Children—E. Pilkington
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You know, it's a wonderful thing to know that the Lord Jesus loves us. Sometimes we sing this hymn, you know, without just really realizing what we're singing.
Many years ago and a little offended school back in Ontario.
There was a little girl that her name was Jeannie.
And back in Ontario, though, we quite often asked the children if there's a hymn they would like to stay.
And that little girl whose name was Jean, he would always put up her hand if she could 1St And we always knew what you wanted to say.
It was always Jesus loves me. This I know, for the Bible tells me so. You know, children, I'm so glad that I have the Bible this morning and that the Bible tells me that Jesus loves me. And you know, when the Bible tells us that Jesus loves us, we know that it is true. He really loves us.
And so this little girl, Jeannie, she would always give out that him but one Lord. The afternoon I noticed a little genie seat was empty. He was not in her accustomed place.
And the next day we saw on the headlines of the paper.
That little genie had been burned to death. Burned to death.
Turn a little brother, you know.
As children quite often do.
I know when I was a boy I used to do the same thing. Children like to play with matches, they like to play with fire, but sometimes when you play with fire, you get burnt.
And so little Ginny and her father, they were playing with a fire.
And her clothes caught on fire and she was burned to death.
Oh yes, little children die.
Yes, it's not only all people that die, but little children die too, and that's why little children need to be safe.
And I'm so glad that the Lord Jesus came into this world to save me and to save children, you know, as we think of the Lord Jesus.
One day the disciples, they wanted to drive the children away.
But the Lord Jesus, why he took them up in his arms and he blessed them and he said, suffer that killed him to come up. Oh yes, he loved everyone. And so little genie, you know, she was taken away suddenly. So we went to see her mother and father. And as we spoke to the mother and father, they didn't know the comfort that the Lord Jesus alone can give at such a time. They didn't know the Lord is their Savior.
But this is one thing they did know. They knew that their little girl loved Jesus.
And they said why Jeannie, she was always singing Jesus loves me. This I know for the Bible tells me so.
Oh, the Bible didn't tell us so. It might not be so, but the Bible tells us so. And though I'm so glad that Jesus loved me and he loved each one of us, and I think perhaps now we could just thank the Lord Jesus for his love. Whose are his?
Let's.
I'd like to read just a few verses in the 10th chapter of John's Gospel.
You know, he's saying, I'm so glad we sang that Jesus loves us and we meant that we're so glad that he loves us and we we know he loved us because the Bible tells us so. And you know, God has given us his word and he speaks to our hearts through his words and he speaks to us in a language and with even the youngest.
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Can understand.
I noticed on the card that there was only one meeting where it mentioned children's meeting and so as this is a meeting for children, I want to address my remarks to the children.
And they, the Lord, blessed His word to each of our hearts.
Now here in John's Gospel chapter 10, we have the Lord Jesus speaking, and we might just read a couple verses.
John 10.
Verily, verily, I say unto you, he that entered not by the door, and the sheep fold, but climbeth up some other way, that they seem as a thief and a robber.
But he that addeth in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.
Today I'm not quarter openness and sheep hear his voice.
And he called his own sheep by name.
And leadeth them up.
And when he putteth forth his own sheep, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice.
Now we might just go down.
To the ninth verse.
Now Lord Jesus again speaking, I am the door by me. If any man enter in, he shall be safe.
And shall go in and out and find pasture. 11Th Verse.
I am the Good Shepherd the Good Shepherd giveth his life for the sheep the 14th verse I am the Good Shepherd and know my sheep and am known as.
And the 27th verse.
My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me, and I give unto them eternal life, and they shall never perish. Neither shall any man pluck them out of my hands. My father would give them me as greater than all, and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand. I and my father are what?
Well, you know the Lord Jesus.
Here he is speaking to his own and he says.
I am the Good Shepherd. You know, there are two kind of sheep mentioned in the word of God and there are two kind of sheep here. I believe in this room this morning. There are those that are lost sheep and those that are safe sheep.
And you know the Lord Jesus, he came all the way down from heaven and or that each one of us might be saved.
