1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:02,400 All right, I'm going to move my chair right over here. 2 00:00:02,400 --> 00:00:04,200 You guys can huddle right up around me here. 3 00:00:04,720 --> 00:00:07,000 Yes. There you go. 4 00:00:07,000 --> 00:00:12,120 All right, guys. All right. 5 00:00:12,120 --> 00:00:15,880 Thank you all for being up here. You get to help me teach what I 6 00:00:15,880 --> 00:00:18,360 taught you guys this week. But the the adults, your 7 00:00:18,360 --> 00:00:20,640 parents, your grandparents, your friends out there, they might 8 00:00:20,640 --> 00:00:22,240 not know some of the things we talked about this week. 9 00:00:22,240 --> 00:00:24,880 So this is going to be a lot of fun. 10 00:00:25,040 --> 00:00:30,880 Now, I must say that every year it is such an honor for me to 11 00:00:30,880 --> 00:00:34,280 get to teach the kids. And every year, you know, this 12 00:00:34,280 --> 00:00:35,400 year we were back in this corner. 13 00:00:35,760 --> 00:00:39,600 And I and I love the challenge of taking these principles and 14 00:00:39,600 --> 00:00:41,960 presenting them in a way that children can get right. 15 00:00:42,240 --> 00:00:46,080 And these principles that are true are true and in such a way 16 00:00:46,080 --> 00:00:49,680 where even when we're young, we can understand them and gather 17 00:00:49,680 --> 00:00:52,040 them. So you guys did super great this 18 00:00:52,040 --> 00:00:53,560 week and I had so much fun teaching. 19 00:00:53,560 --> 00:00:55,840 And what's fun for me is every year I see that you guys are 20 00:00:55,840 --> 00:00:58,080 growing a little bit every year as the years run by. 21 00:00:58,400 --> 00:01:00,800 Every year, you guys, Atticus, you got taller this year, right? 22 00:01:01,120 --> 00:01:02,880 Every year you're getting a little bit taller and taller, 23 00:01:02,880 --> 00:01:06,920 which is a lot of fun. OK, This year, the stories, I'm 24 00:01:06,920 --> 00:01:08,960 going to just highlight two of the stories that we talked about 25 00:01:08,960 --> 00:01:10,640 this week. And remember, the stories were 26 00:01:10,640 --> 00:01:13,800 found in John Chapter 8 and John Chapter 20. 27 00:01:14,000 --> 00:01:16,480 And both stories that we talked about, remember they had 28 00:01:16,640 --> 00:01:19,800 something to do with stones, right, Atticus? 29 00:01:19,800 --> 00:01:22,320 Do you remember that? Do you remember that, Audrey? 30 00:01:22,640 --> 00:01:24,080 Yeah. So the first story is in John 31 00:01:24,080 --> 00:01:26,880 Chapter 8, and it's it's a story that you might be familiar with. 32 00:01:27,120 --> 00:01:30,160 In John Chapter 8, there's a woman and she's caught doing 33 00:01:30,160 --> 00:01:32,600 something bad. She's making some bad choices 34 00:01:32,600 --> 00:01:34,800 and she's doing something that's that's bad. 35 00:01:35,080 --> 00:01:36,840 And the consequence. Do you guys ever have 36 00:01:36,840 --> 00:01:39,000 consequences at your house if you do something bad? 37 00:01:39,400 --> 00:01:40,920 Yeah. What kind of consequences do you 38 00:01:40,920 --> 00:01:42,480 have? Someone will, you know, 39 00:01:42,560 --> 00:01:44,440 sometimes a spanking, maybe. Sometimes. 40 00:01:46,000 --> 00:01:47,520 Yes. Louise, what kind of 41 00:01:47,520 --> 00:01:50,840 consequences might you have? Oh, hot sauce. 