 The discovery mountain in our theme today is just scaredy-safe in Jesus. Our message for today is God keeps His promise. Our memory verse is 2nd Peter 3 verse 13. It says, Never rest me according to His promise. Looking for new heaven and new earths in which righteousness dwells. Father to heaven, thank you for this day. God as we go through this summer, please teach us more and have a good morning. Good morning once again children. We are glad to have you again this morning as we continue with the treasures of the Bible series. This time we look at the series. Our series is entitled, Rescued and Safe in Jesus. So as we study this, we have looked at the topics that God calls. After he calls, God leads. God saves. God provides. And today we are going to see that God keeps His promises. So before we open our Bibles, I'd like us to bow our heads for a word of prayer. God in heaven, we thank you so much for another opportunity to study your word. We pray that your spirit will lead us as we study in the name of Jesus we pray. Amen. Now, the key text this morning comes from the book of 2nd Peter chapter 3 verse number 13. And the Bible says, Nevertheless, we according to the promise of God, look forward to a new heaven and a new earth where dwell righteousness or where righteousness lives. That means we are looking forward to a place where there shall be no more death. We are looking forward to a place where there shall be no pain. We are looking forward to a place where there shall be no COVID or face mask. Righteousness will dwell with us forever. But remember, I told you yesterday and the day before that if you want to understand why the Bible writer was saying those words, it is always good to go back and find the context of the passage or the setting of the passage so that you are able to know what was Peter thinking. Then he said, Nevertheless, we according to his promise look forward to a new heaven and a new earth where dwells righteousness. So we will go back to verse number 8 of 2nd Peter chapter 3. And the Bible says, But my brothers, I don't want you to be ignorant of this one thing because one day with God is like a thousand years and a thousand years is like one day. Now Peter says, you are waiting for Jesus to come but Jesus and God now lives in eternity. One day for them is like a thousand years or a thousand years is like one day. That means they don't think it has taken so long because the Bible says in verse number 9, but God is not slack concerning his promises as some of us count slackness. God is not slow concerning his promises. He's not forgotten and he's not slow like some of us say that I will come to church at 8 and then they come at 10. Some of us say that I will come, I will meet you in town at 9 o'clock then they come at midday. God is not like that. He is not slow concerning his promises like some of us count slackness but he is long suffering. That means that God can suffer for long, stay lonely in heaven but won't all of us to be saved finally. He can suffer long or he is patient towards us because he does not want any person to be destroyed but that all of us may be saved. Just like in the days of Noah, he waited for people to enter the ark for 120 years. After 120 years, imagine only eight people enter the ark. So God is not slow concerning his promises as some of us think he is slow but he is suffering for long, not willing that any of us perish but that all of us may be saved. Then verse number 10, he says, But the day of the Lord will come upon us like a thief in the night. In the wit the heavens will pass away with great noise and the elements will melt in fervent heat and the earth and the buildings and everything that we see on the earth and the big roads that we see everywhere and all of the cars and everything will be burned up. The Bible says this world is going to be destroyed. Everything is going to be destroyed in this world. All the tall buildings that have been built all the beautiful roads that have been built. The Bible says they are all going to be destroyed but if we are not keen, if we are not careful, the Bible says that day will come upon us like a thief in the night. The heavens will pass away with great noise. Maybe we will be sleeping and then you hear, the heavens are passing away with great noise. When you try to check, you see everything is melting in strong heat and the earth and everything that is in the earth will be burnt up. Then he says in verse number 11, Seeing that these things will be thus dissolved, what manner of people ought we to be in all godliness and holy conversation or in all godliness and holy behavior? What kind of behavior do we need to have? We need to be able to obey our parents. We need to be able to listen to our teachers. We need to be able to respect one another and love one another. That is the kind of people we need to be. Then he says in verse number 12, Seeing that the heavens being on fire will be dissolved and the elements will melt in fervent heat or they will melt in strong fire. Then now we understand verse number 13. He says though all these things are going to happen, he says nevertheless we according to his promise, we are looking forward to a new heaven and a new earth where righteousness dwells or where people are only being kind to one another and they truly love one another and they are not stealing from one another and they are not fighting one another. Righteousness