Amazing Adventures

Slaying The Dragon

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Participants: Pr. Doug Batcholor

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00:04 In a world surrounded by darkness there is a voice
00:09 that whispers to every young heart,
00:12 urging them to find the treasure of truth.
00:22 Those who follow the path
00:23 will discover eternal riches beyond their wildest dreams.
00:27 Join us now for an "Amazing Adventure,
00:30 A Journey for Life with Jesus."
00:36 Good evening, friends, welcome back
00:38 to an "Amazing Adventure, A Journey for Life with Jesus.
00:42 This is a live Bible series just for kids
00:46 and wherever you might be, across the country,
00:48 or around the world,
00:50 we hope that you will take your seat
00:51 and get your Bible in hand as we look at God's word
00:56 and launch off another very important adventure.
00:59 I'd like to welcome all of our children here
01:01 at our local site in the Dallas area in Taxes.
01:04 We believe in the power of prayer, don't we?
01:07 Last night we announced
01:09 the coming of a hurricane for those of you
01:11 who are watching, Hurricane Ike was brewing in the Gulf,
01:15 yesterday evening last night.
01:17 It came ashore and the Dallas
01:20 was sort of in the path of this hurricane,
01:22 but we've been praying that the Lord would bless
01:25 and God has moved the hurricane over
01:28 so that we just getting a little bit of rain
01:30 and not too much wind.
01:31 So, God answers prayer.
01:33 He can still control the weather
01:36 and that's the good news.
01:37 We want to thank all of those who have been watching,
01:38 for your prayers as well.
01:40 We hope that everything will go well this evening,
01:42 but if there are some technical challenges,
01:45 you know why.
01:46 But we thank God that we have a signal right now
01:48 and we trust that everything will go well.
01:51 Our topic this evening that we'll be studying together
01:55 is "Slaying the Dragon," we do have our study guides
01:58 that go along with the topic
01:59 for tonight, "Slaying the Dragon."
02:01 Those of you who are watching,
02:03 you can get more information about these study guides
02:05 by going to amazingfactskids.org
02:10 You can also find out more about the t-shirts
02:12 that our children here at the local side are wearing
02:15 I know some of the downlink sites
02:17 also have t-shirts available.
02:19 We've also been using this beautiful Bible
02:22 that is get towards children,
02:24 it's a New King James translation,
02:27 and our website at amazingfactskids.org,
02:31 has more information about the Bibles as well,
02:33 printed by Review and Herald.
02:36 Well, are you ready to sing our theme song once more
02:39 for this evening?
02:40 I'm gonna invite the Amazing Adventure singers
02:43 to come forward. Thank you, Graciela.
02:45 And we're gonna stand together as we sing our song.
02:50 Let's all stand together.
02:54 Life is an Adventure Following the King
02:59 Every day with Jesus Makes us want to sing
03:04 Walking in the Spirit He will lead the way
03:09 With His Word to guide us Glowing deep inside us
03:14 Nothing can divide us Following the King
03:20 Life is an adventure Following the King
03:25 Every day with Jesus Makes us want to sing
03:30 Conquering with kindness Everywhere we go
03:35 Voices we are raising Jesus we are praising
03:41 Life is so amazing Following the King
03:46 Life is so amazing Following the King.
03:54 Please remain standing for our scripture reading,
03:56 I'm gonna invite David to come
03:58 and Gillian to come forward for the prayer.
04:01 And so if you have a Bible in front of you,
04:03 you can open up your Bible at this time
04:05 to James Chapter 4, verse 7 and 8.
04:07 "Therefore submit to God.
04:09 Resist the devil and he will flee from you.
04:12 Draw near to God and He will draw near to you."
04:15 All right, thank you very much.
04:17 Let's bow our heads and close eyes
04:20 as Jillian brings us the prayer, let us pray.
04:25 Jesus, thank You for this wonderful
04:26 and glorious day You've given us.
04:29 Please help the hurricane to not hit us at all,
04:31 just help everyone and help the Amazing Facts
04:35 to learn about us and everything.
04:38 In Jesus precious and holy name, amen.
04:40 Amen, thank you very much.
04:42 Pastor Doug, we invite you to come forward again,
04:44 we do have some Bible questions again tonight.
04:47 Amen, good morning everyone,
04:49 evening, I said, morning, it's morning somewhere,
04:52 this is going all over the world
04:54 so I was talking to those in South Africa right now.
04:58 We have some video questions
04:59 and I think we can start
05:01 with the video questions right now.
05:02 Okay. So we'll roll that.
05:05 How do we know that the Bible is true?
05:08 How many of you read your Bible's today?
05:11 Some of you just read it a few minutes ago,
05:12 I mean, before the scripture reading.
05:14 Good for you, bless your heart.
05:16 We're gonna try to read the Bible everyday,
05:18 because we found out if you taste you will,
05:21 for yourself you'll find out that God is good,
05:24 and the Bible is true.
05:26 One of the great evidences of the truth of the Bible,
05:29 it changes lives not only that,
05:32 the prophecies in the Bible that God has made come true.
05:36 And so when God tells us the future
05:38 and everything He foretells happens,
05:40 then we realize that it's the truth, that God is real.
05:44 And so there is so much evidence
05:46 in the Bible scientifically, historically, prophetically,
05:50 the greatest evidence is it works.
05:53 How many of you when you went to school,
05:54 you used the multiplication table,
05:56 you ever used the multiple-- let me see your hands.
05:59 Why do you use the multiplication table?
06:02 Because it works, right?
06:05 And the reason we read the Bible is and believe it,
06:08 it's true, it works that's why it's been
06:10 the best selling book for.
06:12 Well since Moses started writing 3,500 years ago,
06:16 I think that's pretty good evidence.
06:18 Well, Pastor Doug, here's proof
06:19 that there really is a storm brewing right above us,
06:22 I see some water drops landing on our mystery chest.
06:26 Our mystery chest may go up in smoke if it shots out,
06:30 but we'll just keep praying.
06:32 All right, we have another question
06:33 somebody wrote in, this is Star,
06:35 he is in the 5th grade and here's his question.
06:38 "How old are you? My mom loves your speeches."
06:43 Well, now my name is Pastor Batchelor,
06:45 but I'm a married Batchelor just let mom know that,
06:48 I'm sure she didn't mean anything by that.
06:50 But I'm, I forget, I'm 51-years-old
06:54 and the older you get the more you forget who old you are.
06:58 All right, well, good, we have another
06:59 video question at this time so we'll role that.
07:02 My name is Stephen of Lauderdale
07:04 and I'm 9-years-old, my question is,
07:06 did the Lord invent dinosaurs?
07:10 Did the Lord invent dinosaurs?
07:12 I think, he's asking, of course,
07:13 did the Lord create dinosaurs?
07:16 Well, how many of you have seen
07:17 pictures of dinosaur bones?
