing ship.
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When you listen to our
Bible story see if you can tell
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what if you think this
man liked sailing or not.
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I do know of some creatures
who love boats and ships.
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They are not human beings.
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They are not plants.
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They are little sea
animals called Barnacles.
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Sailors and ship
owners don't like Barnacles.
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You see Barnacles are little
shell fish that float around
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in the water until they
bump into something solid,
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like a ship.
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And then they attach
themselves right here.
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All over the bottom and
right below the water line.
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They attach themselves
to whatever they've stuck.
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And they just stay there.
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In a short time a huge ship
can be covered with Barnacles
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below this water line.
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And then the owners
have to pull the ships out of
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water and clean off the
Barnacles and make any repairs
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that they need to.
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Sometimes the owners
don't realize how covered with
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Barnacles their ship may be.
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And that can be dangerous.
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If the Barnacles
grow thicker on the ship
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they can actually slow
it down or affect the way it
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handles in the water.
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And they have been known
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to grow so thick, they
have actually sunk a vessel.
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Can you imagine that?
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All those Barnacles.
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Well these Barnacles
remind me of some people.
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Jesus has been
called the Ship of Zion.
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And sometimes
people are attracted to
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Jesus and His church.
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And they want
to be a part of it.
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But they don't
exactly want to be in it.
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Like Barnacles they attach
themselves to the outside,
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and they just go
along for the ride.
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Boys and girls,
Jesus is coming soon.
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Don't be a Barnacle, but rather
be a passenger on God's ship.
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Letting Jesus steer your life.
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Won't you give
Him your heart today?
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Now Ranger Jim is going
to show us another creature
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that lives in the water.
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Hi boys and girls,
Ranger Jim here again today.
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We have something
special for you to see.
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The beautiful Bull Frog.
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Okay, doesn't he
have beautiful eyes?
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And he sings and tells all
the ladies, in his pond, that he
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is the most beautiful,
wonderful frog in all the world.
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Of course these large
creatures are amphibians.
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They live in the
water or on land.
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And in fact, have
you collected tad-poles?
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They're fun aren't they?
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Pollywogs, when
they start to develop.
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In the Northern part
of the United States,
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the bull frog takes
two years to develop.
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If you have found tad-poles
in a pond near your house
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and kept them in a jar.
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They were most likely
toads, but if you did find a
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bull frog you may
have been disappointed,
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he didn't develop very quickly.
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And you thought
something was wrong.
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No, they are a large creature
and it normally will take two
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years for them to
develop from the tad-pole stage
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through the Pollywog
developing feet and to
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eventually lose their
tail and become what they are.
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Now this creature, though
he may look very easy going
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in nature, he doesn't seem to
cause any problems for anyone.
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And if you think that, it is
because your not a dragon fly.
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Or a damsel fly, or you are
not a small frog that comes by
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or a fish, or anything
else might come his way.
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Because Mr. bull frog, it is
said of him and accurately so,
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a frog will eat anything
he is big enough to eat. Okay?
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Now most people don't realize
that bull frogs have teeth.
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And their teeth are
located in an unusual place.
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Their teeth are located
in the back of their mouth,
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up near their eyes.
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And there are no muscles or
no supporting tissue between
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the frog's eyes and
inside of his mouth.
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I can press like this,
and his eyes will go closed
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just like that.
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When a frog swallows something,
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he reaches out with his
tongue grabs it and pulls it
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back to his mouth.
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Quite often grasping it
with his big front feet.
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And pulls it into his mouth.
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And begins to spread his
mouth as wide as he can get it.
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And as he swallows it,
his eyes bulge out and you
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would think they were going
to pop out like cherry pits.
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For all the world you
wouldn't think they would
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stay in his head, but
when he forces it into the back
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of his throat, then he
swallows his food whole.
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Okay, and as you can see by
feet, very large web hind feet,
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for swimming, he is
an excellent swimmer.
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When you frighten him, he
dives into the water and swims
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onto the bottom and there he
stays until it is safe to stick
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his head up and
come looking all around.
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Okay, now in the spring of
the years, when they are mating,
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all of the males sit
around and call back and forth.
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I don't know if you have heard
them in the spring of the year.
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Sometimes I imitate them,
but now I won't because it is on
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television, but when you go
out to a large pond, if you can
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make the jurung sound, quite
often they will answer you.
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They are trying to attract a
females, and then the females
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lay the eggs.
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Now a female bull frog can
easily lay 25 thousand eggs.
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They are contained in
a jelly-like substance
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and on a little
string like thing.
