 We want to thank God for kwaivi ekaikustaka na brini. I know he will be m Orlando but we thank God that he has been faithful to us and he loves us. We have been running several things during this week of Bible discovery and one of the initial things that we learnt is that God calls and indeed we saw that God calls and then yesterday we looked at God leads and today we want to look at his salvation, God saves. Now, before we look at that, I'd like us to bow our heads and pray. Let us pray. Father in heaven, we pray that you will lead us to understand how you have planned to save us in the name of Jesus we pray. Amen. Now, the key text that we are going to focus on today comes from the book of Acts chapter 2 verse number 21 which says and it shall come to pass that whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. Now, it is very important to see that God is assuring us that it shall come to pass in those days that whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. God is willing to save us but it is important for us to understand the context or the situation why Peter was saying these words. Now, it is always very important when you read any passage of the Bible to look at the context of that passage. If we want to look at the context of this passage or the setting of this passage or why did Peter say this because the passage starts by saying and it shall come to pass. We know that and is a conjunction which introduces a new thought to a sentence or it connects two ideas together because I know there children you study English in school so the sentences when they begin with the word and that means it is connecting it to something that Peter was talking about. I want us to start to studying this passage from verse number 15. The background was this, Peter was preaching and many people Peter was preaching and the disciples were having studies with different people and many people came out and said wow these people are drunk why are they saying all these things maybe they have drunk alcohol maybe they are drunk and they are just about to start staggering and falling. Then Peter says to them these men are not drunk with wine as you suppose seeing is the third hour of the day. I was reading it from an interesting Bible that is called the living translation. The living translation says these men are not drunk with alcohol seeing it is nine o'clock in the morning it is too early to drink alcohol it is too early for that but this is that which was spoken of by the prophet Joel verse number 16. Verse number 17 Peter says and it shall come to pass that I will pour out in the last days of my I will pour out my spirit in the last days upon all flesh and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy. Your young men shall see visions and your old men shall dream dreams and I will shoot great signs in the heaven above and upon the earth signs and fires and blood and pillars of smoke and the sun shall be turned into blackness and the moon shall be turned into blood. And the moon shall be turned into blood and the stars shall fall from heaven and then verse number 21 he says and do so ever shall fall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. But Peter was saying to us actually when you read verse number 20 he says before the great and notable day of the Lord God is going to do all this wonderful signs and all this great signs. He will make the sun become black like darkness and he will make the moon red as blood and before the great and notable day of the Lord. Then he says when all these signs and mysterious wonders are happening whosoever shall say dear Jesus save me the Bible says God shall save him. Now dear children you know what many people when strange things are happening in the world they run to the magician and they think the magician is going to do some magic and they are going to be saved. Or they run to the witch doctor and the witch doctor is going to do some magic and they are going to be saved. But Peter says whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. Now there is an interesting passage again in the Bible that helps us to understand this thought. In the book of Revelation when you read verse number 6 verse number 12 John was seeing a vision and Jesus Christ was telling John what was going to happen before he comes back again before that great and notable day of God arrives. John was seeing this vision and as he saw this vision Jesus was opening some seals from a scroll and when he opened the sixth seal on this scroll John says he saw a great and mighty earthquake. It shook the earth and the rocks were renting up in the air and there were volcanoes and people were running for safety. By the way when that earthquake happened after the vision that John had seen many many people died it happened in a country that is called Portugal in the city of Lisbon and we are told that the king of Portugal he was called King Joseph II. After that great earthquake he said he was never going to live in a stone building. So the Bible says that when Jesus Christ opened the sixth seal there was a great earthquake. The sun became black like sackcloth of hair. The moon became as blood and the stars fell from heaven as a fig tree cuts her and timely figs when she is shaken by a mighty wind. And the Bible says the heaven departed like a scroll when it is rolled together and all the mountains and islands moved from their places. Remember what Peter had said that God was going