(Miss Ruthie) Welcome to
Starting with Jesus boys and
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girls. I'm so glad you're here.
We want to encourage you to
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start every day, everything you
do with Jesus. Now we have an
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exciting program for you today.
And we have a Bible story with
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Miss Michelle and we have our
singing. Right? I hope you're
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singing with us. Do you know one
way that we can praise Jesus is
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in song. So you don't want
to miss out on our singing.
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So let's go ahead and join
in singing praises to Jesus.
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Welcome back to our nature story
for today. This one comes from
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Bermuda (Eugene Prewitt) that
little tiny island that exists
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there off New York and New
Jersey. One day I was there and
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I was walking along the beach
when I found a very interesting
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rock. I looked it over for
awhile and then I threw it into
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the ocean. And something amazing
happened. It floated and then it
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came back to me. I picked it
up. This is the rock right here.
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This is the one I picked
up. You know what this rock is?
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It's pumice. It's a blob of lava
that was boiling so hard that
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when it came out of the volcano
and it hit the water the water
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hardened the outside of it
and kept all the bubbles stuck
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inside and that's why it floats.
It's not nearly as heavy as it
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looks. Pumice is interesting.
You remember the story I told
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you about it. When I threw that
pumice into the ocean it came
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back to me. That reminds me a
lot about love. Do you know that
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love isn't bossy. Love doesn't
give commands so often as love
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makes requests. Just like I
threw this into the water and
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gave it freedom and then it came
back to me, when we give our
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brothers and sisters, our moms
and dads, our friends, when we
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give them freedom they have
a chance to show their love by
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staying close to us. For example
you might say, tell your little
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brother, Go get my book. And
maybe if he's afraid of you he
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might go get it. But if you say
to him, Do you have time to help
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me get my book? By making that
gentle, sweet request you give
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him a chance to show love. What
I see from this rock is that
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God's law is a law of liberty.
It's a law that while it tells
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us what to do it gives us a
chance to make our own choices
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so that we can show our love.
What if God made you like a
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robot? You couldn't show your
love that way. So I'm going to
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keep this rock as long as I can,
I've had it 20 years already,
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I'm going to keep it because
it reminds me that I have it
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freedom and it came back. So
I want to give my wife freedom
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I want to give children freedom.
I don't mean no rules, maybe I
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want to give them a chance
to make their decision about
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whether they're going to show
love or not. And if I give them
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that chance I bet they'll do it.
Let me read a verse to you. This
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is from Colossians. Colossians
chapter 4 and verse 6.
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Colossians 4 and verse 6 says:
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That is, always let freedom
or love be in your mouth. That's
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like having good tasting food.
Let me have a prayer with you.
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Father in heaven, please teach
us how to show love and give
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liberty. I ask for that gift.
In the name of Jesus, Amen.
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(Miss Michelle) Um, I'm sure
glad that I'm borrowing my son's
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book. Here. Oh, oh. Hey
everybody. Welcome to Starting
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with Jesus Story Time and
you caught. I was just reading a
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book. Can you see what it's all
about. It's called How to Earn
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Money: A Smart Kid's Guide
to Personal Finance. I should
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probably get the adult version
for me. Right? But I thought I
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would see if I could learn some
new ways to make some money.
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Well actually it has an
illustration for today's story.
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But when we think about making
money we think about different
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ways you can get money. Maybe
the money is given to you, maybe
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in an inheritance when someone
in your family has died they
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give you a large sum of money.
Or maybe for your birthday you
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got 10 bucks or 5 bucks or
20 bucks, whatever. Or the more
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common way to make money is
to get a job and do some work to
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make some money. Right? There's
another way to make money too.
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If you put your money in the
bank the bank will then use your
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money while you have it there.
Right? It's still your, but
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they'll use it for other things
like to give someone else a loan
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or to pay a bill or do these
things. When you go back you
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still have money there but
they'll give you something as a
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little gift for having your
money in the bank and that's
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called interest. We're going
to talk more about that today.
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So those are the different
ways to make money. Right? Today
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we're going to be talking about
a parable Jesus told in the last
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week of His life about money and
about wise stewardship, how we
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spend our money and how we use
our money and other things too.