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So those strings of that
and then the male comes along
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and he takes a part
from his body that we call a
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fertilization that goes on
their serve, a milky substance
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and that mixes with the water.
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And that causes
the eggs to hatch.
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So these creatures have been
known to jump vertically into
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the air 3 and 1/2 feet.
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As the dragon fly, goes flying
by thinking he's perfectly safe.
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Mr. bull frog is watching,
He leaps in the air, flips
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out his tongue and
grabs him and falls back.
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These creatures
have been know to even
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eat very small snakes.
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So, the bull frog is a
very, very interesting creature.
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Many people hunt these and
consider them to be a delicacy.
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Once again Ranger Jim can
tell you that as a small boy
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I have done that.
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Okay, but today it
sounds rather yucky to me, okay?
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So I am think I'm thankful
that Jesus in my life has
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changed not only the way I
think about these creatures,
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but He changed my appetite.
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We have another creature
that we are going to share
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with you here.
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And we will place this one
in the bucket and then we will
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take this creature, I
hope that wasn't too much
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of a disturbance.
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This is the
beautiful Box turtle.
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The Eastern Box Turtle and
once again we can identify this
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creature by looking at her eyes.
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Now we talked about the Eastern
Painted turtle, you could tell
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by their claws, but with
this one we look at them, and
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every one of the Eastern
Box turtle, that's a lady
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has beautiful brown eyes.
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If it's a boy box
turtle, it has red eyes.
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So if you find a box turtle,
and be sure boys and girls,
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it's a box turtle.
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I, would once again, encourage
you do not pick up turtles
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unless you have an adult with
you that you can be ascertain
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what the turtle is because
if you pick up the wrong turtle,
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they can injure you.
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But if there is an adult
and they say yes, that's the
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Eastern Box turtle, then you
can pick the turtle up gently.
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And look at it's eyes.
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If it has brown eyes, it's
a girl, if it has red eyes,
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it's a boy.
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These box turtles have
been kept in captivity for more
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than seventy-five years.
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So this turtle we can ascertain
the age, to a certain extent,
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by feeling of the
bottom of his plastron,
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as it goes along on the
gritty surface of gravel,
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sand and what have
you, it wears this sharp
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and it's very
smooth for an older turtle.
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Now many people in the past,
it use to be quite a thing,
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for people to take and carve.
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This is much the
same as your fingernail,
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it doesn't injure
the turtle at all.
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People would carve a date,
if they found the turtle today,
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and it was the year 2000,
they might carve the year 1902.
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And then someone found it two
years later they would be sure
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to think that the turtle was
at least a hundred years old.
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Of course that wasn't true.
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But this, once again, is
another one of those wonderful
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creatures that God hath
made for us to see and enjoy.
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So you remember that if you
pick it up, it has brown eyes
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it's a girl, if it
has red eyes, it's a boy.
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You can be assure of that
as you can be assure as what
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Ranger Jim always tells you.
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Don't forget to tell
Jesus that you love Him.
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Because Jesus
surely does love you.
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Hello boys and girls.
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Have you ever
had a really bad day?
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Isn't it good to know that when
you close your eyes to sleep,
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that you can wake up to a brand
new day that Jesus gave you?
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Christine would you
read us our text please.
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"Oh God thou art my God, early
will I seek thee. " Psalms 63:1
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Boys and girls
join us in this song.
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Look who's coming
up the poke-a-dot hill.
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Look who's
shining on my window sill.
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With the blue birds singing,
and the blue bells ringing,
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It's morning again.
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When the sun comes out to stay,
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I know it will be a lovely day,
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For God sends
sun shine every day,
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and it's morning again.
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There's a woody woodpecker
and it's sitting and a pecking,
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and a cock goes
cock-a-doodle-do.
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There's a cow in the pasture,
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And sheep in the meadow,
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and the wise old
owl goes hoooooot.
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Look who's coming
up poke-a-dot hill,
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Look who's
shinning on my window sill.
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with the blue birds singing,
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and the blue bells ringing,
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It's morning again.
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It's morning again.
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So remember boys and
girls, when the sun sets
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in a bad day, just say
your prayers and go to sleep.
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Because Jesus is going to
bring you a brand new morning.
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Hi Kids! Boy have I
got a story to tell you.
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I won't believe it myself if it
hadn't actually happened to me.
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It all happened like this.
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Oh, by the way, my name
is Jonah, and I am a prophet
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of the Lord.
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And it happened like this.
