It's time to share
there's a world out there
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Looking for a friend like Jesus
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It's time to share
there's a world out there
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Let's tell them
that He loves us so
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Let's tell them
that He loves us so
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Kids time, kids time, kids time.
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Hi, boys and girls. You
know what this is, don't you?
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You're right, it's a gavel.
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But it's a wooden gavel,
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the kind that a
judge uses in a courtroom.
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Sometimes here she
uses it to say case closed
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and sometimes the bang of
a gavel says, come to order.
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And sometimes the judge bangs
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the gavel to say
I've made my decision.
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This person is
guilty and sometime
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the bang of the gavel
says this person is innocent.
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You know, a
courtroom is an important place
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and a jury or
judge makes the decisions
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that affect people for
the rest of their lives.
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Now people go to
court for many reasons.
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Sometimes it's
simply to, you known,
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get a piece of paper to prove
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that the piece of
property belongs to them.
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Or it might be
for happy reason like
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finalizing the
adoption of a child.
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It can even be the settle
an argument between neighbors.
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But at other times the
person appears in a courtroom,
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because he or she has
been accused of a crime,
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of doing something
that is against the law.
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Now when the gavel in
that courtroom becomes
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very, very
important, doesn't it?
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Because well
you have to find out
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where the bang of the
gavel give the person freedom
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proclaiming his
or her innocence,
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or will it come down
with the heavy farther
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says guilty, guilty, guilty.
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You know, one of the
worst things that can happen
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it's for a judge or
jury to make a mistake.
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Once in a while
that does happen.
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And an innocent
person is proclaimed guilty
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for something
that they didn't do.
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That would be
awful, wouldn't it?
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You know in our
Bible story today,
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we'll hear about an innocent man
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who was judged guilty
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and the judge
proclaimed him guilty,
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even though he
knew he was innocent.
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Do you think you know the story?
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You can read
about it in the Bible,
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in the Book of Matthew
Chapter 27 verses 15 through 26.
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And even better read the
whole Chapter Matthew 27.
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It's a wonderful true story,
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one that shows how
much, Jesus, loves us.
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You know what now, Ranger Jim,
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is going to tell us
about that a white-tailed deer.
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Hi, boys and girls.
Ranger Jim, here saying
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once again
welcome to Nature Time.
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We're glad you're with us.
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This is my friend
over here, Debbie.
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And could you show
us about your deer.
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Tell the boys and girls,
something about the deer,
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is it a white-tailed deer?
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These are
white-tailed deer, Jim.
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And they came in last spring
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and the reason
they are not released,
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they are human imprinted.
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People mistake these
guys as being abandoned
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and they're never abandoned.
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Mother usually just
hide some and lead some,
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while she goes and
grazes during the day.
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And so I hear
people say you quite often,
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they say we found
this beautiful little fawn
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that their mother
deserted and I tell them only
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human parents sometime
desert children, deer never do.
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Right, the only time that
they will run off and leave
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their babies is when
they're crossing highways
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and they're getting
ready to have their babies,
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and then a car spokes them.
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And then they drop the baby
and they'll just keep going.
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Well, these then
were last spring,
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so they're almost
yearlings now. Yes.
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And I see this
fellow have some little nubs
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on the top of his
head that tells us
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he is going to
be daddy dear right.
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Absolutely, this
is a buck and we--
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actually they can
have 8, 10, 12, 14 points.
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Like this. They are very much.
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How do they run to the woods?
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Very careful. Very fast.
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Right, and this
fellow would be what,
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he would properly get to be--
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a maximum maybe 200 pound
when he got to be an adult.
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Probably round 175 to 200 yes.
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And boys and girls, when
the doe has her first baby,
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it's usually just a single.
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But in the year
following that if she is healthy
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she will have two
and possibly even three
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or maybe four
on a rare occasion.
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How does she
feed them taking turn?
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Well, I tell
you what, the, Lord,
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has provided her
a way to take care
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of that milk and
keep them all up.
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And she is strong and healthy
and she is able to do that.
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We live, my wife and I
live in southern lower Michigan,
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where we have a
tremendous supply of deer.
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In fact, they're so
thick boys and girls.
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Ranger Jim has
electric fence round our garden,
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because nothing
deer enjoy in the wild,
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enjoy more than going
along where Ranger Jim's
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beans are coming up and
they pick them off one at a time
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right up the road, they
will eat everyone of them.