And here he says, I am the Good Shepherd. The Good Shepherd giveth his life for the sheep in order to save you and I who are lost. Why it cost them his life.
Yeah, and I like this little verse. You know the third verse, it says he called his own chief by name. Oh, yes, dear young people, children, this morning, the Lord Jesus knows your name. As I look into your faces, I know the name of some, but I don't know the names of all. But you know there's one above the Lord Jesus, whose presence is here this morning, that knows your name. He knows your name, and he's calling you.
Oh I thank God that there are many that have heard his voice calling to him and have answered His voice yes.
And so there are those who are lost deep and those who are safe.
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There was a man after we had given out the gospel, he says I have a six sheep. He says come and look at it. And so.
It was up at the leprechaun. He's come here, know the place, so he took me around behind the clawing, behind a shed.
And there on the ground was a sheep.
And it was sick.
Oh yeah, still. And it was sick. Just one look told me that sheep was very, very sick.
And you know, as I look down at that.
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There is something in my heart just when I was about you, I felt sorry for that Jesus. There was laying on the ground and the hot sun was pouring on that sheet. There was laying and with pants and I noticed about 10 feet away there was a pail of water. But that sheep was so sick and couldn't even get up and go to the water to get a drink.
And the man says all this sheep is very sick.
It's paralyzed and it can't move.
And you know, as I looked at that sheet and I looked at the water, I went and I got the pail and I took it over right to the chief.
And I poured a little water under the mouth to moisten its lips.
That was all I could do to that, chief.
I didn't have the power to heal that Jeep.
My heart went out to it, but all belonged. I couldn't do anything for that sheep. I could take a little water, you know, and and give it to him, but that sheep was so sick.
It couldn't even swallow the water. Couldn't even swallow the water.
And you know, I think that's a picture of each one here who is not saved.
You know, children, you and I are looked at a sheep in the 53rd chapter of Isaiah tells us this all we like sheep have gone astray. Yes, and that's a picture of everyone. We turn everyone to our own way. But you know God, when you look down from heaven, he saw that you and I, his sheep were going astray. And in love he spent his Son, the only one who could give light to you and I.
The Lord Jesus, he came down from heaven and he became a man.
And you know, as he walked through his this world, as he looked at the six from the afflicted ones, you know, his heart went out to them.
My heart went out to that sheep. It was 6 and that Jeep can all it needed someone with more power than what I had.
To restore life to and oh, you know, sometimes as we look at you, dear children, young people.
Sometimes, as we see you going astray, the we're still going your own way.
Still turning your back on the Lord Jesus. As we look at you, our hearts go out to you and we long to bring something to you from the Word of God that will bring joy to your heart.
Yes, but all ourselves were not able. And you know, the Lord Jesus as he looked upon this world, it's hard enough to it. Yes, it's hard enough to it. And so he could take the kiln up in his arms and he could bless them. But you know, children.
The Lord Jesus, his life as he walked through this world, could not.
Could not take away your sins and mine.
Hold on.
The Lord Jesus says I am the Good Shepherd. The Good Shepherd giveth his life for the sheep. Such was the condition of you and I that the Lord Jesus had to give his life for us. He had to give his life for us.
And soul.
I had to turn away from that Jesus there. I left the laying on the ground. I couldn't do anything for it and I turned away from it.
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Oh dear children.
If you're not saved, you're sick. Yes, you're sick.
You're like that 6 sheep, and that's six sheep. You know, I didn't have any appetite. I didn't even have any power to swallow.
Oh, such a picture of your condition of mine. We have no strength. We have no power to do anything to save ourselves.
And so the Lord Jesus, He saw our condition. God saw our condition in each sentence.
And the Lord Jesus came down here in love that you and I.
And he went to Calvary cross, He gave his life for us. There was no other way whereby we could be saved. No, no other way. And so here in the 10th of John, the Lord Jesus says.