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One day the word of the
Lord came to me and commanded me
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to go to that
big city of Nineveh,
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and tell them that God
had seen how wicked and cruel
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they were, and if they
didn't repent of their sins,
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God was going to
destroy them with fire.
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Nineveh, why if He had
asked me to go to Jerusalem
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or to Samaria, or even
Damascus, I'd been glad to go.
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But not Nineveh.
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Nineveh was
known for it's cruelty.
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Nineveh was known for, for,
for the meanness that they had.
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Why they would torture people
until they wished they were dead
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No telling what they
would have done to me.
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I decided right then and
there I wasn't going to Nineveh.
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I was going to go as far
away from God as I could get.
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And from Nineveh.
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And so I ran as fast as I
could to that city by the sea.
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And I went, I went, found
a ship that was going in the
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opposite direction of Nineveh.
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And I bought a ticket,
and I got on board, and I
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went down below deck
where I could be all by myself.
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And I thought to
myself, this is not so bad.
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By the time I get to
where this ship is going,
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God will have
forgotten all about me.
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And then maybe He would
send somebody else to Nineveh.
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I was so exhausted from running
so far, I fell sound asleep.
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But I want to tell you,
that when they pulled up
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the anchor on that ship
and they headed out to sea,
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God was as close to me as ever.
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Well, the wind picked
up and waves picked up.
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And before long there
was such a storm as there's
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never been before.
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Even the Captain and the
sailors realized that there was
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something eerie
about this storm.
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And they believe that
the God's had caused that.
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And so they started to
call out on all their Gods.
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And they called out
to Baal, and to Ashtaroth
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And to Moloch.
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But nothing happened,
the storm only got worse.
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Well for some reason, the
Captain, went down below deck.
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And that's when he found me.
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I was sound asleep and
he grab me and he shook me
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and he said,
"Wake up you sleeper. "
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"Don't you know that we are
in a life and death situation?"
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"Don't you know that the
Gods are angry with us, why
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don't you get up
and pray to your God.
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Maybe He can save us. "
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Pray to my God?
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I didn't want to do that,
I was running away from Him.
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I stumbled out on deck and
when I got there all of the...
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the Captain and the sailors
they decided that they were
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going to cast lots to
figure out just who the God's
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were angry with.
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And they cast lots and when
they did, the lot fell on me.
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And that is when I
realized right then and there
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you can never run away from
God, God knows where you are.
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Before long, they gathered
around me and they started to
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fire questions at me,
and they said, "Who are you?"
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"What occupation do you have?"
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"What nationality are
you, and what are you doing on
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this ship anyway?"
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And that's when I
told them I am a Hebrew.
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And I worship the God Who
made the heaven and the earth.
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And the One who made
the sea, and the dry land.
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And Who was in charge
of the wind and the waves.
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And then I told
them all about Nineveh.
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I told them God told me
to tell them He was going to
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destroy them with fire
because of their wickedness
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if they didn't repent and I
was afraid to go to Nineveh.
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Why they knew how
cruel those people were.
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And the Captain said,
"What can we do so your God
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won't be angry with us?"
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I told them the only thing you
can do was throw me over board.
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They didn't want to do it at
first, but there was no other
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way and so, they picked me
up, and before they threw me
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overboard, they called out
to the God of Jonah, and they
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said please don't be
angry with us, this is what he
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told us to do, and they
gave me a fling over the ship.
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I landed in the water, and when
I landed on the water the wind
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was suddenly quiet.
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And the waves stopped,
all except the one that was
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right over my head.
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It came down and hit me
with such force that it drove me
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right down into the ground.
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Into the water.
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I'll tell you I went down into
that dark, green water of that
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sea, I thought I
was going to drown.
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All I wanted was just
one more breath of air.
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But then I felt this, this
horrible feeling of falling,
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I was slipping
and sliding down some,
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Oh! some awful tube.
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Now instead of wishing I could
have one more breath of air,
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Now I was wishing I never
had to breath again for that
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foul smell that was
coming from where I was going.
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Before long I landed in, I
couldn't believe this, but I
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landed in the
stomach of a whale.
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Oh it was horrible down
there, I could see anything
00:15:11.32\00:15:14.13
but I could feel the dead fish,
sea weed and I couldn't move
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my arms, they were
pinned around and I
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couldn't move at all.
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Now all of a sudden
the whale just went down,
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then he just took off
and went up and I got so sick
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I just passed right out.
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When I came to I was trying to
figure out where exactly I was.
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Then I remembered, Oh No!
