Bible Treasures

Can God Hear Me?

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Program Code: BT170010S


00:02 It's time to go on a journey,
00:05 a search for treasure.
00:08 This is no ordinary treasure though.
00:11 This priceless discovery contains God's Word,
00:16 including secrets from the past and future
00:20 that will change your life.
00:23 Welcome to Bible Treasures.
00:31 Oh, my goodness, such a hot day.
00:33 I know.
00:36 Hey, guys. Hi.
00:37 Sorry, I'm late. Why are you late?
00:38 I was looking for my watch,
00:41 but I didn't have the time.
00:43 That's hilarious. Okay. That's hilarious.
00:46 Good morning, everybody.
00:48 You guys, okay? Yeah.
00:49 Come on in guys.
00:51 Man, I'm so happy to see you guys.
00:52 Yeah, me too.
00:53 Welcome to Bible Treasures.
00:55 My name is Rich Aguilera.
00:56 And I'm so happy you're with us today.
00:58 We have a really cool team working.
00:59 Why don't we meet them now?
01:01 Hi, I'm Elizabeth, and I'm your computer ops girl.
01:05 Cool.
01:06 And I'm Sam, the one that you need to talk to
01:08 if you have historical document problems.
01:11 And I'm Nori, and I love to be working with
01:13 really cool artifacts.
01:14 Awesome. Well, you know what?
01:16 We should get started today with a brain teaser.
01:18 Yeah, it'll sharpen our brains.
01:19 It's a great way to sharpen our brains,
01:21 so that we're ready to go, go, go.
01:23 Yeah, what is it? All right.
01:25 Here we go. See if we can get this one.
01:26 Okay.
01:27 I am the only organ in the human body
01:30 that gave itself its own name.
01:33 What am I?
01:36 I don't know. I wonder which one it is.
01:38 Now, that's a tough one.
01:39 Yeah.
01:41 Is that a notification?
01:42 Did we get a message from headquarters?
01:44 Oh, man, we got another assignment.
01:45 Oh, what is the message today?
01:48 I've been praying for something for several weeks now
01:52 and nothing is really happening.
01:55 Do you think God is even listening to me?
01:58 Well, I think that's happened to all of us.
02:00 Yeah, it's happening to me right now.
02:02 Yeah.
02:04 We always probably get to a point in life
02:05 that we are just wondering if God is listening to us.
02:07 Yeah. Yeah.
02:09 What should we answer?
02:10 Yeah. It's a good question.
02:11 Well, you know, first things first,
02:13 let's write this question in our journal.
02:14 Yeah, we got to track all these cool questions.
02:17 Is God listening to me?
02:22 Yeah, I would hope so. I don't know.
02:25 Well, you know what?
02:26 I think I have an idea. What?
02:27 I got an artifact in mind, I think will help us.
02:30 Can you dig up artifact number 37B?
02:32 37B, okay. 37B, yeah.
02:35 Good that we have all these good artifacts.
02:36 They are very handy and you never know
02:38 when we're gonna need them.
02:39 Yeah. Exactly.
02:41 Kind of a heavy one.
02:42 Oh, what is this? Wow.
02:43 This is an Aztec calendar. Aztec?
02:45 I've heard of those symbols before.
02:47 Yeah, this came from the Yucatan Peninsula
02:49 in Mexico.
02:50 Yeah, the Aztec's live there.
02:53 Sam, do you think you can point to us on the map
02:55 where the Aztecs used to live?
02:56 I know where it is. It's right here.
02:59 Oh, there it is. That's it. That's it.
03:01 I just saw location brief the other day.
03:02 A location brief, let's see it.
03:04 Let's take a look at it, this will be handy.
03:06 Do you find it?
03:07 Oh, yeah. Oh, there it is.
03:09 There it is.
03:10 Cool location.
03:11 Location brief, Yucatan.
03:15 The Yucatan Peninsula in South Eastern Mexico
03:19 is a massive peninsula
03:21 that separates the Caribbean Sea
03:24 from the Gulf of Mexico.
03:26 To the south is the border with Guatemala and Belize
03:31 and off the North East Coast is Cuba
03:35 only 120 miles offshore.
03:40 The climate here is tropical,
03:42 with simply a wet and dry season.