42 00:01:50,840 --> 00:01:54,160 That's an interesting one. That's a good one. 43 00:01:54,480 --> 00:01:59,400 And I think that sometimes maybe screen time might be taken away. 44 00:01:59,600 --> 00:02:03,920 Some things, yeah. Oh, you, you get a ground if 45 00:02:03,920 --> 00:02:05,480 you. So you know, our parents, 46 00:02:05,480 --> 00:02:08,320 because they love us. They have consequences for us 47 00:02:08,320 --> 00:02:10,000 sometimes when we do something bad. 48 00:02:10,160 --> 00:02:13,280 So in John chapter 8, you remember there's a woman and she 49 00:02:13,280 --> 00:02:15,040 makes a bad choice. She does something bad. 50 00:02:15,240 --> 00:02:17,640 And the people who there's some people to find out about and 51 00:02:17,640 --> 00:02:20,520 they're going to tattle on her. Do you ever had anybody 52 00:02:20,520 --> 00:02:22,160 tattletale on you when you do something wrong? 53 00:02:22,160 --> 00:02:24,840 Have you ever had that happen, Evan? 54 00:02:24,840 --> 00:02:26,680 Do you hated that? Because that's not any fun, 55 00:02:26,680 --> 00:02:29,120 isn't it? So these religious leaders, 56 00:02:29,200 --> 00:02:30,920 Eloise, what are you? What did you want to say? 57 00:02:31,240 --> 00:02:32,920 When you have you ever had somebody tattle on you? 58 00:02:34,640 --> 00:02:38,120 Eben sometimes tattle on you? Oh, I don't know. 59 00:02:39,920 --> 00:02:42,160 Oh, Eloise, Eben over here, they're siblings. 60 00:02:42,160 --> 00:02:44,440 This is Eloise and they're siblings. 61 00:02:44,440 --> 00:02:46,760 So maybe some, maybe sometimes. Well, what happened in this 62 00:02:46,760 --> 00:02:50,400 occasion is that these people, they caught this woman and they 63 00:02:50,400 --> 00:02:53,840 wanted to give her consequence. And the consequence they wanted 64 00:02:53,840 --> 00:02:56,720 to give her was actually taking rocks, like big rocks, not 65 00:02:56,720 --> 00:02:58,400 little rocks. I had a Little Rock, but I lost 66 00:02:58,400 --> 00:02:59,720 it. It was the rock that broke our 67 00:02:59,720 --> 00:03:02,440 front window last year. Remember, they got caught by a 68 00:03:02,480 --> 00:03:04,440 tire or something that broke the front window. 69 00:03:04,680 --> 00:03:07,720 Well, well, I know I thought it was on my desk, but when I went 70 00:03:07,720 --> 00:03:08,840 to find it this morning, wasn't there. 71 00:03:09,240 --> 00:03:12,200 So I don't know where it went to, but that Little Rock was 72 00:03:12,640 --> 00:03:14,080 maybe someone said he did take it. 73 00:03:14,080 --> 00:03:17,360 I don't know. But the in the story, remember 74 00:03:17,360 --> 00:03:20,600 they said that they wanted to throw rocks at this woman and 75 00:03:20,600 --> 00:03:24,080 they asked Jesus, Jesus, what do you think? 76 00:03:24,400 --> 00:03:26,800 Should we throw rocks at this woman because she did something 77 00:03:26,800 --> 00:03:29,040 bad? And who remembers what Jesus 78 00:03:29,040 --> 00:03:30,720 says? Atticus, can you tell me no? 79 00:03:31,160 --> 00:03:34,040 The the first one, you got it. It's right on the tip of your. 80 00:03:36,360 --> 00:03:39,040 Tongue Remember Evan, do you think you know? 81 00:03:39,040 --> 00:03:47,160 Tell people what Jesus said. He said whoever never sinned 82 00:03:47,160 --> 00:03:50,280 before that gets to throw this first stone. 83 00:03:50,280 --> 00:03:51,800 Very. Good, Evan. 84 00:03:51,800 --> 00:03:54,840 That's so good. Good job, Atticus. 85 00:03:54,840 --> 00:03:58,480 You too. So Jesus says, all right, he who 86 00:03:58,480 --> 00:04:01,880 has never done anything wrong, you get to throw the first stone 87 00:04:01,880 --> 00:04:02,840 at her. And do you remember what 88 00:04:02,840 --> 00:04:06,000 happened? They all dropped their stones, 89 00:04:06,880 --> 00:04:10,480 they all like, and Atticus is right because they all also had 90 00:04:10,480 --> 00:04:11,640 sinned. They all had made some bad 91 00:04:11,640 --> 00:04:12,760 choices. They had done some things that 92 00:04:12,760 --> 00:04:14,840 were wrong. Everybody's sinned, Atticus 93 00:04:14,840 --> 00:04:15,760 says. And that's true because the 94 00:04:15,760 --> 00:04:18,800 Bible says all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of 95 00:04:18,800 --> 00:04:21,920 God. So in this occasion, after 96 00:04:22,160 --> 00:04:24,800 everyone dropped their stone, Jesus looked at the woman and he 97 00:04:24,800 --> 00:04:27,800 said, woman, where are your accusers? 