Remain In Jesus And Bear Fruit | LH Kids

hey friends welcome to lh kids online i am liz seidel and i am so glad as i am every week that you have taken time to be here whether it's just you sitting with some friends or your brother and sister or you as a family gathering around we are so glad to welcome you to our online platform you get to be a part of lh kids online no matter where you are that is so cool and no matter where you are you can be involved in love week yes love week is an opportunity that we have here at lighthouse to go out and serve and share the love of jesus it is an intentional effort led by our outreach director katie warner and there are so many projects out there still available that need people to sign up for them so share a little love go on lighthouse.church slash coming up do a little clicking around and sign up for a love week project today you don't want to miss it and remember there are lots of opportunities both from far away if you're not local or right here in glen burnie area okay i want to pray for love week i want to pray for you guys in less than a week there will be so many people going out and sharing the love of jesus so i want to pray for god's blessing over that so pray with me god we love you and we are so grateful for you father i pray over all the projects that you have set out for us to do during love week father as a church i pray that you would bless every single one of those efforts lord that you would call people right now to sign up for a love week project to get involved to share about who you are through an action through a word lord to go out with boldness into our communities father we pray you'll bless that effort that people would come to know who you are through love week and i pray for my families at home lord i pray that they would feel your love today they would know you are near and that you are for them and not against them father we love you it's in jesus name we pray a man all right everybody up on your feet because you know we got to worship get on up and let's count down [Music] my check one two one two are y'all ready yeah are y'all ready yeah y'all ready [Music] [Music] jesus we know you are with us wherever [Music] so sing along with me for all the joy he brings it's going down [Music] [Music] jesus we know we belong here because of your love for us that goes on forever be together so sing along with me for all the joys [Music] [Music] [Music] it's time [Music] press all right all right all right we're gonna break it down one time y'all you gotta sing it out with all you got y'all ready come on come on clap your hands like this have confidence to get in the mix lock your hands like this have confidence to get in the mix now clap your hands like this like this have confidence to get in the mix now clap your hands like this [Music] [Applause] is [Music] press play [Music] [Music] hi friends welcome to lh kids online and welcome back to the big city liz and i were just checking out a fruit and vegetable stand over there as we walk to times square and i think hey liz liz come on our friends are here come on [Music] okay all right blind you it's apple so good are you going to share mmm you can't get a half one it's so juicy oh wow yeah it's a good apple that's right so all this month we are working through three a kid's guide to connect with jesus there are times when we may not spend as much time in our bible hearing from god or in prayer talking to god this past year we may have gotten disconnected from church and from worshiping jesus with our friends with our other believers but don't worry we are taking each week to discover steps to reconnect with jesus yep each of those steps starts with r e the first week we talked about realize and how we need to realize that jesus is the lord over our life the second week we talked about the word repent and how we need to repent and choose jesus over ourselves and the third week we focused on the word renew we learned that we can't renew ourselves but only jesus can renew our minds daily and now for this week's reword of the week delaney remain oh no no you gotta you gotta jazz it up a little bit this week's reword of the weekend that was good i was a little worried that you lost your pizza nonsense oh okay yeah never you know what makes me think of apples um oh i know teachers well no but teachers are super awesome thank you teachers apples make me think of apple trees oh so what do you say we go to central park and check out fall foliage fall what you know like trees and leaves falling and pumpkins and flowers all right hopefully all right let's go [Music] these grapes are so delicious i found them in granny garcho's fridge just thought i would help myself while she's taking a nap oh my oh i must have gotten a little tired what do we have here oh hello there lady hey what do you think you're doing with my grapes i need them to tell our bible story for today you're eating the prop well i can't do much about the ones that i already ate but i could spit the one out that's happy into my mouth no no no lane no this is all right i can i can work with this yes this is this is fine okay all right you see today we're talking about the word remain remain means to stay in place or continue to exist or just be there's a great bible verse in the book of john that talks about why we need to remain connected to jesus oh yes i know this one it's john chapter 15 verses 5 through 8. i am the vine you are the branches if you remain joined to me and i to you you will bear a lot of fruit you can't do anything without me if you don't remain joined to me you are like a branch that is thrown away and dries up branches like those are picked up they are thrown into the fire and burned if you remain joined to me and my words remain in you ask for anything you wish and it will be done for you when you bear a lot of fruit it brings glory to my father it shows that you are my disciples oh you see these are grapes which hang off of this branch which this branch is then connected to the vine that's how clusters of grapes like this one grow on a vine now because i bought these at the grocery store they've recently been cut off of the vine now what do you think will happen to these grapes eventually since they are disconnected from the vine if they aren't eaten of course [Music] what do you think lane well i think i'm gonna eat all the grapes before anything happens to them yes that's what i'm going to do but let's say i didn't eat them all before too long those grapes will have shriveled up dried out and probably looks something like a raisin don't you think gertrude oh i couldn't agree with you more the longer those grapes are disconnected from the vine the sooner they will look a little something like this you see shriveled up dried out little sad looking loop droopy loopy now in the verse you mentioned lane jesus said i am the vine you are the branches if you remain joined to me and i to you you will bear a lot of fruit you can't do anything without me jesus was trying to tell us that he is the source of all life and if we aren't connected to jesus we are very limited in what we can do just like if this branch isn't connected to the vine it's it's not going to produce any more grapes it's no longer connected to the source that that gives it life that gives it all the things it needs to grow it'll without it it'll wither up and get all droopy and shriveled just like it's raisin when we cut ourselves off from jesus maybe we aren't praying we're reading the bible with our family or maybe we don't go to our local church to worship with other believers we will stop growing