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And they also love my
wife's new tulip plants.
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When they get up about this high
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and so they can be destructive
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and many crops
they can destroy your
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soybean fields and corn
fields and things like that.
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But they are
delight to have around.
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When we placed, we
built our new home,
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I run some water pipe down
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to the garden to
have water for the garden.
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And I also made an artificial
spring and a bird bath,
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so the deer come
there to drink fresh water
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and, Ranger Jim, just happens
to put out a salt block, okay.
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And we have them come
there and it is a delight.
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Yeah, it is a delight to
see two or three baby fawns.
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They're on the backyard and
we have people come to your home
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from Sabbath school or
church and they sit there
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lately afternoon and
watch those baby deer
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rush back and forth
and have a good time
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and they sit there
thinking, oh what a joy,
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it must be something
like heavens going to be
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to observe them unafraid
and we had our dear lady,
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a friend of my
wife that had, hadn't--
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she hadn't seen for
over eight or ten years
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and she came to
church one Sabbath
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and my wife invite her and said
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why don't you and your friend
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just come and
spend the evening with us
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and stay overnight
and leave tomorrow.
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And she said, well, I
think that would be a good idea.
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And so I told them we
had to go to bed I told them,
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now if there deer in
the backyard in the morning
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I will call you and so
you get up and see them
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and so sure enough the next
morning just after day break
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here was two does
and there were six fawns.
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Both of the does had triplets.
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And so I went
knocked on the bedroom door
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and I said we have
deer in the backyard
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and so the lady got
up and she came out,
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the other lady was behind her,
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when she saw the
deer we had the deck,
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they open the
backdoor, open to the back deck.
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The lady went running
right out on the back deck
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and she said oh look at
all these beautiful deer, run.
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Because all the deer
of course started pleading
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for their life, because
she come running out there.
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Anything else you could
tell us about this thing?
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One more thing when
you see a white-tailed deer
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and observe the
deer out in the wild,
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if you see that tail go up,
that gives all the other deer
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a signal that
it's, there's danger
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in the territory
and they all just flee.
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And they make a
certain sound boys and girls.
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If I can make it for you, you
do it by expelling air suddenly,
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if you're out in the
woods and you hear this sound,
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deer make it by
blowing though their nose,
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I do it by mouth like
this and it's sound like this.
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If you had been watching
everyone of these deers,
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they stopped instantly
with their ears in the air,
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that's a danger
single, that's like a beaver
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slapping the
water with their tail.
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And so in
nature, boys and girls,
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we find every
one of these things.
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God has provided
a way of survival
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and a way of
escape and with deer
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it is the ability to
run through the forest,
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they can run to
the trees and the bush,
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faster than any other
creature that God made.
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I was talking a
little while with Debbie
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about a buck
running through the bush.
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I have seen a 10-point
buck that weighs 200 pound
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running with his head tip
pack on the back of his head,
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so his antlers are not so
high running through the woods,
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you can't imaging
how fast they can run.
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So that is their escape,
they can run through the woods
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and escape from their enemies.
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These fawns when
they were three days old
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could jump over
the average size fence
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on a farm and
follow their mothers.
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So studying any of these
creatures especially these
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beautiful graceful creatures.
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We find once again that
God provided every thing
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that they would need to
survive and in that new earth
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it will be joy to
have deer as pet also.
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We're gonna have
lots of pets, aren't we?
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Ranger Jim does, you're
gonna have pets in heaven?
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Absolutely, one of
every kind. One of every kind.
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So you can look for our house,
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when Debbie and
Jim's house that's gonna be
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animals every
where boys and girls.
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Hey, boys and girls,
don't forget to tell, Jesus,
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you love Him, because
He really does love you.
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Hello, boys and girls.
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That old devil can
sure make you mad sometimes,
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but we do not have
to fall, right Michelle?
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No way because James 4:7 says,
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"Submit to God, resist the devil
and he will flee from you."
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Yes, boys and girls,
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we can resist the
devil and he will flee.
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Jenifer Jill,
wrote a wonderful song
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and we'd like to
sing it for you now.
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It's a cold, dark
world and a narrow path
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Every boy and
girl feels the pain
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When temptation
comes, there's a hope I have
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I remember One felt the same
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And Jesus said,
"No, no, no, no, no"
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to Satan and "Yes, yes,
yes," to God Jesus said,
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"No, no, no," to all temptation
as the narrow way He trod
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But Jesus took
my, my, my, my flesh
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upon Him and lived without a sin
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So I could say
"No, no, no, no, no,"
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to the devil and
"Yes, yes, yes," to Him.