03:46 Summertime can be very hot.
03:52 Almost the entire Peninsula is composed of limestone,
03:57 a sedimentary rock that erodes easily.
04:01 A large part of the peninsula is very flat.
04:05 And there are thousands of sinkholes,
04:08 known locally, as Cenotes.
04:12 There are no rivers in the north,
04:14 so these sinkholes have historically given people
04:18 access to groundwater.
04:21 Off the eastern coast,
04:23 is the second largest reef barrier in the world,
04:27 over 550 miles long.
04:33 Most of the vegetation on the Yucatan Peninsula
04:36 is tropical jungle,
04:38 extending from the north all the way to the border
04:43 of Guatemala and Belize.
04:47 The Yucatan Peninsula is an important area
04:51 for the ancient Mayan culture.
04:54 And there are many important Mayan archaeological sites
04:58 in the region.
05:01 One of the most important ancient cities in Mayan history
05:05 can still be visited today,
05:08 the ruins of Chichen Itza.
05:12 Even to this day,
05:13 Mayan languages are still spoken
05:16 by native Maya people that still live in the area.
05:21 The Maya people in these villages and towns
05:23 may be far from the tourist areas,
05:26 but they continue to make traditional handcrafts
05:30 and woven fabrics
05:31 and maintain a unique culture.
05:36 This concludes this location brief.
05:40 What beautiful pictures? Wow!
05:42 Neat. That is a neat place. Yeah.
05:45 Cool. You know what?
05:46 I got the chance to travel there with my wife
05:48 right after we got married.
05:49 Really? Really?
05:51 Yup. It was so cool. It's awesome.
05:52 But you know, the funny thing is?
05:53 What?
05:55 We were a little poor back then.
05:56 And when we arrived there,
05:58 we had this huge list of stuff that we wanted to see.
05:59 Really?
06:01 And one of the places I wanted to always see was this
06:03 pyramid complex called Chichen Itza.
06:05 Oh. Chichen Itza?
06:07 Yeah, it's got a strange name, isn't it?
06:08 It's very strange.
06:10 It's in Mexico right there in the Yucatan Peninsula.
06:11 Cool.
06:13 But when I did my little research,
06:14 turns out it was like two hours away.
06:16 Two hours? That's a long way.
06:17 It is and I started calling around to see
06:19 if there's a tour that could take us there,
06:21 but it was so expensive.
06:22 Yeah.
06:24 So I was kind of disappointed, but then we found out
06:25 that there was a public bus
06:27 that can take us there.
06:29 And when I found out it was only $5.
06:31 Oh, wow, that's great.
06:32 I can afford that.
06:34 So the next day we got on the bus
06:36 and we went out to Chichen Itza.
06:38 And we walked around the ruins and we got to climb
06:41 and around the pyramids,
06:42 and they had a bunch of old buildings.
06:43 That's wonderful. Yeah, it was super, super cool.
06:45 I wish I could have been there.
06:46 That was awesome. Me too.
06:48 Now, at the end of the day,
06:49 we wanted to make sure we got back to the bus stop
06:50 because the last bus left at 4:30.
06:53 So we made our way to the entrance.
06:55 And then guess what?
06:57 Something caught my eye all of the sudden.
06:58 What happened with your eye? What?
06:59 There was a little souvenir stand.
07:01 Oh! Oh, okay.
07:03 And that must have been there you got that at?
07:04 And that's where I got this.
07:05 Oh, cool. That one is so cool.
07:07 It is. This is actually a calendar.
07:09 A calendar?
07:11 They actually used to use this to track time
07:13 and months and season.
07:14 It's pretty cool. Oh, wow!
07:15 That's amazing little face.
07:17 I know, that's a funny face with his tongue sticking out
07:18 right there.
07:19 I wonder how they used to do it?
07:21 Yeah, I'm not sure.
07:22 The cool thing is though,
07:24 I was able to buy it after some negotiating
07:25 because in these countries
07:27 they love to negotiate back and forth...
07:28 Like trading?
07:29 Yeah, kinda like trading prices.
07:31 Okay.
07:32 So we finally decided on a price
07:33 that we thought was acceptable.
07:35 And I bought it and he packaged it up
07:37 and you know what?