98 00:04:27,800 --> 00:04:30,160 In other words, where are your tattletales, the ones who were 99 00:04:30,160 --> 00:04:31,120 telling on you, where did they go? 100 00:04:31,120 --> 00:04:33,600 And they'd all dropped their stones and they'd all left. 101 00:04:33,960 --> 00:04:36,720 And then Jesus said something to a really interesting he said, go 102 00:04:36,720 --> 00:04:39,400 and sin no more. In other words, go and and don't 103 00:04:39,400 --> 00:04:41,160 do bad things again. That was his hope for her. 104 00:04:41,360 --> 00:04:44,560 But this is a beautiful picture of Jesus giving this woman 105 00:04:44,640 --> 00:04:47,600 forgiveness. And we all need forgiveness. 106 00:04:48,920 --> 00:04:51,440 And Atticus is right. God gives us forgiveness because 107 00:04:51,440 --> 00:04:52,840 of what Jesus did for us on the cross. 108 00:04:52,880 --> 00:04:53,960 Eloise, what did you want to say? 109 00:04:53,960 --> 00:04:57,840 God? God gives forgiveness to 110 00:04:57,920 --> 00:05:00,880 everyone, yes. He does God gives us forgiveness 111 00:05:00,880 --> 00:05:03,840 away generously. So in this occasion, we 112 00:05:03,840 --> 00:05:07,000 remembered that the stones. So we said this is that we 113 00:05:07,280 --> 00:05:08,920 seeing that they drop their stones. 114 00:05:08,920 --> 00:05:12,520 Well, we also drop our stones. And so that means let's say that 115 00:05:12,520 --> 00:05:15,240 we have a like maybe a brother or sister that hits us. 116 00:05:15,440 --> 00:05:18,560 We can hit him back. But instead, maybe a better 117 00:05:18,560 --> 00:05:21,000 choice would be able to say no stones. 118 00:05:21,640 --> 00:05:22,720 I don't have a stone to throw at them. 119 00:05:22,880 --> 00:05:24,240 Now, some people don't understand this. 120 00:05:24,240 --> 00:05:26,600 And remember I said that some people want to talk about having 121 00:05:26,600 --> 00:05:31,560 no stones, but they yell it like no stones, no stones. 122 00:05:31,840 --> 00:05:34,080 They might yell that way, but is that a nice way to say, I 123 00:05:34,080 --> 00:05:37,440 forgive you? No, Everybody knows that in this 124 00:05:37,440 --> 00:05:41,160 occasion, Jesus has encouraged us to say, hey, yes, Sadie, what 125 00:05:42,080 --> 00:05:46,240 are you going to say? No stones, No stones. 126 00:05:46,240 --> 00:05:50,040 That's what he said, no stones. So Sadie's just exactly right. 127 00:05:50,240 --> 00:05:52,880 We determined that we're going to be the type of people that 128 00:05:52,880 --> 00:05:56,000 when someone does something bad to us or something wrong, it's 129 00:05:56,000 --> 00:05:57,720 not that we won't tell on them because sometimes there's 130 00:05:57,720 --> 00:05:58,800 something that's something bad to us. 131 00:05:58,800 --> 00:06:01,480 Well, that needs to be told. But Jesus has given us an 132 00:06:01,480 --> 00:06:03,720 example here. Even the more they say when, 133 00:06:03,720 --> 00:06:06,880 when people do bad things to us, then we want to take up that 134 00:06:06,960 --> 00:06:10,040 idea of saying no stones. I'm not going to throw stones at 135 00:06:10,040 --> 00:06:12,800 others who do something wrong. Instead, what are we going to 136 00:06:12,800 --> 00:06:15,600 do? We're going to forgive because 137 00:06:15,600 --> 00:06:17,280 Jesus forgives and we want to be like God. 138 00:06:17,280 --> 00:06:19,480 We want to be like Jesus and he forgives. 