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Series Code: KCBG
Program Code: KCBG190015S
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00:01 Hey, Campers.
00:02 Today, we're gonna learn about the coat of many colors. 00:05 Hang on one second. Wait, what? 00:11 Bible Gems is up next? 00:14 Will you stop? 00:39 Welcome to Bible Gems. 00:41 Wow! 00:45 I'm Auntie Linda. And I'm Uncle Aron. 00:49 And today, we are gonna go on the Bible time set. 00:54 So we're gonna have a good time 00:55 and we're gonna start out with Miss Jo Dee 00:57 learning the memory verses. 00:59 So we better hurry, I want to learn this one. 01:01 Israel loved Joseph 01:05 Israel loved Joseph 01:08 Israel loved Joseph 01:11 And He made him a coat 01:13 Of many colors 01:17 Genesis 37:3 01:25 Yay! Good job. 01:28 Good job. Great. 01:30 Thank you for sharing that awesome memory verse song. 01:33 Uncle Aron, there's a special gem 01:36 that we have today 01:37 and I wanted the boys and girls to see it. 01:39 Do you know where it is? I'll go find it. 01:41 You know where it is. 01:43 Leslie, you want to come help me. 01:45 Here it comes, it must be heavy, okay. 01:47 It is heavy. It's full of gems. 01:51 Must be. Whoo! 01:55 All right. Set it down. 01:57 Okay. Yeah. 01:58 What do you have? 02:02 All kinds of rubies and sapphires, 02:04 but I think, oh, now can I found us 02:07 the most precious jewel. 02:10 Check this guys, this is the Holy Scripture. 02:15 Many people over thousands of years contributed 02:18 to putting this sacred book called The Bible together. 02:22 And with it we have all kinds of stories, 02:25 amazing stories about how God has revealed Himself 02:29 to humans throughout human history. 02:32 Uncle Aron, can you tell us one today? 02:34 Do want to hear a story today? 02:36 Yes! All right. 02:38 Well, let me take a look what we have here. 02:41 Ah, this is a good story. 02:44 It's the story of Joseph and the coat of many colors. 02:49 Now, Joseph was born and his mom Rachel 02:55 was Jacob's beloved wife. 02:59 And Joseph had another younger brother, 03:03 who knows his name? Benjamin. 03:06 Benjamin, that's right. 03:07 Benjamin, unfortunately, when Benjamin was born, 03:11 Rachel, his mom died in the process. 03:15 And so Jacob had a very, very special love 03:21 for those two children, Joseph and Benjamin 03:24 because they were the only two children 03:26 that came from his most precious 03:28 and beloved wife. 03:30 So the story begins where Joseph was given 03:34 a very, very special coat. 03:38 What did this coat look like? 03:40 Colorful. It was really colorful. 03:42 I've got a coat, now it's not the same coat 03:45 but I've got a colorful coat right over here. 03:48 Whoa! Whoa! 03:52 Now, who would like to wear this beautiful colorful coat? 03:58 Whoa! So many of you want to. 04:01 Well, I'm going to choose 04:03 because I get the right to do that. 04:06 Let's go with Nathan. Oh, Nathan, come here. 04:11 Let's see if we can put a... face that, yeah. 04:13 There you go. Check it out. 04:15 Oh! Just throw him in a pit. 04:19 He looks nice. Right, throw him in a pit. 04:23 Man, Nathan, you look really good in that coat. 04:26 Now how did you guys feel that I didn't pick you? 04:32 That I didn't let you wear that? 04:34 Jealous? You felt jealous? 04:36 How dare you do that? How dare I do that? 04:39 That's right. 04:40 Now, how do you think that Joseph's brothers felt 04:45 when their dad, it was their dad too, right? 04:48 Gave only Joseph a beautiful coat, in fact, 04:52 this was a coat that signified royalty, 04:56 that signified wealth, 04:57 that signified that he was much... 04:59 he was more loved really than the rest of them. 05:04 You would feel jealous. 05:05 You would maybe be like, "Ah, this just isn't fair." 05:08 That hurts. You feel hurt, right? 05:11 You know, he's your dad too, what's going on with that? 05:14 Unfortunately it led to jealousy 05:16 and more dysfunction within that family. 05:18 Now, to make matters even worse for the rest of the brothers, 05:22 Joseph had a dream. 05:25 And in this dream he beheld that 05:28 there were 12 sheaves, 12 stacks of sheaves, 05:33 and they were standing there. 