07:38 I kinda lost track of time. No, did you miss the bus?
07:42 We missed the bus. You missed the bus?
07:45 Can you believe that? What did you do?
07:46 A thing that tracks time
07:48 caused me to lose track of time.
07:50 Oh, that's hilarious.
07:51 But that's not the end of the story.
07:53 What next? Well, what happened next?
07:55 Well, we needed to get back to Cancun
07:56 where we were staying.
07:57 Yeah.
07:59 Two hours away and there's no bus.
08:00 Oh, that's horrible.
08:02 You didn't have to walk, did you?
08:03 That's too far. Oh, that is far.
08:04 You know, what we did? What do you do?
08:06 We prayed. Oh, that's a good idea.
08:07 Oh, that's good thing to do in any situation.
08:09 You know, we prayed and guess what happened?
08:11 What? Another bus came?
08:13 Nope.
08:14 Nothing happened.
08:16 Oh, okay.
08:18 Nothing happened.
08:19 We sat there for an hour, nothing happened.
08:21 And we're like, we prayed.
08:25 How come nothing happened? Yeah.
08:26 That's in our today's question.
08:27 So, you know, I started wondering
08:29 what I can do.
08:30 Yeah.
08:32 But here's the interesting thing.
08:33 We finally came up with an idea.
08:34 What's the idea?
08:36 We went to the edge of the road,
08:37 and I stuck my thumb out.
08:40 What did that do? That's hitchhiking.
08:41 Now, I don't recommend hitchhiking.
08:43 But, we were stuck and we didn't have any options.
08:46 So I came up with this idea,
08:47 it's like maybe we can hitchhike
08:48 to the nearest town.
08:50 And from there, we can catch a bus.
08:51 Yeah, maybe.
08:52 So we stuck out our thumb.
08:54 And guess what?
08:55 Only like 15 minutes later,
08:56 a pickup truck pulled over and picked us up.
08:58 Oh, God answered your prayer.
09:00 And the fun part is, the guy pulled over
09:02 and says, yeah, you can jump in the back,
09:04 because there was no room in the front.
09:06 So we had to be in the back bed of the pickup truck.
09:08 So we climbed in there and my wife
09:09 and I were sitting on the pickup truck...
09:11 Must been a bumpy ride.
09:12 It was kinda bumpy.
09:14 But you know, what else happened?
09:15 What happened?
09:16 It started to rain.
09:18 Oh, no.
09:19 It started to rain on us.
09:20 And we were sitting there looking at each other.
09:22 But it was so funny because we were hitchhiking
09:25 in the back of a pickup truck.
09:27 And it was raining on us.
09:28 Oh, wow. Well, at least you got a ride.
09:30 Exactly, we were so thankful that God had listened to us.
09:33 Yeah.
09:35 The thing is, sometimes God answers different ways.
09:37 Yeah.
09:38 Sometimes we ask for things
09:40 and we want them to answer this way.
09:41 But sometimes God can answer different ways.
09:43 Because He knows what's best.
09:45 Exactly. Exactly. Yeah, that's true.
09:46 Now, that we look back,
09:48 we just love the memory that we have of that day,
09:50 catching a ride back
09:51 in the back of the pickup truck,
09:53 and getting rained on.
09:54 That's a great story.
09:55 You know, there's a Bible text,
09:57 Sam, I think that would really help us tie this up.
09:58 I can look that up. Can you look it up for us?
10:00 It's in 1 John. 1 John.
10:02 Yep, that's way towards the back of the Bible.
10:04 Yeah. 1 John 5:14.
10:07 1 John 5:14.
10:08 Right here. Go for it.
10:10 "Now this is the confidence that we have in Him,
10:13 that if we ask anything according to His will,
10:16 He will hears us."
10:17 Oh, that's beautiful. That's a gratefulness.
10:19 Isn't that great?
10:20 The interesting thing about that is that
10:21 it says that God will hear us.
10:23 You know, a lot of people think God must instantly answer,
10:26 but that's not the promise,
10:27 the promises that God will hear us.
10:28 Yeah.
10:30 And He will answer us
10:31 but sometimes we hope it's gonna be our way.
10:34 But we want it to be His way.
10:35 Yeah, God's way.