is going to dwell in the new heaven and the new earth. Now by the way, some people still think that God does not keep his promises. In the year 1844 there was a group of people who waited for God to come back. Imagine, he did not come, that is why we are still here. And then people laughed at them and they said to them that oh your God does not keep his promises, your God lies to people and he didn't come. He lied to you. One person said, even children were laughing at big people and telling them oh you guys don't even have a ticket to go to heaven, you are still here. Another man waited for God to come. He was so disappointed that God did not come. He said he went to bed and slept. He slept, imagine for two days and he was feeling very sick and very very weak because he was so disappointed and others were laughing at them and saying your God did not keep his promise, your God is not coming. Then another group continued reading the Bible and said, why did Jesus come? He promised he was going to come again. Do you know what passage of the Bible they read? Then they got strength again. Now go with me to the book of Hebrews. Hebrews chapter 10 verse number 35. The Bible says, cast not away, therefore your confidence because it has great recompense of reward. That means don't cast away your confidence and your courage to serve God because you will be greatly rewarded by Jesus Christ. The Bible says in verse number 36, because you have need to be patient, you just have to wait because you are in need of patience for yet a little while. Verse number 36 says, verse number 37 says, for yet a little while, he that shall come will come and he will not be lay, their children. We don't need to be embarrassed serving God. The Bible tells us we have need to be confident. Don't throw away your confidence. Some of us are so shy. They don't want people to see them that they are going to church. They hide their Bibles. They feel embarrassed if people call them Christians. But the Bible says don't cast away your confidence because it has great reward that is coming. You have need of patience because in a little while, he that shall come, he will still come and he will not be lay. Now, what was the promise they were looking forward to? Imagine, you know what? Jesus Christ, before he left this earth, told his disciples a very interesting thing. This passage of the Bible was later on called the promise. The Bible says in the book of John chapter 14, in verse number 1, Jesus Christ told his disciples, don't let your heart be troubled. You believe in God, believe also in Jesus Christ. Don't let your heart be troubled. You believe in God, believe also in me because in my father's house are many mansions. If it were not so, I would have told you. I am going to make a place for you and after I have made a place for you, I will come back again and I will receive all of you to myself. Jesus Christ promised he is making mansions for us and is all going to receive us to himself. So we should never be troubled. We should not cast away our confidence or our courage to continue serving God and we should not be shy when we memorize promises of God that he has told us in the Bible because Peter has reminded us, nevertheless, we according to the promise of God we are looking forward to a new heaven and a new earth where dwelleth righteousness. Now let me tell you something. We are going to look at this tomorrow but you know, a place where righteousness dwells, children don't go to bed hungry. A place where righteousness dwells, there are no road accidents. A place where righteousness dwells, there are no fighting and their daddy and mommy can't lose their work because a place where righteousness dwells, the Bible tells us we will plant vineyards and we will harvest from them and there is no dying in that place. God bless you and I pray that you and I will look forward to this great promise to live in a place where righteousness dwells. Nevertheless, we according to his promise look forward to a new heaven and a new earth where dwells righteousness. So don't cast away your confidence. It will be greatly rewarded by Jesus Christ. Let us pray. Father in heaven, thank you so much for reminding us that you don't want any of us to be destroyed but at all of us may be saved, safe in the ark of Jesus Christ. Lord, we pray that even as we go through the lessons today we will be able to have confidence in those lessons that Lord you keep your promises and that finally you will come back again and you will receive us to yourself in a place where there is no hunger, there are no diseases, there is no COVID, there is no face masks and there are no lame people and blind people and disabled people and people with disabilities but everyone will be perfect because righteousness dwells there. Father, when you come back again please remember us in this land where righteousness dwells. As we continue with our program for today during this week of Bible Treasures we pray that we will be able to find great treasures from the Word of God in the name of Jesus we pray. Amen. God bless you and have a good day. Treasures of the Bible Rescued, safe in Jesus. Let's do that again. Treasures of the Bible Rescued, safe in Jesus. Children, how many are excited that we are on day 5 of Treasures of the Bible? Me too, I am so excited. I have had so many days of learning of singing, of doing crafts being in the sense lab with Professor F