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This is horrible, I going to
tell you I prayed as I never,
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You'd prayed too if you
were in that dreadful place.
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I prayed like I never prayed,
and I asked the Lord to forgive
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me for even thinking I
could run away from Him.
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And oh Lord if you just
give me one more, one more
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chance to go to Nineveh, I
prayed, just one more chance.
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I'll tell them just exactly
what You told me to tell them.
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Well I don't know how long I
was in the ship, in the whale
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stomach, exactly, but I
was in there for something like
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parts of three days.
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In and out of consciousness.
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But in some wonderful way.
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God spoke to that fish and
he spit me out on dry ground.
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I'm going to tell you
when I felt that sunshine and I
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breathed in that pure
air, oh it was so wonderful
00:16:16.56\00:16:20.57
and I grabbed my
hands in the dirt.
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It was so wonderful
to be on dry ground.
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Oh I thanked the Lord, and
I told Him I am going to do
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just exactly what you said.
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I'm going to get to
Nineveh as fast as I could.
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I got up to run but my feet
were like, my legs were like
00:16:30.18\00:16:33.10
jelly, I could hardly move.
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I crawled, I didn't care if
I had to crawl all the way to
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Nineveh, I'd crawl, I'd
get there and I tell them just
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exactly what God
told me to tell them.
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But before long my legs got a
little stronger and started to
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run as fast as I could.
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By the time I got to Nineveh,
rumors had already reached
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that city of what
had happened to me.
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When I told them that I was
Jonah, and what had happened
00:16:51.34\00:16:54.47
to me, Oh I looked a mess, you
can believe they believed me.
00:16:54.50\00:16:57.69
Why I looked a mess my
clothes were half digested.
00:16:57.72\00:17:00.13
My hands and arms, my
whole skin was yellow.
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Oh you should have seen my
hair, and the seaweed and the
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Oh the smell was terrible, but
I told them, this is terrible
00:17:07.35\00:17:10.77
what happened to me but it
is going to be worse for you
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if you don't repent
from your wickedness.
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God's going to
destroy you in forty days.
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Oh the people believed from the
less all the way to the greatest
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They believed.
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Never had there
been such a revival,
00:17:21.82\00:17:24.07
such a turning away from sin.
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And to think I tried my
best to run away from the job.
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Oh, I learned a lesson.
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I learned that you can
never run and hide from God.
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And then when God asks you to
do something, the best thing to
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do is do it right
then, with all your might.
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Oh, I hope you can
learn a lesson from my story.
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And remember kids,
remember that wherever you go,
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and whatever you do, God
is with you and He loves you.
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Jesus loves me, this I know.
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For the Bible tells me so.
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Little ones to Him belong,
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They are weak, but He is strong.
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Yes Jesus loves me.
00:18:47.32\00:18:56.31
Yes Jesus loves me,
00:18:57.64\00:19:04.08
Yes Jesus loves me.
00:19:05.61\00:19:13.90
The Bible tells me so.
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Oh how He loves you and me.
00:19:24.28\00:19:30.86
Oh how He loves you and me,
00:19:32.80\00:19:39.40
He gave His life, Oh
what more could He give?
00:19:41.16\00:19:50.52
Oh how He loves you.
00:19:51.40\00:19:55.70
Oh how He loves me,
00:19:55.73\00:19:59.99
Oh how He loves you and me.
00:20:00.65\00:20:08.31
Oh how He loves you and me,
00:20:09.95\00:20:15.08
Oh how He loves you and me.
00:20:16.86\00:20:24.29
He gave His life, Oh
what more could He give?
00:20:25.92\00:20:35.03
Oh how He loves you.
00:20:35.94\00:20:40.43
Oh how He loves me.
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Oh how He loves you and me.
00:20:45.49\00:20:54.05
Wasn't Jonah a funny little man?
00:21:11.32\00:21:13.03
Just think, preaching
converted a whole city.
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And then he went and
pouted because God had forgiven
00:21:16.45\00:21:19.01
the people he warned.
00:21:19.04\00:21:20.46
You know Jonah had
some lessons to learn.
00:21:20.49\00:21:22.70
And he learned
them the hard way.
00:21:22.73\00:21:24.33
First to be swallowed
by that great big fish,
00:21:24.36\00:21:27.70
how stinky that
must have been inside.
00:21:27.73\00:21:29.51
And then to have God
scold you for complaining.
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But he did learn
his lessons didn't he?
00:21:32.49\00:21:35.02
And he learned that God
always gives us second chances.
