So now do we have your permission to start with the story gumbo
oh yes yes of course go ahead holy you have my permission
thank you gumbo so our first story is about andrew one of jesus's 12 disciples
andrew was one of the brothers of peter and was born to a man named jonas he lived in a town
called vegeta in capernaum and was a fisherman by profession before jesus called him to be
his disciple and followers before becoming jesus disciple andrew was a disciple of john the baptist
he had heard about jesus from john's teachings about the son of god coming to save the people
once andrew became jesus's disciple he went to places like scythia greece
and asia minor to preach his teachings to the people andrew's main purpose in life was to bring
others to follow jesus and that's what he did and hundreds and hundreds of people soon became
jesus's followers according to traditional stories andrew died a martyr in a kia greece
in a small town called patra andrew died soon after the then governor episode's wife was healed
and converted to christian faith and shortly after the governor's brother too became a christian
this angered a piece and he arrested andrew immediately condemning him to die on the cross
andrew was supposed to be crucified on the same shaped cross as jesus
this made andrew feel unworthy of him dying on the same shaped cross as his master
he begged appears to make his cross different appease agreed and made an x-shaped cross for
andrew on which he was crucified this cross is still called saint andrews cross
which is known as one of his apostolic symbols later a symbol of two crossed fish
was also applied to andrew because before becoming jesus's disciple he was a fisherman
so that was the story of andrew that was a really nice story holy the holy tales
today i am going to tell you the story of bartholomew but todd
what it is bartholomew oh bartholomew now i get it then let's not waste any more time
and begin with his story bartholomew nathanael was another one of the twelve disciples of jesus
and he was the son of talmai who lived in cana of galilee like the other 12 disciples of jesus
he too had an apostolic symbol and his is the symbol of three parallel knives bartholomew was
a missionary from armenia and he was one of the twelve disciples who came from royal or
noble blood his father was talmai the king of geshor whose daughter was the wife of david
and the mother of absalom bartholomew was probably not his first name but is second his first name is
considered to be nathanael jesus often referred to him as the israelite in whom there is no guile
bartholomew was a great researcher of the scripture
and he was also a great scholar of law he became a huge follower of jesus
and soon completely surrendered his life to jesus and was one of the most adventurous missionaries
bartholomew went all around the world preaching with philip in places like phrygia
hierapolis and also in armenia he established the armenian churches and died a martyr
bartholomew died as a martyr for his lord as he was fled alive with knives
many scholars say that he probably died in india when he went to preach there
i do not like those bad men who killed the 12 disciples of jesus all right freckles all right
don't get angry did you not like the story of course i did but let's not think about all that
the holy tales he was also called levi that sounds interesting all right then let's begin with the
story matthew was the son of alphaeus and he lived in capernaum and his name meant a gift of god
the call of matthew to the band of jesus's disciples is of great importance matthew's
other name was levi which was probably given by jesus when he became a disciple
matthew was a tax collector and a publican
he was engaged in public service work and gathered the taxes which the people paid however in those
times the jews hated the tax gatherers because they believed that it was the right of the people
to pay taxes as a tribute only to god paying it to someone else meant breaking of the law
the jews hated the tax gatherers not only for this religious reason but also because they were very
unjust and unfair towards them the jews regarded these tax collectors nothing less than criminals
matthew was one of them like every other tax collector he would assess taxes
for their people and also lend them money and charge high rates of interest from them
yet jesus chose him from amongst all the hated men and made him one of his own
being the master he saw the potential in the tax collector of capernaum matthew was different
from all the other disciples of jesus who were mostly fishermen he knew how to write
and with the power of the pen he brought to the world the teaching of jesus in the hebrew
language the apostolic symbol of matthew is three money bags which help us to remember
that he was a tax collector before jesus called him that was quite an interesting story holy
so it is because of matthew that we began to know more about jesus
i see i hope your children like the story oh yes we did i am glad well we are off for today
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god created the sun to shine in the day the moon and stars to come out at night
one day moses went to mount horeb with his sheep there god appeared to him as a flame of fire in
a bush since there was no room anywhere else they decided to spend the night in a stable
here mary had her baby jesus she wrapped him in a blanket and put him to sleep
he's got the whole world
in his house