 Welcome! My name is Marie and it is the second quarter of the teens cornerstone connections Bible study lesson. In lesson four we have Baraka with a mission story. In the orchestra we have Shadrach on the piano, Sakai on the trumpet, George and Lee on the saxophones, Subira on the clarinet, Amy and myself on the violins. Lastly we have the sabbath school panel which is done by the Nairobi Central teens along with their teens teachers. Enjoy! Hi my name is Baraka and I'll be taking us through the fourth mission story for this quarter. This story will be coming from the country of Portugal and some interesting facts about Portugal are Portugal is one of the oldest countries in Europe dating back to the year 1143. In 2001 Portugal decriminalized drugs and the Seventh Day Adventist Church in Portugal has only 9,611 members. Today's story will be centering around nine-year-old Carlos who goes to a seventh day Adventist elementary school in Portugal. The only reason he does this is because it's closest to his home. Other than that neither he nor his family are Adventists. Upon after being in the school for some time he began to notice that the Adventist Church is different from most churches that he was used to going. They had no saints they didn't baptize the babies and they were born and Carlos found this very strange. He began to ask himself many questions. Why do we have Sunday and you have Saturday? He asked why do we have saints and you don't have saints? Why do we baptize when we are born and you do not? He asked his questions to his parents who answered to the best of their ability however he wasn't satisfied with their answers. He began to have debates with many of his classmates back at school to try and understand more about the Seventh Day Adventist Church and why they're different. He soon began to realize that no matter how much he tried he wasn't able to come up with answers from the Bible as to why their church was different from the Seventh Day Adventist Church. Unlike him his classmates were able to back up what they said from the scripture. Carlos began to realize that the Seventh Day Adventists do this out of love for God. They follow God's commandments. They follow the Bible and that's why he and that's why he wasn't able to win any of the debates with them. In the book of John chapter 14 verse 15 it says if you love me keep my commandments. Carlos also loved God very much and at the age of 16 he gave his heart to Jesus and was baptized. His entire family came to watch and now Carlos is a leader in the Seventh Day Adventist Church. He also joined the Pathfinders and he really enjoyed earning the honors and participating in other activities. This quarter your thirteenth Sabbath offering will help open a new Seventh Day Adventist Elementary School in Sattuba, Portugal so other children's lives can be changed just like Carlos. Happy Sabbath. Happy day. It's another day that we are going to seek the face of the Lord through our lesson discussion but before we jump into the lesson of the day I would like us to have a word of prayer through by our brother Salman. Let's pray. Our kind and loving father thank you for being with us this Sabbath. Please guide us and protect us as we go through this lesson that you may be known. Jesus' name we pray and believe. Amen. Apply the blood. That's the topic of our lesson for today but before we start the lesson discussion I would like us to introduce ourselves and then we jump into the lesson. I'll start from my far right. Right. Happy Sabbath everyone. Happy day. And welcome to a lesson. My name is Jonan Magana. Happy Sabbath. Happy day. I am Salman Sipakaji. Happy Sabbath. Happy day. I'm Ben-Dikyan Silas. Happy Sabbath. Happy day. I'm Grace Waseke. And my name is Senet Moshe, one of the panelists of the day. Okay thank you so much teacher Senet. One of our teachers here at Nairobi Central teens class. So our lesson today as we've been told it's apply the blood. Apply the blood. The previous lesson we studied about you know I see I hear I know talking about the way the Lord sent Moses to deliver the Israelites from captivity. Now in our lesson today we're going to touch on how the Israelites finally come out of Egypt. Well before we get into that I'm always the story guy. So we have a story I'm going to share before we get into the story. So sometime in around 2003 there were some three young missionaries okay. They were in a theology school you know starting to become pastors and missionaries but these guys were a bit naughty so to speak. So they were supposed to be in class this was somewhere in South Africa. But these three young men that was Chris Norman and young man called Busi. So Chris Norman and Busi decided that they want to go swimming alright somewhere in the the beach. So on the day that they were supposed to be in class they decided to skip class and go to the beach. So two of them that is Busi and Norman went to the car but Chris remained behind because he went to get his surfboard. He wanted to go surf in the waves and he knew some very good place that he'd been told by his friends he could go surf. So the three of them they snuck out of the meeting and went there. But some of the other students saw them sneaking out. So this guy just went they just assumed no one saw them but something funny happened along the way they got lost. They did not know where they were going and Chris had the number of someone who was in charge of that beach so he called that number asking for directions but no response. They still kept getting lost. So they asked some of the petrol station to give them the direction to where they