 Welkom to our 13th Cornerstone Lesson today. On the panel we have Chabriji, Flex, Barbara and Ashley. On orchestra we have Ashlyn, Elsie, and Shema, and Jace will be doing our sign language. So we start, let's bow down for the word of prayer. O Lord, we thank you for this day. Thank you for being thus thus far. May your spirit be thus, may guide us, may we learn in Jesus' name, my prayer and belief, amen. So our title of our mission today is crying over lunch. Achia cried as she walked to the bus stop to catch a bus for high school in the West African country of Ghana. She wasn't crying because she had to go to school. She was crying because she had to go to school without any money for lunch. Mother had given her 15 Ghanian CD about one USD just enough to pay for bus fare to school. But mother couldn't pay for her lunch and there was no food at home to share. Achia cried as she boarded the bus. She cried as she sat in her seat. She cried because she couldn't do anything else. But then she remembered God. While she couldn't do anything, God could do everything. After all, Jesus said, with all things, with God all things are possible. Matthew 19.6. As the bus bumped down the road, Achia tia fully prayed. I know you can do anything, she prayed. So please give me some money on the way to school. Achia wondered how God might give her some money. Perhaps the bus driver would forget to collect her fare when he came up to the back to ask passengers to pay up. God, if it is possible, please make the driver forget to collect the money from me. She prayed, but something else happened. An old man with gray hair boarded the bus. Only one bus it was empty and it was right beside Achia. The man sat down beside Achia. How are you feeling? He asked. Achia was crying too hard to answer. Then the driver came back to collect bus fares. And the driver reached Achia. The old man pulled out 50 CD about 3.50 USD and paid both his and Achia's fares. He gave the rest of the money, 20 CD, to Achia. Achia tried to stop crying to thank him, but before she knew it, the old man stood up and got off the bus. Achia followed him out onto the street. She wanted to thank him. The bus had stopped only at 30 minutes to walk from the school and she could walk the rest of the way. But when Achia looked for the old man, she couldn't see him anywhere. He had disappeared. Then it started to rain heavily. The bus was gone and Achia would get soaked if she would walk to school in the rain. She thought about healing a taxi, but there were no taxis inside. As she wondered what to do, a car stopped and its driver offered her a ride. In Ghana, some drivers earn extra money by giving rides to people. Achia gave the school's address and the driver took her straight to them. When they arrived, the driver surprised Achia. He didn't ask her to pay for the ride. Instead, he gave her 50 CD. Achia didn't understand why he had given her the money. Chonlini one thing. She had left home with 15 CD, but had arrived to school with 85 CD. As she travelled to school, God had given her nearly six times more money than she had had at the beginning. Achia believes God can truly do anything for those who ask with faith. I asked him with faith on my way to school and he did it, she said. I got more than I even asked for. Indeed, the Bible says, God is able to do exceedingly, abundantly above all that we ask or think. Ephesians 3 verse 20. At school that day, Achia bought herself lunch of rice and tomato soup. It is said really, really good. Today Achia is starting to become a nurse at a college that will receive part of this quarter 13 Sabbath offering. Thank you for giving a generous offering today to help most students study at the 7th day Adventist nursing and midwifery training college in Ghana. The offering also will help another mission project, a bilingual elementary school where children will learn in French and English in Cameroon. Thank you so much for that beautiful piece of music. Faith of our fathers. And indeed the topic for today is the father's God chose for his son. I just like to extend our very warm welcome to each one of you, to you, our viewers from wherever you are. And I'd like to encourage you to turn to lesson 13 of the cornerstone connection lesson so that you can study along with us. Before we begin, I have a beautiful team in front right here with me. I'd like each one of them to introduce themselves starting from my immediate right. Your viewers, my name is Mikael Flex. Hello everyone, my name is Babrachim. And hi everyone, my name is Ashli Philas. Welcome to the cornerstone lesson once again. And my name is Brigitte Albiomodereta. So I'd like to invite Ashli to open for us with our prayer. Let us pray. Brudema of the universe, you come before the throne of mercy. We ask Lord that as we read your word, you may give us understanding that you may remove every preconceived idea that your word may impart light and knowledge and wisdom to our lives that you may be drawn closer to thee as we lift you up for this humble prayer in Jesus' name. Amen. Thank you so much, Ashli. So we have come to our last lesson for this year and of course for the quarter. So as I had mentioned, the title for this lesson is The Father's God Chose for His Son. And even as we continue studying, we'll see the mothers as well, right? And so I think of importance today is for us to realize that in the previous lessons we have been studying about the kings of Israel. And our last lesson was actually about King David. So you may wonder how we did transition from the story of King David. And now we are talking about the fathers of God's son who is Jesus Christ. And that's important for us to realize that David himself is one of the ancestors of Jesus Christ. Now, even as we get into our lesson today, I'd like for us to find out what do we think about this lesson? So I'd invite Barbara to take us through that. Thank you so much, Shiza Brezic. So I will be taking us through