Children—Paul Daplyn
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Good morning. I'd like to welcome everyone to the Sunday School in Montrose here this morning.
I only see three children in their front seats here. I'm sure there's more. They're old enough to sit up front, maybe they could come up now.
While we're waiting for those to.
Come up, maybe we could start.
By singing some hymns.
Before we do that, we're going to ask the Lord's help and blessing because we're going to open the Word of God and we're going to talk about the Lord Jesus Christ and what He's done for us in California Cross at Calvary.
And.
It's my exercise this morning to impress upon you.
His great love to us. You know why he went to the cross of Calvary.
It's shed his precious blood there to wash on our sins away.
If there's anyone here who hasn't yet.
Put their faith and trust Lord Jesus Christ. I trust the Lord's help this morning.
You'll agree, gain a greater sense of His love to you, what He's accomplished on the Cross of Calvary.
And how great a debt you have, because each one of us is a Sinner. We're born in sin, shape and iniquity. We read that in the 51St Psalm.
And you realize that there's nothing you can do to be made fit in the presence of God, except that you accept that you accept the Lord Jesus Christ into your heart.
Let him come in and wash all those sins away, and then they'll be joy in heaven. We read of that in the Bible, and you'll go on rejoicing too.
And after, we're going to sing for about 10 or 15 minutes.
And then we're going to open the Word of God and we're going to talk about our hearts for a little bit.
And then we're going to talk about something that's broken. We're going to talk about that a little bit too, something that has lost its purpose, it can no longer do what it's meant to do. So we're going to talk about that a little bit too. But before we do, we're going to ask Lords Helm.
Our gracious God, loving Father.
We just look to the.
Thank you.
Giving them only begotten Son, the Lord Jesus Christ her Savior.
We thank thee, Lord Jesus.
For what that was done for us, and thy great low for us, that kept you there on that cross.
So suffered the judgment of our sins on the cross Calvary, every one of them.
Was paid for.
Lord Jesus, those three hours of darkness.
And then?
Thy blood was shed, Lord Jesus.
To wash all our sins away, we pray, Lord Jesus, that.
Each one here has put their faith and trust in Lord Jesus Christ. They are going on rejoicing in Thee.
Seeing beauty in thee and how lovely thou art, Lord Jesus.
We just pray.
If there is one that's still lingering or Jesus for whatever reason.
That they will come to thee today, Lord Jesus.
And if there's anyone here pretending to be Christian too?
We trust, too, that they will see the folly in it and.
And come to thee too, Lord Jesus, before it's forever too late.
So we thank thee for the privilege, Lord Jesus.
Pray for hearts that are ready to receive the good seed, Thy precious Word.
We ask it and I were the and precious and you, Lord Jesus.
Well, we have hem sheets here and.
You don't have to pick the the children's hymns on the back of the sheets. You can pick any of the other hymns there if you like. And if I can't get it started, we'll ask your brother to start it for us. So do we have one? Do we have a number?
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One hand Good.
#38 OK.
I know not one.
By my Lord, Oh my God.
And that perspective.
I didn't say no.
I'm to him. I can't stop him.
Yes.
My heart.
But I woke. I have been.
Sweating.
And I didn't say.
Oh, 035, which I'm going to get everything together.
Unto him again.
That's a beautiful hymn for me. I didn't come to know the Lord Jesus Christ until I was almost 30 years old. That's it's so much better.
Come to the Savior when you're young.
Now there wasn't.
Time and when I was younger. I was 14.
Christian tried to bring me to the Lord Jesus Christ, but he asked me if I knew where I was going and I knew I was a Sinner so I.
Cold and I'm probably going to hell.
Tears started coming down his face. He said you don't have to go there, But you know, Satan used my friends to whisk me away.
So I couldn't hear the rest of the story.
And I talked about that a little bit when I had Sunday school here two years, two years ago. And it wasn't until I was 30 that I sucked to the Lord Jesus Christ in my heart.
We have another hymn.
We have another number.
OK.
46.
Spelling Song.
Gladi.
'S and he was all being of the highest spirit.
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Well, we've had two boys ask for a number. Let's have a girl here. He'll be shy. We have a girl who would like to sing. Pick a number.
Do you have a number?
Oh, I'm sorry, 40.
Jesus.
Yes, gives us slightly.
In the Bible tells me so.
She just wants me.
To take your grandfather.
He will fly away my sin.
Why God gets old child come in?
Yes, give me some love to sleep.
Yeah.
So.
Jesus loves me.
And I never really win. I don't cry and shine and play the sun. Watch me where I live.
Yes, she's a slow sea.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I'm able to tell me so.
She is nice. Life made me grown standing but stay inside.
Of the way, if I trust him, should I die?