to show great signs, great wonders in the heaven and upon the earth marvelous signs. And now John was seeing these signs and wonders in his vision. Then the Bible says in verse 15 Peter had said to us whosoever will call upon the name of the Lord will be saved. But when you read Revelation 6 verse 15 look at what the people are doing and all these people are even leaders of nations. The Bible says then the kings of the earth and the great men and the rich men and the mighty men and the chief captains and every free man and every bond man. Instead of calling upon the name of Jesus that they may be saved they ran so fast and hid in the rocks and in the dance of the mountains. And then imagine the Bible has said to us that if we call upon the name of the Lord we will be saved. But look at what the kings and the mighty men and the rich men and the chief captains and every free man and every bond man were doing. They were saying to the mountains please follow us and hide us from the face of him that is seated on the throne and from the wrath of the lamp for the great day of his wrath is come and who shall be able to stand. And instead of standing and calling upon the name of Jesus and saying Jesus please save us they are running and telling rocks rocks please hide us. They are children and all our viewers who are listening the Bible says that in the last days when many signs and wonders will be happening if you call upon the name of Jesus he has promised he will save us. In the book of Revelation again verse number one of Revelation chapter 18 John is again seeing another vision. He is seeing this vision and this vision comes to his mind and he sees another mighty angel coming down from heaven having great power and the whole earth became so bright because this angel was so glorious. And the angel cried mightily with a strong voice saying Babylon is fallen is fallen that great city because she has made all the nations or all the countries of the earth drunk with the wine. Of the wrath of her phonication. Remember what Peter had said that you know as we are not drunk with alcohol we didn't drink alcohol but this is what Joel said but listen to what Babylon was doing this great city. All the nations were drunk now they are staggering with the wine of the wrath of the phonication of Babylon. Then the angel cried with a loud voice saying Babylon is fallen is fallen that great city. Why she has made all the nations of the earth drink of the wine of the wrath of her phonication and she has become a hold of every false spirit and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird because she has made the nations drink the wine of her phonication. And she has made the kings of the earth commit phonication with her and the merchants of the earth and the rich men of the earth became very very rich because of the abundance of her richness but the Bible says of her delicacies. Then John says when he saw his vision that he heard another voice from heaven saying come out of her my people that she may not be partakers of her sin and that she may not partake of her wrath. Now the Bible says that God will not forget his people even when the cities of the earth are going to be falling apart God will not forget his people. The Bible says John had a voice from heaven saying please my people come out come out. The people of God all the children of God should not be running to the rocks or should not be running to a magician or should not be running to somebody who is just going to say that please do for us miracles. But whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord God is going to save him and God is going to again just as he built an ark in the days of North he is going to build a church that is going to save his people through in the last days. And so dear children and all of our viewers our fathers and our mothers please let us learn to call upon the name of the Lord and it is true the Bible says Jesus saves. Let us pray. Father in heaven thank you so much for the promise that even though they are going to be strange signs and wonders in the heavens and upon the earth. You have promised us that if we call upon your name we shall be saved. Father we pray please teach us to call upon your name anytime we are in trouble and anytime that we feel we need to be saved that we may be saved. Lord today we are going to study several lessons that are going to teach us on how we can be saved. Please father give us wisdom that we may be able to understand just as we learnt yesterday that if we are led by your spirit we will become your children. May your spirit lead us to understand all the lessons of today because we pray this believing and trusting in the name of Jesus we pray. Thank you so much God bless you. See you again tomorrow for another wonderful thoughts. Welcome to today's session. We are going to see we have learnt in day one we remember what we learnt discovery mountain and when God speaks. Yesterday what did we learn turning over a new leaf and climbing up the mountain. So today we are going to learn two more songs we are going to learn about his love and also we are going to learn about how when we make a joyful noise we are going to also be making joyful noises in eternity. So sing with us we are doing all the songs from the first day up to today. Stand up do the actions with us sing with a huge smile on your face so that we can all be together. Discovery mountain discovery mountain God speaks. There