so today we're actually going to do all the songs that we've been learning from day 1 up to day 5. I want to ask you to stand up and do the songs with us and sing with us with a lot of energy and with all the actions so that we can discover nature and do the discovery mountain songs together. So we'll start with the songs from day 1 all the way till day 5. Discover sunshine Experience fresh mountain air Discover nature Experience friends that really care Discover in mountain Discover in mountain Jumbo, wow what an exciting four days we've had. We are going on to the fifth day. Welcome back to Bible Station. Before we start, let's bow down for all the prayer. How kind I am having you father. We thank you a lot for bringing us this far today for all Treasures of the Bible. As we start day 5, we ask a lot to guide us and that we will be able to learn from this session. In Jesus name I pray, amen. Now if you remember on day 1, who did we meet? Yes, we met Noah. Now Noah told us how God called him and he was told to build an ark for everyone who wanted to be saved and for all the animals. On day 2, we met Noah's wife who taught us about this thing they call cubits. And she told us what they did during this those 120 years while Noah was building the ark and she gave us a picture of how the ark was supposed to look like. On day 3, we met the firstborn son, Shem. Now Shem told us how they entered the ark how it was just 8 of them and how the animals came in in 7 and 2 and the alligators and crocodiles also went in with them. He told us how the flood started. Do you remember? One, two, and they rained poured and poured. Now, yesterday day 4, we made to be for Shem. Now she told us about the experience on the ark for the 40 days. Let's go meet the 5th person. Guess who the 5th person is? Let's go see. Yes, it is Noah. Hi Noah. It's good to see you again. I've been waiting for you since the first day. Hi Bailey. It's good to be back. And I'm glad you've learned to check the schedule. Actually, I always love to see my children's children's and as I recall these are some of my descendants who made a decision to follow the one true God. Is that right? We love God. We also love to hear true stories from the Bible. We were hoping you would tell us some more about the flood story ending today. Actually, I'd love to do that. How far in the story are you? Yesterday, Shem's wife left us of telling us about how hard you had to wait for the waters to go down and the plants to grow before you could get off the ark with the animals. That's right. If we had left the ark too early, the plants wouldn't have grown enough to provide food and the animals would eat all the plants then die of starvation. And if that would leave us in a critical situation we'd have no animals and a barren earth. You must have been anxious to get back on dry land. I forgot what before Shem said how long did you have to wait? It only poured for 40 days and 40 nights. But we were in the ark for a year all together. Actually, one time I sent out a ravine out of the window and it flew it flew all over looking for dry land. After that I sent out a dove and you know what? She came back into the ark. But why? Because there was nowhere else to go. Okay, was it hard to catch the dove? Actually, no. When the dove came back I held it right back on my arm and then I put it back into the ark. After a week I sent the dove out again and this time later in the evening and you know what she had in her mouth? She had a freshly plucked olive leaf in her mouth and then I knew the waters were getting lower and lower and actually the plants were beginning to grow. The second time and this is after seven days I left the dove out again and you know what? This time the dove didn't come back. I guess it had found the land was dry and the crops were beginning to grow but that was not enough to cater for all the other animals. But I'm glad you packed enough food to last the whole time. Actually we followed God's plan and that clearly showed that we had enough. But the Lord did not open the door for us. Actually there is one time my son Ham started complaining and having doubts has the Lord left us? Has the Lord left us? But I told my son Ham that the Lord would never ever leave us and then after we had been on the 10 and a half months I took the covering off the top and when I looked on the land it was getting dry and the crops were growing so beautifully. Wow! Then after one and a half months later one morning the door on the side of the ark started to creak open. You want to know what happened? The door on the side of the ark was creaking open. Therefore we ran from stall to stall. I'm getting old by the day. Oh! We went into the store. We ran from stall to stall from cage to cage opening doors for the animals and then the animals poured out one by one into the sunshine. That must have been the best experience of your life. And you want to know what has happened? Yes! The animals went and rolled and rolled as they ate the fresh grass. So what happened to the water? Actually the best was yet to come. I saw a rainbow in the sky a very beautiful rainbow. Then I heard the voice of God saying you want to hear? Tell me! I set my rainbow in the sky as a sign of covenant between me and the earth. The waters shall never again become flood to destroy the earth. Can you just say covenant? Yes, that's right. You mean like a promise? Exactly! The Lord made