07:20 And you've maybe seeing anything from Barney cartoons
07:23 to all kinds of things about dinosaurs.
07:26 I grew up in New York city across the street
07:30 from a very famous museum
07:31 called The American Museum of Natural History,
07:34 and ever since I could remember,
07:36 I was your age, I'd go back then,
07:37 you could go for free, at least kids could.
07:40 And I'd look at all of these great big dinosaur bones,
07:42 the evidence for dinosaur is all over the world
07:45 and I believe there were dinosaurs.
07:48 I don't think the artist paint them very well,
07:49 they make them all look like their skin
07:51 was kind of gray elephant color,
07:53 that's because from bones we don't know
07:55 what the color of their skin was, they may have been
07:57 very beautiful patterns on their, their skin.
08:00 But dinosaurs really lived,
08:02 the problem is that you've often heard a fairytale
08:06 about the age of the dinosaurs.
08:08 The dinosaurs, those are big reptiles,
08:11 they lived before the time of the flood,
08:14 during the days of Noah, and Adam,
08:16 but God made all kinds of different creatures.
08:18 We got some little dinosaurs today,
08:20 they're called Komodo dragons,
08:22 as matter of fact, you'll hear about
08:24 that in your lesson tonight when you get your lesson.
08:27 All right, here's another question that Megan sent in,
08:30 she's in 4th grade and her question is,
08:32 "What is your favorite story in the Bible?"
08:35 You know, I saw that question before the program
08:37 and I was having problems thinking about it.
08:39 Because I tell you,
08:40 one of my favorite stories is the story of Joseph,
08:44 Joseph who is mistreated by his brothers,
08:46 sold like a slave by his own brothers,
08:50 spent years as a slave
08:51 and then he falsely accused and imprisoned.
08:53 And he never stop trusting God,
08:56 and because he was faithful in his youth
08:59 and he did what his father on earth
09:01 and his Father in heaven asked him.
09:03 And one day he went from the prison to the place
09:06 because he was faithful in little things,
09:08 God knew he could trust Joseph to be rule over many things.
09:12 And his brothers came to him one day
09:15 and they were begging for bread
09:17 and the Lord used Joseph to save his family
09:19 and you know the wonderful thing he forgave them,
09:23 everything they did to him.
09:24 It was a toss up between Joseph and David,
09:26 I tell you David and Goliath
09:28 is a great story, that's a great story.
09:31 All right, well Pastor Doug,
09:32 I think we have one more video question for this evening,
09:35 so we'll do that at this time.
09:37 Hi, my name is Gracey Staley, and my question is,
09:41 "Why did the devil disguise as a snake
09:43 and not any other animal?"
09:45 Oh, yeah, now I don't know
09:47 how well our friends that are watching
09:49 at home could see this, maybe a camera can zoom in,
09:51 pardon me, Pastor Ross.
09:52 You see we got up here on the stage,
09:56 some of you can see this,
10:00 he won't hurt you, this is a rubber snake.
10:03 But when you think of snake, how many, any of you girls
10:05 out there afraid to snakes?
10:10 Any of you boys admit to being afraid of snakes?
10:14 Couple of boys, do you know that Pastor Doug,
10:18 when I lived up in the mountain in a cave,
10:21 we had Rattlesnakes up there, I've eaten snake before.
10:25 And you know what?
10:26 You don't want to do it, you know why?
10:30 Well, a couple of reasons, one is Bible says,
10:31 you shouldn't it, another reason is did
10:33 the lot of work and you don't get
10:34 anything out of it, they don't have much,
10:36 much on, it's not safe.
10:39 But snakes are something God made,
10:43 they were beautiful creatures in the garden,
10:44 and matter of fact it says,
10:45 the reason the devil used the snake is because,
10:48 it was so beautiful and so hypnotic.
10:51 And probably had wings back then,
10:54 and that's why God cursed it,
10:55 didn't had to go on the ground that means
10:56 before God cursed it, it didn't have to do that.
11:00 And so we're gonna talk a little bit
11:02 more about that in our study tonight.
11:04 All right, well thank you very much
11:05 if you have a Bible question, those of you who are watching
11:08 if you have a Bible question
11:09 you can go to the Amazing Facts Kids website,
11:12 you can type in your Bible question
11:14 and we'll try and get your question in
11:16 during our program here.
11:18 Well, we're gonna invite
11:19 our Amazing Adventure singers to come forward,
11:21 the song they will be singing this evening is
11:23 "I Will Give Them A New Heart."
11:43 And I will give them an heart to know me
11:52 That I am the Lord
12:00 And they shall be my people
12:05 And I will be their God
12:09 For they shall return unto me with their whole heart
12:19 I will give them an heart to know me
12:24 I will give them an heart to know
12:28 I will give them an heart to know
12:32 That I am the Lord
12:45 And I will give them an heart to know me
12:52 To know me, That I am the Lord
13:00 I am the Lord And they shall be my people
13:08 And I will be their God
13:12 For they shall return unto me with their whole heart
13:22 I will give them an heart to know me
13:27 I will give them an heart to know
13:32 I will give them an heart to know
13:35 That I am the Lord
13:50 I will give them an heart to know me
13:55 I will give them an heart to know
14:00 I will give them an heart to know
14:03 That I am the Lord.
14:18 Amen, that was beautiful, amen.
14:24 I sure appreciate that.
14:27 Hey, thank you so much that music is beautiful
14:29 some of our Amazing Adventure singers have come
14:31 from different parts of the country
14:33 and I want to thank Ms. Graciela and Kelly Mavor,
14:35 who's done such a beautiful job on the piano.
14:37 Again, welcome to our friends who are watching
14:39 from all different parts of North America
14:42 and around the world, we're very grateful
14:45 that you are tuned into this program.
14:48 And I hope you'll be praying, because we're having
14:50 the fringes of our hurricane that are going by
14:53 right during this broadcast,
14:55 the devil does not want you to hear tonight's study.
14:59 I think it's interesting out of all the places
15:01 that a leak could form in this church,
15:04 the water is dripping right on the mystery chest.
15:08 The devil doesn't want you to know
15:09 what you're gonna learn out of that box tonight.
15:12 And so you'll understand that better as we begin,
15:15 our lesson tonight you'll be getting a copy of this lesson
15:19 is dealing with the subject of "Slaying a Dragon."
15:23 And we're gonna talk about dragon country,
15:28 we're gonna talk about the most amazing adventure,
15:31 life there's good and evil, how many of you realize that?
15:36 And there's an enemy out there
15:39 and he does not want you to be safe,
15:42 he is the opposite of everything that is good.
15:45 And a lot of people don't understand
15:48 that God is love and God is good
15:49 because of the dragon.
15:51 So we're gonna talk about how to slay the dragon.
15:53 You know it's very interesting that all through history
15:57 in different parts of the world,
15:59 there are stories about flying dragons,
16:02 how many of you have heard stories about flying dragons?