is lightning God gives. We will learn some thoughts. Welcome to day three of treasures of the Bible where our theme has been rescued safe in Jesus before we start let's bow down for word of prayer. Oh God thank you for bringing us this for today three of treasures of the Bible. There is a lot to guide us through this Bible station. We will be with us protect us. In Jesus name I pray amen. Now do you remember Noah promised to be back to us more about the ark and he said he will bring his whole family. Now let's go and meet Shem. God told Noah to build him an aki aki God told Noah to build him an aki aki hi Shem. I've been waiting for you. Tell me about yourself. So I'm so glad to meet you. My mother told me so much about you yesterday and she mentioned that you were a bit confused. Me confused. But I see you've been reading the schedule for today. I'm very glad to see that. I imagine you and your family are used to running a tight schedule when you're building the ark. Yes you got that right. You know I was exactly 98 years old the time when the ark was completed. We had already stocked the food inside. The side door was opened. We were just waiting for the people to come in. The people did come yes but they stood outside just laughing at us. They were making comments like Noah you built your boat too far from the sea. Or Noah where are the animals who are floating zoo. And then there was someone who said the sky is falling and it was really sad. Shem that must have been very tough. It was but it did not last for long because suddenly from over the hill we saw two lions. Then behind the two lions there came seven ship. Behind the ship there were two legators. Behind the two legators there were two bears. Then behind the bears there was seven sheep. And they were all walking in the straight line towards the ark like they were in a parade. And more and more animals kept coming. The clean animals which are the ones which God told us to eat came in sevenths. But the unclean animals which we are not supposed to eat came in twos. And everyone was shocked because no one had seen anything like this before. So my father, my brothers and I we took some time putting them inside the stalls in the ark. I bet this animal parade made everyone reconsider Noah's offer. You would have thought so but imagine they didn't. People just stood outside there. You could see they wanted to come in but then they like look around and be like I don't want to be the first person inside. Oh no, that is what we call pure pressure. And it seemed like it as ridiculous today as it was back then. It's fun even have a name for it already. And it seems it started with our time. I remember I had a friend of mine called Jarell. We grew up together and we were children. And there was this one time when we were eight years old. I told him about God's plan to save us from the flood by my father building an ark. And he promised me that he would come into the ark with us. But ninety years had passed and Jarell had given in to all the children making jokes about it. And he did not want to come in. So when I saw him in the crowd I just ran up to him and was like Buddy come into the ark with us. There is everything we need. We just need you to get in. And Jarell imagined he just looked down and he said I'm not good enough and it broke my heart. I told him no one is good enough not even I, not even my father Noah That's why God made an ark for people like you to come in. Please come in. My heart will break if you don't come in. And God's heart will ache if you don't come in too. For a minute I was happy because he looked like he would come in. But then someone just made a comment. And Jarell looked down and he never came up again. What did you decide to do? I wanted to stay there and reason with him. But just then I had my father. He said seven days to the rains come in before the door closes. And I had to just walk back up to the ark slowly. And I kept looking back to see if we would get in. But no one was following me. And I felt this thing in my throat as if I wanted to cry. But I just held back my tears. It's hard for me to imagine what God was feeling at that time. His heart must have been breaking just like yours. But we want to know what happened next. Well, when I got into the ark, my shoulders were just trembling from just feeling like crying. Then I heard the door close. And I knew God had closed it and no one else could open. So for a few minutes everyone in the family, we were eight people in the ark. My father, my mother, my two brothers, me and our wives. So we were eight. So we just kept crying for a while because we knew we had friends outside who would not come in. And when we just got silent for a bit, someone made a comment outside again is like, in 120 years that animal parade must have been the craziest thing that Noah has ever done. That's absurd. Are you trying to say this man didn't hear that Noah said that waters will come down in seven days? Wasn't he listening? Anyway, what did you do next? Well, my father, being the head of the family, he just said, let us take care of the animals. And we just started to feed them and keep them clean. And it was very funny because in other way the lions were just fierce and just chasing everything around. They were calm. They were like a cat who would just pet them. And the squirrels, they just run around everywhere. They were just calm waiting for us to feed them. And it was a good