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<p>I like to play on a teeter-totter at the park! It’s so fun to go up and down, up and down! If you have someone on the other end who weighs about the same as you do, it’s even more fun because it’s like you hang in space! The Children of Israel were living life on a “teeter-totter”. They would follow God and He would give them blessings and life was looking up! But then they would turn away from God, and start experiencing the consequences of their sins and life would be rotten. Back and forth, back and forth, up and down, up and down. But God was so patient with them. He still loved them, even when they were disobeying.</p>

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Starting with Jesus

Katie Chitwood

SeedPod Kids September 2022

The Promised Land at Last Part 1

The Promised Land at Last Part 2

The Promised Land at Last Part 3

The Promised Land at Last Part 4

The Promised Land at Last Part 5

The Promised Land at Last Part 6

Blessings and Curses Part 1

Blessings and Curses Part 2

Blessings and Curses Part 3

Blessings and Curses Part 4

Blessings and Curses Part 5

Blessings and Curses Part 6

The Gibeonites Part 1

The Gibeonites Part 2

The Gibeonites Part 3

The Gibeonites Part 4

The Gibeonites Part 5

The Gibeonites Part 6

Up and Down Years Part 1

Up and Down Years Part 2

Up and Down Years Part 3

Up and Down Years Part 4

Up and Down Years Part 5

Up and Down Years Part 6

The Call of Gideon Part 1

Hello friends. Welcome to the seed pod for kids. Thank you for joining me today. As we spend time with our friend, Jesus spending time with Jesus is the best way to start your day. Let's begin our time together, praising him. Have you ever played follow the leader? The leader goes different places and does different things and everyone's supposed to follow them and do what they do. It could be lots of fun to play and get some energy out too. Well. Jesus wants us to follow him just like when we play, follow the leader, are you going to let him leave you today? He and, and We have been traveling through the Bible. The beginning of the year, we started with Genesis, the very first book with creation. We went through the different stories about Noah and the tower of Babel and Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and Joseph and Moses. And now God has brought his people out of Egypt and into the promised land. Then Joshua took over, right? Moses was no longer the leader. He died right before the people entered the promised land and Joshua helped them to conquer their enemies and to divide up the land among the different tribes and the families and everybody got their part. Now we are starting the next book in the Bible. So we've been through Genesis and Exodus and Leviticus and numbers and due to Romy and Joshua, we just finished that last time. Now we're starting the book of judges who were the judges. Well, we're gonna find out a little bit more about them. Find out how they took care of God's people, but first let's pray. And Lord, it's another day that we get to spend with you. We're so thankful for it. You have encouraged us to dig into your word, the Bible, that it's a lamp into our feet and a light for our path. And so we pray that you will shine that light today so that we can see and understand more clearly what we need to know for our life today in Jesus' name. Amen. After Joshua, the elders died, the people soon forgot their promise to love and to trust and to obey God in his 10 commandments had God warned them not to live close to or make friends with the wicked people in Canaan. Yes, he had. He knew that if they did, they would start taking their customs. And God didn't want that because the people around them worshiped bail and the astronauts and that wasn't God's way. Did they obey? Let's look at judges chapter three versus five through seven. So we're gonna open our Bibles to judges chapter three. It's right after Joshua. And then Ruth comes after judges. So Joshua judges, Ruth judges, chapter three, and let's read versus five, six, and seven. Those little numbers, right after verse or chapter three. Let's see what that says. Thus, the children of Israel dwell among the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amma rights, the ly, the HIEs and the JBU site. And they took their daughters to be their wives and gave their daughters to their sons and they serve their gods. So the children of Israel did evil on the side of the Lord. They forgot the Lord, their God, and served the bells and Ash, her eyes. Uhoh the children of Israel are saying to the people around them, how about our daughters can marry your sons and your daughters can marry our sons. And we'll all just be one big happy family. Uhoh that's not a good thing. When we marry somebody who doesn't