the what do you think session of the story, lesson 13. So for our first question, it says, you have the names of three siblings between born between 1884 and 1887 and you need to know the names of their parents which will be the best sensals to start with. Is it the 1880, the 1900 or 1910? Asha, Ashley? Names of three siblings born between 1884 and 1887 knowing the names of their parents which sensals will be the best to start with. I think 1880 would be the best to start with. I really don't know. Okay, that is a good try. What about you, Tisha Bridget? I think I'd say 1900 because you realize that in 1880 these children were not yet born. So you may not be able to actually connect them with their parents. So you have to at least go slightly after when they were born to actually make that connection. Yeah, that is actually correct. So moving on to the second question of the what do you think session. The best place to start your genealogical research is, is it the internet, grammar or library? Well, you know the internet has so fascinating. There's actually a way where you can try to send a genealogy but you know a library doesn't have your personal information of your genealogy unless you're like super famous. So the best option would be your grandma which will tell a lot of stories. So if you have a time, go with some cup of tea and you'll know. May I just add something that don't you think our grandparents were quite intelligent but they remembered so many names and yet in this day you just be told someone's name and five minutes later you don't even remember. Like yeah, that would be a challenge to one each one of us here and even the viewers listening. How fine your genealogy can you go? Yeah, that is actually correct flex. So moving on to the last question you found several records that give your ancestors birthdays. Which source is the most reliable? Is it the 1834 baptismal records, 1850 censors or the 19 or two death records? I think 19 or two death records. Why would you say so? Because the death record the death certificate is issued for burial and all the other things maybe inheritance of lands, accession of property. So that would be the most reliable because everyone needs that death certificate to move on with their lives. Baptismal record not everyone was baptized. The censors, where would you get the information? Government is difficult. A little long list. Yeah, that is actually quite true. So I can connect the what do you think session of this part with Saturday where I will just ask a question which is numerous genealogies are listed in both the old and the new testament. Why do you think that the writers of the Bible are so careful to include this list and what can we learn from them? Well, first of all, I think why they were so careful to include this because God promised that Abrams generation will be among the stars and numbers and all that. His nation will be great. Also David, he said that I will, through you I will produce an air or something like that. Like the promises of God had to be followed through some kind of genealogy, right? So they were careful to show us that what God said about his promises back then is actually true. What we can learn about it is we can be keen enough to take note of whatever is going on in our lives maybe to help the future generation learn from us. Thank you. Thank you. And thank you so much for taking us through that. I'm very interesting activity. So I'd like us to go right into the story and a disclaimer is that our into the story today has a lot of names. Personally sometimes I do struggle reading Bible passages that have a lot of names which honestly sometimes don't make sense to me because I don't know those people but today I hope you can be able to follow through with us because you'll realize that there are some people you will actually recognize in this name. So into the story it starts with I will be his father and he will be my son this week. We are reading from 2nd Samuel 7 chapter 7 verse 14 also from Matthew chapter 1 verse 1 to 6 also from Luke chapter 3 from 23 32 and 38. So please be along. I will be his father and he will be my son. When does he, when does, when he does wrong I will punish him with a rod wielded by man with thogings inflicted by human hands but my love will never be taken away from him as I took it away from soul whom I removed from before you. Your house and your kingdom will endure forever before me. Your throne will be established forever. This is the genealogy of Jesus, the Messiah, the son of David, the son of Abraham. Abraham was the father of Isaac. Isaac the father of Jacob. Jacob the father of Judah and his brothers. Judah the father of Perez and Zera whose mother was Tamam. Perez the father of Hezron. Hezron the father of Ram. Ram the father of Amnidab. Aminadab. And Aminadab the father of Nashun. Nashun the father of Salmon, Salmon the father of Boaz whose mother was Rahab. Boaz the father of Obed whose mother was Ruth. Obed the father of Jesse and Jesse the father of King David. David was the father of Solomon whose mother had been Uriah's wife. And Jacob the father of Joseph the husband of Mary. Mary was the mother of Jesus who is called the Messiah. Now Jesus himself was about 30 years old when he began his ministry. He was the son, so it was thought of Joseph, the son of Heli, the son of Matat, the son of Levi, the son of Melki, the son of Janai, the son of Joseph, the son of Matthias, the son of Amos, the son of Nahum who was the son of Elsie, the son of Nagai, the son of Math, the son of Matthias, the son of Semein, the son of Joseph, the son of Judah, the son of Jonan, the son of Ressa, the son of the Rubabel, Shel Tel Neri Melki Adi Kozam Elmadam Air Joshua Elieza Jorim Mathad Levi Simion Judah Melia Mena Matadam Nathan David Jesse Obed Bohaz Adam God Bucha Bunga Bunga Why do you think God tells David that he will be a father to his son and will punish him when he does wrong? Do you think this was more of a promise or a threat? I think to David it was comforting that even though I die God is there will always be has always been and to my sons because he promises to give David a house a dynasty So even though he will not be there to lead his own children in the way of the Lord the Lord has promised that I will be there and I will lead your children I will be their father and he will be my son and when he does wrong I will punish him I think but the part that says with flogging infliction by human hands was a bit scary because David himself would choose to fall in the hands of God rather than the hands of men but the word I would like to underline here is when he does wrong he may he may not do wrong only when he does wrong will I punish him and maybe let me just add that to me it's a promise of love there are some verses that are given there and if you read them you actually realize that we are told that the Lord chastends or he reprimands those he loves and even just taking us back to lessons that we did a few sabats ago which was Eli's bad bad boys remember that Eli claimed to love his son yet he didn't correct them and you saw that their end was damnation they eventually died and they were killed and so God doesn't want us to die he wants to separate he wants us to separate the sin from ourselves so he wants us to be separated from the sin such that at the end when destruction is coming we are not killed with that sin so it's a promise of love to me thank you thank you so much for your your comments and your answers now maybe the last question from out of the story how does the knowledge that God loves you too much to allow you to continue to do wrong and harm your relationship with him others and yourself give you hope as you face life's difficulty maybe Barbara can try that one so the knowledge that God loves me too much and doesn't want me to continue doing wrong to harm my relationship with him actually gives me comfort and yeah I think I really like the way God loves me even though I am a sinner I can't say I am clean because time and time again I will sin and still go back to him and he'll forgive me true also for me it's really a comforting thing because when we were kids we were all beaten I hope so by our parents and in the moment we never liked it infact my mother had a habit of beating me and then hugging me and tell me she loves me in the moment I couldn't see it and when you grow older you actually say by the way I needed to be beaten and I thank my mom for doing this so it shows that God's love is so pure and so true that he will not leave you to be in mud or sin that he will chase in you so that when you continue in the life's journey you can be purified and actually claim his righteousness I once read a quote someone said that it is not purified by washing with water it is purified by fire so sometimes the chastement may not be enjoyable it may be very very painful you can imagine being burnt it may be very painful it is burnt in a crucible not even by a burnt in a crucible so the chastement may be painful but what comes out of the fire is that when he tries me I shall come forth as gold because my foot had kept he steps his ways have I kept and not declined so moving on to the flashlight we'll read and it says the Pharisees had gathered clues about Jesus as he answered the question of the scribe now turning he puts a question to them what thing he of the Christ whose son is he this question was designed to test the belief their belief concerning the Messiah to show whether they regarded him simply as a man or as the son of God a chorus of voices answered the son of David this was the title which prophecy had given of the Messiah so here we when we talk about Christ and the question was what we think of Christ if we read the desire of ages we figure out that the Israelites their lives their day to day lives were pointed to the coming of the Messiah but because of their apostasy they drifted far away from Christ that they cling to the forms of sacrifice to the dead forms and forgot who the sacrifices pointed to the son of man came to earth John 1 says that he came to his own and his own knew him not so we see that the question is for us today and the identity of Christ is questioned even in our church today whether he is the son of God or whether he is not the son of God and I ask that we all should believe not about what people say but who do we think we have studied who do we think the son of God is thank you so much for that so I just want to take us back to our story again and for us being Christians and having studied even in school having learnt about the story of Jesus and his life if you were to write a book about Jesus what title would you give it maybe I can start this and I said maybe it would be something like the mystery revealed something like that so does anyone of you maybe have any title that you may have given a book written about Jesus about like his day to day life anyone Ashley or Barbara I think if I were to write a book about Jesus and to give the book a title I'll give it the title that Jesus is the son of God and he loves you maybe for me I'll have doubt finally resolved now for me why I chose that is because people always say in fact I knew someone I know someone who said if only they wrote a bit more of what Jesus did for the 30 years he was Bible only talks about the 3 years he was in ministry maybe maybe I would have seen more or I would believed more so people have a lot of doubt especially for the 30 years you know what was Jesus being and all that so maybe that's the doubt will be finally resolved but there's a quote I read or is it a quote of Bible but it says that if we wrote the day to day activities that Jesus did throughout his life it will fill up all the libraries so that doubt will be truly resolved but the information will be too much thank you so much the reason I was asking that is because you realize how Matthew is