thing that the animals were there because for seven days inside that ark, people just kept laughing outside and it was irritating. We just felt like this should end but we did not want anyone to die. So we just waited and waited and waited. That must have been one really long week. It was probably the longest week in my life. But again it did not last for long because after the seven days we felt something like an earthquake and everyone froze. Inside the ark we stopped moving. The animals got quiet and outside the crowd stopped laughing. And then out of nowhere the fast raindrops. And then a few more raindrops. Then kept getting louder and louder and louder. And outside the people kept buying on the ark. They were like, let us in, let us in. And it is just funny with people. For all those 120 years we kept pleading with them, come in, come in. But now that it is raining they all wanted to come in. It is a mystery to me why someone would choose to be lost instead of saved. If I was there I would come into the ark. What about you? I am glad for each and every child who has chosen to follow Christ. Follow God, it makes me happy and I am sure God is very happy with your decision. I appreciate. Your mother told me to ask my friend Professor Fasil Raks this question. Who can get us out of an impossible situation? She texted me this book. God saves. God saves, that is a theme for today. But it is up to us to accept his gift or not. Then she texted me this. And it shall come to pass that whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved. Acts chapter 2 verse 21, I will say that again. And it shall come to pass that whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved. Acts chapter 2 verse 21. That is very true. God just needs us to call on to him and he will save us. And that thing you're holding, my mother told me you had something strange. I didn't know it was that strange. Anyway, ask your friend what does God do for people after he saves them? Okay. Oh sorry, it seems that we are out of time. I wish I could have told you more about the fun and crazy time we had inside the Ark. But this is always the next time. That's okay. Your wife will be here tomorrow with that story. Ah, I see you're already reading ahead of the schedule. Anyway, boys and girls, it was very fun talking to you. And if you do not meet each other during this week, I sure hope I'll see each and every one of you in heaven. Please promise me that you'll be there. Bye bye children. Bye bye baby. Well, it has come to an end. Now it is time for the Bible activity. Let us join teacher Steve. Good morning children, boys and girls. It was wonderful. It was wonderful today, day three. Having an experience with Noah's first born son, Shem. I hope you enjoyed. Welcome here for our day three activity. Before then, just a recap of the Noah's family. How old was Noah when he built the Ark? We were told yesterday, 500 years old when he began to build the Ark. How many sons did he have? Three. Shem, Ham and Jafeth. And this morning, we had an experience with his first born son, Shem. Now to go to our previous activities. Day one. Our Bible verse was from the book of 1 Corinthians chapter one verse nine. We did amazing activity. We had it written here. Then I rubbed it backwards so that we could have it in memory. I still remember every word. I hope you do. If you don't, I will remind you. First Corinthians chapter one verse nine. It says, God is faithful by whom you are called into the fellowship of his son, Jesus Christ our Lord. That was activity one. We have to memorize all these five of them. Day two, yesterday. The book of romance chapter eight verse 14. What did it say? Jajon was here. Jajon recited it very well. It says, for as many as are led by the spirit of God are the sons of God. Welcome to today, day three's activity. We begin with the theme for today. Then the verse of today. Then I tell you how we are going to do the activity. Day one is here. Day two is here. And day three. What's our theme? We can read together. God saves. Again, God saves. And our key text for today is the book of acts chapter two verse 21. We read together because this one we have not memorized. But come tomorrow you must have it in memory. We read together. And it shall come to pass that whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved. Amen. So today we have an amazing activity. With me is a new teacher. She's called teacher Brenda. She's going to take us through these activities from day one up to day three in a special way. So I'm going to recite the key text for day one and she will tell us how it is done in sign language. There we go. You look at her then you will get our memory verse in sign language. Memory verse for day one came from the book of 1 Corinthians chapter one verse nine and it says now you look at her she will be taking us through that verse in sign language. It says God is faithful by whom you are called into the fellowship of his son Jesus Christ our Lord. I will slow down a bit so that you get the words. You look at her God is faithful by whom you are called into the fellowship of his son Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. Then day two I will slow down so that you look at her. It came from the book of Romans chapter eight verse 14 it says for as many as are led by the spirit of God are the sons of God. Amen. For today we have not memorized it. So we will go to the wall read it at a very low pace