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Dear heavenly Father, we praise
you and we thank you for being
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here with us now. Please send
your Spirit to be with us as we
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talk about things really
important today. I'm so excited
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that we're talking about
this when these young people are
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young because it will help them
for the rest of their lives. We
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Maybe your Sabbath School
class or your church or your
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Pathfinder club, or your family
has come up with some sort of
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investment project. For instance
maybe you got some tomato seeds
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and you planted them, and you
watered them and you grew them
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up and sold the tomatoes and
made more money. Or did a car
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wash to make money or a bake
sale. Maybe people donated the
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items for the bake sale and then
anything you sold was a profit
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and you could use that money for
a mission or maybe a lemonade
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stand. The options are through
the roof. Right? Now today we're
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going to talk about that parable
about a man who wanted to make
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money, but he did so in an
interesting way. You see he left
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on a trip, but before he did he
give three of his servants some
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money to invest and they were
supposed to, while he was on a
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trip. Sounds like a good
deal for him. Right? They were
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supposed to make him some money.
And he knew what each servant
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was capable of so he gave them
different amounts of money which
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at first I thought was unfair,
but I think we'll see that it's
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not as we read through this
story. This story is found in
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Matthew 25 verses 14 and 15
and it's called the parable of
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the talents.
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For the kingdom of heaven is
like a man traveling to a far
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country who called for his own
servants and delivered his goods
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to them. To one he gave five
talents, to another two talents,
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and to another one talent,
to each according to his own
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ability. And immediately
he went on his journey.
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Farewell servants. All
right, let's see what happens.
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You see back them even one
talent was an awful lot of money
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so to even give one talent
to his servant, to trust his
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servant with one talent
was a big deal. Let's see what
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happened to the servants who had
five talents and two talents.
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Let's see. Verse 16 continues.
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Then he who had received
the five talents went and traded
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with them and made
another five talents.
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Wow! He used those very wisely.
I don't know if he was on the
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stock market or what he was
doing with those, but he was
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able to double the money.
Five to ten. Good job, servant.
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And likewise he who had
received two gained two more.
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Nice work. Now let's check out
that servant who received one
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talent.
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But he who had received one went
and dug a hole in the ground and
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hid his lord's money.
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The equivalent to that would be
he went home and put it in his
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little savings bank. This is
my son's; he has a little llama
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savings bank. And he just
left it there. Well kind of the
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equivalent because we don't
usually dig holes for money
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these days. The other two
had perhaps put it in the stock
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market and got returns from
companies that were doing well.
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Or maybe they put it in the bank
and they received interest or
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maybe they did another
investment where they bought
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that wasn't worth a lot, they
fixed it up and they sold it for
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more. A lot of different
ways you can make money. Right?
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But the last servant didn't do
anything with it; it just sat.
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Sat on the shelf. Nothing wrong
with saving money and setting on
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the shelf. Right? But parents,
might want to get your kid a
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bank account. Probably be kind
of a cool way that they could be
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earning a little bit of interest
So talk to mom and dad about
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that because it may be an option
But he who had received the one
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dug the hole in the ground and:
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After a long time the Lord
of those servants came back and
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settled accounts with them.
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Back from his
journey and what did he find?
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So he who had received five
talents came and brought five
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more talents, saying, Lord, you
delivered me five talents. Look,
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I have gained five
more talents besides.
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Do you think he felt proud
of himself? I bet he did and I
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think it's okay for him to feel
that way, don't you? He had done
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a really good thing. He had done
what his master had asked him to
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do. And his lord said to him,
Well done, good and faithful
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servant. You were faithful over
a few things and I will make you
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ruler over many things.
Enter into the joy of your lord.
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He also who had received two
talents came and said, Look lord
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You delivered me two talents, I
gained two more talents besides
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them. His Lord said to him, Well
done good and faithful servant.
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You have been faithful over
a few things, I will make you
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ruler over many things.
Enter into the joy of your lord.
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Then he who had received
the one talent came and said:
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Lord so I knew you to be a hard
man, reaping where you've not
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sown and gathering where you've
not scattered seed and [I'll be
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honest] I was afraid and I went
and I hid your talent in the
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ground. Look I still have what
is yours. [The one talent right]
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But the lord answered and
said to him, You wicked and lazy
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servant. You knew that I reap
where I have not sown and that
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I gather where
I've not scattered seed.
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Here's a good business man, this
master and he was not used to
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not making money.
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So you ought to have deposited
my money with the bankers and
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at my coming I would have at
least received my own back with
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the interest.
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Remember that money that the
bank gives you as a thank you
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for letting them use your money.
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Therefore, take the talent from
him and give it to the one who
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has 10 talents.
