(Miss Ruthie) Hello boys and
girls. Welcome to Starting With
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Jesus. I am so glad you're here
and I hope that you're starting
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everything you do with Jesus.
Today's Bible story is about the
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gift that Jesus gave us, the
ultimate, the greatest gift that
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Jesus gave to us. And I cannot
wait the hear our Bible story
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today. But before we get to that
Bible story let's join with some
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singing. And I think we have a
new theme song this month so I'm
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really excited about it and I
hope that you'll learn it along
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with me.
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Hi boys and girls I'm looking
for another page in God's great
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book of nature. I brought a
little friend with me today.
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Her name is Olivia
She's about eight months old
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so she's still a puppy. Now some
of you have had puppies before
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and some of you have puppies now
and you know that puppies can be
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wiggle worms because they have
a lot of energy. You're busy all
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all-day aren't you? Let's take
a look at a typical day in the
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life of Olivia the puppy. After
waking up in the morning and
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eating breakfast she runs down
the stairs and heads outside.
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She half rides, half rolls her
volleyball down the hill. She
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loves that ball. She plays with
her favorite squeaky toy. Boy
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does she love that toy? Can you
hear it. (squeak, squeak) She
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loves playing with her fur
cousin. They tumble around in
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the grass. They play tag and
they run in circles all the time
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Olivia likes to sniff around and
explore the different nooks and
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crannies of the forest.
She wants to know if any other
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animals have visited the area.
Dogs like to roll around in the
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grass and soak up any scent they
find that they like. So that's
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what she does and then she's off
again. Now after being outside
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she runs back up the stairs
to eat and continues playing, of
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course. And sometimes you even
see her smiley face toy roll
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right on by. You know what
that means. Well, with all that
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playing she does she sure gets
tuckered out. She still finds
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that nice comfy spot to rest and
there she falls fast asleep. Shh
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you might wake her up. She needs
to rest so she can do it all
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again tomorrow. Just like Olivia
needs her rest from being busy
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all day, we need our rest from
being busy all week. We learn at
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school or at home, we do chores,
we play, explore nature, some of
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you help out your parents in
your business or your neighbor
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on his farm or your grandma in
her garden. We are busy all week
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and we need a break. God knows
that so He made a time every
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day where we can sleep and He
made a time each week where we
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can rest. You see when God made
man, He gave us six days each
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week to do everyday things. But
He knew that by the end of the
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week we'd be pretty tired and
we would need a break. So on the
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seventh day of the week He gave
us a Sabbath rest so we can rest
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in Him and be rejuvenated
spiritually through Him.
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Rejuvenated means to get
your energy back so you can keep
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going. As you see right from
the beginning God was thinking
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of giving you rest. In Mark 2:27
Jesus explains this by saying:
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That means that the Sabbath was
made for us as a gift for all
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mankind, for every culture, for
everyone to enjoy rest in Him.
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I hope that at the end of your
week you get to rest and enjoy
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your Sabbath day. Until
next time boys and girls have a
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happy Sabbath. Adios.
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I was just thinking about love's
greatest gift (Miss Michelle)
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That's what our story's
about today. Let's pray.
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Dear heavenly Father, thank
you so very much for giving us
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love's greatest gift in Jesus.
Please send your Holy Spirit to
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be here with us
today. We love you. Amen.
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Do you remember where Jesus was
when we left off our story last
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week? He was in Herod's court.
Pilot had sent Him there hoping
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to patch things up and to make
things right with Herod. And
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Herod, you may have heard that
name before, you'd be right.
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He's the same Herod who killed
John the Baptist and he still
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felt guilty about that. In fact,
he thought maybe that by saving
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Jesus, he could make up for his
bad choice of killing John the
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Baptist and he also wanted to
see Jesus do some miracles first
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hand. So even though he looked
at Jesus as being and knew just
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like Pilot did that He was
innocent, he still wanted to put
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Him to the test. So he brought
in some sick people and he said
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if you heal them I'll set you
free. Do you think Jesus did?
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He didn't. I'm sure He wanted
to heal them, but He would have
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have been healing them for the
wrong reason. It would have been
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a selfish reason which
technically would have been a
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sin, right? So He didn't. Now
the priests were scared at this
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point because they thought that
maybe He would do the miracle
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but He didn't. And that's when
we're going to pick up the story
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in the book of Luke. Luke 23
verse 9 says: And he questioned
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Him with many words but He
answered him nothing. And then
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Herod and his men of war treated
Him with contempt and mocked Him
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which means that they mistreated
Him, and arrayed Him in a
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gorgeous robe and sent Him back
to Pilot. Herod really didn't do
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much of anything did he?