were going to and the guy just told them but he wasn't so sure about the directions. So they went drove a bit very very good BMW but then they got on a rough road and this is a place you know sorry to speak this but BMWs are really meant to handle and the car was shaking in some ways that it's not supposed to shake and they realized that they were really lost. So time went two hours in they decided let's just turn back to the college. This is a hopeless course. So they go back to the college. They're late for lunch. Lunch is over. They didn't go for class and once they arrived Chris was on who was driving the car. He just reaches under his car seat to pick his wallet as he's going out and guess what he finds. A booklet of the place they were going with a detailed map of directions every single place they were supposed to pass through including contacts of people they should have called in case they got lost. I can imagine how bad these people felt. Now how does this connect to our story today? Can apply the blood. Now the Israelites also had a blueprint a sort of a map as to what they needed to do to avoid calamity or getting lost and this was when the Lord was bringing the 10th plague. We know the 10 plagues the Lord showed in Egypt to get ferrute release Israelites. So for the 10th plague as you'll see in our lesson they were to apply blood somewhere. We'll read that in the lesson. So the Israelites actually followed the map or the guideline to what they were supposed to do and they did not get lost. Okay so now that we have a bit of a background to what is happening I'd like to ask Salmon to read us Matthew 26 verse 28. Matthew chapter 26 verse 28 and probably you can give us some highlights on what do you think about that. Okay Matthew 26 verse 28 for this is my blood of the New Testament which is shed for many for the remission of sins. That is Christ talking about his own blood. Christ's blood was a sign that we've been cleansed from our sins. Salmon kindly just take us with the what do you think section as we get more insight into this. Okay so we're told to say whether we prefer what we prefer in the what do you think sections which I'm going to go through and why you prefer the question. So tell us do you prefer to have money in your bank account but not have access to it. You have the money it's in your account but you can't use it. You can't it's there it's sitting in your bank in your bank account. Why? Because it's frustrating like you have money money is what everyone needs. You have it but you don't have access to it. You can't use it. Yeah. Look Grace would you prefer to have a car without the keys to start it or license to drive it. No because it would be useless I mean you don't have the license so even if you did have the keys you're you're not like fit to drive legally speaking and even if you did have the license but you don't have the keys there is no way you can get that car anywhere so no. I'd like to say this if you have the car you don't have the keys and you don't have a license. If you don't have a license it's not a big problem because you can hire but without the keys even the driver is useless. But I think in this case what my friends trying to say is that like you own this car it's yours. So the thing is like yes you have a car but you don't have the driving license and then the key. These are two key things that you need to have for you to drive this car. Once you don't have them then it's it's like you don't have a car or you have it but it's like those things that sometimes you buy for the kids and then they play with it's like a toy. Yeah so the thing is like once you have this car you must have the driving license and then you must have the keys. Yeah so without the two then you're nothing. Yeah. Let's take a little illustration here. So you can hire a driver right but you don't have the keys. This story is about applying the lamp, the blood, the blood from the lamp, the final lamp which was the final sacrifice was Jesus. You can't replace Jesus. You cannot replace because his blood is what matters. The keys are what matters. The driving license, driving license is like holy people like angels. Angels do not sin. There are other worlds out there. The people they do not sin but here none of those people because they have the driving license they cannot come. None of them are eligible to die for a sins. Only Jesus Christ. Amen. Amen. So the most important thing here is to have the Holy Spirit in your life so you can be light to those in the darkness. Amen. Amen. Amen. I like it. Exactly. So maybe I can add on to what you said. It talks something about the blood, the blood of Jesus. It's what we need. We look at Jesus to be like his blood is like our hope of salvation. Once you take the blood of Jesus your life will never be the same. So if you look at the Israelites they were given like it was like a covenant. Like they had to use the blood of the lamb and now this lamb is the hope of salvation. Therefore us Christians we see like our God. So once you take this blood it's like your soul has been changed. Your soul has been purified once you take it and your life will never be the same. So with these things if we observe the covenant of God then it's like we'll be the light the way he has put it and the light once the light it's on everyone can be able to see. Amen. True. The world can be able to see the light through our deeds. Only we will be obedient to God and our faith in him. Amen. So I think the point the whole point of the what do you think section thank you Salmond for taking us through that is to show us that we might have some things