05:35 But 11 of those sheaves bowed down, 05:40 and they just fell flat to the ground. 05:42 And it looked like 05:43 they were giving honor and glory 05:44 to the one sheath. 05:46 He didn't tell his brothers that story, did he? 05:48 Oh, he did. 05:50 He came to his brothers and his parents and he said, 05:53 "Hey, look, this is a dream I've had." 05:55 And how do you think 05:56 the brothers interpreted that dream? 05:59 They were saying that, they were... 06:03 that he thought that they were gonna have 06:05 to bow down to him. 06:07 That is what they thought. 06:08 And it seemed to be that 06:09 that's actually what the dream meant. 06:11 So this dream happened and they said, "What? 06:13 Are you gonna rule over us? 06:15 Are we gonna bow down to you? 06:16 Come on, man. 06:18 And then, guess what happened? 06:21 They threw him in a cave. 06:24 Eventually they did. 06:25 But before that, they had another dream. 06:27 That's right. 06:29 He had another dream and who knows 06:30 what this dream was in this dream. 06:33 All right, let's go with Crystal over there. 06:36 The sun, moon and 11 stars bowed down to him. 06:39 That's exactly right. 06:41 The sun, and the moon, 06:43 and 11 stars, they also bowed down. 06:47 And when he shared with his parents this, 06:50 even his parents are like, "Whoa, are you serious?" 06:53 The sun was his father, and the moon was his mother, 06:58 and the 11 stars were his own brothers. 07:02 Yeah, that's right. 07:03 That's how they interpreted it. 07:04 And that's how I think what God meant by it. 07:08 Now after that happened, 07:11 it looks like a little time went by. 07:13 And Jacob called to Joseph 07:17 and how did Joseph respond? 07:19 He said, "Here I am." 07:21 Joseph was a very obedient child. 07:24 He said, "Here I am. What do you want, dad?" 07:26 And Jacob said, "I would like for you to go 07:29 and to check on your brothers who are out in," 07:32 I believe it was Shechem. 07:34 But could he find them there? No. 07:36 There was a man, 07:37 we don't know who but a man told them that 07:39 "Hey, your brothers have gone 07:41 to another place called Dothan." 07:44 If I'm pronouncing it right. 07:45 And so Joseph went off. Joseph, correct, yes. 07:48 He went off to Dothan to look for his brothers. 07:51 I bet he was excited 07:52 'cause this journey was almost over. 07:54 Oh, I'm sure he's like, "Oh, man. 07:56 I've gotten here. 07:57 Now I gotta walk another 14 miles." 07:58 But he was happy to do the will of his father. 08:02 And as he went, he found them there. 08:04 When he was far way off, once his brothers saw him, 08:08 what popped into their mind? 08:10 Throw him in that pit. Throw him in a pit. 08:12 Well, actually something even worse. 08:15 The first thing that popped in their mind was 08:18 "Let's kill him." 08:19 It was actually Judah, right? 08:21 Judah was the one who said, "Man, let's kill him" 08:23 and they all seem to get on board with that. 08:24 They remember the dreams, didn't they? 08:26 'Cause they said, "Behold the dreamer." 08:28 Oh, yeah. They were mocking him. 08:29 They said, "Oh, here's the master of dreams. 08:31 The dreamer. Oh, here he comes. 08:33 Man, forget this guy. 08:35 Let's throw him and let's kill him." 08:37 Joseph must have been sad. 08:38 Yeah, he probably really was. 08:41 But when they put them in the pit, 08:45 they said that "We could kill him," 08:47 and Ruben's like, 08:48 "No, no, we should throw him in the pit." 08:50 So he was actually 08:51 more nicer than the rest of them. 08:54 Yeah, that's right. 08:56 At least Ruben who was the firstborn, 08:59 he was the oldest had a little bit of oomph, 09:03 a little bit of authority and he said, 09:06 "Let's not kill him, let's just throw him in a pit." 09:08 He was planning to come back later to take him out. 09:11 But he caved in to the peer pressure, right? 09:16 He was a little bit courageous, 09:18 but he wasn't courageous enough to say, 09:19 "No, that's foolishness. 09:21 We shouldn't kill our own brother. 09:23 That's not okay." But they throw him in there. 09:27 And then there's something that happened along the way. 09:31 Daddy Hall, do you have a comment 09:32 or something to share? 