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A chance to start
over again no matter what
00:21:37.97\00:21:40.27
mistakes we've made.
00:21:40.30\00:21:41.49
You know there is a Poet by
the name of Louisa Fletcher,
00:21:41.53\00:21:45.00
and she wrote a poem
about second chances.
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It's called the
Land of Beginning Again,
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and I'd like to read it for you.
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It says, I wish there
was some wonderful place,
00:21:50.86\00:21:54.08
called the Land
of Beginning again.
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Were all our mistakes,
and all our heartaches,
00:21:56.08\00:21:59.22
and all of our
poor selfish grief's,
00:21:59.25\00:22:01.50
could be dropped like a
shabby ole coat at the door,
00:22:01.53\00:22:04.33
and never be put on again.
00:22:04.36\00:22:06.83
You know that's a
lovely idea, isn't it?
00:22:06.86\00:22:09.33
If all our
mistakes could be undone.
00:22:09.36\00:22:11.66
If all our thoughtless
words could be unsaid.
00:22:11.69\00:22:14.29
And if all the things we
should of done, but didn't do,
00:22:14.32\00:22:17.58
were suddenly, just done.
00:22:17.61\00:22:19.79
Wouldn't that be wonderful?
00:22:19.82\00:22:21.59
The good news is that Jesus
does give us second chances,
00:22:21.62\00:22:25.70
and third chances
and fourth chances.
00:22:25.73\00:22:27.52
As many chances as we need.
00:22:27.55\00:22:29.70
Confess our sins
and start over again.
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You might say that He
is the King of the Land
00:22:31.99\00:22:34.36
of Beginning again.
00:22:34.39\00:22:35.58
We're truly sorry for the
wrong things we have done,
00:22:35.62\00:22:38.45
no matter how bad they are,
00:22:38.48\00:22:40.30
He will forgive us.
00:22:40.33\00:22:41.75
Not only will He forgive us,
but He will blot out those sins,
00:22:41.78\00:22:45.70
and any memory of those
sins, right out of the Universe.
00:22:45.73\00:22:48.58
Isn't that wonderful?
00:22:48.61\00:22:49.82
And it will be as
if we never sinned.
00:22:49.85\00:22:52.29
You know Jesus said that He
would remove our sins from us.
00:22:52.32\00:22:55.47
As far as the
east is from the west.
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And how far is that?
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No one can measure
it, it goes on forever.
00:22:59.26\00:23:02.27
And that is what Jesus
meant, there is just no
00:23:02.30\00:23:05.26
end to His love
and His forgiveness.
00:23:05.29\00:23:07.97
I'm so glad that Jesus
give us second chances.
00:23:08.00\00:23:11.02
Aren't you?
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Now it's mailbox time.
00:23:12.08\00:23:13.96
Let's take a look and
see what is in our mailbox.
00:23:14.00\00:23:16.41
You can write to me, boys
and girls, wherever you are.
00:23:18.63\00:23:20.25
That might be in Russia, or
Japan, or China, South America,
00:23:20.28\00:23:24.53
wherever you are the
letters will reach me.
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Let's see what we have today.
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Yes I have mail.
00:23:28.94\00:23:31.23
Got lots of it too.
00:23:31.26\00:23:32.78
Oh! so many letters.
00:23:32.81\00:23:34.98
I'd like to share them with you.
00:23:35.01\00:23:37.17
Oh! this one here
is from Daniel Juarez.
00:23:37.20\00:23:40.54
And I've got one
from Freeport, Maine
00:23:40.57\00:23:43.94
One from a Jessica Smith.
00:23:43.97\00:23:46.02
And one from California.
00:23:46.05\00:23:47.81
Let's see what
Daniel has to say today.
00:23:47.84\00:23:50.90
I wonder how he
has shared Jesus?
00:23:50.93\00:23:54.51
Let's look and see.
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You know what?
00:23:57.14\00:23:59.79
Yes I am right.
00:23:59.82\00:24:01.24
Daniel sent a
picture of himself today,
00:24:01.27\00:24:03.42
This, show you at home
what Daniel looks like.
00:24:03.45\00:24:06.70
Thank you Daniel
for sending a picture.
00:24:06.73\00:24:09.88
Daniel also drew me a
little picture on his paper.
00:24:09.91\00:24:13.78
He said, Dear
Brenda, I am six years old
00:24:13.81\00:24:16.80
and I like to
play on the computer.
00:24:16.83\00:24:18.90
Especially a Jesus game.
00:24:18.93\00:24:20.65
I also like to sing.