139 00:06:19,600 --> 00:06:21,240 So that was the first story. It was about stones. 140 00:06:21,240 --> 00:06:24,120 And then there's a second story that also has stones. 141 00:06:24,120 --> 00:06:25,800 And you guys remember what that story was about. 142 00:06:26,000 --> 00:06:29,360 It was about Jesus on the on the morning of the resurrection. 143 00:06:29,360 --> 00:06:30,680 Audrey, what do you remember about that? 144 00:06:31,480 --> 00:06:37,040 In memory that when he died, he went, he got buried into a tomb 145 00:06:37,040 --> 00:06:41,240 because his body. And they rolled this big stone, 146 00:06:41,240 --> 00:06:44,800 which is called a tomb, and rolled in front of this, The 147 00:06:45,040 --> 00:06:49,480 Cave that his body was in and to protect him so no one could 148 00:06:49,480 --> 00:06:52,480 steal his body. And then the angels came and 149 00:06:52,480 --> 00:06:56,480 moved the biggest stone. And when Mary Magdalene. 150 00:06:58,920 --> 00:07:01,480 Yeah. In that amazing Audrey, good 151 00:07:01,560 --> 00:07:02,960 job. There's so many details that you 152 00:07:02,960 --> 00:07:04,400 remembered. Very, very good. 153 00:07:05,600 --> 00:07:09,160 So remember on the Sunday morning after Jesus had died, 154 00:07:09,320 --> 00:07:10,760 Mary Magdalene went to the two men. 155 00:07:10,760 --> 00:07:15,240 When she got there, remember the stone was rolled away. 156 00:07:15,400 --> 00:07:17,320 The stone was rolled away, Yes. What did you want to say? 157 00:07:18,200 --> 00:07:21,320 And he was alive in there. And Jesus was alive. 158 00:07:21,360 --> 00:07:24,520 Jesus came back to life. And so Mary Magdalene, she sees 159 00:07:24,520 --> 00:07:27,360 that the tomb has been rolled, the stone has been rolled away, 160 00:07:27,600 --> 00:07:29,760 but she doesn't go into the tomb, does she? 161 00:07:29,920 --> 00:07:31,400 What does she do? Do you guys remember? 162 00:07:31,400 --> 00:07:32,360 She. She. 163 00:07:34,280 --> 00:07:37,760 She was so surprised. And then John and Peter were 164 00:07:37,760 --> 00:07:41,720 running, and John actually running faster than Peter. 165 00:07:42,640 --> 00:07:45,520 So Audrey remembered this, I pointed out that John and in 166 00:07:45,520 --> 00:07:47,960 John chapter 20, when John is telling the story about Mary 167 00:07:47,960 --> 00:07:51,000 Magdalene comes and she says, hey, his body's not there. 168 00:07:51,160 --> 00:07:53,840 The stones been rolled away. John, who's the author of his 169 00:07:53,840 --> 00:07:57,240 book, John, he mentions twice that he ran faster than Peter, 170 00:07:57,440 --> 00:08:00,000 which is really funny because you know, boys will be boys in a 171 00:08:00,000 --> 00:08:02,880 way. So so John mentioned twice that 172 00:08:02,880 --> 00:08:07,400 he ran faster than Peter. But John gets to the tomb first, 173 00:08:07,400 --> 00:08:08,960 but he doesn't, he doesn't go in. 174 00:08:08,960 --> 00:08:10,720 Peter gets there and Peter goes in. 175 00:08:10,720 --> 00:08:14,280 And when Peter goes in, he finds that Jesus is not there because 176 00:08:14,280 --> 00:08:19,200 the stone have been rolled away. Now, I want to tell you, I told 177 00:08:19,200 --> 00:08:20,920 you guys this and I'm now I'm going to tell everyone else so 178 00:08:20,920 --> 00:08:22,320 they can remember. But let me ask you this 179 00:08:22,320 --> 00:08:24,840 question. Did the stone need to be rolled 180 00:08:24,840 --> 00:08:27,520 away for Jesus to get out of the tomb? 181 00:08:27,520 --> 00:08:29,600 Who remembers? Do you remember the answer Evan? 182 00:08:29,600 --> 00:08:31,120 Do you want to tell me? Come close to the microphone. 