He calls his own sheep by name and leadeth them out. Oh, I like to think some of the names in the Bible where the Lord Jesus called his sheep. I think perhaps that is was one of Jesus sheep and at the Lord Jesus saw Zacchaeus condition. You know, you remember the story of Zacchaeus in the 19th of Luke. Zacchaeus had heard about Jesus and all children. You've all heard about the Lord Jesus.
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Zaki has heard about Jesus and he wanted to see him. Do you want to see Jesus?
You want to see Jesus? I want to tell you there's a way.
Yes, and the Lord Jesus is a way, and that he is, He was a little man, and it tells us he couldn't see. And so he ran ahead and he climbed up into a Sycamore tree. Yes, thank you. As you know, I believe the picture of many of our dear young people.
They want to see Jesus, but they want to keep in the background. They go on anybody to see that they want to be saved.
And I'm afraid there are some who do not want others to know that there are Christians. But you know, Zacchaeus has declined up in that tree. His heart, oh, his heart yearned. He wanted to know Jesus. Oh, is there heart here in this room this morning that wants to know Jesus?
Do you really want to know him when I tell you the Lord Jesus wants you to know him and he's calling you this morning, Yes, he's calling Zach. Yes. As he climbed up into that tree, he thought that no one could see him. So I want to tell you, Jesus knew he was there. Jesus could see him and he can see you this morning as you sit in your seat. He can see right at your heart. He knows with you. You really have any love in your heart for him.
And so Zach years, you know, he looked down, but when Jesus came, what did Jesus do?
The people, the crowd, they went by.
The crowd couldn't see Zacchaeus up the tree, but Jesus knew he was up there and when he came to the tree he looked up and he said Zach is make haste and come down. What was that nice that years was a lot cheap. He was lost and the Lord called my name. Oh dear children, he's calling you by name this morning. Each one here. Have you listened to his voice? Have you listened to his voice?
As your heart responded to His voice, have you come to Him? Have you accepted Him as your savior?
Oh, you know, Zach is accepted. Jesus, could we just turn for one moment those who had Bibles to the 19th of Luke?
It says in the 19th of Luke.
And the fifth verse Jesus said, make haste and come down.
And then the sixth verse that says, And he made haste, and came down, and received him joyfully.
Oh children, that's what you and I need to do.
You love the Lord Jesus.
He wants you to receive him. He wants you to receive Zach is what he wanted Jesus. And when Jesus said make Haitian come down, why he came down, he made Hayes Oh yes, he made hate. He came down and he received Jesus. Yes, and he received him joyfully and the Lord Jesus had good news for him. Oh, you could say to Zach he is the Son of man has come to seek and to save.
That which is lost and all beloved, each one of us, without Christ, our love.
Lost, that is what's lost. But he was one of God, sheep and gone astray, yes.
And the Lord Jesus.
Why he called them by name. Oh, I enjoy that.
Thought that the Lord knows each of our names. He knew Zacchaeus name and he knew that Zacchaeus wanted to see him and so Zacchaeus receive him.
And you know what happens to a boy or girl, a man or woman that receives the Lord Jesus? It tells in the first chapter, John's gospel is offers to as many as received him who the Lord Jesus to him, he has given the power or the rights or title to become a son of God, a child of God. Isn't that wonderful? And all you have to do is receive him as your Savior. But oh, let's not forget. Let's not forget what it caught him.
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In order to save us. Oh, it says, here I am the Good Shepherd. The Good Shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.
This morning, you know, we're going to gather here in this room and we're going to remember the Lord Jesus and his death. We're going to remember what it cost Him in order to save us from our sins, All children.
The Lord Jesus loves you, He loves you, and so he is calling.
Yes, he called his own sheep by name and leaded the most.
Some time ago I was in A at a brothers farm and he had a lot of sheep and they weren't all old sheep, you know, you had some young laughs.
And I noticed that his children, the moment they got into the barn, they they headed for the little less and they picked a little land up in their arms.
Why did they fix those little lines up in their arms where those little lands, you know, they didn't have any power. They just picked them up in the arms and you know.
I could see as I looked at their faces that they love those little laughs. They love them, yes.
