Children—D. Rule
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The whole time this is a time for the children. So the other times are mostly for big people, but you that are smaller on the front row and near the front row, we're going to try and forget that there anybody else in the room. Okay, so I'm not going to try and talk to the big people.
We want to talk to you, and I want you to talk to me too. So this is your time, and you can pick any you get to pick. The other times you're supposed to be quiet, aren't you? And the other times you don't get to pick the songs that we use. But this is the time when you get to choose the songs we're going to sing. And some people say pick from the Backpage. Well, I'll just point you to the Backpage, but you can pick any song you'd like.
So who has a song you'd like to sing?
What number #4 OK, we'll sing #4 And I don't know how to start songs any good at all. So somebody's going to have to just volunteer themselves to start the songs for us #4.
The Savior of Savior.
Now I just raised, I am praying.
Save your sins shaved your sinners like me.
She is love for my friend.
Now there is no condemnation.
This is a savior for me.
Today.
Stand there all sinners like me.
Shining is like for my grandson.
It's just like, say, good morning, love, with all of that's unchanged.
Let's make all the blessings so great.
How shall I tell you this is a savior for me?
Say you don't see it.
Save your own secrets like me shining inside for my grandson. This is the savior for me.
Very good. Who else would like to sing one for you #40 OK #40.
How do you know that Jesus loves you?
How do you know?
Where do you find that Jesus loves you?
In your heart, where else?
In the Bible, OK, we're going to read, it says Jesus loves me. This I know.
I know Jesus loves me. Do you know that Jesus loves you? I think you do. So let's sing #40.
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Jesus wants me to God having taken to open quiet, he will wash away my sins that hardly ever close trials come in.
Yes, in swampscreen. Yes she's a swamps me.
You have to be such lovely screaming.
It may say from every time.
It's made, yeah.
Love to speak beside me all the way.
Can I trust him should I die if you will Take Me Home on time?
Yes, Jesus loves me.
Yeah, let's see if you can satisfy this meeting.
Sure. I never see you so it's blocked me.
Other.
OK, Breezy 46.
All right, I'll read it. Because maybe if you're real small, we're going to sing some letters and you won't know what it means, so I'll read it. It says. Glad tidings I bring.
That Jesus has come to save me and he calls and he calls all the girls and he wants all the boys to to trust in him and have all their sins now washed away #46.
What?
Are you?
Saying.
And we call and we call all the deciding our relatives and they want us to feel wise you.
To hear you.
Have seen so much away.
We still have time for some more.
Any boys at the other end? You think about it? We got one here. What one would you like to see? 4545? OK. Do you have two eyes?
Yeah, how about two years?
OK, two feet. Well then, maybe this song is about for you. We'll see. Let's sing it.
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Take down originals and let them be all the ways, all big hands and truth community.
Okay.
Oh, I see a hand down here.
14, OK #14 Thank you.
See what number 14 is.
Have you been to Jesus #14?
For the cleansing.
One more.
Going to be an all, well not quite all girl day, but close.
Okay #39.
What a friend we have in Jesus #39.
Everything to God in prayer.
Oh my God. Oh God, he's the same.
Because we do not fear.
And everything to God in prayer.
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Lord in prayer.
Okay last song we just sang talks about praying. I suppose most of you know what praying means we're going to pray now and you know what it it means simply to talk to God. So we want to talk to God now that means we're going to pray and the reason we sometimes.
Say close your eyes is just so we will pay real careful attention to what we want to say to God. Sometimes I've heard people say fold your hands and I think they say that simply so we won't be tempted to use our hands and distract somebody else from what we're going to do. So right now we're going to stop and ask God to help us. So we're going to talk to him. That means we're going to pray. So let's do that.
Our God, we are thankful this morning for the privilege of being able to speak to Thee and to know that.
Thou art listening to what we have to say, and we're going to ask two. And we thank thee, our God, for being sure that we're going to have an answer to what we ask. So this morning we think of these boys and girls here, our God, we don't know what's in their heart.
But we're thankful that thou dost know, and we pray that Thy word might speak to each one of them, that they might be able to understand it this morning.
And believe it. And each one of them be saved. So, our Father, we pray for the salvation of each one of these children here this morning. We ask this in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, Amen.
Where I come from, we have a Sunday school every week and right at this time in our Sunday school, and I think it's the same, and a lot of other Sunday schools too, we have the children that wish say, a verse that they have memorized. And I think that's a very important thing for boys and girls to do. And I'll say I think it's a very important thing for mothers and fathers to practice because the children usually can't.
Or don't always do it on their own.