But verse 12 says, That very day
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Pilot and Herod became friends
with each other, for previously
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they had had enmity with each
other. So that part of it worked
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out, right? So He's back now
with Pilot. You see, at Passover
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there was a special tradition
and that was that one prisoner
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would be set free. That's right.
Someone who was very guilty
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would be set free. And Pilot had
an idea. He thought I'm going
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to choose a really bad prisoner.
Hmm, who should I pick?
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Barabbas. He was horrible. He
was a wicked prisoner. He looked
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evil and he was evil. He was
condemned to be crucified. He
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had already been tried. And
he thought, I'll set Jesus and
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Barabbas side by side and surely
they'll set Jesus free. But did
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they? Luke tells us more from
the story in verse 18: And they
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all cried out at once, Away
with this man and release to us
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Barabbas, who had been
thrown into prison for a certain
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rebellion made in the city and
for murder. Pilot, therefore,
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wishing to release Jesus again
called out to them, but they
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shouted saying Crucify Him,
Crucify Him. Then he said to
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them a third time, Why?
What evil has He done? I find no
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reason for death in Him. I will
therefore chastise Him and let
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Him go. But they were insistent
demanding with loud voices that
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He be crucified. And the voices
of these men and the chief
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prevailed. It was at this time
as well that Pilot got a note
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from his wife and his wife
said Don't do anything to Jesus.
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I had a dream about Him, please
don't. But did he listen to his
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wife? Did he listen to his very
own conscience? Let's see what
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happened. So Pilot gave sentence
that it should be as they
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requested and he released to
them the one that they requested
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who for rebellion and murder had
been thrown into prison but he
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delivered Jesus to their will.
He let Barabbas go free and
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Jesus he gave over to the ruckus
crowd Now during this time that
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He had been in the Roman control
the soldiers had been very
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unkind to Him and they had
whipped Him and hurt Him very
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badly and He hadn't had anything
to eat either since Passover
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supper Thursday night so He was
very hungry, He was bleeding.
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They had put now a crown of
thorns on His head and He was
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very weak. And they then brought
Jesus out and Pilot gave Him
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over to them. He washed his
hands in a basin of water, it
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says in Matthew to try to like
wash off what he had done or
just symbolize that he
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wasn't responsible. But we know
that he was responsible just
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like the priests and the people,
all the people shouting, Crucify
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Him were responsible. Jesus had
the guilt of all the sins of the
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world along with all the
physical suffering that He had
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had due to the Roman soldiers
and probably some of the Jewish
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people when they were trying
to pull Jesus away from them as
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well, hurt Him as well. And
Barabbas's cross, the cross that
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was meant to kill a criminal
was laid on Jesus's bleeding
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shoulders. The whips that they
used would have little pieces of
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rock or metal in them and so
those would dig into their back
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and it was just horrific. And
then they put that wood, which
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I'm sure was not sanded, um
what do you call, sanded? Right?
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When we do projects we
sand it so it's nice and smooth.
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I'm sure the wood from the cross
was not sanded and so then they
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placed that on Jesus's shoulders
Jesus was just simply too weak
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at that point and He staggered
under the weight of the cross
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and fell. It wasn't just
the weight of the cross He felt
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though. We talked about that
before. It was also the weight
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of all the sins of the
world. They put the cross on his
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shoulders yet again and He fell
again. He was carrying something
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even heavier, like I said, than
the cross. In Mark 15:21 it'll
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tell us what happened next. All
the gospels talk about this very
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important story in the life of
Jesus, Right? Mark 15 verse 21
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says: Then they compelled a
certain man, Simon a Cyrenian,
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the father of Alexander and
Rufus as he was coming out of
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the country passing by, to bear
Jesus's cross. And they brought
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him to the place Golgotha which
is translated The place of a
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skull Now Simon didn't know
Jesus but we know that actually
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his sons were followers of Jesus
and later he became a disciple
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as well. Jesus's special
disciples, where were they at
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this point Well thankfully
they were not hurt by the Jewish
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council or by the Roman
soldiers. They were following
along behind in the
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crowd and Mary Jesus' mother
was with John. She was full of
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sadness and pain and doubt at
this point as to whether her son
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was, in fact, the Messiah. And
they had hoped that He would use
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His special power, that Jesus
would use His special power and
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yet as they nailed Jesus to the
cross, Mary fainted. She fainted
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She fell and they took her away.
She couldn't imagine that this
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was actually happening to her
little boy. Pilot was angry at
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himself at this point and so
he decided to do something else
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besides just wash his hands.