00:24:20.68\00:24:22.30
And I share Jesus, I
went to a nursing home,
00:24:22.33\00:24:24.98
and we drew pictures of
the six days of creation,
00:24:25.01\00:24:27.50
and the Sabbath on big
pieces of poster board.
00:24:27.53\00:24:30.08
And we showed our
pictures and took turns telling
00:24:30.11\00:24:32.65
about God's work of creation.
00:24:32.69\00:24:34.38
Then we visited with the
people there and it was fun.
00:24:34.42\00:24:37.58
They liked it and
gave us some cookies.
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Daniel Juarez.
00:24:39.77\00:24:41.26
Thank you Daniel for
sharing that experience with us.
00:24:41.29\00:24:45.10
That was a wonderful
way to witness, wasn't it?
00:24:45.13\00:24:47.23
And I bet that they liked
the pictures of creation too
00:24:47.26\00:24:51.55
that you drew.
00:24:51.59\00:24:52.56
I think we might have
time for one more here.
00:24:52.57\00:24:56.11
Let's see, this
letter is from Robert.
00:24:56.15\00:25:00.45
Let's see what
Robert has to say.
00:25:00.49\00:25:02.03
Dear Brenda, I am
twelve years old and I share
00:25:02.06\00:25:05.81
Jesus to my friend.
00:25:05.84\00:25:07.30
He was going to steal
some gum at the grocery store,
00:25:07.33\00:25:10.07
and I didn't.
00:25:10.10\00:25:11.16
I told him not to
because it is a sin.
00:25:11.19\00:25:13.13
I don't want to go to jail.
00:25:13.16\00:25:14.54
My friend,
Jimmy, put the gum back.
00:25:14.57\00:25:17.01
He got mad for awhile,
but now he's my friend.
00:25:17.04\00:25:19.84
I want to go to
heaven, I don't want to steal
00:25:19.87\00:25:22.58
because I know it is wrong.
00:25:22.61\00:25:23.68
I love Jesus,
your friend, Robert.
00:25:23.71\00:25:25.87
You know Robert, you are right.
00:25:25.90\00:25:27.60
It is very wrong to steal.
00:25:27.63\00:25:28.85
You did witness by
doing the right thing.
00:25:28.88\00:25:30.99
Even when you were
tempted to do wrong,
00:25:31.02\00:25:33.08
but, you know it is not
always easy to standing up
00:25:33.11\00:25:35.52
for the right thing when we
are with our friends, is it?
00:25:35.56\00:25:37.44
But you did the right thing.
00:25:37.47\00:25:39.15
That did make Jesus very happy.
00:25:39.18\00:25:41.81
I'll try to see if I
can get one more letter.
00:25:41.84\00:25:45.29
I love sharing
the letters with you.
00:25:45.32\00:25:47.39
It gives us idea's, doesn't
it, on how to share Jesus?
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This one says, Dear Brenda, I
00:25:49.86\00:25:51.63
I am eleven years old, and
I like to sing, and I would
00:25:51.66\00:25:55.03
like to sing on Kids Time.
00:25:55.06\00:25:56.43
I love Jesus and I
like to share Jesus.
00:25:56.46\00:25:58.85
I found a purse in a
shopping cart, at the store,
00:25:58.88\00:26:01.81
and it had a lot of money in it.
00:26:01.85\00:26:03.35
I gave it to the store manager
and he was really surprised
00:26:03.38\00:26:06.52
that I didn't keep the money.
00:26:06.56\00:26:07.98
But I told him that
Jesus didn't want me to.
00:26:08.01\00:26:10.42
My dad said he was proud of me.
00:26:10.45\00:26:12.58
Love Jessica, P.S. I don't
know if they found the lady
00:26:12.61\00:26:16.59
who lost her purse.
00:26:16.62\00:26:17.67
Well you know what, Jessica?
00:26:17.70\00:26:19.20
That was really a very
special way to share Jesus.
00:26:19.23\00:26:22.61
Doesn't matter if we know if
the lady found her purse or not.
00:26:22.64\00:26:25.35
What matters to
Jesus is that you did the
00:26:25.38\00:26:27.80
right thing isn't it?
00:26:27.83\00:26:28.83
You stood up, you could of
kept the money, but you didn't.
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Did you?
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You did the right thing and the
store manager saw Jesus in you.
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Well that's all the time
we have today boys and girls.
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But before I go I would like to
leave you with this one thought.
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No matter what you
do every single day,
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make Jesus first in your life.
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Remember, it's Kids
Time to share Jesus.
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