And so a lot of times it needs a mommy and daddy to help them. So we're not going to take time for everybody because there are a lot of us here this morning, more than we would have in our Sunday school at home and most Sundays anyways. So I'm going to just ask if any of you would volunteer to say a verse that you've learned for this week. And if you have, you raise your hand and I'll let you have the mic in front of you so that everybody can hear.
OK, you've learned one, all right. You say in the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by Him, and without Him was not anything made that was made.
What part of the Bible?
First John, one John. John, John one very good. Somebody else.
Do you learn a verse?
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OK, we'll see what you learn.
I don't know. You don't know.
You ever heard the verse God is light?
You say that for me.
God is light, God is light, and it also God is love. So you say that for me.
OK, now you said 2 verses.
Somebody else?
All right.
For God so loved the world that he gave his own beating Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. John 316.
Okay now does anybody remember what verse was in the?
Sunday School papers for this week. There's a memory verse that's also in the Sunday school paper. Does anybody remember what that one is? I see a hand down here. We'll see what that one is.
The Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.
John 1.
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OK, does anybody remember the memory verse that was?
You were to memorize 2 weeks ago in the if you memorize them in a Sunday school paper, not this last week, not Behold the Lamb of God, but the week before. So I want to tell you something about that verse. Do you remember it?
Oh well, you say that one then behold the Lamb of God, it shaketh away the snow of the world on 129, OK?
Does anybody remember the week before?
It's in the Psalms.
Psalm 40, verse 2.
Pardon me.
Oh, OK. Can you say it for us?
Just a minute.
He brought me up all sort of a horrible pit and out of the Miley clay, and set my feet upon a rock and established my goings. So on 40 verse 2.
10 Thank you.
Now, the reason I asked how old he was because I want to tell you something that really impressed me this last Sunday where I live. There was a little girl that came up to me after Sunday school. She's pretty small. She sits with her mommy and daddy. She doesn't sit up on the front row where some of the boys and girls do.
But she came up to me and she started and said all the way through that verse, he brought me up. And I wondered if she could even pronounce a word like horrible, but she could.
A horrible pit. And then I wondered about Myrie and she said Miry Clay. And I didn't prompt her for one single word. In fact, I didn't even ask her to say the verse at all. She just came up to me and said the verse and that little girl. And this is the point I want to make. She is two years old.
Just two years old and I was so struck by that that I asked, I went up to her mommy and I said, did you teach her the verse? And she, I thought maybe her mother decided to start teaching her the verses and she said no, I didn't. She said she heard her older brother learning the verse and we found her just saying it after her older brother. So that's a word of encouragement to you that are a little bit.
That have the responsibility as parents to say that children are different. This child perhaps is a little quicker than some to be able to Start learning. But here's a little girl that started to learn the word of God. I don't suppose she understands even all the words that she was saying, but she could listen to what her older brother was as he was saying it out loud to himself, learning it. She could learn it along after him.
And she did, and she said the whole verse and now I suspect that her mommy and daddy are going to have her Start learning it because now they know she can.
And probably will. Seemingly, she wants to. So let's remember boys and girls.
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And mothers and fathers, it's important to store up in our minds and then in our hearts. God puts it in our hearts.
The word of God.
This morning for a little while, I want to talk about.
Lost and found and it came to my mind because last night Mr. Tony was speaking here and I will say he was talking from the Lost and Found chapter.
If you were here, and probably almost all of you were here last night, he read a chapter out of the Bible, Luke chapter 15, and it's a lost and found chapter because there are things in that chapter that were lost. We learn about things that were lost and I'm thankful to say that each one of them that's called lost in the chapter was also found. Do you remember?
What we were listening or hearing about last night in a Lost and Found chapter. What was Tell me something that you remember that was lost.
Project called Sun OK, a boy was lost. Called the product. We call him the Prodigal son. But a boy got lost.
I've been lost.
This boy, he was lost, and we'll talk maybe a little more about that boy later, but you know, he was an older boy and I'm thankful to say he knew his way home too. He was lost, but he knew the way home. And many of you boys and girls may know the way to the Lord Jesus.
But you may still be lost. So here was a boy that was lost even though he knew when the time came. But he had to do something first. He had to have a change of mind. He had to repent and then return to his father. What else was lost in that chapter? See if somebody else can help us.
How about you boys on this end?
OK, here we've got a volunteer.
What else was lost? A silver coin? A coin was lost. You ever lost any money?
Get it back.
Or is it still lost?
Somebody here lost. We heard the other day they lost some money and I believe they never got it back because I have it.
So the man that found it said if nobody claims it, I could have it to use in the book room that we had up there.