love God, it ends up being a really, really bad thing because then the, the children are raised to not love God. And there's constantly this conflict of who is right and who is wrong before long. It seemed as if everyone was following Satan. And then the consequences came just like, if your mom says don't touch the hot stove and you touch it, what happens? You get burned. Yes. If you eat fried food, what ends up happening? You can get very, very sick. What happens if you, your parents say, stay right here and you end up wandering off and getting lost. Can your parents protect you? No, they can't. There are consequences or bad things that happen when we don't follow God, but you know what? God is patient. And he's always patient. He's always been patient. And he'll always be patient when the people became sorry. And they begged God to forgive and pity them, guess what he did. And because he truly loved them, he found a brave leader to help them. His name was off Neal and he was a judge. The people were so grateful. Yes. We will have peace and feel safe at last look at verse nine and then skip to verse 11. So we're gonna read verse nine, judges chapter three, verse nine, and then let's read verse 11. Here's what it says. When the children of Israel cried out to the Lord, the Lord raised up a deliver for the children of Israel who delivered them off. Now the son of Ken as Caleb's younger brother. So the land had rest for 40 years and off now the son of Ken as die. Isn't that wonderful. They cry out to God and God raises up a deliver. But what happened when ane died? Did the Israelites remember the consequences that God had warned would come when they chose to disobey? Look at verse 12 And the children of Israel again, did evil on the site of the Lord. So the Lord's strengthened egg long king Moab against Israel because they had done evil in the sight of the Lord. Oh no, they did evil again in the sight of the Lord, the Israelites needed a judge more than once after Joshua died. In fact, it was more than 300 years that the Israelites made the same kind of wrong choices over and over and over. And after a judge died, then they would disobey again and then came the consequences, the bad ones. And then next they would be sorry. And they would beg God, please help us, help us, help us. And he would pity them and send another judge. And then the country would be peaceful again. But then after that judge died, the same old story would start over and over and over. My son has a yo-yo that he enjoys playing with and it goes up and down and up and down and up and down. That's how I think of the story or this part of in time of the children of Israel, because they would follow God and then follow away and then follow God and then follow away. But you know, what stands out to me is that God is patient. He forgives. And even when we mess up, even when we turn away from him and then come back and then turn away and come back, God is still there waiting for us. He wants to have a special relationship with us. He wants you to turn to him and call to him and he will answer and show us great and mighty things that we would, that we don't know about that we'll never know about. Unless we follow him. Let's pray. Lord, help us to trust you and turn to you to be so connected to you that we don't want it disobey. We don't wanna turn away. We wanna do what you have asked. Come into our hearts in Jesus name, amen, Joshua 24, verse 15, choose shoes. Following yourself this day, who you choose, choose, choose yourself this day, who you for and Lord choose. Choose. Choose for yourself this day, who Joshua choose. Choose this day. You choose, choose. Choose for this day. We who, if you have enjoyed This program and would like to find others like it, go to starting with jesus.com. The materials for this devotional podcast are used by permission from my Bible first, visit their website at my Bible. first.org, to get your own copy from our information about this episode, check out the description box below.

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The Promised Land at Last Part 1

The Promised Land at Last Part 2

The Promised Land at Last Part 3

The Promised Land at Last Part 4

The Promised Land at Last Part 5

The Promised Land at Last Part 6

Blessings and Curses Part 1

Blessings and Curses Part 2

Blessings and Curses Part 3

Blessings and Curses Part 4

Blessings and Curses Part 5

Blessings and Curses Part 6

The Gibeonites Part 1

The Gibeonites Part 2

The Gibeonites Part 3

The Gibeonites Part 4

The Gibeonites Part 5

The Gibeonites Part 6

Up and Down Years Part 1

Up and Down Years Part 2

Up and Down Years Part 3

Up and Down Years Part 4

Up and Down Years Part 5

Up and Down Years Part 6

The Call of Gideon Part 1

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