a promise that He will never ever again cover the earth with water. So was it just you or everyone else heard God's voice? We all heard God's voice. Great! And you want to know something else? Yes! We made a promise to God. Number one, we promised to follow God forever. Number two, we promised to teach our children to teach their children to follow God. And each individual over time has a decision to make. Whether to follow God or go by his own. But as for God these promises are forever sure. He will never cover the earth with water again. And as He promised Adam and Eve He will send a savior to redeem the world and then He will make the earth as it was in the garden of Eden. Actually, that promise was fulfilled. It has been 4000 years now since the flood and God sent His Son to be our savior. Jesus died on the cross 2000 years ago to pay for our sins and He rose from the dead and ascended to His Father in heaven. Let me stop you there. God who keeps His promises God who keeps His promises that children is a theme for today. The Redeemer has come to make all things right. Is the earth ready to be like it was in the time of the garden of Eden? Have you eaten the fruit of the tree of life? And finally have you walked with God and talked to Him face to face? Not yet. But Jesus promised to come again and when He does He will make all things right with time. Until He comes, we have to wait. Sometimes I feel really impatient. I just want the Lord Christ to come back. I can't wait any longer. I know exactly how you feel and I have a question for you. Are you ready? I preached for 120 years. Can you even count them? One, two... You're not even going to finish before the flood came. And you have told us that God sent the Redeemer 2000 years ago. Why is it taking so long for Him to come back and make all things right? Now, God wants to give everyone a chance to accept Jesus as the Lord and Savior. Remember how Sad Shem was when Jerry chose not to get on the Ark? There are lots of people just like Him and God is waiting for us to tell them all about Jesus in the hope that they will choose to be saved be saved of loss. So that means you have work to do before the earth can be made like it was in the Garden of Eden. I have a question for you and the little boys and girls at home. If you were there in my times when I built the Ark would you accept my invitation to get into the Ark as you think about it? Have you accepted Jesus as your Lord and Savior so that you can be in heaven and the earth made new? I have told you a very exciting conclusion to my story. But there is more. There is more that is coming up for you in the future and that reminds me what was the name of your friend or professor? What was her name again? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I am getting old. I spelt it out for you. Monday one parcel racks. Oh, parcel racks. Okay, there is no need. You won't even get it. Anyway, she says God keeps His promises. Now, if you remember we mentioned that is a thing for today. God keeps His promises. And then she gave me this Bible verse. We according to His promise look for a new heaven and a new earth. 2 Peter 2 13 I will say that again. We according to His promise look for a new heaven and a new earth. 2 Peter 2 verse 13 Oh, so that actually means that we all have a joyful ending. A new heaven and a new earth. And you can count on God to keep His promises. Thank you so much Noah for joining us today. I think our time is running out. But children tomorrow we will be meeting the whole family. Now during the week we will be meeting one on one. Noah's wife on Tuesday. But tomorrow we will have the whole family here. How exciting I hope to see it tomorrow. Great little children are you going to plan to meet us there too? Oh, Bailey I guess my time is up. Bye Bufaloa. Bye Cheetah. He can't win, he can't win. Can I carry my ark with me? No, I'm leaving Bailey. Bye Bufaloa. Give me a name, give me a name. I think this week has been very very interesting. We've learnt about the ark. We've met all five family members. Now, I think I know everything about the ark. Do you think you know everything about the ark? How about today's Bible activity? Teacher Steve asks a question so that we see if we've actually been getting the four people who have talked to us this week. I think we remember. How many years did it take? Yes. Hi Teacher Steve. Hi again. How are you? I'm good. I remember you are called Bailey. Yes. Okay. You met Noah today? I met Noah again. Again? Yes. Will we have the opportunity to meet Noah again? Yes. Tomorrow together. The wife, the son, the daughters-in-law. Yes. Tomorrow. Can't wait. Say bye to the children. Bye. Now children, it has been a fun time interviewing Noah. Welcome to our activity session. Today we must first remember what we've been from day one to day four. Before we introduce day five, then we will see our fun activity. Day one our memory verse and the theme we said we memorize. Teacher John was here yesterday and he told you to memorize. I have memorized my part. Do your best to memorize the verse for the day the theme. If you forget anything, have the verse kept because we must have God's word kept in our hearts. I will recite 1 Corinthians chapter 1 verse 9 because that was for day one and the theme was God calls. What did he call? Noah. It says, God is faithful by whom you are called into the fellowship of his son Jesus Christ our Lord. 1 Corinthians chapter 1 verse 9 day 2 Romans chapter 8 verse 14 for as many as are led by the spirit of God are the sons of God. God leads. And then day 3 and it shall come to pass that whosoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved. That was acts chapter 2 verse 21. God saves. And yesterday Philippians chapter 4 verse 19 and it said and my God shall supply all my all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus. That is what teacher Edna was trying to rearrange and she got it so well. Today's verse, today's verse children today's verse. Today's verse is today's day 5 the theme is God keeps his promises the verse is 2 Peter chapter 3 verse 13 because we have not memorized it you will have today to memorize it for that tomorrow we deliver. It says nevertheless we according to his promise look for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells. Today with me is one of us her name is Hashlin. We are going to have few questions from the family of Noah we are going to see Hashlin has been following online just like you. So we want to see if you've been following and you have our message that we passing every day to you. Hashlin how are you? I trust you. I'm doing very fine. What about you? I'm also good say hi to the children online. Hi children. I teach primary A. Which which class are you? I'm in the early teens class. Oh early teens say hi to teacher. Hi teacher John. Oh teacher John. I have a few questions for you. Have you been following online? Yes I have. Good from day one? Yes. Good. If these questions are 9 how many do you think you will get? 9. 9 Confidence let us see. Let us see that day one Noah to day two. So day two. Mrs. Noah gave us the measurement of the ark. Now the first question is how big was Noah's ark? They see. Noah's ark was 300 qubits long 50 qubits wide and 30 qubits high. Ah let's confirm. Let's confirm with the Bible. We are going to read Genesis chapter 6 verse 15 to see Genesis chapter 6 15 says and this is how you shall make it. The length of the ark shall be 300 qubits. It's with 50 qubits and it's height 30 qubits early teens use that. Actually you represent your class so well. Wonderful. Question two. How many pairs, yes how many pairs of clean animals did Noah take into the ark? Noah took seven pairs of clean animals. Before I say yes, I will go to Genesis chapter 7 verse 2. It says you shall take with you seven each of every clean animals a male and this female two each of animals that are unclean a male and this female. Wow. You scored that two out of nine. Let's keep going. Three how old was Noah when the flood began? Yes the flood began how old was he? Noah was 600 years old when the flood began. Early teens what a class. Let us confirm Genesis chapter 7 verse 6 it says Noah was 600 years old when the flood waters were on the earth. This is wonderful class. I am coming there. I will come. Question four. I will see if you get this. Question four. How many people rode on the ark? How many people? Eight people rode on the ark. Namely, Noah, his wife, his three sons Shem, Ham, Japheth and their wives. Before I say you are correct we will confirm the Bible to see that is Genesis chapter 7 verse 13. 13 says on the very same day Noah and Noah's sons Shem, Ham and Japheth and Noah's wife and the three wives of his sons with them entered the ark. Shine, shine, shine for Jesus every day. Wonderful. I hope to meet you in heaven and we will meet Noah there. Question five. How long did the rain last? How long did it rain? The rain lasted for 40 days. 40 good days. Genesis 7 717. Now the flood was on the earth 40 days. Wonderful actually. We are almost coming to the end and I am afraid you are getting everything. Where did the ark come to rest after the flood? After the flood. The Bible says that the ark rested at Mount Ararat. On the mountains of Ararat. Genesis chapter 8 verse 4. Wonderful. Second last. Which animals did Noah sent out to see if the land was dry? Noah sent a dove. A dove. Genesis chapter 8 verse 8. I love this class. Now as we conclude Noah died. This is too sad. But how old was he when he died? Now if Noah was 600 years old when the flood began Yes. Now how old was he when he died? Noah was 950 years old when he died. 950 years old when he died. And we get that in Genesis chapter 9 verse 29. Shine for Jesus every day in your class. One more and we live. Children one more. God made a covenant with Noah and his sons to never again send a flood to destroy the earth. What was the sign of this covenant? It was a rainbow. Wow. Genesis chapter 9 verse 13. A rainbow. Now rainbow is that tiny thing with one color on the fly? No. On the sky? A rainbow has seven colors. Seven colors together. A covenant between man and God. We pray. You have been shining for your class. When you go pass my kindly regards to early teens and teacher John. Children we've come to the end of our activity today. There were nine questions. She got nine out of nine. That is early teens. How about your class? Let us pray. Meet you tomorrow on Sabbath. Father God in heaven, we thank you for the opportunity to always learn together as children, as teachers and adults from your word. Now we want to get into our various classes and stations. May you have presence. May your whole spirit go with us. Give us understanding of what we will learn. Throughout this day we pray in Jesus name. Amen. Bye children. Say bye to them. Bye.