that you internalize what she is doing right there. Let us read together. The book of Acts chapter two verse 21 and it says and it shall come to pass that whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved. That is nice. Can I take it one more time? Yes very slowly. Yes. Acts chapter two verse 21 it says and it shall come to pass that whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved. Amen. Children we have come to the end of our activity it was sign language activity day three. I wish you well as you log into your various classes but before we leave we will have to pray then invite you for tomorrow day four activity. When you come tomorrow you must have day one's memory verse day two memory verse and day three memory verse which has come from the book of Acts chapter two verse 21. Let us pray. We humble ourselves we bow down and pray. Father in heaven we thank you because you have been kind to us. Thank you for waking us up early this morning so that we log into our classes and listen to your word. Thank you for the experience we have had with Shem today. Thank you for the activities we have done today. I pray you will give us a good memory to internalize your word and keep your word in our hearts that there may be a light unto our paths and so that we may not go against your will. Bless us as we go into our various classes and stations today till we come to the end of our day three. We Jesus holy name we pray and believe amen. Bye bye. See you tomorrow. And again. When God moves the witch crush upon the shore when God gives there isn't room for anymore when God helps you are rescued evermore. I will thank him again and again. When I walk I can see when I'm silent. Then he speaks to me when I'm really strong and he fills up my heart with his song. When God calls there is fire in the trees when he answers there's a whisper in the breeze. When I meet him I will fall down on my knees. I will listen again and again. I will listen again and again. I will listen. Welcome to Discovery Mountain Fall Camp. Will the campers be rescued and be safe in Jesus? Let's take a Discovery Mountain Vacation Bible School adventure. Rain finally stopped. Jake how many canoeers do we have signed up today? I think we have five but Jamie I don't know. Don't start talking about the flash flood. We don't want to scare the campers. Yeah but Jamie. Jake you are a counselor. Yes but. So be brave. Okay fine. All right. Hey campers. Pawnee cabin rules right? Yeah. Know what to say to that. Hi cabin is the one for me. And me. All right campers. Welcome to canoeing class. I'm captain Jake Donovan at your service. And I'm first mate Jamie. First we have some water safety rules to go over. When I say rule Jake you say. Book. No. When I say rule you all say safety. Oh safety right. Rule number one never go near the water alone. Rule safety. And second always wear a life jacket in the canoe. Rule safety. Jamie what is Mr. Simon doing? Oh campers don't worry about him. He's just measuring the water levels. You see with all the rain and all that. You know there's a panchance of. Jake. Oh safety. Third never go on the water when there's lightning in the sky. Rule. Safety. There was lightning last night. And this morning. It was kind of scary. And it was fun. It was beautiful. Jake are we going to have a flash flood? Well Ryan you know what let's ask Mr. Simon. Having fun campers. Yeah. Great. Mr. Simon why were you measuring the water? Well standard operating procedures Ryan. Is there going to be another thunderstorm? What if it floods? Well you know Ryan this is a good chance to review emergency procedures. Right Mr. Simon. Yes there are rules. Safety. Hey I like that. We hear this every year and there's never been an emergency ever. Okay well Connor what are the emergency procedures? If we hear the sirens we meet at the far point and listen for instructions. You've got it Connor. Is it going to storm again? No Haley everything's going to be alright. Happy paddling canoeers. Jamie what do we do if a canoe floats away all by itself? Yeah should we you know just jump in the lake and get it? No you should put on a life jacket first. Rule. Safety. And then you could paddle out in another canoe to go get it. There's a canoe right there. Oh well Haley there are lots of canoes over there. I'm sorry I was only trying to help. I don't know what to say Jake. I should get a reader maybe he can help. Yeah that's a good idea. Hey Seth do you life jackets on upside down bud? Oh that explains a lot. Alright Captain Jake's going to go get reader for help but I can take two canoers out. Who wants to go first? Me. Okay remember the rules? Okay come on let's go. I have a soker in my shoe. Jake you're soaked. Are you okay? Yeah I'm fine but I was actually just coming to talk to you. Well I need to talk to you too. Oh man you have that serious look on your face. It's the weather forecast it doesn't look good. Oh what are we going to do? Well we are prepared with all the safety precautions and they haven't issued a flash flood warning yet. Oh well that's relief. A reader here. Oh what happened? It's just static. Let's try again. Mr. Simon reader here. I read you loud and clear. I understand. Oh reader is this really happening? Yes Jake it is. Let's go turn on the siren. A flash flood warning has been issued. Will our campers be alright? Join us again tomorrow to find out in part 3 of this Discovery Mountain Vacation Bible School Adventure.