He will take me to my heart.
Yes please, I love me.
Yeah, yeah.
From the Bible tells me so.
That's probably the best known and the best love of children's hymns.
And with the Lord's help this morning, I'm going to.
Talk about how much the Lord Jesus loves us.
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Even before we came to him.
And asked Him into our heart to be our Savior, to wash away all of our sins.
Well, I guess we could have one more hymn. So we got someone in the front row here would like to.
OK, 45.
Too little.
1.
1.
Right here. Take them, Lord Jesus, and let them be. Always so big and true to be. That's a nice hymn.
It's a wonderful thing and we.
Realize I need our need of a Savior, that we're a Sinner undone in sin. There's nothing that we can do except come to the Lord Jesus Christ.
And it doesn't have to be a long prayer. Ask him into his heart.
It's your heart, so he can save you.
So that you're fit and presence with him.
Enjoy forevermore.
I said we were going to talk a little bit about our hearts and, you know, before.
We accept the Lord Jesus Christ. Our heart was lacked with sin.
And then?
When we realize.
Our condition before God that there's nothing that we can do and we can't be in his presence because of the awfulness of our sins.
Then we turn to the Lord Jesus, because he's the only one.
Who's able to pay the penalty of our sins? And he's done that work. And it's a finished work too. I'm across Calvary shedding his precious blood to wash every one of our sins away. Everyone.
You know.
There's only one thing that can.
One person, I should say.
That can satisfy our heart forevermore. You know, God and his wisdom has made us that way, that there's nothing.
That will bring.
Everlasting joy in our heart.
Except his dearly beloved son, the Lord Jesus Christ, you know.
It makes me think when you look, look at that, the way our heart is made, there's only one thing that can give you joy forever more, and that's the beloved, our beloved Son of our, of our Father the Lord Jesus Christ. It makes me think of a lock.
There's only one key, they'll they'll open that lock.
I mean, there's thousands of keys, but there's only one.
That can open it.
And we're going to kind of compare that to our Savior, Lord Jesus Christ. There's only one key to our heart, and that's our Savior, Lord Jesus Christ. Yes, there's lots of other keys there that Satan would show us. There's the keys of fame if you wanted to, if you were aspiring to be a famous actor or famous artist or inventor or, or some such thing.
I was also busy the key works where you're trying to do good deeds to you think you're making yourself fit to be the presence of God. There's a key so knowledge if you're inspiring to learn great things in university.
Is the the key of power if you're aspiring to be the leader of your town or your county or country or whatever the case may be?
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These are all keys that are the enemy of our soul, Satan.
Has put before us to distract us from the only key that will truly.
Unlock our hearts so there's joy forevermore. There are vain distractions that have been put in our way.
To distract us from coming to the Lord Jesus Christ.
And that's what Satan, the enemy of our soul, wants to do. He wants to distract us by any means possible.
For coming to the Lord Jesus.
It's a being of hatred, Satan.
Especially towards those that love and glorify Lord Jesus Christ, an absolute being of hatred is unable.
Is completely unable to experience love or understand love.
Complete contrast from our Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who is love. He is love.
And.
If you're.
Someone who's gotten older, like myself, before we accepted the Lord Jesus Christ, you may have tried some of those keys, those other keys that don't work.
And you know.
When you.
Try a key in the lock that doesn't work it, it won't open the lock. And I suppose if you're strong enough and force the key may end up breaking the lock. You know, that's what can happen too, if you're trying these other keys that Satan has put before you that we've been talking about, the keys of works, the keys of fame, the keys of knowledge, the keys of power.
If you pursue that course.
Trying to get in satisfaction in your heart that way, what's going to happen is you're it's like forcing a key that doesn't work. It's going to break your heart. It's going to break your heart.
And Satan breaks hearts all the time.
That's his purpose.
As I said before, he's a being of hatred.
And he can't even understand love. He can't even understand it.
The Lord Jesus he is.
He's loved us, has such a great love too, that he suffered on the cross of Calvary in three hours of darkness. We're never going to know how much he suffered at the hand of God to pay the penalty of our sins. It's just it's we're probably never know how much he endured on the cross, Calvary, and those three years of darkness.
If he could have done it in less time, he would have, but he couldn't.
How great a work the Lord Jesus Christ.
Did on the cross Calvary you know?
He spoke the worlds into existence by the word of his power. I think Brother John Kemp mentioned that yesterday.
By the word of his power. But you know he couldn't do that with our sins and maintain His Holiness. He couldn't do it.
And.
He had to suffer on the cross Calvary.
The wash all our sins away.
There's a verse in chapter one of Hebrews.
And verse three, our brother John Kemp, I believe, mentioned it during the Gospel like last night.