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So they did. They took the one
talent of money and they gave it
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to the one who had 10,
so now he had 11. Right?
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For to everyone who has more
will be given and he will have
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an abundance. But for him who
does not have even what he has
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will be taken away. And
cast the unprofitable servant...
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Unprofitable means he didn't
make a profit or make money.
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into outer darkness where there
will be weeping and gnashing of
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teeth.
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What a sad ending? But isn't
that sad that he also did not
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make the good choice of even
making a little bit of money
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like his master had asked him to
do. Hmm. Well as we talked about
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before, with Jesus's stories
there always comes a lesson.
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Not just a little lesson that we
should be good with our money.
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Right? But also a spiritual
lesson. Now today the parable
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was called the Parable of
the Talents and back then that's
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what the money was called
but what else do we call talents
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today? You might see someone
playing the piano, like whoa
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they're really talented. That's
awesome how well they play the
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piano. Or wow, that person
is really good at leading the
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church in reading responsive
reading and they're a really
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great reader. How talented they
are. Or maybe you see someone
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who can really draw. Whoa can
they draw! They're so talented.
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Right? We have talents today.
And our talents, the number one
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important thing to remember,
they don't belong to us. God
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gives us those talents. Just
like the master gave talents to
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his servants in the story. And
the second thing to remember is
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that Jesus lets us choose
how to use our talents. Now you
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might compare yourself to
others sometime and it's a bad
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trap to fall into, isn't it?
We might be the person with two
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talents and say well oh well so
and so has so many more talents
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than I have. I shouldn't even
try. That's like what happened
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with the person in the story,
the servant who had one talent.
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Isn't' it? So Jesus wants us to
have our talents grow and if we
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don't use those talents for
Jesus Satan wants those talents
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where he can use them to
destroy us as well. A lot of
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times if we think about talents
being specific things like
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playing an instrument or being
good at art or things like that.
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But there are so many talents
that you have and that you can
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sit down with your parents or
another trusted adult and talk
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about those things because some
people are just really good at
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making friends. That's a talent
folks. Or maybe they're really
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good at designing things or
fixing things when they break or
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maybe you're really good at
technology like you can always
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figure out what's wrong with the
TV or the internet even though
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your mom and dad can't. Maybe
you're really good at sports.
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That's a talent. Right? All of
those talents Jesus would love
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for you to use for Him. Our
lesson goes into some categories
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of talents. Maybe you have a
thinking talent; you're really
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good at thinking through
problems and helping people
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solve their problems. Or a
speaking talent. You're not
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afraid to get up in front of
people and share with them about
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Jesus or just about learning
different things. Right? Maybe
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you're really good at learning
and studying or reading and
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these are all really great
things that you can use for God.
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Maybe you have the talent
of influence. Maybe you're a
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natural leader and people listen
to you. Well, Miss Michelle, how
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do I know if I'm a natural
leader or not. Well one good
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way to check is if you're in
the room and people are planning
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something or talking about
something, when you talk do
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people look your way and pay
attention to your ideas? Now if
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they don't, that's okay because
followers are important too.
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But maybe you've noticed that
people really do listen to your
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ideas. Whoa! That's a huge
responsibility and talent that
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God has given you and you
want to use that for Him. Right?
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Because we can use influence for
good or for bad and it can help
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or hinder others, our influence
and what we do. Time is a huge
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Talent and that's one that
Miss Michelle has trouble with
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sometimes. Sometimes I waste
time. You probably do it as well
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I'm not going to say you
do because I don't know you
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personally. But we all have the
same amount of time in the day
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and how we spend our time
is really a talent that we can
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use for Jesus, isn't it?
Our health is a talent and being
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good to our bodies and helping
other people learn about how to
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be good to our bodies by
following the laws of health.
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That's a talent as well. And of
course, our money is a talent.
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God has given us money as well
that we can use for Him and that
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we can use to help other people.
The second story that I'm going
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want you guys to check out
is also in Matthew and it's in
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chapter 25 and we're going to
talk more about this in upcoming
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stories but I'm just going
to kind of summarize it for you,
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If you want to read it, it's in
Matthew 25 starts in verse 31.
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And Jesus was talking about
the different kinds of people in
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this world. But he called them
two different animals. Have you
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read this before. He called for
all the sheep to go on His right
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hand and all the goats to
go on His left. Now it helps to
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remember when I say right is
right. So you want to be a sheep
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Baa, baa, baa, baa. Right? And
it goes into greater detail here
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and I really encourage you and
your family to either pause the
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video now if you can and read
it or read it later. Matthew 25
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verse 31 and on. But there's a
really important part at the end
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and it says: (Let's do
the ones on the right.)