Yes, and I think of a great big dog was the cometh and try to take one of those little lands. I think that I think that those children were going to chase the dog away, don't you? Oh yes, I think that those children, they would do all in their power to protect those of the last. Oh yes, they loved the land and you know they knew the names too. They had a name for each one and the Lord knows your name too.
Hang it on. I spoke to one of those lands and one of those sheep.
And didn't pay any attention to me at all.
They didn't know my voice.
The Lord Jesus is calling. Do you know His voice when he calls? Always calls you this morning. He wants you to know Him, He wants you to know Him. And so it says here, I am the Good Shepherd. And it says here, when he put it forth his own sheep He goeth before them, and the chief follow him, for they know His voice.
Oh, are you and I following the Lord Jesus? Are we following him? Do you know his voice?
You have to receive him as your savior first before.
You can follow him.
You know, the Lord Jesus said to Peter, he says, follow me. Oh yes.
The Lord called each of his disciples. He knew their names, and so he says, My sheep.
Hear my voice and I know them.
And they follow me. Oh yeah, they follow me.
Now let's just go on as our time has gone. It says here in the 27th verse, My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me, and I give unto them eternal life, and they shall never perish, neither shall any man **** them out of my hands.
Now I like this.
My father has given me as greater than all, and no man is able to pluck them out of my father's head. Oh yeah, my keep here, my boss.
And it says I know them, I know them and what else?
The shepherd, you know, has something to give the sheep. He has something to give the sheep. Oh yes, and what is it?
I give unto them eternal life. Oh yes, the Lord Jesus this morning wants to give each one something. He wants to give you eternal life. Oh yes, He has a gift this morning for everyone here in this room.
A gift. And what is this gift? Oh, the gift of God is eternal life. The gift of God is eternal life. You have that gift. Have you received that gift?
Oh, the Lord Jesus wants you.
Some weeks ago.
I was walking down a certain village and the islands and visit and I was walking down this Philly in around the huts giving out tracks and there was a brother there and he started to tell me a story.
And he says, brother, he says when I was over in England.
He asked me to speak to the children.
And he said, brother, I didn't know what to say.
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But I thought about the Good Shepherd.
And down there is a bit and they have a lot of sheep.
And so he's thought about the Good Shepherd.
And so he said, I told him a story.
And I want to tell you this story he told me. Perhaps some of you have heard us. You pardon me for repeating it, but this brother, he says brother some years ago.
There was a man out of Sandy Bay that started a rumor.
That Mount Soufri was going to erupt, going to erupt.
Now, many years before that, there was a man that warned the people that it was going to erupt and people didn't believe him. The government had paid this brother.
To what?
Come, let's know of him. And when he saw the danger was coming to a crisis.
He went about warning the people.
And no, they didn't listen to him.
And you know, beloved children.
Today we see the crisis of approaching the coming. The Lord has drawn eyes and we would seek to warn you of your lost conditions.
But you know, there are many today that don't want to hear.
They're turning their backs upon the Lord Jesus, the one who is the Good Shepherd. And you know, down there, this dear man, I'm sure his heart was filled with sorrow as he went to one and to another, and they didn't believe him.
At last he had a plea for his life.
And those who didn't listen to his advice, to his warning, they perish. They perish.
And so this brother was telling me a story that took place some years after.
And he said, brother, this man, he started the rumor that Mount Soufri was going to erupt again. And so he told the people.
And the people believed them. It was all I just a joke, as he called it. But the people believed him. And they ran it all to their houses. They made preparation to flee and they fled.
They believed in them.
And one woman, you know, she had a little house and she had a sheep, and the houses down there are built on wooden posts and she took her sheep and she tied it underneath the house to one of the posts.
And.
He fled. One day went by, two days went by. Three days, nothing happens. Nothing happens.
Course it wasn't true.
And at last one time in the mountains to see for himself. And he looked down there where the volcano had erupted some years before. Why? He saw that it was dead. He saw that that mountain was morning rough. It was just a joke. It was false.
Oh, beloved.
How long it is for people not to believe the truth and yet to believe a lot? All I want to tell you dear young people, until this morning, if you don't believe on the Lord Jesus and accept Him as your Savior.