in this life but as long as you don't have the very the most important part of that thing it's practically useless to us. Now it applies to us in this way right what is the point of Jesus Christ dying for you and me if we don't accept the gift. You know a gift doesn't a gift is not a gift until you receive it. I may just bring a whole car to you Salmond right now but what's the point of it being a gift to you if you don't accept it. That is the same thing in our lives right now. Now the blood of Christ was built for our sins but we have to accept it. The moment you do not accept it it sees this being as important as it's supposed to be. Okay so let us move on to our story and I'll ask Silas to read that but before we get there Grace you can kindly read for us Revelation chapter 1 verse 5 it's also in the punch lines. Okay it says Jesus Christ who is the faithful witness the first born from the dead and the ruler of the kings of the earth to him who loved who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood. Amen now that verse talks about Jesus Christ and so does our story so let us see what our story talks and how it connects to Jesus Christ Silas take us through the into the story today. So in this story we are talking about it's from the book of Exodus chapter 12 the whole of that chapter. So in this story we are learning about they tell how the Israelites live. So here Moses is being given the book. On what to do so that they cannot be the first borns of the family are not given. So these are the directions. This month is to be the for you the first month the first month of the year tell the whole community of Israel. So they were supposed to take a lamp for each family one for each household. If a household is too small they should join with another so that they can eat all the the whole lamb and finish it in that night. So they were told to kill the lamb and apply the blood on their dopest that when the angel of death comes you can see the marks and so the animal they were supposed to choose must be a year old and it shouldn't have any defect so we learned that they needed the best. They were supposed to take care of them until the 14th day of the month when all the members of the community of Israel must slaughter them. I think we can draw some parallels from what you've said Silas thank you. So the animals that were chosen right there were also some more instructions about it they were not supposed their bones are not supposed to be broken and then they were supposed to be chosen on the 10th day of the month but they're supposed to be slaughtered four days later. Now here's a very interesting thing if you can all flip to the did you know section of our lesson we will see why this is very interesting okay so this is the first point the did you know section we're told that Jesus came into the city of Jerusalem four days before the Lamb was killed in the temple as a Passover sacrifice. So Jesus literally the Passover in the Israeli time there when the Israelites in Egypt was a parallel to what Jesus was supposed to do right because we see what the Israelites supposed to do they're supposed to pick the Lamb 10 days on the 10th day of the month that's four days before they kill it and Christ came to Jerusalem four days before he was sacrificed before he was crucified okay that shows that Christ is a Lamb and then we also have the second thing right the second thing is that the bones of the Lamb are not supposed to be broken and we see in Jesus' death in John chapter 19 verse 33 when Christ died not a single bone in his body was broken so it is a literal parallel between the Lamb offered in the Passover and Jesus Christ and the way he died okay Silas probably can finish to us what what they did to the blood where did they apply it and probably some questions from out of the story. Okay so we'll head to the questions what is the significance of the blood? The blood was a symbol to show of what was coming as she said a parallel of the end and which was Jesus Christ on the cross so the blood was also a sign at that time was a sign for the angel of death to pass over the houses but it symbolized Jesus blood on the cross as a final sacrifice and I think also we can get some insights from Greece you just to lead you through it you can open Genesis chapter 9 I already have and from out of seeing that especially if you read the fourth verse no need to even go any further but you shall not eat flesh with its life that is blood so blood has been kind of paralleled with life and as you can see in the story of the Passover if they smeared blood on the doorposts of their houses the lives of the first born are spared so like blood like kind of like led to life something like that for another question Silas what emerges as the central lesson of this it can give us why what's the main lesson from this story okay thank you to John and we may think the whole thing of blood once you take the blood of Jesus Christ it's like it gives you life not like the way we know like this life after after death so once you take the blood of Christ it's like your life has been purified it has been changed and that's the main reason as to why they were commanded like they have to apply blood are there doorposts one thing it was like when the angel of death will come and it's like you will jump go to the next door and then we kill like the first born of the Egyptians but in this case one thing it was like this blood it kind of it sanctifies you it changes your life it changes your soul makes you a new being once you take on the blood of Jesus Christ and this it shows you how powerful the blood of