16:05 Well you know there are some reptiles today
16:07 that actually fly, matter of fact
16:09 you can read a verse in the Bible,
16:10 in Isaiah 14 verse 29 and it says, "
16:13 "Its offspring will be a fiery flying serpent."
16:17 They got lizards they don't really flap
16:20 but they stretch out the rib cages
16:21 and they glide and they've got snakes in Indonesia
16:25 that when they jump from tree to tree,
16:27 they spread out their ribs
16:29 and they can glide, a gliding snake.
16:32 But you know, we found from the dinosaur bones
16:35 that they were actually some very large flying reptiles,
16:39 you would have called them flying dragons.
16:41 They had this Giant Pterosaurs
16:44 and there were several different varieties of them
16:47 but the biggest one over 44 foot wing span,
16:51 you know that's bigger than like a Cessna airplane.
16:55 Wouldn't you say that's a flying dragon?
16:58 Matter of fact, some of them had
17:01 big flat bones on their head
17:03 and the paleontologist wondered,
17:05 did they use that to help steer,
17:07 turn their head like a rudder backwards from an airplane.
17:11 And some of them had hollow bones
17:13 in their head with empty chambers
17:14 and they're wondering what was that for.
17:16 One scientist theorized,
17:18 you ever had of bombardier beetle,
17:21 bombardier beetle is a beetle that fliers a fiery liquid
17:24 by mixing two chemical that it has in chambers.
17:28 And they thought what if some of those
17:30 flying pterosaurs had chemicals in their chambers,
17:33 we can't tell from the fossils and they used to spit,
17:37 you know cobra's spit maybe flying
17:40 dragons really did spit
17:42 some kind of fiery chemical, we don't know.
17:45 But all the different cultures in the world
17:47 have stories about these fiery dragons,
17:49 these flying dragons.
17:52 And there really were some reptiles that flied,
17:54 that flew back before the time of the flood.
17:58 You know, the Bible tells us
17:59 that the devil is compared to a dragon
18:03 and it tells us that the dragon
18:04 is gonna be slain by the Lord.
18:06 You can read this in Isaiah 27, verse 1,
18:09 "In that day the Lord with his sore
18:11 and great and strong sword shall punish
18:15 that crooked serpent,
18:17 and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea."
18:20 The devil is called the serpent,
18:22 the devil is called the dragon
18:24 and I know it may not be a very happy subject
18:26 but tonight we're gonna talk about
18:28 why is there evil in the world why are we tempted?
18:31 Why do bad things happen to good people?
18:34 And so we're going to go to
18:35 our study guide tonight learn about that,
18:36 I just wanted to remember to tell you something,
18:39 you'll be collecting all the study guide,
18:41 you may want to do what Pastor Doug did.
18:43 I just went and got one of these little notebooks
18:45 and I punched holds in my study guides
18:47 and I keep them all together.
18:48 So the things you learn from these study, friends
18:51 you can then take them to your friend, and say,
18:53 "Wow, I want to tell you about the Amazing Adventure series,"
18:55 and you can study with your friends,
18:57 the wonderful things you're gonna learn.
18:58 So just a thought I wanted to share with you.
19:01 Lesson number two on the Slaying the Dragon,
19:05 question number one, "Who is this dragon
19:09 and where did he come from?"
19:11 Now where we're gonna get our answers for these questions.
19:14 Everything we're teaching you tonight
19:16 is based on the Bible, we're getting our information
19:19 from God's holy book that never fails.
19:22 If you read in the Bible in Luke Chapter 10 verse 18,
19:26 Jesus said this,
19:27 "I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven."
19:32 So where did the devil come from?
19:35 The devil in heaven.
19:37 Let's keep reading, Revelation Chapter 12 verse 9,
19:40 "So that great dragon," there he is,
19:43 that's a nickname for the devil,
19:45 "That great dragon was cast out,
19:47 that serpent of old, called the Devil and Satan,
19:51 who deceives the whole world."
19:53 The whole world has been deceived by the devil,
19:55 he doesn't want them to know that he really exists.
19:58 And it goes on to say, "He was cast to the earth,
20:01 and his angels were cast out with him."
20:04 We're gonna find out more
20:05 about the devil's angels in just a minute.
20:08 So something happened, you might be wondering,
20:11 did God make a devil in heaven.
20:13 Question number two, "Who made the devil?
20:16 And is he really a dragon?"
20:19 And you might be thinking why did God make a devil?
20:21 Let's find out what the Bible says,
20:23 Ezekiel Chapter 28
20:25 you learn a lot about where Satan come from and the devil.
20:28 And there the Lord says, "You were created.
20:30 You were the anointed cherub who covers,
20:34 and I established you."
20:35 You see, by the throne of God,
20:38 you can read this in Isaiah Chapter 6,
20:41 there are two very mighty angels
20:45 and they hover by the throne of God,
20:46 they are the top angels.
20:48 Lucifer was the highest of the angels, right,
20:51 they called him a covering cherub,
20:53 right by the throne of God.
20:55 He was the General of all the other angels.
20:59 Now everything in the world was created except one thing,
21:06 who knows what's not, what was not created?
21:11 God, who created God.
21:14 God has always been there.
21:16 So the most powerful of all of God's creations
21:21 was this beautiful angel and his name.
21:24 Well, I'm getting ahead of myself,
21:25 I'm not gonna tell you his name yet.
21:27 The Bible says in John, in 1 John Chapter 3 verse 8,
21:30 "The devil sinneth from the beginning."
21:33 So sin originated with who?
21:36 The devil, it began with Satan.
21:38 "That old serpent called the Devil and Satan."
21:42 And he's got a lot of names, he's called the advisory,
21:44 he's called the enemy,
21:45 he's called the prince of darkness,
21:46 he's called Beelzebub.
21:49 And if you take the letter d
21:51 off of devil what does that spell? Evil.
21:55 The girls got that one real quick.
21:58 So if you want to know what the devils like,
22:00 just take d off of his word he's evil.
22:03 And he does not want you to know what his tricks are,
22:06 that's why this program is so important.
22:10 Then he goes on to say,
22:11 "What was Satan's name before he sinned?"
22:14 Question number three,
22:15 "And where was he living at that time?"
22:18 It says in Isaiah Chapter 14 verse 12,
22:24 "How you are fallen from heaven,
22:26 O Lucifer, son of the morning!
22:30 For you have said in your heart,
22:32 I will exalt my throne above the stars of God,
22:36 I will be like the Most High."
22:39 His name back then, matter of fact,
22:40 if you knew the devil back then you would have liked him.
22:44 He was a beautiful angel, matter of fact,
22:47 God made him good, but something went wrong
22:51 and he began to be jealous about God's power.
22:55 Lucifer started thinking,
22:57 why can't I create like God can't,
22:59 why don't I have all the power that God has,
23:02 I wish I was God.