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And this He will say to those
on the right, For I was hungry
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and you gave me food, I was
thirsty and you gave me drink,
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I was a stranger and you took me
in, I was naked and you clothed
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me, I was sick and you visited
me, I was in prison and you came
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to me. Then the righteous will
answer and say, Lord, when did
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we see you hungry and feed you
and thirsty and give you drink?
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And He will say, As you have
done it unto the least of these
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my brethren,
you've done it to me.
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Wow! Let's use
our talents for God.
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Thank you Miss Michelle for that
Bible story. Now I know that you
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all saw those questions last
week because I know I've got a
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whole long list of names of
those of you who sent in your
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answers and I am so proud of
you. Great job for sending in
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your answers to the questions we
had. So, let's see who sent in
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their answers and if
you guys got them right.
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Well, it's time for our
new questions. Are you ready?
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Question #1:
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There were three servants. How
many talents were given to each
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servant. Question #2:
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And question #3:
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Now you can send
your answers to us at:
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answers@startingwithjesus.com
and you will get a shout out
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in next week's lesson at our
website at startingwithjesus.com
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You can see those shout outs
and we love to see you answering
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those questions and listening
closely. So send your answers to
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answers@startingwithjesus.com
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Hello boys and girls.
Today's memory verse is found in
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Matthew 25 verse 40: It says:
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Hello welcome to activity time.
My name's Amy and I'm really
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excited about the program
we have planned for you today.
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The things you will need are
a paper towel roll or you can
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use some card stock, roll it
up and tape it together. Then
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you'll need some scissors and
something to write on the paper
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plate and the paper towel roll
or card stock that you have.
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And then you'll need a paper
plate. So the first thing you'll
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need to do is take the scissors
and you'll need an adult's help
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for this, and cut little lines
like that along the end like
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that on the end of your paper
towel roll or card stock on each
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side. I already had my aunt do
this so... And if you're doing
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the paper towel roll you'll
probably need an adult to take
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bigger scissors to do it for
you Next we're going to set that
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aside and get our paper plate
cut. So we're going to want to
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cut it kind of like that.
So I'm going to draw a line of
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where I want to cut. Next I'm
going to ask my aunt to cut for
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me. Aunt Ruthie, would
you cut it for me? Sure. ¤ ¤
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Next you're going to
write on your paper plate:
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DO NOT BURY YOUR TALENTS
because we do not want to bury
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our talents.
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We're going to be making a
shovel and this is the handle of
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the shovel. So, on your shovel
you can either draw your talent
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or you can print out pictures of
your talent or you can write the
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word of your talent or you can
cut them out from magazines and
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take a minute to do that.
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You can write down more. And if
you're having trouble thinking
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of a talent ask your parents.
Everybody has a talent of time
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so you could always write down
time. So now, you might want a
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parent for this part. Remember
where you cut on your handle?
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You're going to put the paper
plate in that cut. If you're
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using your card stock you can
tape it or you can even finish
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cutting it here and then tape it
flat. Okay. Here's your shovel.
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And you can always remember
Do Not Bury Your Talent.
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I hope you had fun making it.
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Thank you so much for joining us
today. Now some of you might not
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know that you can send your
memory verse videos in to us too
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at videos@startingwithjesus.com
We are always excited to see you
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sending in your memory verses.
Do you know why? Because we know
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that you are memorizing God's
word and hiding it in your heart
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So you can send you
memory verse videos to us at:
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videos@startingwithjesus.com
Let's pray and ask Jesus to be
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with us.
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Our Father in heaven, thank
you so much for today. Thank you
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for the talents that you give us
Thank you for the talent of time
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that each one of us has that we
can use it for you. I pray that
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we will use our time for you,
that we will use every talent
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that you give us whether
it be music, maybe we might be
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musicians, maybe we might be
very friendly, maybe we might be
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really good at writing, maybe we
might be really good at sharing
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things with others. I pray that
you will help us to use whatever
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we have, whatever talent that is
that you will help us to use it
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for you. I pray that you will be
with us today and that you will
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help us to listen to your voice
when you speak to us and help us
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to be missionaries to everybody
we're around and to share your
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love with them. We love
you Jesus and we thank you. In
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Jesus' name, Amen.
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Thank you for watching. Have a
blessed week and keep in touch.
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