the lamb is amen amen and just it's a good thing you've mentioned about the Passover and jumping over the house actually that's a very great misconception that we've grown to you know be knowing no lies but studying this lesson I came across something very interesting so the English translation of the word to Passover does not do justice to the Hebrew word the Hebrew word is Pesa and Pesa it's a verb which refers to protection so the Lord did not cost the blood did not cost the angel of death to jump over the house but rather what it means is that the Lord shielded that house from death okay so Passover doesn't literally mean like Passover as we used to but it means like the Lord shielded those houses with the blood on the dopos thank you for that so we'll have a brief song from the orchestra song hymn 294 power in the blood and then we'll proceed from there power in the blood that is the hymn we've just listened to and it really speaks to us and connects the lesson we were talking about you know the power of the blood of Christ in this late time we've seen it had the power to save the lives of the fast-born children but in our lives right now it has the power to save each and every one of us Alaska Salmon to read for us revelations after 3 verse 20 revelation 3 verse 20 and probably before you go to that you can read the key text for today okay the key text is from Exodus 12 7 and 13 then they are to take some of the blood and put it on the sides and on the tops of the door frames of the houses where they eat the lambs the blood will be assigned for you from the house is where you are and when I see the blood I will pass over you no destructive plague will touch you when I strike Egypt hmm okay before you give us your insight into that I can just read through revelation chapter 3 verse 20 then you can combine those two verses so revelation 3 20 says look I stand at the door and knock if you hear my voice and open the door I will come in and we will share a meal together as friends now these are two doors we see in these two verses Salmon probably can throw some questions from those two verses okay I have one question here so home what then do you think it means to have the blood of the lamb on your door so you're just from saying that in Hebrew it meant protection yes protection being shielded having the blood is having a shield it's it's not just a normal shield it's a spiritual shield mm-hmm which protects you from all sorts of evil in this case in the Bible it was protecting them from it was protecting the Israelites and anyone else who applied it from the plague in our time we are not really meant we are not we cannot just apply blood on our door friends so what you need to do is grace Jesus died for us he'll save us by grace not by work so we have grace we have faith that he'll protect us and shield us you will do that for us amen amen and speaking of grace grace can give us from some inside what she thinks about that question I've also seen that this blood is also it's like an allegory of our works in order to explain I'm gonna have to go to the flashlight section mm-hmm which as usual comes from patriarchs and prophets this particular quote comes from page 278 stretching all the way to 279 and it says before obtaining freedom the bond man must show their faith in the great deliverance about to be accomplished the token of blood must be placed upon their houses had the Israelites disregarded in any particular the directions given them they would not have been secure by obedience the people were to give evidence of their faith so all who hope to be saved by the merits of the blood of Christ should realize that they themselves have something to do in securing their salvation man is to be saved by faith not by works yet his faith must be shown by his works he must appreciate and use the helps that God has provided so basically what what she's trying to say here that is that in the case of the Israelite it is not exactly doing all that stuff that would save them the fact that they were trusting in God and doing what they told him to do what what he told them to do is what actually saved them and if they could have you know done everything but missed one thing like let's say got in the right lamp slaughtered it the right way cooked it the right way but failed to apply the blood on the doorposts for example they the first born in that family would have died so here what they're trying to say is in order for us to be delivered there is a part we must play now don't get me wrong we are not saved by our works we are saved exclusively by grace through faith but there is something we must do yes Jesus blood cleanses us but it can't cleanse us unless we accept and trust him and do as he says so this is what it's trying to tell us here and also something to what she said and also what said sometimes our obedience I think it's the key thing here we cannot be saved if you're not obedient to him we have to believe in him our faith in him and then believe like this the one was given in this chance to spread the word of God so once we obey whatever it tells us then it comes easier for us to be saved also because we cannot do what he has directors to do and then we relax like yeah now we are going to be saved by God the way she said it like we have to play our part and our part it's actually to obey the name and then to be obedience to him also because if you look at the call of the Moses and then the task that he was given the first thing that we told the children of Israel was like yes I'm here I've been sent by by the most high but for me to do this you have to be obedient amen and also