And I was just wondering if there's anyone here who would like to read that verse for me. Is there anyone here?
Would like to read that verse for me.
If I don't see any hands coming up.
No, no.
OK, well I'll read it and maybe perhaps there'll be a few more verses that we're going to read about read as well. But it says in Hebrews chapter one and verse three, who, being in the brightness of his glory and the express image of his person, upholding all things by the word of his power when he had by himself, purged our sins.
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Sat down, the right hand of the majesty on high.
That's our savior.
One tremendous power and glory and majesty.
If you could speak to the worlds of existence by the word of his power. But he couldn't do that one for our sins. He had to suffer for three hours of darkness and across Calvary.
I I.
Wanted to talk a little bit.
About something that's broken.
Something that's no longer can do what it was meant to do.
You know each one of us.
Has been put here for a reason I shortly before I accept the Lord Jesus Christ.
I realized I had to be here for a reason.
He'd already been working in my heart, drawing him to himself.
For I accepted him into my heart. I knew I had to be here for a reason. And that means that each one of us here have to be here for a reason too. I don't just mean sitting in our seats here in Montrose. I mean living our lives in this world.
And you know.
If.
We don't. We haven't accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as our Savior.
We can never.
Do what we were meant to do, because God has a purpose, a divine purpose for each one of us.
But until.
We accept the Lord Jesus Christ as our Savior.
We don't have the power to do it. We don't have the power to do it. We can never do what we're meant to do. We can never do the purpose, the divine purpose.
We were made for.
And I just wanted to talk a little bit about that.
You know, I'm sure you children here have had a a toy that you really like that you played with and you enjoyed playing with it, but then perhaps because of an accident or maybe the thing wore out or whatever.
The thing became broken. Broken.
If any of your children had that happened to you where you had a toy you really liked and and it was broken, do you have anybody?
Want to talk about it?
Sure.
I had a big yellow tractor that I could ride on and then the rear axle broke so it was pretty useless. Yes, that's the point I'm getting to.
When something is broken and.
Is unable to do what I was meant to do. As our brother Jonathan has already mentioned, it's useless. And you know, that's like us too. Before we accept the Lord Jesus Christ, we're useless. We're useless to God.
Not that he needs us, but to, but it's his joy.
To have us do his will, to do what he's he's purposed for us in our lives to.
It's his joy, and it should be our. It should our joy, too.
And you know if.
You don't accept him as your savior. You're broken or or useless. I forgot to ask Jonathan.
How did you feel about that? When I was broken, Pretty sad. Pretty sad.
Pretty sad, he says. And, you know.
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What about the Lord Jesus?
The purpose that he has for us.
In this world.
That we can joy in Him doing His will.
Hard to fulfill our divine purpose. What about the Lord Jesus if you never come?
To the Lord Jesus Christ.
It not only makes him sad, it grieves him. It really grieves him.
Because.
He's made the provision on the cross of Calvary.
There's a sadness there because you haven't come to him. And as Jonathan said, when you, when you can't do what you're meant to do, you're broken. You can't.
And, and it's just, you're just, it's, it's, it's become useless. And that's what I, I really wanted to kind of impress upon us that not having a, a sense of purpose in this world. You know, that's a, you know, that's an awful feeling not to have a sense of purpose. And, you know, there's a lot of people in this world that don't know the Lord Jesus Christ as a savior.
And they they don't seem to have any purpose in their life.
And it's only through our Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, that we can.
Experience the purpose to do the purpose to do His will.
And have joy in him.
Now there's a verse.
In the Philippines.
It's in chapter 2.
Philippians.
Chapter 2 and verse 13 I was thinking of particular.
Is there anyone here would like to read that verse for me?
For it is God which worketh in you, both to will and to do of His good pleasure.
Thank you.
To do and to will of his good pleasure, you know.
When we accept the Lord Jesus Christ as our Savior, we're able to do.
He works in us both to will to do of His good pleasure He gives us the power.
To be able to do it something that we never had before.
By the indwelling of His Holy Spirit.
Something that we never had before.
It's only by the indwelling of His Holy Spirit that we're able to do anything to please God. Before we were saved, there was nothing we could do to please God. All we had was was our sins. We had nothing else to offer to God except our sins. We have nothing to boast and.
All our sins are like as like filthy rags and speaks of a scripture, something that's disgusting and it's it's only through.
His love towards us and that we're able by the indwelling His Holy Spirit, that we are given the power to do His will to do what we're meant to do in this world.
And that's, he's, that's a, that's a wonderful thing, you know, after he's showing his love to us then.
He, he, he fits us so that we're able to, to, to.
Do those things that He would have us to do so that others around us can see the love of God through our works and through our words.