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Lift your weary eyes,
oh you struggling child
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For the God we serve was a man
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There are stormy
skies and the wind is wild
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But if Jesus stood, then you can
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And Jesus said,
"No, no, no, no, no"
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to Satan and "Yes, yes,
yes," to God Jesus said,
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"No, no, no," to all temptation
as the narrow way He trod
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But Jesus took
my, my, my, my flesh
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upon Him and lived without a sin
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So I could say
"No, no, no, no, no,"
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to the devil and
"Yes, yes, yes," to Him.
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And Jesus said,
"No, no, no, no, no"
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to Satan and "Yes, yes,
yes," to God Jesus said,
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"No, no, no," to all temptation
as the narrow way He trod
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But Jesus took
my, my, my, my flesh
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upon Him and lived without a sin
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So I could say
"No, no, no, no, no,"
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to the devil and
"Yes, yes, yes," to Him.
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Yes we can say no, no, no,
to the devil and yes to Jesus.
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Mistress, why do
you look so distressed?
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Oh! Little maid, if only Pilate
would have listened to me,
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if only he had
heeded the warning.
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Why did he have to
give in to the crowd?
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You see I'm the wife of,
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Pontius Pilate, the
Roman Governor of Judaea.
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My husband was worried about
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loosing his
position in the empire
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and the very thing he
worried about happened.
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Let me tell you the story.
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There was a man called, Jesus,
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who traveled about the
whole region of Palestine,
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teaching anyone
who would listen about
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love and kindness
to your fellow man.
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He would heal all those who
came to Him and believed on Him?
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He even raised the dead.
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Oh, it was so
wonderful to hear the stories
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when the people
talked, I would listen.
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And later I would tell
the stories to, Pilate.
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Many people believed in, Jesus,
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and they followed Him
thinking He was a prophet.
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Their priests
becomes so jealous of Him
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that they set
about to have Him killed.
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That's were, Pilate,
comes into the story.
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It was a law in Rome
that only a Roman official
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had the power to
have someone executed.
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So they brought,
Jesus, to, Pilate.
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What did he do?
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Well, at the trial, it
was very early in the morning
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I had not yet awakened.
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God sent a
massage in a dream to me
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to warn me about
what was to happen.
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Oh, the dream, it was
so wonderful and so awful,
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it will forever be in my memory.
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The first I was
able to talk to, Jesus.
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I was able to see Him and I knew
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that He was an
innocent and just man.
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I knew that He
was the Prince of God.
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If only my dream
had stopped there,
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but it didn't, it
became really awful.
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I saw, Jesus', hands
tightly bound like a criminal.
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That's terrible?
And I saw, Herod,
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the king of Judea
and his soldiers mocking,
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Jesus, laughing at
Him and beating Him.
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I saw their priest
shouting and accusing, Jesus,
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saying we have a law
and by our law He must die.
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Now, Pilate, he
knew, Jesus, was innocent
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and three times he tried to get
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the people to ask
for, Jesus, release.
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But they wouldn't
listen instead they asked
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for the release of,
Barabbas, who is a murderer.
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They scream so
loud for, Jesus', death,
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that, Pilate, become
afraid, they would start a riot.
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And so even thou he
said I find no fault in Him.
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Pilate turned, Jesus, over
to be flogged and crucified.
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I saw, Jesus,
lifted up on the cross
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at a place outside
the city called Golgotha.
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I saw the sky turned dark as
night with no moon, no stars.
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I heard the
mysterious cry "It is Finished."
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Then I saw, Jesus Christ,
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sitting on the
great white cloud.
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I saw the earth really in space
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and his murderers run
to hide from His presence.
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Oh, I woke with
this dream of horror.
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And immediately I
send word to, Pilate,
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have nothing to do
with this just man.
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But I was suffered
terribly in a dream
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because of Him this morning.
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The messenger
carrying the note to, Pilate,
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push through the
crowd and gave it to him.
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Pilate was very
afraid when he read it.
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But still he thought
that if he washed his hands
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and said I'm not
guilty of this man's blood
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that he wouldn't feel guilty.
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The people screamed,
oh, let His blood be on us.