starting the book of Matthew it's not an interesting way you know he starts it's not something that you'd actually would cut your eye and be like I want to study this so it's important for us to realize there's a reason why he started the book that way and there's a reason why all those buses about 17 buses have been given over to actually just letting us know who was in the genealogy of Jesus and they lead back to God and they lead back to God even if we deny okay I don't personally but even though there is a lot of discussion and debate as to whether Christ is the Son of God and how was he man fully man and fully God the genealogy goes back to God so whether he was born man or whether he is divine he is still the Son of God thank you so much another interesting thing from our lesson is that we have seen there are females who are mentioned in this genealogy of Jesus so what are some of the names of the females in this story and is there anything that you could associate them with and then maybe now relate that with it being in the genealogy of Christ maybe I would start with the most uncommon that is Tamar Tamar was Tamar was the daughter in law to Judah and when I read this story the first time I was like wait a minute how is this even worthy of being recorded this is beyond we cannot believe it he was the daughter in law she disguised herself as a prostitute but in the end she is forgiven her children are found in the genealogy of Christ this shows that no matter how far you walk no matter how far from God you have trod you can still come back and be a part of his family and her name is recorded in the genealogy of Christ that gives people a lot of hope thank you so much for that so that was Tamar any other female that maybe you saw in this genealogy and anything you know about them maybe Ruth Ruth was the it was a story about how she left her family to go live with the mother in law so Naomi I think the reason why this women are here in this genealogies to show that God really even to the minute details he really plans for it and he really wants the best outcome to whatever his plan is so through this women you can see signs of strength, courage, faith and even are turning away from their old life to accepting Christ or ultimately God in their time and you can see this through the stories that are with Ruth she left and shows from a morbide so she left her ancestors and came to live with Naomi who was a Jew an Israelite and that shows that even though when you turn away to God he will prosper you and your true success and just to add that Ruth as you said she was a morbide if you remember where the morbide originated from remember they were as a result of an incest incest relationship between Lord and one of his daughters so it's important for us to realize that already this were a caste people because remember after that they were told that they were actually cast by God they should not even none of them should enter the assembly of the Lord till the 10th generation so it was such a big caste and yet God is still choosing to use Ruth as one of the people who was in the genealogy of Jesus maybe let me also mention about Rehab which we also studied during this quarter was it this quarter somewhere during the year and remember how Rehab remember the story of Rehab where she was a harlot a kana night exactly she had everything that you just wouldn't want to be associated living in the seat of Adola Chivitwa Jericho so you can see God still decided to use her to be part of the genealogy and it just shows us that truly God does not discriminate he is not someone who favors people so it's important for us to realize that they did purposefully mention these females for us to actually see that God can use anybody and even for you our dear viewer it doesn't matter maybe how low you fallen as long as you come back to God with a contrite heart and let him know that truly Lord I am sorry and you completely turn away from it then he can use you in whatever work that he has planned for you so maybe we can move on to our Wednesday section alright so the Wednesday section has a number verses in the punchline and it asks us to read these passages and how it relates or answer the question which Jesus poses in Luke chapter 20 verse 41 if someone has it they can read it so Luke chapter 20 verse 41 it says then Jesus say to them why is it said that the Messiah is the son of David yes so now as you guys are thinking I can maybe say a verse which I think answers the question that Jesus poses in Luke chapter 20 verse 41 and I'll start with oh there's no verse okay Matthew chapter 1 verse 18 to 20 but after he had considered this an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said Joseph son of David do not be afraid to take Mary home as your wife because what is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit now we see that the question was practically answered by the angel of the Lord he called Joseph the son of David so there's no there should be no debate about it if it wasn't even posed by a man it was a direct you know how the verse yeah the verse I'd like is Isaiah 53 verse 5 and 6 which says but he was pierced for our transgressions he was crushed for our iniquities the punishment that British peace was upon him and by his wounds we are healed we all like sheep have gone astray each of us has turned to our own way and the Lord has laid upon him the iniquity of us all I like the KJV version though because he was chastened for our iniquities and by his stripes we are healed look at the ladies who are mentioned in his genealogy all of them, every one of them had either a hereditary sin that was not part of her life or some of them did mistakes in their own lives which are not regarded as a small sin in our today's world in quotes so I'd like us to all know that no matter what we do look at David David was the man after God's own heart yet there are things he did that he repented of he wished that I