He thought, I'm going to nail a
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sign to the top of the cross to
say exactly who this is and he
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was correct in what he said.
Let's see what it says here in
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John 19:19. So that's easy
to remember 19:19. It says: Now
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Pilot wrote a title and put it
on the cross and the writing was
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this: Jesus of Nazareth, the
King of the Jews. Then many of
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the Jews read this title for the
place where Jesus was crucified
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was near the city and if he
wrote it in three languages, in
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Hebrew, Greek, and Latin,
so everybody could read what it
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said. Therefore the chief
priests of the Jews said to
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Pilot, Do not write The King
of the Jews but He said I am the
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King of the Jews. And Pilot
answered, What I have written, I
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have written. He was up to here
with those priests and leaders
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wasn't he? Then the soldiers
when they had crucified Jesus
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took His garments and made four
parts, to each soldier a part,
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and also the tunic and the
tunic was without seam woven
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from the top in one piece. They
said therefore among themselves
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Let us not tear it but cast lots
for it whose it shall be that
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the scripture might be fulfilled
which says they divided my
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garments among them and for
my clothing they cast lots. What
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happened then at this
point? Jesus hung in between two
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thieves as we know, we see many
scenes of the crucifixion and
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there are three crosses, right?
One thief mocked him and made
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fun of him just like everyone
else was doing around them.
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But the other thief was thinking
maybe He is the Son of God.
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Maybe He can help me. He was
watching and remembering what He
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had heard Jesus say. He heard
Jesus say, Father, forgive them
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for they know not what they do.
And he asked Jesus to save him.
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Jesus was always thinking of
others, even on the cross, and
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Jesus spoke to the thief that
day and said: Surely today you
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you will be with me in Paradise.
It's very important where the
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comma is in that sentence. You
can talk to your parents about
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that one. But He was saying, I'm
telling you right now today as
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we hang on this cross when I
come again you're going to be
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with me because you've asked for
forgiveness. Isn't that amazing?
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Jesus was also thinking of
His mother and he saw His mother
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therewith John and He asked
John to take care of His mother.
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Jesus felt how God hates sin
because He felt that separation
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and He couldn't see beyond the
cross at this point. When He was
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here on earth, He told people
you know I will rise again in
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three days, Right? But now as He
hung on the cross, He couldn't
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see that. At noon as Jesus hung
on the cross it became dark and
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it stayed pitch dark for three
hours. This was Satan's last
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attempt. Jesus couldn't see
beyond the cross and he thought
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maybe at this point, He would
give up. Matthew 27 verse 45
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says...Matthew 27 verse 45.
Let's jump over there. 27:45
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Here we go. Now from the sixth
hour until the ninth hour there
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was darkness and at the ninth
hour Jesus cried out with a loud
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voice saying...And He said
in the language of their day but
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I'm going to use it in English
so we can understand, My God, My
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God, why have you forsaken me?
Some of those who stood there
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thought that they heard
something and they said, Is He
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calling for Elijah. But He
hadn't. He cried out and with a
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loud voice He yielded up His
spirit and He died. And Jesus
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though, He kept trusting God and
He didn't give up even when He
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felt that complete separation
from His heavenly Father. Even
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though He felt like God had left
Him He knew that that couldn't
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be true. The angels were there.
They were watching and they
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longed to help their Savior,
their friend, their Lord. But
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they couldn't, they weren't
allowed to. The darkness left
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and that's when Jesus cried
It Is Finished! and He died. Oh
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how He loves us. He loves us
so much. Our memory verse says
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Greater love has no one that
this than to lay down one's life
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for his friends. John 15 verse
13. That's what Jesus did for us
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that day. It wasn't just a
physical death that He died
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although He did. He died a
spiritual death as well because
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He felt that separation from God
You might say, the second death,
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Miss Michelle, what does that
mean? Well, I'm glad you asked.
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The second death. So the first
death like Adam and Eve they
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said the wages of sin is death.
And so Adam and Eve, they did
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die, right? But then it says
the gift of God is eternal life.
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Well there's technically two
deaths, right? My grandma died
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but I know I'm going to see
her again and she'll rise again.
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And yet people who make evil,
wicked decisions in life and
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decide not to be on Jesus'
team they may die now but then
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they're dead for forever. So
the second death is the forever
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death. The first death is
the I'll see you soon death. And
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that's the kind of death that
we die at the end of our lives,
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right? If we believe in Jesus.
Jesus died the second death for
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us and He conquered death,
He conquered sin and He reigned
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victorious and next week we're
going to find out about how that
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happened, right? I can't wait
because it's probably one of the
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most exciting stories in the
Bible. This to me is one of the
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most sad stories in the Bible
and yet happy at the same time.