23:04 And he began to want God's position,
23:06 he was so beautiful all the other angels would turn
23:08 and look when he walk by
23:09 and light was just flowing out of him,
23:12 the name Lucifer means light bearer.
23:14 He looked like traveling being of jewels,
23:18 he was powerful, he could sing,
23:20 probably six part harmony all by himself,
23:23 just all this power and all this glory
23:26 but he was still a creature, he was not the creator,
23:29 he was the creation, he had been created,
23:32 he didn't have the power of God.
23:34 And he wanted all the power, he wanted to be the top,
23:37 he was very proud, the opposite of God.
23:40 See God is love, the devil is the opposite of love,
23:43 who knows what the opposite of love it? Say it.
23:48 Well actually selfishness, I know you think,
23:51 you're right, hate too.
23:53 Love is where you think about others,
23:56 the opposite of love
23:57 is where you only think about yourself.
24:01 And so all Lucifer really thought about was himself.
24:05 And there is a battle in the world today
24:07 between the King of Love, who is God and Jesus,
24:10 and the king of selfishness, which is Satan and Lucifer.
24:14 And they're battling for your heart,
24:15 the devil wants you to be selfish
24:16 and just think about yourself and Jesus is trying
24:18 to teach us the love and think about God
24:21 and think about others.
24:22 Who knows what the great commandment is,
24:24 "Love the Lord with all of your heart,
24:27 love your neighbor as yourself."
24:29 But Lucifer is all about me, me, my, my, my,
24:33 he's all about himself.
24:35 Now the devil was a beautiful angel
24:36 but does he want you to know that?
24:39 No, he wants you to think that he looks like a monster,
24:42 some people think Satan is a joke.
24:45 You've probably heard about people saying,
24:48 devil's fruit cake, they've also got
24:50 angel's fruit cake right?
24:52 Now if I was to ask you what does the devil look like?
24:55 If you went to the Halloween store
24:56 to find out what you're gonna dress up
24:59 like to look like the devil,
25:00 what color would be your leotards?
25:04 Red leotards, what would you have on top of your head?
25:07 Horns, what would you carry in your hand?
25:10 Sounds like a trident of pitchforks,
25:12 something like that, that's because
25:13 the devil pretend he's in-charge of hell
25:15 and he's supposed to make sure
25:16 everyone is cooked evenly, that's what they say.
25:19 And does he have wings? No.
25:23 Bat wings, yeah, how many of you
25:24 have seen pictures of the devil,
25:25 he got like bat wings, does he have a tale?
25:28 He got a point on the end of it.
25:30 Some pictures he's got hooves like a goat,
25:34 does the devil have a beard?
25:37 You know, Pastor Doug used to have a beard,
25:38 I had a goatee, that's because they say goatee
25:40 because it's comes from the word goat.
25:43 And people told me, I should shave it
25:44 because they said you look like the devil,
25:47 they said, I looked like a sinister minister
25:50 when I had a goatee.
25:52 And so I shaved it off because you know,
25:54 if you preaching about Jesus,
25:56 you don't want people tell you look like the devil.
25:57 But does the Bible say they said, anywhere
25:59 that Satan has got red leotards and horns.
26:03 He wants people to think that that actually all comes
26:06 from Greek and Roman mythology,
26:09 the devil was a glorious beautiful angel.
26:13 Question number three, "How did Lucifer change?"
26:17 Answer it says that he began to be jealous,
26:21 you can read about this in Ezekiel Chapter 28 verse 15,
26:26 did make a devil? It says, no, "
26:29 You were perfect in your ways from the day you were created
26:33 until iniquity was found in you."
26:37 He began to think about how beautiful he was
26:40 in verse 17, it says, "Your heart was lifted up
26:43 because of your beauty."
26:45 I used to know a girl,
26:46 she was very pretty but she was very conceded,
26:50 she always thought about how pretty she was,
26:51 she was always in front of the mirror,
26:53 primping herself and fixing herself up
26:56 and whenever she walk by store window
26:57 she's always looking at herself.
26:59 It just preoccupied with how she looked,
27:02 she fell in love with herself.
27:05 That's what happened with the devil,
27:07 he preoccupied with himself.
27:09 It goes on to say, even though he was very smart
27:11 because he was so in love with himself, he became dumb.
27:15 "You corrupted your wisdom
27:17 by reason of your brightness."
27:19 He was so bright and glorious
27:20 all he could think about was himself.
27:23 "For you said in your heart, I will be like the Most High."
27:27 He wanted the position of God.
27:31 Now did God make a devil?
27:35 Now think about this, some people say, they say no.
27:39 Did God created everything?
27:42 Is there evil in the world? Yes.
27:45 How many beliefs there are evil in the world today?
27:48 And then if I would ask you did God make everything,
27:50 most of you would raise your hands
27:51 and you would said, wait a second,
27:52 does that mean, God made evil?
27:55 No, that's a misconception, think about this.
28:00 Is there's such a thing as dark?
28:03 But you know, you don't make dark,
28:05 darkness is the absence of light.
28:08 If you take away light, you have dark.
28:12 You know, there is really no such thing as cold,
28:14 they've got something called absolute zero,
28:16 you get cold when there is no heat.
28:20 And God did not make evil, God is good, God is love,
28:24 but if you reject the light of God,
28:26 if you reject the warmth of God,
28:28 if you reject the goodness of God,
28:30 what's left, if you don't have goodness
28:32 what do you have, badness and evil, right?
28:35 And so God didn't make evil, God made everything good,
28:40 the Bible says, every good and perfect gift is from God,
28:44 God made a good perfect angel.
28:47 Now, you might be thinking,
28:48 well God must make a mistake.
28:50 Because when He made Lucifer, since God knows everything,
28:54 couldn't God had just made
28:56 the little transistors in his brain
28:57 so he would never be selfish and proud,
29:00 couldn't he have made him that way?
29:01 Yeah, he could have,
29:03 but God wants His creature to love Him.
29:06 Now, I'm gonna need somebody
29:07 who will get in the mystery chest tonight,
29:10 you got make sure you don't electrocute yourself.
29:13 All right, is your name Talan? Yes.
29:14 All right, come on up here, I want you to go in there,
29:17 let me take the little, don't worry you guys
29:19 will get another chance let me take this off for you.
29:21 I want you to see if you can find a dog in there?
29:23 How many of you like puppy dogs?
29:25 You like puppy dogs?
29:26 Well, we got a puppy dog.
29:29 Well, Talan, isn't he cuddly?
29:34 Yeah, I'm not sure
29:35 who made this puppy dog but, here he is.
29:43 How do you like that?
29:46 Wouldn't you like a dog like that?
29:47 Yeah, ould he be warm and cuddly--
29:55 There he go--does he have a mind of his own? No way.
30:03 What he's saying?
30:04 No, he doesn't have his own mind, does he?