just before we move on to the next part as grace had said you know we are not saved by our works we're saved by the faith and the grace you know the Christ has given unto us but how do we really show our faith you know James said that faith without actions is dead right we are saved by grace through faith but we demonstrate our faith through works you guys got that right we have said by grace through faith but that faith is demonstrated in our works so our actions speak to showing that we have faith in God and that's how we accept his saving grace for us yes someone as you have said that our actions define our faith by doing the wrong thing you're not defining God's faith you're defining the wrong faith that's what grace was trying to say we are not saved by our work so you're doing good but you don't have any faith in God really it's one and the other faith and works have to go hand in hand they have to go hand in hand but for you to be in heaven you will not go there because of what you did you give people food why did you give them because you wanted them to elect you not quite a good example but it shows you helping them were not you didn't have the right intentions for people you can be helping people to lure them into a trap but by having faith in God and showing that faith which is works that's how you're going to be in heaven amen amen and thank you for that insight yes if I were to add on that even let's say that it's all good mode of not helping people to get them into a trap like in the end I think it boils down to who you're doing it for because you could be doing it to make yourself look good or you could be doing it to you know as God said when you feed the hungry close the naked visit those in prison you're doing it for me either doing it for your glory or his glory and if you're doing it for your glory that's not gonna count amen and I like you brought that in because that also ties up into our fundamental belief for this lesson and our fundamental belief is belief number let me get it belief number eight that is a great controversy alright this is one of the few things that the Adventist faith has unique and that's the fight between good and evil God and the devil and in previous lessons in our class we had learnt about you know where Lucifer came from and who he is okay and as Grace has said this is a fight where you don't get to sit on the fence you either choose one side or another you either on God's side or on the devil's side if there's a light time you either did what God asked you to do that is to apply blood on the dopos or you did not there was no in between even God says in Revelation you are lukewarm I will pu you out of my mouth God is not like people who are indecisive you have to take a stand in this life so for us it's either do you accept the blood of Jesus or do you not now the Senate you can give us as we move to the punch lines because of time you can give us probably one of the verses which speaks to you mostly and then I can choose two other people can give us those verses okay for me I will go with the first John 1 7 and it says but if we walk in the light as he is in the light we have fellowship with one another and the blood of Jesus his son purifies us from all sin yeah man man if you walk in the light you know we have the blood of Jesus thank for that you can choose like two other people just give them the other one I can go with the salmon and then so for me what speaks to me is Hebrews 13 12 and 13 and so Jesus also suffered outside the city gate to make the people holy through his own blood let us then go to him outside the camp bearing the disgrace he bore Jesus is God this is God coming to us suffering staying at see the city gate which was a disgrace because of you and the other one really don't care really just imagining just imagine the president of whatever country come from I wouldn't imagine the president living outside the best of the place the most secure place I wouldn't imagine him living in the border of the country which is very rough and there was sometimes he's sitting in the most secure place true but this is God the creator he came down to us to give us his blood because over our own we made the problem he brought the solution but still don't want to take the solution so this just just speaks to me because at the end he says let us then go out outside the camp bearing the disgrace he bore let's be like Jesus amen thank you Salomon yes we can now get word from Silas which voice speaks to you Matthew 26 says this is my blood of the covenant which is poured out of many for the forgiveness of the blood of Christ is cleanses us you know this power in the blood to cleanses and also if I may also really liked Romans 5 8 to 9 which says but God demonstrates his own love for us in this while we were still sinners Christ died for us since we have now been justified by his blood how much more shall we be saved from God's wrath through him like this reminds me of something I read in patriarchs and prophets when God delivered the Israelites they were not perfect I mean they had lived in Egypt for so long and in and they had like so much influence from the heathen culture that the Egyptians had they had so many gods and you know had they had no no respect for God's laws or anything like in the fact that they made them slaves that means that they totally forgot about the Sabbath for example and also worshiped the Egyptian gods if they like if the pressure became too much for them God not wait for them to you know keep the Sabbath again or like turn away from the idols completely although of course he showed them through the