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<p>Life brings changes! There are changes when you start school, changes when you move, changes when you get married. Life is full of changes and life had changed for little Samuel. He no longer lived with his parents, but now he lived at the tabernacle and life was different. But Samuel was faithful to God, and God spoke directly to him.</p>

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Starting with Jesus

Katie Chitwood

SeedPod Kids November 2022

Samuel Hears God’s Call Part 1

Samuel Hears God’s Call Part 2

Samuel Hears God’s Call Part 3

Samuel Hears God’s Call Part 4

Samuel Hears God’s Call Part 5

Samuel Hears God’s Call Part 6

Angels Guard God’s Ark Part 1

Angels Guard God’s Ark Part 2

Angels Guard God’s Ark Part 3

Angels Guard God’s Ark Part 4

Angels Guard God’s Ark Part 5

Angels Guard God’s Ark Part 6

Wanting to Be Like Others Part 1

Wanting to Be Like Others Part 2

Wanting to Be Like Others Part 3

Wanting to Be Like Others Part 4

Wanting to Be Like Others Part 5

Wanting to Be Like Others Part 6

King Saul Becomes Proud Part 1

King Saul Becomes Proud Part 2

King Saul Becomes Proud Part 3

King Saul Becomes Proud Part 4

King Saul Becomes Proud Part 5

King Saul Becomes Proud Part 6

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. William Bradbury, a very famous and influential music composer, was the one who took the poem that William Walford had composed and turned it into a song. He wrote the music for it. Bradbury helped Fanny Crosby to take all of her poems and turned them into hymns. He taught Philip Bliss and helped to mentor him. He also formed a company to build and sell pianos. He published 60 song books that were well used throughout the United States. Sweetheart, Prayer, Sweet prayer. God calls me from a world don't care. And it's yeah, it's father's thrown me wants and where is and all to stress and grief. My soul has often found relief and often escapes the by turn. Sweet, sweet, sweet. I can'ts causes feel my romantic take flight i's all right to see Christ ande. Well farewell. Let's play a guessing game today. Are you ready? I am going to have you guess a job that a person in the Bible would do. Okay, Are you ready? Here we go. This person's job is mentioned or talked about in the Old Testament and in the New Testament. This person's job was given to those in the same family. So the father would have the job and then his son would have the job and then his son would have the job. And so it wasn't just anybody could do it. It was a special line of people who could do this job. All right, here's one more. This person would wear very special clothing, precious gems, even gold and little pomegranates and bells on their robe. Can you guess the job? It was a high priest. Were you able to guess it? Good job. I hope you work. We're gonna talk a little bit more about the high priest. Do you remember his name? His name was Eli. Eli was a high priest when Samuel was a boy. We're gonna talk a little bit more about him in just a minute, but first, let's pray. Lord, we're glad to be able to spend some time with you today, and we ask that you will send your spirit to help us and lead us into truth. We love you. Amen. God had said that the high priest was to be like a ruler for his people, the Israelites. He was to be a good example of how to love and obey God, and he was to teach the people to do the same thing. So he was to be a good example. He was to learn and be a good example. And he was also to teach the people so that they would do it too. If they would do that, if they would follow the rules that God had given, God could bless Israel and he could make them a great nation. When you think of blessings and curses, would you rather have a blessing or a curse? I'd rather have a blessing, right? Did you know that when we follow God, he gives us special blessings? Isn't that wonderful? I wanna follow him. How about you? Well, Eli knew that it was important to respect and to obey God. It was very important. But you know what? He had not taught his sons to do that. Did you know that if children are disobedient and disrespectful to their parents, that they're learning to be disobedient and disrespectful to God too? Because God is like our heavenly Father, right? Well, he is not like our heavenly Father. He is our heavenly Father. He loves us so much. Eli's two sons, Hne and Finns had not been taught that they must obey. Eli had let them get by when they disobeyed. Sometimes it's easy to do that as a parent, maybe because when you give your child a consequence, it's often a consequence for you. If I have to put my child on a timeout, it's almost like I'm on a timeout because I'm sitting there making sure that they're on their timeout for that amount of time. When I say that my child cannot go to spend time with their friends because that's what they really wanna do, but they did something wrong. And so that's the consequence. That means I get to stay at home with them. And that's almost a consequence for me too. So sometimes as parents, it's hard to give our children consequences and we just let them get away with things. I think that's kind of how Eli was. Maybe Eli was very busy and he just didn't really have time to spend with his boys when they were young. And so he wasn't able to train them to do what was right because he was leading the children of Israel and being the high priest. We don't know why Eli's sons were that way, but we do know that he gave in to what they wanted. Even when he knew that it wasn't right to do it, he had not punished them as he should have. It was very sad and it was very foolish. Now, his two sons, their names were HNI and Finns. They were very wicked. They were very sinful, and they were priests at the tabernacle. Everyone knew how awful they were being when Eli tried to tell them that they were doing something wrong. They did the same as when they were little. They just didn't pay any attention