30:12 Isn't that cute?
30:15 You think he's doing this because he loves me,
30:19 he's doing this because someone in Japan preprogrammed
30:22 him and his transistors to do that.
30:28 All right, I can't give him to you, sorry.
30:31 But how much better would a real dog be,
30:33 let's see, do we have real dog somewhere?
30:37 Let see if there is a difference here.
30:39 Well come on bring him up here,
30:44 you know-- hello, come here puppy dog,
30:47 how are you doing? What's your name?
30:50 He's scared now because he got a mind of his own,
30:52 look at you guys
30:53 you're so much more interested in the real dog,
30:55 what do you think it is,
30:56 you know, I'm gonna turned him on
30:58 see what he does?
31:06 He's not even noticing, you know why?
31:09 Dogs can tell when something's real,
31:12 this is not real.
31:14 Of course, we don't have to feed him often,
31:16 but it does take batteries.
31:17 Thank you very much boys,
31:19 we I can just put the dog back down here.
31:22 H'es much of a, but does he have a personality?
31:25 What do you like about him?
31:27 You're gonna talk into my microphone.
31:28 He's active. He's active.
31:31 is he happy when you come home,
31:33 when you come home? Yeah.
31:35 Yeah, you like feeding him, taking care of him. Yeah.
31:39 Sometimes, yeah, that's what happens,
31:41 kids want puppies, thank you very much.
31:43 I just got dripped on.
31:48 Now, could the Lord have made the devil like a robot?
31:53 Can a robot love? No.
31:56 No, robots, robots don't love.
32:01 Now how many of you like love do you all like love,
32:07 how many of you want to be loved?
32:09 Pastor Doug wants to be loved too,
32:11 so I figured out a way to always get
32:13 all the love that I need.
32:16 I just be loved by this little tape player here
32:19 and I will tell this tape player
32:21 what I want to hear.
32:24 Hi, Doug have I told you lately how smart you are
32:30 and you're very handsome too.
32:33 And strong, Doug I really love you,
32:38 I love you Doug, Doug I just can't even find words
32:41 to express how much I love you, okay?
32:47 Hi, Doug have I told you lately how smart you are
32:53 and you're very handsome too.
32:56 And strong, I love you Doug,
33:02 Doug I just can't even find words to express
33:05 how much I love you.
33:06 Oh, I feel love now, Does this really love me? No.
33:14 Can a tape player love? No.
33:17 I making it love me,
33:18 you know, somebody, somebody gave,
33:20 Mrs. Batchelor will be joining us later this week,
33:23 I'm so busy and I traveled that they thought,
33:25 you know, Pastor Doug's on the road so much
33:27 that she's missing her husband
33:28 and so they felt sorry for and they got her a gift.
33:30 The perfect husband.
33:33 I want to sayed hi, to Mrs. Batchelor right now,
33:36 this is called Mr. Wonderful
33:45 and he's tell, you know,
33:46 every wife wants to hear this from her husband.
33:50 See it doesn't work, I love you.
33:54 he does better than that, yes, dear.
33:58 You've been on my mind all day,
34:01 that's why I thought you, you know, honey
34:05 why don't you just relax and let me make dinner tonight.
34:10 These are all the things that husband really never said.
34:13 Why don't we go to the mall?
34:14 Didn't we buy out some new shoes?
34:19 Mr. Wonderful, you know what?
34:22 When my wife got this present she play with it for a minute
34:24 and thought it was funny and then put it away.
34:27 Do you think that she put his in bed when I'm gone?
34:29 He snuggle with, no, it just a robot it can't love
34:34 it stays in the box.
34:35 So why did God make Lucifer?
34:39 Did God--He makes all of His creatures free.
34:43 When your parents decided to have you
34:46 or ostensibly assuming they did decide to have you.
34:49 Did they get any kind of written guarantee
34:50 from the Lord,
34:51 that you're always gonna be a good little boy and girl
34:54 and always obey or did they take a chance? Why?
35:00 Because they wanted to love you
35:02 and they want you to love them.
35:04 Love must be free and so the Lord
35:07 made all of His creatures free even though God knew
35:11 that Lucifer might chose to love himself more.
35:14 Now I got a lot left to tell you in the lesson tonight
35:16 so I better keep on moving here.
35:18 How many angels joined Lucifer when he rebel against God?
35:22 Well the answer here in the Bible,
35:25 Revelation Chapter 12 verse 3 and 4, it says,
35:29 "Another sign appeared in Heaven,
35:31 behold, a great, fiery red dragon and his tail
35:35 drew a third of the stars of heaven."
35:40 These angels are fallen angels and sometimes we think about
35:44 demons and ghosts and goblins,
35:46 they're all these fallen angels
35:48 who'd follow Lucifer,
35:49 they were rebelled against God.
35:52 And that leads us to our next question,
35:54 question number five,
35:55 "What was the result of Lucifer's rebellion?
35:58 When he said, we don't need God
36:00 to tell us what to do anymore.
36:02 He went around among the other angels in heaven
36:04 and he said, if I was in-charge we be happier.
36:08 And he was able to convince one third of the angels
36:12 in heaven to follow him instead of following God
36:15 and there was a great rebellion,
36:17 it tells us in Revelation 12 verse 7,
36:19 "There was a war in heaven and Michael and his angels
36:25 fought against the dragon,
36:26 and the dragon fought and his angels."
36:30 And the Bible tells us that,
36:33 "His tail drew a third part of the stars of heaven
36:36 and did cast them to earth."
36:39 Now see, stars is a symbolic word for angels
36:42 when you're reading there in Revelation,
36:44 it tells us that the angels equal stars
36:46 and you'll have all of these scriptures
36:48 and these codes to unlock
36:50 some of these prophesies in the Bible
36:51 they were in your lesson here.
36:54 So after Satan was cast out of heaven
36:57 where did he go?
36:58 It says that he was cast to the earth
37:01 that leads us to our next question,
37:03 question number six,
37:04 "How did Satan trick humans to join in his rebellion?"
37:09 Answer, it says in Genesis Chapter 2 verse 17,
37:14 He came and he met them in the Garden of Eden
37:16 and he began to tempt them at this tree.
37:19 God made everything perfect in the beginning,
37:21 remember God makes everything good.
37:23 When God made our world in the beginning,
37:25 were there any devils back then? No.
37:27 Did the animals eat each other? No.
37:30 Everything was peaceful, everything was loving,
37:33 but there was tree God, said to Adam and Eve,
37:36 don't eat from this tree, he warned them.
37:38 Genesis 2:17, "Of the tree of the knowledge
37:42 of good and evil you shall not eat,
37:45 for in the day that you eat thereof you will surely die."
37:51 God said, you know if you sin, the penalty for sin is death,
37:54 sin is like a terrible deadly disease
37:57 and God didn't want them to catch this disease.