might as well die then live through the consequences of the things I have done but still God calls him a man after his own heart so I'd like to pose this to the viewers a question and my question would be what is it that you have done that makes you feel undermined makes you feel so unworthy of God's love even though yes you are unworthy by birth but there are things in your life that you have done that you have come across temptations that you have fallen and you feel like the Lord should not look at me I do not want to be seen by God I'd rather run away from his presence and know that no matter how you feel God still cares about you and he's still willing that you do not perish but that you come to everlasting life Thank you so much for that so I'd like to invite Barbara to take us through our key text which is from Luke chapter 3 verse 23 and verse 31 so our key text for today says now Jesus himself was about 30 years old when he began his ministry he was the son so it was thought of Joseph the son of Haley the son of David so maybe you can connect it also with the Monday part so the Monday part the question states explain why Luke said so it was thought that Jesus was the son of Joseph and David does the inclusion this statement cast doubt on the divine origin of Jesus why or why not I don't think it cast doubt I think Matthew just realized that people weren't spiritually disowned at the time because the scriptures were there and the synagogues were there and everything was there for them to be revealed through the Holy Spirit that truly this is the Messiah who ultimately is a descendant of David so it's not really a cast of doubt I think it's just for the times he was in so it was thought because no one really was spiritually disowned all they knew was this is Joseph's child but Matthew was revealed that this is not he is the son of Joseph but he is also ultimately the descendant of David thank you so much for that so even as we proceed before we come to an end maybe let's hear what does the spirit of prophecy have to say about our lesson today well our lesson today has very many stories in one it has the reign of David intersected with the coming of Christ the chosen people, the unpreparedness and even the fulfillment of the prophecy of Christ concerning the when God decided to give David a dynasty and he was not allowed to build the temple I'd like us to learn one lesson but sometimes our definition of success may be doing something for God or doing more than God requires even though he has not commanded we want to do it out of gratitude may not be his will for us to do it but if you cannot have what you hoped for do not sit in despair and allow all your energy to go to waste but arise, guide yourself and help others to achieve if you may not build you may gather materials for him that shall and if you may not go down the mind you may hold the ropes so I'd like us to understand and know even as we close that we may not be able to achieve the things we want to achieve but we can lay stone for those who are coming after us those who God has prepared to do the work that was in our hearts to do so that we are not blinded by the fact that I was not able to achieve this and therefore all the rest of the things that we have to do in this life become unimportant or restrained other than that I'd like us to also remember that we are at the risk of interpreting prophecy or God's promises for our own selfish desires because we want a breakthrough in something we may interpret is to give us the meaning that we are looking for but we are called upon to be submissive to the spirit of God that he may influence our minds even as we read his word that he may be able to submit to his will for our lives even though that is not what we want for ourselves and thank you so much for that maybe I can add something that just came to me to still answer about the divine origin of Jesus I mean even just from the from the title the father God chose for his son I mean that right there is just divine in itself because we can see that the plans for salvation was way before we even fell this was it says that Jesus was the lamb from the foundation something like that right so we can see God actually thought out even to the minute details of the genealogies who would be the fathers, the descendants, the mothers and he used everyone who actually accepted or turned from their wickedness and came to his light and why I'm saying this is because as much as he did this for his son his descendants as we can see was planned from the very beginning we can tell that I can tell you for a fact that God has a plan for your life and he has planned it nothing can surprise God that thing where you are told a secretion we are like this happened who can surprise God there's a song that says who can give counsel to the all knowing what do we know that can actually benefit God so as you're going through your life just know that God has your back you just need to trust him and follow out his will and his promises and you will be truly safeguarded and we have come to the end of our lesson today I'd like to thank so much my panelists for having this discussion with us and I'd like to invite you dear viewer for our next lesson so before we finish just before we pray I'd like us to read the father in sight it says this day in the city of David a savior which is Christ the Lord so at the time when we think it's not at the time when we are in our thoughts and doing our own things these are the moments when God impresses many things upon our minds so we may only learn to meditate and listen to his voice Barbara you can pray for us okay so let us close with a word of prayer kind of a living God we thank you we thank you for loving us to come and record our 13th lesson and our last lesson for this quarter dear father even as we disperse please be with us, guide us and protect us and help the viewer online to understand what we have just discussed here today