The day is going to come when you are going to believe a lie. I believe a lie. Yes, it's all, but it's true.
Well, this woman, she made her way back to her house.
And when she got to her house, he looked under the house and the sheep was gone. It was gone.
Well, she felt sad or she was stolen.
One day as he was walking down the village, he saw a man coming towards her with a sheep, and she recognized it as her sheep, her sheep.
And she went up to him and she said, man, you have my sheep, that's why. Oh, he said, no, that's my sheep. You're wrong, that's mine. Oh, she said, no, I know that, mighty.
He says you can't have it because it's mine.
Well, this woman took.
Took the case to higher authorities and the day came when.
The judge some them to appear before him.
And there the charge was laid against this man, and he had sold this woman's sheep, and he said.
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I didn't steal the sheep. That sheep is mine.
And so the judge, you know, he turned to the woman. You say that your sheep. Oh yes, I know that mighty well, the judge said to the man. You go downstairs.
This case was held in the town of Georgetown and Saint Vincent, and the courtroom was upstairs from this building. And so the man went down the stairs and the judge says when you get down there, call your sheep and tell the man he called his sheep.
And he said it was his sheep, but that sheep didn't respond to his voice. It didn't pay any attention. And the man called, but the sheep didn't respond. Why? Because the sheep didn't know his voice. And finally the God says to the man come back up and he said to the woman.
Now, he said, you go down and call, so she.
And so he went downstairs, and she called her sheep. And you know right away why the sheep didn't. And it's ran down the stairs. Yes, she went. The sheep went to the woman. Why? Because that sheep belonged to that woman. That sheep knew the voice of that woman, and that woman knew the sheep.
Oh, yeah. Oh, one glance at that. She told that woman it was hers. Oh, I want to tell your children, the Lord Jesus knows this morning whether you're one of his sheep, He knows. Whether you're one of his sheep, he knows.
Sometimes people say that they're safe.
I can remember when I was a little boy.
To avoid being embarrassed, I remember saying that I was safe when I was.
If you ever done that.
And I can remember one day my brother saying to him to me.
To Derek.
There's a man coming to the house tonight and he'll ask if you're safe.
You better not tell him you hope so you'll be in trouble.
You know, there are many that say I hope so.
That got me thinking, you know?
You got me thinking.
And I asked myself some questions. All children. You ask yourself the questions. I ask myself the question whether I really love you. And my heart told me that I did.
And the word of God shows me that Jesus loved me.
And so, sure enough, sure enough.
After the little meeting in our home, this man came up to me and said Eric.
You say, you know what I said, oh, I hadn't made the decision that you know what I said? I said yeah.
Can you say yes to the Lord Jesus?
What? I'll tell you what happened.
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Years went by, you know, I was tempted.
To go with some other boys. Well, yes, if you're one of his sheep, you know there are false shepherds around and you'll seek to lead you astray. They'll seek to lead you away from the Lord Jesus.
And so.
I got that straight.
And I can remember the very afternoon I was so unhappy. And I want to tell you, young people, if you love the Lord Jesus and are saved, I want to tell you and warn you that you'll, you'll not be happy.
If you don't follow the Lord, you'll not be happy.
Jesus says my keeping my voice, and I know them and they follow me. And if you don't follow the Lord Jesus, if you're one of his keep, I want to tell you that you have a shepherd that is so wise.
So faithful.
That he will not let you go your own way. Oh no, he will not let you go your own way. He loves you too much and he'll deal with you.
Oh, dear young people. Christian, this morning the Lord Jesus is calling to you. He's calling you by name. You know him.
Have you responded to him?
Oh, May this morning, if you haven't, may you respond to him.
And accept the Lord Jesus as your Savior. And let's not forget the Lord who is a Good Shepherd knows yours, whether you love him. You know Peter and his epistles from the second chapter. He could write to the Christians and you know what he said to them. He said, For ye were as she born astray, but have now returned.
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Oh, returns onto the shepherd and fish of your soul. Oh, you haven't come to Jesus. Come to him this morning.