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But you know, Pilate, gave in,
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Jesus, was crucified and
He lost his position in, Rome,
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became so depressed.
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I am sorry for, Pilate.
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But me, I'm so
thankful that, God,
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loved me enough to sent
me this warning to talk to me
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even thou I wasn't a
believer, or follower of Him.
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You know, God, loves you too,
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and He will send
a massage to you.
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He will talk to
you, if you just listen.
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[Music]
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Thank you,
Jonathan Lodenkamp family,
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for that beautiful
song, we really enjoyed it.
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But today I've asked
a very special friend
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to come today and
join me on Sharing Time.
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His name is, Marc,
and here he is right now.
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Come on in, Marc. Okay.
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Thank you for coming
today. You're welcome.
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Would you mind
looking at our mail box
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to see if we
have any mail? Sure.
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So its mailbox
time boys and girls
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and I love
getting letters from you.
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Do we have
anything in there? Yes.
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Oh! Looks like we do.
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Oh, wonderful,
we'll have sit down
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and read some of these together.
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But before we do, I
asked you here to share
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with the boys and girls at home,
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how you share, Jesus,
can you do that for me?
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Sure, you see I started
a project that was called,
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Steps to Christ, and
all you need to do this--
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Now when you
say, Steps to Christ,
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does that mean, now
that's little booklets
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that are, Steps to Christ? Yes.
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And it tells all
about, Jesus, in the booklet.
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Yes, so it also cost
money in order to sent them all.
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So you want to
send, Steps to Christ,
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to who you're
gonna send them too.
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I was gonna send
them to three cities.
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The whole city? Three cities.
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So what I did was use
my birthday money I got,
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plus also my, my
pop cans and bottles
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which I recycled it to get cash
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in order to do
this project. Wow!
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And you said something
about laptop, computer.
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Were you tempted to spend
that money on laptop computer?
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Well, yes of
course I did want to
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but I guess I thought
that, Steps for Christ,
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project was more
important than a laptop.
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Sounds like you
love, Jesus, very much.
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So how many, Steps to Christ,
did you actually sent out?
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I have no clue. But quite a few,
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if you went to every
address in three cities.
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That's must have been a
lot of, Steps to Christ.
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You should see how
many pop cans I had at home.
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Wow! That's wonderful.
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You know, I think
you did shared, Jesus,
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in a very special way,
because when those people
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get the book, those
the books in the mail,
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they are going to read
about, Jesus, aren't they?
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And then, you
know, what we need do,
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we need to have a
especial prayer that, Jesus,
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blesses all those books
and sends His Holy Spirit
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to touch those
lives of those people.
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So, maybe boys and girls,
at home I want you to pray too
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that God will bless
the, Steps to Christ,
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that Marc sent out.
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Well, also I had a
teacher, I was in fourth grade.
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I saw her one morning having
the booklet right in her hand.
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You did? Yes.
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And she wasn't a Christian?
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She was a Christian,
but I guess she didn't,
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she wasn't an
Adventist quite yet.
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So you were
teaching about Jesus?
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Oh wonderful, well,
I've got some letters here.
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You want to help me
and we'll open up a few
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and see what we've got here.
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Let's see, I'll open this one.
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I love getting your
letters boys and girls.
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Keep writing and telling
me how you shared, Jesus.
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Oh look, can you hold
this picture up for the camera.
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And this says, dear
Brenda, I went to an assisted
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living with my adventure
club and I like to see them
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smile when we're
singing to them, love Timothy.
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I love Kids Time.
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Oh thank you very much Timothy.
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Can I have some, now what
letter do you have over there.
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Okay, oh, that one
looks like the good one
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right over there
from, where is that from?
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Let's see, that
state it's from, okay,
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I can hardly read
the writing on that.
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Alabama.
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Okay, let's take
that and may be you can
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open another one
over there for me.
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Oh, you know what,
I'm gonna put you to
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work on the picture up.
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we've got a
picture, I love the pictures
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boys and girls,
says dear Brenda,
00:23:30.80\00:23:32.24
I love, Jesus, very much
and, Brenda, when someone comes
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over to my house I'm
not selfish with my toys,
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that's how I shared,
Jesus, your friend Chantey.
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Well, thank you Chantey.
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You know, it never it's a
good thing to be selfish, is it.
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So we do want to share,
Jesus, by being unselfish.
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And take her picture
and put it back over here.