fruit too like the spiritual fruit that we hear about in the bible we won't have the love the joy the peace the patience the kindness the goodness the faithfulness the gentleness and self-control instead we might feel more sadness anger fear unless we remain in jesus unless we abide in him and abide is a fancy word for resting in jesus's love we know that he loves us that he's given himself for us and that he wants us to love him too wow so jesus is like the tree and i am like a branch on the tree if a branch gets cut off it's not going to grow beautiful flowers or leaves or in my case i'm not going to grow good things in me like love joy peace patience kindness goodness faithfulness gentleness and self-control if i'm not connected to jesus yep i really need to make sure i stay connected to jesus yeah me too that's why we need to remember this remain in jesus and bear fruit say that with me remain in jesus and bear fruit if we abide or rest in jesus's love we can face anything like if a friend wrongs us we can confidently respond in love or if we're waiting on our little brother and he's taking forever to get his shoes on it's easier for us to have a patient attitude and if we lose someone that we really love jesus gives us peace in our hearts that surpasses all understanding when we're connected to him you know this last year and a half has been really hard with covid and all the shutdowns maybe you're feeling like you've gotten disconnected from jesus maybe you haven't been praying or talking to god or you haven't read or listened to your bible lately or maybe it's been a while since you gathered with your friends at church to talk about god but don't worry there is still good news for you yes liz you see there might not be anything we can do to make a raisin look like a nice grape again but jesus loves you and he always welcomes us back by starting to spend more time with him he reconnects us to the vine after all he loves you and no matter what is going on around you you can always reconnect with him you can remain in jesus and bear fruit once again let's use this tip from our lead pastor pastor sammy that he uses the word fruit to help us understand how god bears fruit within us the f for fruit stands for faithful if we stay faithful to jesus and what his word says we are certainly going to grow good things the r stands for repentance surely if we keep that repentant attitude that we talked about last week and go to god regularly to ask for forgiveness he will fill us with joy and peace the you in fruit stands for understanding did you know that you are never done learning from god in order to bear fruit we have to keep growing and understanding and wisdom from god the i stands for intentional i know that is a big word but it boils down to thinking before you act like do you ever think before you say things or do you think things through before you do them remember that saying wwjd what would jesus do thinking about what he would do and doing it is a really intentional way to live that will grow love kindness and goodness within you and lastly the t is for tested we don't go looking for tests or trials tests and trials are gonna find us and through these gods stretches us and grows us it may not feel like it or seem like it when we're in the middle of something that's really hard but if we can look at hard things the way god does we will know they each had a purpose to grow more patience gentleness and self-control within us john 15 8 says when you bear a lot of fruit it brings glory to my father it shows that you are my disciples [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] so [Music] [Applause] [Music] whew i am pretty tired after walking all through central park today liz it's probably because you have a cantaloupe and a full bag of apples that's pretty heavy to carry around all day yeah okay all right you're right well what are we gonna do with all these apples that are in my backpack i mean i'm not really hungry right now maybe just maybe yeah we can think of a game to play with them oh yes i know let's play bobbing for apples [Music] oh this is a fast setting oh look at this look at all these apples ah i think we're ready to play delaney all right i'm ready okay okay okay now because we know where all the apples are we need these three spins okay okay ready go one two three okay stop oh wow oh okay all right on your mark we have a minute get set go that's what i can really where are they i [Music] oh ah [Laughter] [Music] i don't know where i am right now [Laughter] wow this guy right here okay i was doing circles around my head liz i don't even think we can get these apples but we need to leave oh you're right train's here no let's leave them behind ten no no that's not it it's it's five uh i'm never gonna get this never gonna get what i am really struggling with my three times table math is so hard oh i know i feel that i struggle with english and so sometimes what i do is i will put something into a song or you know kind of like our memory verse you know motions but i think with times tables yeah i'm sure that you can come up with a song huh that's a good point let me think how about this 3 6 9 12 15 18 21 24 and 27 isn't counting fun hey i like that you got it nice thanks that was so good friends aaron mitch just got his three times tables isn't that incredible well i know how to celebrate that yeah and celebrate that great song let's do our memory verse let's do it yes all right friends get on up stand up come on all right cause we are going to do our memory verse one time and we are going to do it all together are you ready all right we'll wait for you all right here we go create in me a pure heart oh god and renew a steadfast spirit within me psalms 51 10. great job man it's been a great day and next week is test week so we'll see you there [Music] [Music] help me got to see what you see you are doing a great work in me i've decided i can stand still no you have given me purpose [Music] [Music] for you [Music] all my life is yours i will i will make them move for you make a move for you [Music] for you [Music] i'll take up the call to serve you forever you have given me a job to do i wanna love the world just like you yeah you have given me purpose oh my all my heart is yours oh my all my life is yours [Music] [Music] for you [Music] make a move [Music] maybe [Music] whenever i need some answers god i turn to you you are my help when i need wisdom you always see me through to know that you're chasing love for me it makes me wanna run to where you [Music] this are worth it i give you all my heart [Music] when i don't know what to do you help me figure it out god i run to you when i need a solution i have no doubt that i will run to you i run to you i [Music] i know that's where you'll be you make me wanna do what's right and be the best version of me to know that you're chasing me it makes [Music] when i don't know what to do you help me figure it out [Music] [Music] you [Music] for you i don't want to stop [Music] when i don't know what to do you help me figure it out i run to you when i need a solution i have no doubt that i will run to you when i don't know what to do you help me figure it out [Music] [Applause] well i can't do much about the ones i've already ate but i couldn't spit the one out that's half eaten in my mouth no no no no oh my gosh [Laughter] oh my gosh what happened the ladies my rocking chair fell over oh my gosh delaney on the floor seems to be struggling [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] you

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Published: Sun Oct 03 2021