So I think I still have that money. So it was never found by who lost it. So sometimes we lose things and we don't find them again.
OK, there was a lost coin and a lost boy and one other thing that was lost. What was it?
A sheep.
Have you ever lost a sheep?
I haven't either.
I haven't lost a sheep. What have you lost?
You ever lost anything? What?
Some of your toys, did you find them?
OK, they're still lost.
What you lose?
My silly party, My silly party, silly party.
So we know what it means to lose things, don't we? And that's the reason I ask you if you see whether you know what it is to lose something.
We heard about the first day, about fathers and mothers who have lost children.
And so we all know what it is to lose things, and I think most of us can say what it is to find something as well.
It's surprising how often we lose things. I remember just two things that came to my mind that I lost. I lost this pen and I pens with one color. But when you're kids, you like pins with more colors. And I like pins with multiple colors too, because.
Lots of things I have to mark up in red.
Like a school teacher, I guess. So I found this be in the cushions in the in the living room where I sometimes lie on a sofa and they dropped down out of my pocket and in the cushions and I just found it the other day. Last night I lost something and I hope I find it but I don't expect I will. But I lost the screw out of my glasses and I know where it is but I don't know if I'll be able to find it. It's on the floor.
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Of the van that I'm driving, but there's lots of stuff on top of it right now.
And so it's going to be kind of hard to find for the moment. So we tend to lose things.
That we need to find and boys and girls.
The most important thing that we can lose is ourself.
That's the most important thing that can be lost is ourself, and I don't mean lost so we can't find mother or father.
But I mean lost, I remember.
Lots of fun for me when I was your age.
There was a great big store that my mother used to take, used to go shopping, and we had to go with her. And I didn't mind. I guess when I looked back, there were some things about it I didn't like very much because so much of the time I just had to sort of stand there and go around with her looking at things that didn't interest me very much. But this was a great big store. I don't know if you've ever been in a store this big, this store.
Was one whole block square. If you wanted to walk around this store, you had to walk all the way around the block. And the store was, I think if I remember, was five or six stories high. And it was called a department store named Lazarus. That was the name of the store. And you know what my mother said to me, there was one place in the store. No matter where it was in the store, I knew how to find that place.
What part of the store do you think that was where they sold what stuff? Candy. Candy. That's a good guess. But it wasn't toys. Toys, you got it. Kids understand real well these things. It was this where the toys were in the store. And if I remember now, it was quite a few years ago, but it was on the 5th floor then where they had the toys and they had these nice big escalators and so on. But my mother said that if you get lost.
If you can't find me, you go to the toy department and I'll find you there.
Sometimes it was a temptation to get lost, but I liked that store if I was able to go where the toys were. And yet sometimes if I were walking along like this, you know, down the aisles of the store and suddenly I looked around and my mom, or usually it was my mom, wasn't there.
I didn't feel so good inside. You know what it's like not to feel so good inside. I was a little bit afraid. I was frightened because I wanted mommy.
Wanted mommy right then. In fact I've been in stores where somebody that wants mommy right then when they couldn't find her, I've heard him crying mommy, mommy mommy and running down the aisle looking for mommy.
Maybe you haven't done that.
Now I've got to find out something here.
This is Barry. I know Barry.
Very. You know where your dad is? Yeah. OK, Go to your dad, will you?
There, he knows where he is and he is, you know, it's good to know where you are and where to go.
So there's Barry, and he was very confident, wasn't he, Barry? Or do you know where you're?
You did know where your dad is, but you don't know, right? You've lost him. Can you find him?
Probably not. Probably not. You tried.
We'll let Barry try and find his dad for a minute.
He's lost his temporarily.
And there are lots of people in the room that know Barry's dad and they could, probably, some of them anyways, could help him. But the point of it isn't just the fun of hide and seek as it were, but boys and girls. Sometimes we think we know something that we don't. And other times Barry was pretty sure to start out with where dad was, but now he knows, so he has to find him. And you know, the Lord Jesus wants to find you.
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And he wants you to be searching for him if you haven't found him. And you know if you look for him, he'll come right to you.
In fact, I'm going to let.
I think he's getting, we say, warm.
Barry, do you know where your dad is now? Yeah, OK, He's found his dad.
But thank you, we'll let you sit down.
But boys and girls, it sells us in the word of God, the Son of Man. In Luke 19 and verse 10, the Son of man is come.
To seek and to save that which was lost.