to him. They ignored him. Meanwhile, what was Samuel doing? Look at First Samuel chapter two, verse 18. First Samuel, chapter two, verse 18. What was Samuel doing? We're gonna look at first Samuel. It's after Ruth. You have Joshua, Judges Ruth, first and second Samuel. So we're in first Samuel, the little, the number one before Samuel one. Samuel chapter two, right there at the beginning, Chapter two in verse 18. Let's see what that says. But Samuel ministered before the Lord, even as a child wearing a linen e od. What was Samuel doing? He was ministering before the Lord. His job was helping and doing things for the Lord. And what did he wear? I love this. He wore a linen e od. Have you ever played dress up, maybe dressing up in things that are jobs that people have? Like maybe you dress up like a doctor or you dress up like a nurse or a fireman or a policeman? My boys, when they were really little, they were probably about three years old. My aunt gave them a very special present that they loved, and it was a fireman outfit, and it wasn't a fake fireman outfit. It was really, really real. It was little, and it wasn't a real one, but it looked real with a hat and a little radio and a little hatchet. And they just loved wearing this fireman hat. And they even had some fireman boots that I found at a yard sale. And so they would wear it all around the house pretending, sorry, pretending to be like a real fireman. And so Samuel is there working in the tabernacle, and he's wearing a linen evod just like the priests. Isn't that sweet? Oh, we're gonna learn some more about Hne and Finns and about Samuel, but I want you to think about something. It was really important that when Eli said something that he followed through. Is it easy when you say something to follow through? I wanna tell you a story. I think we have time for it. My husband, this was before we were married, but my husband had a younger sister who was 14 years younger than him, and she loved to tease him and get reactions out of him, especially when she was around the age of six, all the way up until about 14. Well, she was probably about 11 years old at this time, and they were walking along the beach and along the sidewalk, kind of on this path near the beach. And it had been, it had rained earlier. And so there were puddles of water and she was being a tease, so she snatched his hat and she ran off and he was in the middle of a conversation with some people and he, he stopped that and ran and got the hat from her and she just loved it and put it back on his head. And they kept walking. And finally she decided that she was going to do something even worse. So she went and snatched the hat off of his head, ran over to a puddle and held it over the puddle and said, I'm gonna drop it in. And he said, If you drop it in there, I'm going to put you in there. And she got this little gleam in her eyes and she dropped his hat into the puddle. So my husband went and he ran after her and he caught up very quickly and scooped her up in his arms and carried her back to that puddle. And then he held her over the puddle, dropping her closer and closer and closer until she was almost touching the puddle. And she was screaming and she's like, No, no, don't put me down. Don't get me. We, I don't wanna. But what had he said? He said, If you drop that in, I'll drop you in. But then he looked over at his dad and he was afraid that if he dropped her in, his dad or his mom would get mad at him and he would get in trouble for it. So he decided to just let her off with a warning instead of following through. And do you think that she learned her lesson? No, she didn't. She was right back to getting the hat again. And later on, his dad went up to him and said, John, that's what he calls him. John, you should have dropped her in because now she'll never know if what you say is right. And true or not, boys and girls, that was Eli. Eli did not follow through with his sons. His sons became out of control. And we're gonna find out next time some more of what they were doing and how the people around them were feeling about it. It's important that when we say something, we do it. That we follow through. Our parents do for us. They, they don't give in or they shouldn't give in. When you beg for something, if they just let you get by when you've done something wrong, then they end up hurting you in the long run. I hope your parents love you so much that they won't do that, that they won't give in even when you beg for something that you shouldn't have or let you get away with something that you've done wrong. I hope that your parents follow through and deep down you will be glad when they don't give in and when they don't let you get, get away with it. Let's pray. Lord, help us to be boys and girls, men and women of our word, that when we say something, we follow through and we do it. Help us to be consistent in the things that we do today and to follow you, to love you, to trust you. In Jesus' name, amen. Jeremiah one, seven. Do not say I'm a youth. Go. Do not say I'm a youth for you. Go do. Do whom I send you and whatever I in you speak. Do not say I'm for you. Go to and Hey, moms and dads, have your kids been enjoying the seed pod? Oh, we love putting these programs together for you, and we're praying that it is a huge blessing in your home. Although this program is free, there are still expenses and costs to recording and producing them. We are asking if you would prayerfully consider financially supporting our ministry starting with Jesus. 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Samuel Hears God’s Call Part 2

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Wanting to Be Like Others Part 1

Wanting to Be Like Others Part 2

Wanting to Be Like Others Part 3

Wanting to Be Like Others Part 4

Wanting to Be Like Others Part 5

Wanting to Be Like Others Part 6

King Saul Becomes Proud Part 1

King Saul Becomes Proud Part 2

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