37:59 And he said, if you just obey in this one thing,
38:02 Lucifer was going through the universe
38:04 and he'd been telling everybody
38:05 that they be happy if they followed him.
38:08 And God gave even Adam and Eve freedom to choose
38:11 if they would listen to Lucifer or trust him.
38:15 So the devil knew he would need to disguise themselves,
38:17 what do you think he disguise themselves as?
38:19 Snake, A serpent and do you think
38:22 it was an ugly snake or was it a beautiful?
38:26 You know what?
38:27 One reason I think that snakes were pick.
38:30 Snakes are not very loving to their young are they? No.
38:33 Snakes, they have their babies,
38:35 they either hatch eggs,
38:36 you know rattlesnakes have live births,
38:39 then after they have them they crawl away.
38:40 Some snakes have even eaten
38:42 their own babies, they're not very loving.
38:44 Matter of fact snakes are what you call cold-blooded,
38:48 if a snake gets too cold it freezes.
38:51 Some snakes, that got this water snakes
38:54 that when they are frozen they seem to be
38:56 totally frozen, stiff as a stick
38:59 and they thought and looks like they come back to life.
39:03 So the devil was like that,
39:04 he's just a very sneaky creature
39:07 and that's one reason that he symbolize by the snake.
39:10 It says in Genesis Chapter 3 verse 1,
39:12 "Now the serpent was more cunning
39:15 than any beast of the field that the Lord God had made."
39:18 So the devil decided to use the serpent as a medium,
39:21 he possess the snake and he spoke through the snake.
39:25 And when evil is out doing her pleasant work
39:26 in the garden, she was lingering
39:28 by that forbidden tree and she thought,
39:30 I wonder why God said we're not suppose to eat that.
39:32 And right, then the serpent called to her from the tree,
39:36 big beautiful serpent and he was moving,
39:38 you know, some snakes, they hypnotize their prey
39:41 with their very smooth motions.
39:45 And he was moving and maybe his iridescent wings
39:49 were fluttering, any of you seen the iridescent colors
39:51 of like a hummingbird, they shimmer.
39:54 And he said, "Oh, come here,
39:56 hi, boy, you are sure beautiful, Eve.
39:59 Why do God say, you can't eat from this tree?
40:02 Well, God says we can't eat that forbidden fruit
40:04 because if we do we'll die.
40:06 And the serpent was biting the fruit
40:08 and he said, oh, this is yummy,
40:11 matter of fact before I ate this food
40:12 I couldn't even talk now look at me.
40:15 God's keeping this from you because
40:16 there's a special power in this fruit,
40:19 the devil is very sneaky, he is a deceiver,
40:22 he tricks people with his clever work.
40:24 If you know something's wrong
40:26 should Eve, then talk to the devil?
40:28 No, She should run the other way,
40:30 the Bible says, we should flee temptation,
40:33 don't start getting into a debate with the devil,
40:36 "And the serpent said to the woman,
40:38 you won't surely die."
40:40 In other words the devil was saying,
40:42 do not trust the words of God.
40:46 Now that's a decision that all of us need to make
40:49 in our lives, there's the Bible
40:52 and if this is your map to heaven,
40:54 you'll make it through this adventure of life
40:56 and you'll be safe from the dragon.
40:58 If you follow all the other philosophies
41:00 and all the other stories you're gonna hear in the world
41:04 then you can be in trouble.
41:06 How many of you believe that God has a plan for your life?
41:10 How many of you believe that
41:11 devil has a plan for your life?
41:13 All of your hand should also go up,
41:17 you don't want the devil's plan
41:19 but you know that he's got a plan for you right?
41:22 God's plan for you is life,
41:25 you come to Jesus, the Bible says,
41:26 "He that has the Son has life."
41:30 Moses at the end of his life, he told that chosen of Israel
41:33 I've said before you this day two choices
41:36 life and good and blessing, if you believe God's word
41:39 and obey him, death and evil and cursing, if you don't.
41:44 Jesus plan for you is good, very good life,
41:48 what's the devil's plan?
41:50 Bad, suffering, miserable, life and then death.
41:55 And God cannot force you to love him, can he?
41:59 Anymore than I can force a human creature to love me,
42:03 they have a free choice.
42:05 And the devil cannot force you to follow him,
42:08 you get to choose who you want to love and serve,
42:13 you can make that choice.
42:14 And I'm hoping that everybody who's watching
42:16 this program realizes
42:17 this is the most important thing
42:19 you could be doing because you can be making a choice
42:22 during this series about living forever
42:25 in God's plan for your life, His will for you
42:28 or the devil's plan to destroy you.
42:31 And it's very important that you make the right choice,
42:34 number seven, Adam and Eve, disobey, right?
42:38 And what happened as a result
42:39 of their disobedience, number seven,
42:41 "Why didn't Adam and Eve die
42:44 as soon as they ate the forbidden fruit?
42:46 You know what the story is, Eve finally reached up
42:49 and she took the fruit, the devil said, you know
42:52 if you eat this you'll be like God,
42:54 that's really what he wanted, isn't it?
42:55 He wanted to be God
42:56 and so he told Eve the same thing, he really wanted.
42:59 Oh, you'll be like God, if you eat this fruit,
43:01 you'll have extra power,
43:02 God's keeping good things from you,
43:04 he's hiding fun from you.
43:06 You know, the devil still tells young people that today,
43:09 oh, you don't want to follow, don't listen to God,
43:11 he's keeping you from all the fun things.
43:14 Like sometimes the devil says,
43:16 oh drink beer and alcohol, it will be fun
43:19 and he tries to make it look like it's fun
43:20 and he doesn't really show you
43:21 the people who are sick laying in the street,
43:24 who've lost all their money, and they've lost their family,
43:26 and they've lost their job because of alcohol.
43:28 The devil shows the commercials on TV
43:30 that make it look like it's fun, he is a deceiver.
43:34 And he told Eve, just a little bit,
43:36 just take one bite, a little bit won't hurt.
43:39 I remember one time, the devil told me,
43:43 you can just take one cigarette,
43:45 you can stop anytime you want.
43:47 And I saw that some of my friends were smoking
43:50 and I wanted to look like I was cool
43:52 so I took one cigarette and I didn't fall over and die
43:55 so I thought oh, maybe another one.
43:58 And then I started taking one cigarette
43:59 everyday on my way to school
44:02 and then pretty soon I got where
44:03 I was stealing cigarettes from my mom
44:05 and I couldn't stop smoking.
44:07 And it's like the devil had me chained
44:08 and I wanted to quit, I kept trying to quit
44:11 and it wasn't until years later
44:13 after lots of money was wasted,
44:15 just burned up your money when you smoke don't you?
44:17 So you don't even get any nutritional value
44:19 out of cigarettes right?
44:22 It doesn't make you any smarter,
44:23 it doesn't do anything good for you
44:27 when a person smoking, all they doing is
44:29 sucking smoke and something is burning up.