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I think we have time for
a couple more, that's good.
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Oh, you know what,
we've got another picture.
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How about just if you
could hold that picture
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right up there,
so they can see that.
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It says, dear Brenda, I
know how they help others
00:24:02.20\00:24:05.19
and you can tell about, Jesus,
well, that's how I help others.
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And I took flowers to
my 80-year-old friend Dart.
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Brenda, please sent
me a book, love Loren.
00:24:11.97\00:24:14.91
Well, thank you, Loren, I'll
be happy to send you a book.
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And thank you for
writing and telling me
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how you shared
Jesus, wasn't that nice?
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Do you have another
letter over there for me Marc?
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Okay, what
letter do we have here.
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Okay and my name is, Miranda,
00:24:26.58\00:24:29.00
and she is from
Tontitown, Arizona, I think.
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Okay, it says,
dear Brenda, my name is,
00:24:32.30\00:24:34.14
Miranda, and I'm 11-years-old.
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I love Kids Time and it gives
me time to think about Jesus.
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Me and my friends
like to play outside
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and enjoy God's wilderness,
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He has made for
us, love Miranda.
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PS, I have three
brothers, two dogs,
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and two birds
and I like to sing.
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Well, that was nice, wasn't it?
00:24:52.57\00:24:54.35
Do you have another
letter over there ready?
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Where this one from?
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This one is, his
name is Nathan but--
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We have that one in here.
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Let's see what,
Nathan, has to say.
00:25:04.61\00:25:06.20
It says, dear
Brenda, I share, Jesus,
00:25:07.94\00:25:10.23
by passing our
Bible stories to people
00:25:10.24\00:25:13.03
that don't know
Him, love Nathan.
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Well, you know what, that,
it does show, Jesus, doesn't it?
00:25:15.75\00:25:18.25
We want to tell
everybody to know about Jesus,
00:25:18.26\00:25:20.41
don't we because
that what, Jesus,
00:25:20.42\00:25:22.78
wants us to do is to share Him.
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You have another letter
there, where is this one from?
00:25:24.97\00:25:26.44
Okay, it doesn't
give a surname, but,
00:25:28.45\00:25:30.86
it says Saint, it's from Saint--
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Let's see. Ontario.
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Canada. Oh!
00:25:38.40\00:25:39.42
It says, dear
Brenda, I've been a good girl
00:25:39.43\00:25:41.77
and I always help people
when they're hurt or in trouble
00:25:41.78\00:25:44.89
and I like reading books
and I help my mom do chores
00:25:44.90\00:25:47.64
and it said, I used my
five dollars for working
00:25:47.65\00:25:52.80
from my chores and I used it for
00:25:52.81\00:25:54.42
offering for the
poor, wasn't that nice?
00:25:54.43\00:25:56.57
It's kind of like what you did,
00:25:56.58\00:25:57.55
you gave up your money
for the Steps to Christ.
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So I gave away my
cookies to the homeless people
00:26:00.41\00:26:02.51
'cause I knew they were hungry.
00:26:02.52\00:26:04.86
Well, thank you,
that says from Liza.
00:26:04.87\00:26:08.01
Well, that nice Liza,
that was a really nice story
00:26:08.02\00:26:10.83
and I thank you very
much for sharing that.
00:26:10.84\00:26:12.64
Maybe we have
time for just one more
00:26:12.65\00:26:14.24
if we read it real quickly.
00:26:14.25\00:26:15.43
Oh, this has a picture.
00:26:15.44\00:26:16.66
Oh! Look at this, we've a
picture we want to show you.
00:26:16.67\00:26:19.73
And look at that, see
that picture right there
00:26:19.74\00:26:22.18
and it says, dear
Brenda, my brother, Chris,
00:26:22.19\00:26:25.05
found a dog hurting
his baby deer in the wood
00:26:25.09\00:26:27.73
and he brought her home
00:26:27.74\00:26:28.73
and it said there's
Chris, Daddy, Lea, and Sarah.
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And it says, he got some
warm milk as he was hungry
00:26:33.19\00:26:36.60
and they named him Bambi.
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Well, that was
really nice, wasn't it?
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Well, thank you so much,
Marc, for joining me today.
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I think that's just about
all the time we have today.
00:26:43.52\00:26:45.99
But thanks for
coming and remember kids,
00:26:46.00\00:26:48.57
its Kids Time to share Jesus.
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