183 00:08:31,920 --> 00:08:35,280 The question is, did the stone have to be rolled away for Jesus 184 00:08:35,280 --> 00:08:37,960 to get out of the tomb? And the answer, Evan, is. 185 00:08:38,799 --> 00:08:41,960 No. No, Jesus can go through walls. 186 00:08:41,960 --> 00:08:43,760 Jesus can go anywhere at any time. 187 00:08:43,919 --> 00:08:47,440 The stone did not get rolled away, so Jesus could get out. 188 00:08:47,440 --> 00:08:51,360 The stone got a rolled rolled away so that who remembers? 189 00:08:51,680 --> 00:08:54,200 Does anybody remember? OK, what was the answer do? 190 00:08:55,920 --> 00:08:58,040 You remember so they would notice that he wasn't there. 191 00:08:59,160 --> 00:09:01,760 The stone got rolled away, not so that Jesus could get out, but 192 00:09:01,760 --> 00:09:06,400 watch so that we could get in. And this is a really big 193 00:09:06,400 --> 00:09:09,240 principle because here's here's the idea is that Jesus rolled 194 00:09:09,240 --> 00:09:12,920 the stone away in order to help people to believe because that's 195 00:09:12,920 --> 00:09:15,920 what Jesus is like. Jesus goes out of his way to 196 00:09:15,920 --> 00:09:18,880 help people believe. And a lot of times when people 197 00:09:18,880 --> 00:09:20,160 explain God, they don't explain in that way. 198 00:09:20,160 --> 00:09:22,680 They think, oh, God makes it really, really, really hard to 199 00:09:22,680 --> 00:09:25,480 believe, but he doesn't. God gives us all. 200 00:09:25,480 --> 00:09:27,920 You know, sometimes you might call it a God wink or a God 201 00:09:27,920 --> 00:09:31,320 moment where you'll see God and maybe the sunrise or maybe a 202 00:09:31,320 --> 00:09:33,640 friend will speak something to you or your mom and dad might 203 00:09:33,640 --> 00:09:35,440 say something. You're like, wow, that feels 204 00:09:35,440 --> 00:09:38,640 like the Lord moving and doing something through that person. 205 00:09:38,960 --> 00:09:41,320 And so we look for those moments and when we explain Jesus, 206 00:09:41,320 --> 00:09:43,520 that's what we explain. I'm like, well, a lot of times 207 00:09:43,520 --> 00:09:45,120 people explain Jesus wrong, right? 208 00:09:45,440 --> 00:09:48,280 And let's say someone tried to explain me and they said, OK, 209 00:09:48,280 --> 00:09:49,360 well, let me tell you about Kurt. 210 00:09:49,640 --> 00:09:52,040 And they said, well, one of the things about Kurt is he has he 211 00:09:52,040 --> 00:09:53,680 has really long black curly hair. 212 00:09:53,680 --> 00:09:57,120 Would that be right? No, that'd be like Atticus. 213 00:09:57,120 --> 00:09:59,200 Atticus is that's like me, right? 214 00:09:59,440 --> 00:10:01,120 So no, that wouldn't be. They would be. 215 00:10:01,120 --> 00:10:02,320 And that's how people are with God. 216 00:10:02,320 --> 00:10:03,840 They're like, they explained them all wrong. 217 00:10:04,080 --> 00:10:06,040 What if someone tried to explain me and they said, oh, Kurt's 218 00:10:06,040 --> 00:10:09,000 about as tall as Audrey. Audrey, can you stand up for me? 219 00:10:09,320 --> 00:10:11,280 What if somebody said, well, he's about this tall? 220 00:10:11,280 --> 00:10:13,680 Would that be right? No. 221 00:10:13,800 --> 00:10:16,760 I'm taller than that. What if somebody said, oh, I'll 222 00:10:16,760 --> 00:10:19,960 tell you one thing about Kurt. He's a terrible, terrible, awful 223 00:10:19,960 --> 00:10:22,040 guitar player. Would that be true? 224 00:10:22,480 --> 00:10:24,840 No. Well, thank you for saying so. 225 00:10:25,640 --> 00:10:28,120 Yeah, they wouldn't. They wouldn't be explaining me 226 00:10:28,120 --> 00:10:28,440 right. Right. 