44:32 And finally I had to ask the Lord,
44:35 please save me and Jesus set me free.
44:37 The devil says, just a little bit.
44:40 So Eve took that one bite and then first she said, wow,
44:44 maybe that did feel pretty good.
44:46 She ran to Adam and said, this is great,
44:48 I was talking to the serpent and he said,
44:49 God's hiding great things from us, taste some of this,
44:52 it's suppose to be really good.
44:54 And Adam was very sad but he didn't want to lose Eve
44:58 and he saw that she hadn't fallen over and died
45:02 so he took a bite.
45:04 And then all of a sudden they felt a chill.
45:07 You see before Adam and Eve sin,
45:09 they had robes of light, they did not wear
45:12 any artificial clothing.
45:14 And then after they sin their life started to go out,
45:17 all of a sudden things began to die.
45:20 Now, in our question it said,
45:21 "Why didn't Adam and Eve die right away?
45:24 You know why Adam and Eve didn't die right away
45:26 when they ate the forbidden fruit?
45:28 You read about it in John 3:16,
45:30 how many of you know this verse?
45:33 You want to say this with me?
45:35 "For God so loved the world
45:38 He gave His only begotten son,
45:42 that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish,
45:47 but have everlasting life."
45:50 Did the Lord, know what Adam and Eve
45:52 will gonna do before they did it?
45:54 Yes, God knows everything
45:56 and the Lord, had a plan
45:57 that if men disobeyed, He loved man.
46:00 See the angels when they rebel,
46:01 they kind of knew what they were doing,
46:02 men was deceive and Gods said,
46:04 "I'm gonna give another chance I love you so much,
46:07 I'm gonna come to earth
46:08 and I'm gonna die in your place to save you."
46:11 And so, Adam and Eve,
46:12 they didn't die physically that very day
46:15 but they sort of die spiritually,
46:17 things began to change and all the universe
46:19 began to change and guests started coming in.
46:22 And now the devil, he is going around,
46:25 the Bible says in First Peter Chapter 5 verse 8,
46:29 "Be sober, be vigilant,
46:31 because your adversary the devil,
46:33 he is going around like a roaring lion,
46:36 looking whom he can devour."
46:38 The devil is like a lion,
46:39 you know, lion sneaks
46:40 upon its prey and it surprises them.
46:43 And again it says, "The Lord said to Satan,
46:46 in the Book of Job when Satan came to appear,
46:48 God said to Satan, "Where did you come from?"
46:50 The God knew but he said that so we get the answer.
46:53 "And Satan answered and he said to the Lord,
46:56 I've come from going to and fro on the earth
46:59 and walking up and down in it."
47:00 He is going all around the world
47:02 and he's looking for people
47:03 to recruit because he wants to destroy men.
47:06 You know, why the devil wants to hurt you,
47:08 why does the devil, this powerful angel,
47:11 why does he mess with humans?
47:13 I tell you why,
47:16 because if you want to hurt somebody,
47:19 you hurt who they love, the devil hates Jesus.
47:26 He wanted Jesus' place
47:28 and now he's been cast out of heaven, he hates Jesus.
47:32 And he knows how much Jesus loves you
47:34 and so he wants to hurt Jesus by hurting you.
47:38 And whenever we sin, it hurts Jesus
47:40 and whenever we obey God, it hurts the devil.
47:44 So everyday you're hurting somebody
47:46 and everyday you're making somebody happy.
47:48 How many of you want to hurt the devil
47:50 and make Jesus happy?
47:52 You want to do whatever makes the devil mad
47:54 and you want to do whatever makes God glad,
47:56 isn't that right?
47:57 You on the right track, if you do it that way.
47:59 And so the devil hates the women,
48:02 the God's church is symbolize in prophecy as a woman.
48:05 And it says the dragon that's the devil,
48:07 he was angry with the woman
48:09 that's the bride that's God's people,
48:11 His children and he went to make war
48:13 with the remnant of her seed, I mean it's her children,
48:16 her descendants that keep the commandments of God
48:19 and have the testimony of Jesus Christ."
48:22 They've got the law and the prophets,
48:23 they've got the world of God,
48:25 the devil is angry and he's making war.
48:28 And so there is an adventure, there is a war in life
48:30 and the only way you're gonna survive
48:31 this war is if you are on the winning team.
48:34 Are you aware
48:35 that you and God are always in majority,
48:39 if you're going into a battle with God it doesn't matter
48:42 if you're fighting against Goliath.
48:44 If you go into battle trusting the Lord,
48:46 God can help you have the victory over anything,
48:48 isn't that right? Yes.
48:50 It says in First John 4:4,
48:52 "Greater is he that is in you,
48:54 than he that is in the world."
48:56 God is more powerful than the devil,
48:58 who's more powerful the creator or the creation?
49:03 The creator, so the devil is going around, he's angry,
49:07 the Bible says in Revolution Chapter 12,
49:09 He knows his time is short and so he's furious
49:13 and he wants to take as many people with him as he can,
49:17 our only safety is in trusting the Lord.
49:18 Number 8, "What will be Satan's final punishments?"
49:22 I hope you're not feeling sorry for the devil,
49:25 you know, he is going to be punish for his rebellion.
49:27 It tells us in Revelation 20 verse 10,
49:29 "The devil, who deceived them,
49:31 was cast into the lake of fire."
49:34 And you know those who follow the devil
49:36 are gonna sharing the devil's punishment,
49:38 what happens to the devil and those who follow Him?
49:40 Mathew 25, these are the words of Jesus,
49:43 Jesus said, "Depart from me,
49:45 ye cursed, into everlasting fire,
49:47 prepared for the devil and his angels."
49:49 That's the devil and his fallen angels are demons,
49:53 they're gonna be cast into the lake of fire
49:54 and everyone who follows them
49:56 and the Bible says they're gonna burned up.
49:58 Ezekiel 28 verse 18,
50:00 "I will bring thee to ashes on the earth
50:03 in the sight of all them that behold thee."
50:05 Now, do any of you feel sorry for the devil? No.
50:08 You shouldn't, I need a volunteer.
50:12 Okay, we'll take a girl,
50:14 Amy, quickly, go look in the box
50:16 and I want you to look in the box
50:18 and there's gonna be sanke in there,
50:20 I want you to get it for me.
50:22 She didn't even slow down
50:23 when I told her there was a snake in the box,
50:26 okay, you can close the chest now.
50:30 All right, you know what kind of snake that is?
50:35 Shake it, shake it fast,
50:40 it must be a rattlesnake if it's rattling right?
50:42 I want you to take that snake and hug it, cuddle it.
50:45 Yeah, Okay, let me tell you a story,
50:48 there is a farmer walking down the road
50:50 and it was in fall and the frost did come
50:53 and he saw a snake frozen on the ground
50:55 that got too cold before he got back to his den.