plagues that you know heathenism is fake like these gods are not real I'm the true God but he didn't wait for them to like fully become perfect in order for him to save them he saved them first and now that's when he revealed his law to them amen amen and while you still added grace thank you for that we can read for us the quote from about the third this section by someone called Edan Akhbez you probably that quote for us it's a very profound word okay so the quote reads the greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return and there's no greater thing that we human beings desire just love the more the feeling of belonging somewhere and that that could just encompasses it all to send it as you close up you can read for us first Corinthians chapter 5 verse 7 and 8 and I give us what what you think about it okay our first Corinthians chapter 5 7 to 8 and a matrix God has made full provision for us to be saved we are headed for for heaven when we turn to him take his provision and they start moving in that direction in this week's lesson we have been looking at our apply the blood something very interesting and when you look at our during the times of Moses when he went like to deliver the children of Israel from from Egypt and then to the promised land as I said earlier one thing that he was told was like it all the children was like obedience is the key for your salvation they had to believe like in God was given was given the chance to live so when Moses was in the house of the Pharaoh this one thing he did when he told the Pharaoh like I've been given a message by Jehovah to come and deliver to you one thing he asked me like who is this Jehovah who is superior than me and my gods Moses had to perform the miracle that he did of the road that he had made it a serpent one thing that the Pharaoh did he brought his his people those people from the devil and they were like they produced their own serpents but God had to to show them like I'm the God who created you the serpent of Moses swallowed all the other Egyptian serpents that they had you tell us one thing all the things that God can give except life even the death wall has a counterfeit of it even the when we have looked at the fundamental belief number eight the great controversy this day controversy that we have today between the people who believe in God and those people who believe in the world the children of Israel they lived in Egypt and they became they believed in the culture of the Egyptians but that was not what God wanted God wanted them to worship him and believe in him when we look at our lives today we are in this world and the only thing that keeps coming into our lives is that God is warning us like yes you are in this world but don't be of this world God has given us the channels and the avenues for us to be to be saved and he's telling us like you have to believe in me take my blood and your life will never be the same if only we can believe in him and follow him then things will be easier for us we have to be obedience to him and then we have to have faith in him and trust in him and then we move from the lives of this world and believe in the lamb and the blood of Jesus Christ amen amen thank you so much for your insights panelists so we've come to the end of the lesson today and I'd like just the panelists to just give one word parting short as as we close up for 30 seconds or so because that from someone okay so for me I'd say follow directions strictly grace said that if they hadn't just followed one one strict direction the world the first one would have ended up dead so let's just try and follow instructions follow instructions thank you for that Silas your last word what do you learn from this story today about the blood of Jesus even if it is free you have to accept it and there are always terms and conditions you have to accept the gift of the blood of Jesus Christ thank you for that grace the last word faith and works go hand-in-hand I mean the Israelites after seeing all the plagues believed that God is indeed going to rescue them from bondage but if they had just believed and not have done what they were told by God to do apply blood on the doorpost get the right lamp slaughtered the right way cook at the right way and all those instructions they wouldn't have like their firstborn would have died so faith and works have to go thank you that she said it my parting shot is God has given us different gifts for these gifts to be seen in our lives we have to show them to the world God has given us this gift to deliver other people out of bondage the obstacles are there but one thing God has given us a sign people can harden their hearts the way the Pharaoh did but they start thing that we can whisper to them and they will change their lives God will come and we'll ask you like I gave you this gift what did you do with it we have the blood just after faith in him and be obedient to our maker that's the only way we can be able to be saved from the hands of this world amen amen and for me the Lord gave the blood of his son Jesus Christ so it can be saved the only thing we need to do is accept it so there is power in the blood of Jesus and Jesus blood just saves us from so many things those you know addictions you have right now those pains you have in your life right now just accept the blood of Jesus in your life and all it's going to be well so thank you so much for being with us for this session and I'd like to ask Silas to pray with us as we close let's pray thank you for the love you've given us even your blood we pray that you may help us accept it in Jesus name I pray amen amen