227 00:10:28,440 --> 00:10:30,840 If they said he has long, curly black hair, if he's only as tall 228 00:10:30,840 --> 00:10:32,920 as Audrey and he's a terrible guitar player, that wouldn't be 229 00:10:32,920 --> 00:10:36,560 like what I am, right. So sometimes people explain God 230 00:10:36,920 --> 00:10:40,240 by saying, oh, God makes it hard to believe, but God doesn't make 231 00:10:40,240 --> 00:10:42,200 it hard to believe. In fact, God goes out of his way 232 00:10:42,200 --> 00:10:45,120 to help us believe and that's why the stone gets rolled away. 233 00:10:45,120 --> 00:10:52,920 Yes, Eloise. He he just disappeared in the by 234 00:10:54,040 --> 00:10:55,280 her. Yes. 235 00:10:55,440 --> 00:10:58,560 So then what happened is Peter and John go into the tomb and 236 00:10:58,560 --> 00:11:01,080 they see that Jesus is gone. Yes, Sadie. 237 00:11:04,640 --> 00:11:08,920 God believes us and He gives us second chances because He loves 238 00:11:08,920 --> 00:11:10,720 us all the time. Yes, he does. 239 00:11:13,040 --> 00:11:16,840 That is super good, Sadie. So what I want you to remember 240 00:11:17,120 --> 00:11:20,120 when you see the rock and you think about the the stone being 241 00:11:20,120 --> 00:11:23,360 rolled away on that Easter Sunday morning, I want you to 242 00:11:23,360 --> 00:11:26,160 remember that Jesus has the stone rolled away by the angels. 243 00:11:26,160 --> 00:11:29,400 Because Jesus goes out of his way to help us to believe. 244 00:11:29,960 --> 00:11:32,040 Because there'll be times in our life where it might be hard to 245 00:11:32,040 --> 00:11:34,200 believe. Maybe there'll be times seasons 246 00:11:34,200 --> 00:11:36,120 of your life will go. Does God really love us? 247 00:11:36,440 --> 00:11:38,040 Did Jesus really come to save us? 248 00:11:38,320 --> 00:11:41,320 Did Jesus really die on a cross and was he really resurrected? 249 00:11:41,560 --> 00:11:42,480 There might be times in your life. 250 00:11:42,480 --> 00:11:44,360 Or go, wait a minute, do I really believe that? 251 00:11:44,680 --> 00:11:47,280 Well, yes, you can believe it. And God's going to give you even 252 00:11:47,280 --> 00:11:50,680 more and more things in your life that will help you to 253 00:11:50,680 --> 00:11:51,880 believe if you'll just look for them. 254 00:11:52,120 --> 00:11:54,720 So look for stones that are being rolled away that are 255 00:11:54,720 --> 00:11:58,200 evidence of God's great love for us. 256 00:11:59,080 --> 00:12:00,360 Yes, Eloise, what do you want to say? 257 00:12:02,600 --> 00:12:04,160 He died on the cross for us, yes. 258 00:12:05,280 --> 00:12:07,720 Jesus did. Jesus died on the cross for us 259 00:12:07,880 --> 00:12:09,920 and Audrey say 1 Tell me one more thing. 260 00:12:10,920 --> 00:12:13,320 Some people believe that the world just blew up. 261 00:12:13,640 --> 00:12:17,200 Yeah, like The Big Bang Theory. Yeah, I think that that could 262 00:12:17,200 --> 00:12:18,640 have been how God created the world. 