50:58 And the farmer felt sorry for him
50:59 and so he put the snake inside his shirt
51:01 and he start to curdle the snake
51:02 to warm it up, it warmed up and what do you think it did?
51:06 It bit up and the farmer said that will teach me
51:09 for showing mercy to a scoundrel,
51:11 don't you feel sorry for the devil, right?
51:13 Thank you very much for that, I appreciate that.
51:17 The devil is never gonna repent, he is pure evil,
51:22 God gave him every chance in the world
51:25 to change his ways and he wouldn't.
51:27 He is the epitome of evil, he is the arch villain.
51:30 And so don't you feel sorry for him,
51:32 question number 9,
51:34 "But until then how can I be protected
51:37 against the devil's temptations?
51:39 What do we do to be saves in this world
51:40 to make this adventure to the kingdom of God?
51:43 God tell us in Ephesians Chapter 6 verse 11,
51:46 "Put on the whole armor of God,
51:49 that you might be able to stand
51:50 against the wiles of the devil."
51:52 How many of you've heard these stories
51:54 about the Knights in Shining Armor,
51:56 they go of to kill the dragon and deliver the fair maiden.
51:59 You know that's what you're reading about
52:01 in Revelation Chapter 20, Michael, who is Jesus,
52:04 He is the Knight in Shining Armor,
52:06 who delivers His bride, His church, His people
52:09 from Satan, the dragon
52:10 that's where they get all those stories.
52:12 But if you go into battle without the armor of God,
52:15 what's the dragon gonna do to you?
52:17 Burn you.
52:18 Oh, you don't want to do, if you go with your own armor,
52:22 you might get in trouble.
52:23 You want to make sure you got God's armor
52:26 and that means you use the Bible,
52:27 what did Jesus use whenever He was tempted? Bible.
52:31 Every time the devil tempted Him
52:33 He said it is written, it is written, it is written.
52:35 You can read in Ephesians Chapter 6 verse 17,
52:39 "The sword of the Spirit that is the world of God."
52:42 That is our only protection
52:45 and every time the devil tempts you,
52:46 you do what Jesus did, you quote the Bible,
52:48 but you've got to read your Bibles first
52:50 if you're gonna know how to quote the Bible
52:52 when you're tempted right?
52:54 Thy word I've hidden in my heart that I might not sin
52:57 and back to our scripture reading we started with,
53:00 how can we be victories against the devil,
53:03 "Submit yourself therefore to God.
53:05 Resist the devil and he will flee from you.
53:08 Draw near to God and He will draw near to you."
53:12 You know, a number of years ago
53:14 on a hot summer day in Florida,
53:16 there was about 12-years-old boy
53:18 and he just wanted to go for swimming
53:19 there was a little lake out behind their house.
53:21 He said, mom, I'm going to swimming.
53:23 So he ran out there and he didn't even wait
53:24 till he get to the wall,
53:26 he threw off his shirt, he kicked off his shoes
53:27 and he left trail and he jumped off in the water
53:30 and he started to swim around.
53:32 And mom kept watching him out of the window
53:33 because she had heard every now and then that alligators
53:36 got loose and she is looking out to kitchen window
53:39 in the lake and she saw an alligator swim
53:42 off the shore into the lake
53:44 and started going towards her son.
53:47 She dropped what she was doing
53:48 and she run outside screaming,
53:49 she said quickly, quickly come to shore
53:51 there is an alligator, there is an alligator.
53:53 And the boy looked and he started to paddle
53:55 as quickly as he could back to the shore
53:56 and the mother ran down to the beach to help him.
54:00 Right about the time the boy got to his mother,
54:02 the alligator got to the boy
54:05 and he opened his great big mouth
54:06 and this eight foot alligator,
54:08 he clump down on the boy's legs
54:11 and he try to pull him off in the water.
54:13 But the mother got a hold of his hands
54:14 and she pull back the other way
54:17 and there was a terrible wrestling match
54:18 and the alligator began to spin
54:20 and then knock mom down and started dragging
54:22 both of them in the water
54:23 and she got back up
54:24 and she pull him back out again.
54:26 And there was a farmer
54:27 who heard all the screaming and commotion
54:30 and he grabbed a riffle out of his truck
54:32 and he went over and killed the alligator.
54:37 That boy was in the hospital and he had scars on his leg
54:41 and he started to heal up okay.
54:44 And the reporters came from the newspaper
54:45 and they said, tell us about your adventure
54:47 and he told them, and they said
54:48 could we see the scars on your legs from the alligator
54:51 and he pull back the bed sheets in the hospital
54:53 and he show the scars
54:54 but you know what he said, that's nothing
54:56 he said I got scars on my hands too
54:58 because mom would not let go of me,
55:02 because she loved me so much.
55:04 Well, did you know there is someone else
55:05 that has scares in his hand
55:08 because he wouldn't let go of you
55:10 because of His love for you.
55:12 There is a dragon that wants to destroy you.
55:14 But Jesus wants to save you, you need to make a decision.
55:18 And that's our last question, question number 10,
55:22 "Do you want to follow Jesus, put on His armor
55:25 and be protected from the dragon?"
55:27 How many of you want to say yes to Jesus, today?
55:29 And pray that God will help you to completely follow Him.
55:32 And our friends who are watching
55:34 can you raise your hands
55:35 and say, I want to follow Jesus.
55:37 I know His hands are scared because of His love for me.
55:41 Please put Jesus first in your life,
55:44 read your Bibles and you can trust Him,
55:46 He's got a special plan for you.
55:48 There is a battle in life but you can be safe
55:51 if you put your life in Jesus hands,
55:53 if you're walking with him, you don't have to be afraid
55:56 to the devil, amen.
55:57 Because He's more powerful,
55:59 would you like to pray with me right now
56:01 and asked the Lord, to give you His Spirit
56:04 to put on that armor and make a decision
56:07 to belong totally to Him,
56:09 you want God's will for your life, amen?
56:11 Amen. Let's pray together.
56:13 Loving Father in heaven, we're so thankful
56:16 for the good news that Jesus loves us so much,
56:20 He gave His life to save us, to defeat the dragon.
56:24 And we know that the devil is going around
56:26 like a roaring lion but we're not afraid of him, Lord,
56:28 because Jesus knows how to tame the lion.
56:30 I pray that we'll always stay close to His side,
56:33 put on His armor, read His word
56:35 and be ready for His coming.
56:36 Bless these children, bless this program, Lord,
56:38 with Your Spirit, we ask in Christ name, amen.
56:42 Amen, God bless you friends now, don't forget
56:45 when is our next program?
56:47 Tomorrow night, and we're going to be studying
56:49 a trip through the stars in our final program,
56:53 you won't want to forget that,
56:54 don't forget it's not too late to bring your friends.
56:57 And comeback and join us
56:58 all around the world for an Amazing Adventure.


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