That they they want, that others want to come to Lord Jesus Christ. That's what each one of us has been.
Put in this world for to to do that work, to perform the will of the Lord Jesus Christ, to bring others.
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To Lord Jesus.
But you know.
God in his love.
Has sought after each and everyone of us. Now it talks of in the Psalms. 33 Yet God speaketh once, yet twice.
But you know, I know in my life, and perhaps in yours too. He's spoken to you many more times than that to to realize.
The how great your sins are and and.
And there's nothing that you can do to.
Get rid of those sins except to put your faith and trust in the Lord Jesus Christ.
And I hope and pray that each one here.
Has.
Put your faith in Lord Jesus.
That's your no longer broken like Jonathan's tractor.
Useless.
But that you've come to know the Lord Jesus Christ. You've, you've come to him.
To him and have eternal life and you know.
We're told in God's Word and behold, now is the day of salvation. He doesn't promise us tomorrow. He doesn't even promise us this afternoon. The only promises now.
So if there's anyone here.
Who still hasn't put their faith and trust?
Lord Jesus.
That you'll bow your head quietly when you when we pray at the end of the meeting.
And accept him.
Into.
Your heart.
And go on rejoicing.
You know.
He wants to save you.
You know where his we belong to him.
Because he's made us.
Because he has made us. You know, there's a verse in 139th Psalm.
It's one of my favorite songs.
139th Psalm.
On verse 14.
Now I was just wondering if there's someone here would like to read 139, the 14th verse of that 139th Psalm. There's someone here would like to read that.
So I'm 139.
Well.
We need one of the older ones.
Verse 14.
I will praise thee, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Marvelous are thy works, and that my soul knoweth right Well, thank you.
We are fearfully and wonderfully made.
And what's the result when we really realize that I will praise thee?
Glory, when each one of us will glorify the Lord Jesus Christ and give him the praise, the worship that He's so worthy of, not just because of what He's accomplished on the cross of Calvary is marvelous as that is.
But because of who he is.
The Son of God.
From everlasting for everlasting he always was.
And we consider.
That one.
And how he desires to be our friend, one of such great majesty and glory and power. And he wants to be your friend, even holds the very breath in your hand. And you wouldn't be able to have it except he gives, give it, gives it to you.
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And he wants to be your friend, you know?
The Lord Jesus is the most wonderful friend and Savior that we can ever have. You know, Scripture tells us of him sticking to us closer than her brother and you know.
That's our Savior, the Lord Jesus.
Marvelous. Ours works.
His ways are unsearchable.
And as I've mentioned already, we'll never probably enter into what he had to suffer on the Cross of Calvary Gerardimus to ourselves, to himself.
So that we could be fit to be with him.
A soon coming day. You know, I mentioned too that.
With that verse, behold, now is the day of salvation, you know.
It could happen soon. We could hear that shout. We reread of that where everyone that.
Knows the Lord Jesus Christ will be caught of the scene and twinkling of an eye just like that gone.
Be with him.
Forevermore.
But you know.
I hope that you're ready.
You'll be able to hear that shout.
To be with him, to see him as he is.
If not, you'll be left behind for judgment.
And terrible. That's a terrible thing that will be, especially when you realize.
That you had that opportunity to accept Lord Jesus as your Savior.
And to.
But you refused.
And that makes the Lord Jesus has no pleasure in judgment of the wicked. It'll be.
He'll be sad because he's made that provision and you've refused it. If you've refused it, he'll be so he'll be sad.
There was a him and a Him in the axis of Grace.
God beseeching and man refusing to be made forever glad, I hope, dear one.
If you haven't accepted Lord Jesus as your Savior, that you will come to Him and will also be made forever glad.
That you won't be broken because of sin.
That you won't be broken so that you can't do what you were meant to do.
That deal may be made whole. Deal may be made whole for the blood.
Of the Lord Jesus Christ. Let's pray.
Father, we just thank thee.
What thou has done for us?
Giving none, only begotten. Son, we thank Thee, Lord Jesus, for what thou has done.
On the cross calorie to redeem us.
We thank Thee, Lord Jesus, for such a love as I that.
Hefty there on the cross Calvary.
We trust.
Everything that's been said this morning, Lord Jesus.
It's been.
For thine honor and thy glory.
And has been the truth according to the word of God or Jesus.
That if anyone here.
Hasn't opened their heart, the Lord Jesus.
That that key the only key.
The Lord Jesus.
Will come in.
And wash all our sins away.
That they'll go on rejoicing. We just look to the Lord Jesus.
Thank you for the privilege again of proclaiming these the only Savior sinners.
Thank you again for that finished work on the cross. We thank thee, thy worthy and precious name of Jesus.
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Yeah.