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It's like a mixture of emotions
isn't it? And yet our next story
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next Sabbath, don't miss
it, it's one of the most joyous
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stories and I can't wait to tell
it to you guys. Blessings always
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Take care.
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Thank you Miss Michelle for
that Bible story. And thank you,
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Jesus for the wonderful gift of
His life for us. Now it's time
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for our answers to our
questions. Let's see what those
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answers were and
if you got them right.
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It's time for our new questions.
So are you ready? Questions
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number one: On what day was
Jesus crucified? On what day was
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Jesus crucified? Question number
two: What did Jesus say to the
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thief on the cross? What did
Jesus say to the thief on the
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cross? And question number three
What did the sign say that was
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put above Jesus's head? What did
the sign say that was put on the
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cross about Jesus's head? Now
you can send your answers to us
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at answers@startingwithjesus.com
and we'll give you a shout out
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on our website at
startingwithjesus so send us
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your answers at
answers@startingwithjesus.com
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Today's memory verse
is found in John 15:13.
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Have you heard of Seed Pod
Beginners? It's a 7-9 minute
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Podcast just for kids ages 0-5
years old. It can be used for
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family worship or your child's
special daily devotional time
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with Jesus. Each week has two
programs that focus on a major
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Bible story using guessing games
nature lessons, memory verse,
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Bible story, prayer
time, _ _ and more to reinforce
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the Bible story and character
lessons. And I know that you and
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your little ones will enjoy
listening to these programs and
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will learn so much about
God's word. So to find out more
00:24:17.19\00:24:22.49
information go to
startingwithjesus.com/seedpod
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startingwithjesus.com/seedpod.
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Hi boys and girls. Sometimes
when I hear certain sounds it
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reminds me of Bible stories.
I call those Bible Sounds. Does
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that ever happen to you? Let's
try it. I'll play some sounds
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and we'll identify them together
And when we do we'll see if it
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reminds of anything we find
in the Bible. Ready, Here's the
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the first one. Listen carefully.
(Wolves yapping and howling)
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Wow. That's a little scary isn't
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it? Well, those are wolves. In
the book of Matthew it warns us
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to beware of wolves in sheep's
clothing and in the book of
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Isaiah, it tells us that the
wolf and lamb will be grazing
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together in heaven. Wow, what
a scene. Okay, let's try another
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one. Ready? Listen carefully.
(Baby goats and bird calls)
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Ah isn't that so sweet? Those
are sounds of baby goats. The
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book of Leviticus mentions
a scapegoat when it describes
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the cleansing of the sanctuary.
And in the book of Daniel a goat
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represented the kingdom of
Greece. Okay how about we try
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one more. This one's going to be
tricky so listen very carefully.
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Ready? (sounds like birds
or frogs chirping or trilling)
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Did you guess frog because
that's what they were. They were
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frogs. Exodus tells us about
the second plague, the plague of
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frogs that were all over the
land when Pharaoh wouldn't let
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Israel go. I'm not sure they saw
frogs as sacred anymore after
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that, huh? That was fun
listening to Bible sounds. Keep
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your ears open this week and let
me know what sounds you heard.
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Bye. ¤ ¤
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Thank you for joining us today
and I'm so glad you were here.
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Now I know that you have
been looking forward to our VBS
00:26:53.21\00:26:57.15
program On Guard Night and Day.
And guess what? We're starting
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in just a few days. We're going
to have a great program. We're
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going to have some cooking,
learning about some Bible
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characters and a really exciting
evening storytime that you can
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listen to on our website at
startingwithjesus.com/onguard
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that's
startingwithjesus.com/onguard
00:27:13.93\00:27:17.93
and I can't wait to see you
there. We also have a really
00:27:17.97\00:27:22.17
exciting event coming up. If
any of you are going to be at
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Michigan Camp Meeting, you'll
be able to check out our booth,
00:27:25.37\00:27:28.91
Starting With Jesus Booth at
Michigan Camp Meeting and you'll
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get to meet some of the people
that you see and hear in our
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programs. So make sure to check
those out if you're at Michigan
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Camp Meeting. Before
we go let's say a prayer.
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Dear Jesus, thank you so much
for how much you love us. Thank
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for being willing to give your
life for us. I pray that you
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will help us to give our lives
for others and to show your love
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to those around us. Forgive us
for our sins. Please cleanse us
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from all unrighteousness
and help us to be like you.
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We love you, In
Jesus name, Amen.
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Thank you for
watching. Have a blessed week,
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and keep in touch.
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