It comes to seek and to save that which is lost. Now, Barry was seeking his dad. He didn't need to save him. He wasn't in any kind of danger, but it was just that he needed to find him. And you, boys and girls, need the Lord Jesus. And the Lord Jesus wants you. I'm going to tell you something about me when I was your age. And this is the kind of loss that's important. When we talk about loss, sometimes we just mean that we we don't know where somebody is.
We can't find them.
But there's another kind of lost.
And that's being lost from God.
When I was your age, I lived in a house that had two stories in it.
And I had heard a lot about the Lord Jesus. I was. We moved from that house when I was seven years old.
So I must have been 4-5 six years old at the time.
But I heard about the Lord Jesus. I heard that the Lord Jesus had come.
To die and that he suffered.
For me, I had heard that that he had shed his precious blood.
And I didn't understand it, perhaps real well, but one thing, boys and girls.
I also heard that the Lord Jesus was coming again, that he was in heaven at the time, and that's where he is this afternoon or this morning.
He's in heaven, and I heard that.
He was coming again.
And they told me that it was in the Bible. At that time I couldn't read.
But I believed they said.
He's going to come for everybody that have put their trust in the Lord Jesus.
And those who haven't trusted in Jesus would have to be left behind.
Well, I knew I was lost.
Myself, or at least I wasn't sure I was saved.
And I was afraid that if the Lord Jesus would come, I would be left behind.
So you know what I did sometimes a few times and I still remember it very well.
When I went to bed at night and the house, everybody else was in bed and the house got real quiet. I lay on my bed and I said, I wonder if the Lord Jesus has come.
Well, I knew that if the Lord Jesus come, those that had trusted in the Lord Jesus were going to go with him.
And so I got out of bed.
Very quietly, I had a room to myself upstairs.
And I had a brother and an older brother and an older sister upstairs too that time.
So I sort of tiptoed out of my room and I went and looked in their bedroom to see if they were on the bed.
And I thought, well, if the Lord Jesus comes, they'll go.
So if they're still in bed, then must be the Lord Jesus hasn't come yet.
And I looked and it was very serious, boys and girls, because I was lost and I knew it.
And it bothered me down inside. I was sort of afraid. And I looked in my sister's room and if my sister Judy was on her bed, I thought, well then must be the Lord hasn't come yet. And usually I go back to my bed. But once in a while I wasn't sure. I've had to double check. And I thought, well, maybe they're not ready. I don't know, but I'm sure my mom and dad are.
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They lived, or I shouldn't say lived, but they slept downstairs in the downstairs bedroom. And so, real carefully, I got out of bed. I went down the stair steps. Try not to make any noise.
And when I got to the bottom to their bedroom, usually their door was closed so that was real hard because I had to try and open their door and look inside to make sure they were still in bed.
And I remember one time my mom woke up.
Said, What are you doing?
Oh, nothing.
Of course, moms are a little smarter than that, but.
Anyways, I wasn't ready, I was lost and I needed to be found.
I needed to be found and I can thank the Lord this morning that He found me.
The Lord Jesus said, come unto me, and I will give you rest. And so I said to the Lord Jesus, Lord Jesus, thank you for saving, for dying for me to save me.
And now I get to thank him every day for that. And I'd like to say to you boys and girls, you know, mommies and daddies.
Doesn't always work to ask. I remember when people ask me when I was a boy.
I can still tell you exactly where I was standing outside a Sunday school room one day when an older boy and girl came up to me and said, are you saved?
I said something like, of course I'm saved, but it upset me that they asked me that they thought maybe I wasn't.
Now that doesn't bother me like it did then.
But mommies and daddies like to hear us without being asked to tell them. Mommy, Daddy, I love the Lord Jesus, He's my savior. And I would encourage you if you've never done that, to tell your mommy and daddy if you love the Lord Jesus.
And tell the Lord Jesus, first of all, say thanks, Lord Jesus.
For dying to save me. Our time's up now and I'm going to thank the Lord Jesus.
For dying to save me. And I hope when I do, you will in your heart too, thank the Lord Jesus. OK, let's just speak to Him.
Lord Jesus, we want to.
Say thanks for dying for us.
I thank Thee, Lord Jesus, for loving me, for coming to die to save me.
And.
For coming to die to save each one of these boys and girls here this morning.
We thank our God for sending the Lord Jesus to be the Savior.
And we're thankful for each one of us that can say I am found. I know Jesus as my Savior.
And we pray for these boys and girls. We believe that.
No.
But we are not sure that they have simply said yes to the Lord Jesus for loving them and dying to put away their sins. And if they don't realize that they are sinners, we ask our God to work in them, to make them understand that they are lost, that they might be found. And so our God and Father, we ask thee to bless thy word, We ask in the name, thy name, Lord Jesus, Amen.