10:36 We should write down this verse.
10:38 What do you guys say? Definitely.
10:39 All right. That was 1 John, right?
10:41 1 John 5:14.
10:43 Cool.
10:44 Do you have any pictures from your trip?
10:46 Yeah. You know what?
10:47 We absolutely took some pictures in Chichen Itza.
10:48 Why don't we take a look at them?
10:50 Wow, let's look.
10:51 Wow, I wonder what that it is?
10:55 Wow!
10:59 Oh, look at it.
11:01 I remember growing up,
11:02 and thinking that praying to God
11:03 was like going shopping or something.
11:05 I had my big list of stuff that I wanted to ask for
11:08 and all I had to do was tell God,
11:10 and then sit back and enjoy.
11:12 Of course, I soon found out that sometimes we pray,
11:16 and nothing seems to happen.
11:17 Yeah.
11:18 As we read in our verse, though,
11:20 it promises with all certainty
11:21 that God is hearing every word of our prayer.
11:25 Yeah, He is.
11:26 But then, why doesn't He respond?
11:29 Well, while we were in Mexico, our experience showed us
11:31 that God was definitely listening.
11:34 But He had a different answer for us.
11:36 Yeah, that's true.
11:37 Sometimes God's answer will be exactly
11:39 what we prayed for.
11:41 Other times, the answer may not come,
11:43 even for years.
11:45 Yeah. The fact still remains though.
11:46 God is listening. Yeah.
11:48 But the problem is
11:50 that sometimes we don't like His answer.
11:53 Yeah. Right.
11:54 What we need to learn to do is to trust God.
11:57 If we can first understand that He created us
12:00 that will help us see why He loves us so much.
12:03 He also proved that when His Son died,
12:06 to give us a second chance,
12:08 so that we can be recreated and go to heaven,
12:11 God's love, it's proven.
12:14 Yeah. The next step is trust.
12:16 If you know your parents love you,
12:18 but then they asked you to do something
12:19 that you don't understand.
12:21 You need to be smart enough to know
12:22 that they heard your request,
12:25 and that they want the best for you,
12:27 and that they need you to trust their answer.
12:29 Yeah, that's true.
12:31 Even if you don't understand, it's the same with God.
12:35 When we fully trust Him,
12:36 we can let go and let God...
12:39 Yeah.
12:40 Put it all in His hands,
12:42 knowing that He will answer the best way
12:44 and at the best time for us.
12:47 Keep in mind, parents are also human,
12:49 and they can make mistakes,
12:51 but they do want the best for you.
12:53 Our Father God though, He's perfect,
12:56 which means you can trust that He wants the best for you
12:59 and that He hears you.
13:01 Yeah.
13:02 After all, it says it right there
13:04 in today's Bible Treasure.
13:06 Why don't we have a prayer to finish up?
13:08 Oh, that's a good idea. Okay.
13:09 Shall we bring the crew in?
13:10 Yeah, cool. Definitely.
13:12 Hey, crew, come on in, guys. Let's pray together.
13:13 Who'd like to pray for us to finish?
13:14 I'll pray. Awesome. Elizabeth will pray.
13:16 Let's bow our heads.
13:22 Dear God, thank You for this day.
13:24 Please just be with us.
13:25 And thank You that we can always listen to You.
13:29 Thank You that You listened to us.
13:31 And in Jesus' name, amen.
13:33 Amen.
13:35 Well, guys, do you want to hear the answer to the brain teaser?
13:37 Cool, the brain teaser. Yeah.
13:39 Okay, here we go.
13:41 Let's see if you guys can get this one.
13:42 This was kinda tough one I think.
13:44 I am the only organ in the human body
13:46 that gave itself its own name.
13:49 What am I?
13:50 The heart? No.
13:52 Oh, is it the brain?
13:54 The brain.
13:56 You got it. You got it.
13:58 I'm so glad you joined us today for Bible Treasures.
14:01 Don't forget to search for treasure every day.
14:06 See you next time, guys.
14:07 Come on, let's go dig. Let's go.
14:08 We got a lot of stuff to discover today.
14:10 Yeah, this is gonna be great.
14:12 Yeah.
14:13 Can you imagine if we can find something like that?


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