263 00:12:18,640 --> 00:12:22,520 He could have said let there be light and boom, bang, light 264 00:12:22,520 --> 00:12:24,440 appeared. Atticus, last guy, what do you 265 00:12:24,440 --> 00:12:27,840 want to say? He died and. 266 00:12:28,000 --> 00:12:29,080 Uncrossed for our sins? Yes, Jesus did. 267 00:12:29,280 --> 00:12:30,800 OK. Will you guys stand next to me 268 00:12:30,800 --> 00:12:32,680 and wave at everybody? Thank you for helping me teach 269 00:12:32,680 --> 00:12:40,900 this morning. So adults, when you think about 270 00:12:40,900 --> 00:12:44,540 the stone being rolled away, remember that God goes out of 271 00:12:44,540 --> 00:12:46,180 his way to help you to believe. And you might be here this 272 00:12:46,180 --> 00:12:48,340 morning and maybe you've been rustling and struggling to 273 00:12:48,340 --> 00:12:50,700 believe, and maybe your prayer would be this simple. 274 00:12:50,700 --> 00:12:53,580 God help me believe. Give me some stones that are 275 00:12:53,580 --> 00:12:58,720 rolled away in my life that will point me and strengthen my my 276 00:12:58,720 --> 00:13:01,320 love for you. God help me to even the more be 277 00:13:01,320 --> 00:13:04,000 strong in our faith through those moments where God rolls 278 00:13:04,000 --> 00:13:06,600 stones away. Let me pray for us. 279 00:13:07,800 --> 00:13:09,760 Jesus. I'm so grateful for this week. 280 00:13:09,760 --> 00:13:12,560 How fun it was to do Vacation Bible school. 281 00:13:12,840 --> 00:13:15,640 Thank you for our church God and thank you that our children are 282 00:13:15,640 --> 00:13:18,480 growing to love you and growing in your ways. 283 00:13:18,880 --> 00:13:24,240 God help us as a church to point our children well to you and to 284 00:13:24,240 --> 00:13:28,240 teach them well about your grace and forgiveness. 285 00:13:28,240 --> 00:13:29,840 Thank you for the forgiveness that we know. 286 00:13:29,840 --> 00:13:34,120 And you help us, God, to become people who say no stones, no 287 00:13:34,120 --> 00:13:37,440 stones. And God help us to be the also 288 00:13:37,440 --> 00:13:41,960 people who realize and live our lives in light of the fact that 289 00:13:41,960 --> 00:13:45,720 you help us to believe. You make it easy to believe and 290 00:13:45,720 --> 00:13:48,240 to follow you. So we come after you. 291 00:13:48,280 --> 00:13:51,880 Jesus, we thank you for your love and your salvation and your 292 00:13:51,880 --> 00:13:54,840 forgiveness in our lives. And Jesus name and everyone said 293 00:13:55,480 --> 00:13:57,680 Amen and Amen. All right, let's all stand 294 00:13:57,680 --> 00:13:59,520 together with the kids right here next to me. 295 00:13:59,520 --> 00:14:01,600 I want to say a blessing. Can you huddle up kids? 296 00:14:01,600 --> 00:14:03,480 And we'll say a blessing if everyone will stand. 297 00:14:03,480 --> 00:14:07,240 I want to send you out with this blessing before you go, if 298 00:14:07,240 --> 00:14:09,760 you'll prepare your heart to receive this blessing. 299 00:14:12,600 --> 00:14:16,840 And now may the Lord bless you and keep you, and may make his 300 00:14:16,840 --> 00:14:20,120 face to shine upon you. And may the joy of the Lord that 301 00:14:20,120 --> 00:14:23,280 is unspeakable and full of glory, may it abound to you. 302 00:14:23,280 --> 00:14:27,280 And may the peace of God that passes all understanding, may it 303 00:14:27,280 --> 00:14:30,160 surprise you in the midst of all of the challenges that life 304 00:14:30,160 --> 00:14:32,320 brings. And they made the mercies of the 305 00:14:32,320 --> 00:14:34,440 Lord, in other words, the forgiveness of God. 306 00:14:34,720 --> 00:14:37,440 That is new every morning. May it be especially new to you 307 00:14:37,440 --> 00:14:39,880 now and your mornings to come. And now may the Lord Jesus 308 00:14:39,880 --> 00:14:43,680 Christ guard your heart and your mind, your salt and your light. 309 00:14:43,960 --> 00:14:45,960 Go now and be salt and light into the world. 310 00:14:45,960 --> 00:14:48,560 You are blessed. We'll see you again soon.