09:34 Yes, Uncle Aron, I do. 09:35 You know, we think about the story of Joseph 09:37 and how his brothers wanted to kill him. 09:40 But you know that the Bible says that 09:41 if we hate our brother, it's the same as killing them. 09:46 And so if we hate someone, we're kind of just as bad as 09:50 what Joseph's brothers were when they wanted 09:53 to hurt their brother, 09:54 but who is it that can take hate out of our heart? 09:57 God. 09:58 God can take hate out of our heart. 10:00 Amen. 10:01 Thank you for sharing those insights. 10:03 Yes, Joseph was definitely bullied 10:05 and went through a lot of loneliness there. 10:08 Now when he was thrown in that pit, 10:11 a group of people came along. 10:14 What kind of people were they? 10:16 They were caravan, they weren't Egyptian. 10:18 Oh. She said it. 10:20 She said it. Ishmaelites. 10:21 That's right, Ishmaelites, 10:23 they came along and wait a second. 10:24 Ishmaelites, that means they were descendants from who? 10:28 Ishmael. Ishmael. 10:29 Wait, wasn't Ishmael the son of their grandfather 10:33 or their great grandfather? 10:35 Yeah, Abraham had his first son Ishmael, 10:38 but then the promised son, Isaac, so these were relatives. 10:42 We have some relatives, the Ishmaelites are coming by 10:46 and they said, "You know what? 10:48 We're gonna make profit off of this." 10:49 That's so greedy. That's so greedy. 10:52 Now Joseph was sold 10:54 for these 30 pieces of silver shackles, 10:57 and he was taken away. 10:59 What do you boys and girls think 11:02 was going on in the mind of Joseph? 11:06 What would you be thinking being taken away, 11:09 being betrayed and sold into really slavery 11:12 by your own siblings, 11:14 your own brothers, how would you feel? 11:16 Zachary? I gotta get out of here. 11:20 Somehow. Amen. 11:22 Grandpa will feel that way too. I've got to get out of here. 11:26 Now as he's being taken away, over in the far distance 11:30 he may have been able to just see where, 11:34 right there maybe just over that hill, 11:36 or maybe he could actually see that's where I used to live. 11:40 That must have been awful. 11:41 And he's looking away and he's sad. 11:44 And he's probably thinking, "How can I get out of this?" 11:46 And right when he thought, "How can I get out of this?" 11:51 I like to believe that what popped into his mind 11:54 were the dreams that he had. 11:57 Remember those dreams? 11:58 He knew that God gave him those dreams. 12:00 And those dreams, 12:01 those prophecies had not yet come to fulfillment. 12:04 So we had to cling on to some kind of a hope, 12:06 believing that there will be a time 12:08 where those dreams will come to fulfillment. 12:11 And he knew God was still with him, 12:14 even when he had been forsaken by his own family. 12:18 You know, Uncle Aron, I can imagine that 12:20 when Joseph was just a little boy, 12:22 he spent time reading the Word of God. 12:25 He spent time having worship with his family. 12:27 So, boys and girls, every day when you get up, 12:31 spend time reading the Bible 12:33 and listening to the promises of God. 12:35 I will never leave you or forsake you. 12:38 Because I am sure that 12:39 when Joseph was on that way to Egypt, 12:42 he was reminded of the promises of God 12:44 and it gave him courage to face the challenge ahead. 12:47 That's right. 12:49 Any other thoughts or comments along this story? 12:52 Yeah, Gavin. 12:54 I imagine that 12:56 the Joseph's brothers would learn that, 13:02 "Oh, we did something bad. 13:06 But we don't want to tell father 13:08 because he'll get really mad. 13:10 So we'll just lie to him." 13:13 And they like lied and lied 13:15 and then their father actually, 13:20 like cried and didn't let Benjamin go 13:25 when they had to go to Egypt 13:27 because he didn't want to lose another son. 13:31 Yeah. 13:33 They did do something to his coat, didn't they? 13:35 They did. Oh, yeah. 13:37 They killed a wild animal 13:39 and they put the blood all over it. 13:41 You know what? Now, friends... 13:42 One lie leads to another. Yeah. 13:45 Well, boys and girls, 13:47 that's about all the time we have for now. 13:49 We'll see you next time. |
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