Children—Al Coleman
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Into a tent where Gypsy boy lay dying alone the close of the day. We all know this one. It's a favor.
Into where?
Let's see what I mean. I'm going to 1000%.
You're supposed to call me.
No, I haven't seen anything around your house the whole day.
I thought again.
The last day, I thought again.
I have been sent over and everything. Didn't you all around the world?
And I can't dance your grandpa, man. Nobody did. Ever. Can't hold me. Please hold on.
Umm, and nobody ever had well to make it being full.
I'll be in 10483 and all around the world.
I can't say I'm glad you're going out, man.
No, I didn't have Northern Ireland, so if you need to give me a call.
You know the prayer of the little gypsy boy is being.
Answered today. Tell it again, tell it again. Salvation story. Repeat over and over and over, and that story will be told until the Lord comes.
Then you won't hear it again.
How many here Have you ever been to a gospel tent? Put up your hand. Oh, boy. Oh, great. Thank you. Thank you. Well.
I'm very familiar with gospel. You know, there's one in Lark Harbor, Newfoundland right now that is up and the story has been told there.
Wonderful. How many children have heard the wonderful news of salvation? How about a choice this morning?
Choice of a hymn? Anybody. Anybody.
What 32 OK, 32 it is.
What 10/1?
Can make me all out again. Nothing but the one at all.
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IRMS my friend. I'll be by the way.
What's happening down the stairs? That's well.
Done. Takes me to our.
No, no sound crying though. Nothing but the world of you come.
Nothing and 47 platforms. Nothing but the bloody.
Umm.
It is all my whole family, nothing but the water.
Jason.
Is all my thyself is now nothing but the blood.
Jesus.
One of the crabs yelled in the past, glowed by a God made me light as long as I have. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
And a brother, Norman Berry, probably most of you would remember. And he gave me some advice.
And he said, Ali says when you get up in the podium there to speak, he says, the first thing I want you to do is open your Bible. Good advice it is. And then the next thing I want you to do is to announce the precious blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. Good advice. Yes, it is. And then I want you to speak of the cross. The cross.
Where the Lord Jesus was crucified on Calvary's cross for you and I.
And then I want you to tell about sin.
Sin, sin.
So as we look around the room we have to quote that well known verse in Romans 323. It says for all of sinned and come short of the glory of God and there's only one remedy for sin and that is the precious blood of the Lord Jesus Christ.
I gotta tell you a story.
We had, uh, we lived, we lived in a little fishing village called Frenchman's Cove in Newfoundland. And uh, we had children's meeting in our home. Our basement was usually quite full Thursday night, Friday night and Sunday, late Sunday afternoon, we had, uh, children's meetings. And most of our children came from Frenchman's Cove, Benoit's Cove, and John's Beach.
And we had a very nice time. Many of the boys and girls heard the wonderful news of salvation. Where are they today? Oh, I trust all thee. Most of them in heaven I trust.
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Uh, let me tell you about Emily.
Emily was probably about 10 years old and she came to the hobby class in Sunday school. But this particular day we had trouble with the kids. They were unruly and, uh, they were just carrying on something fierce. We picked them up and then Lost Cove and we brought them to our house and, uh, you know, they were just screaming and yelling in the van and, and then all through the meeting that was just.
Bedlam. We just had a horrible time. We couldn't keep the kids still and couldn't keep them from listening.
You know, it's very important to listen to the word of God, isn't it?
Well, we brought them back home and, uh, we dropped them off and we, I'll tell you, we were very discouraged. We just felt terrible on the way home.
And, uh, you know, it was just, it was really hard.
And, uh, but we hadn't dropped Emily off yet.
And she was on the way home and we were talking about how bad it was on, on the bus and and that and then and then little Emily pipes up in the back seat and she said, Mr. Coleman, I wasn't bad today, was I? I said.
No, Emily, you were, you were good and thank you. And then she said this. She said, uh, Mr. Coleman, I've asked the Lord Jesus to Satan.
You know, we were floating up in the clouds for the rest of the way home. You know something? There was a young boy by the name of Joey, Joey O'Connell his name was, and he had two sisters and Susie O'Connell and Gloria O'Connell. They were cute little girls that we, that we saw that we had in our hobby class. And uh, Joey was the ringleader. He just.
Tried everything to just mess up everything. And finally I had to say joy. You know, I can't take you in Sunday school anymore. I can't you just making a horrible time of it for the rest of us. And so I couldn't I didn't bring joy. Well, you know, one day not too long after that, Joy went out to the shed and there was this canoes in the shed and they have a a rope coming down.
Uh, and they hold the back end of the ski. Ski Doo.
Joey hung himself.
He hung himself. He died a little.
A little Gloria O'Connell, she went out there and didn't even know what was going on out there, and she found her brother dead.
Sad situation.
Well, that's the story of Emily, and I'm gonna see Emily in heaven and uh, you look around the room and how many am I gonna see in heaven? I trust all.
Little boys, little girls.
We got a verse to say this morning. What is it are we all gonna say? You're gonna say it good, and you're gonna say it OK. All right. What is the 1St?
Well, let's look at the message of love. Oh, I, I did I leave it there. No. Philippians 419 My God shall supply all your need according to his riches and glory by Christ Jesus. Let's all say it. My God shall supply all your needs according to his riches and glory by Christ Jesus. Boy, I look back in my life and I say wow.
That he has supplied everything in my life.
What a wonderful Savior looking after me and caring for me every day of my life. My God has supplied everything for my life. OK, who's going to say it? OK, go ahead.
OK, Thank you. Good. You can say it too, Attaboy.
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The greatest need that I would ever need. What do you think it is?
To be saved, to be saved, that's great, that's wonderful. To be safe, that is our greatest need, uh.
My God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus. Let's look at a few verses from the Word of God today.
Hebrews, chapter 13.
Hebrews, chapter 13.
Verse 5 just hit the end of the verse. I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.
That's beautiful. I will never leave thee, nor for safety.
I looked back in my life and I see this is so I failed him so many, many times that he has never failed me. Think of that. How wonderful. And so, umm, I'm getting to be. Well, I don't want to say it, but I'm getting to be an old man. I, I just, I just had my 80th birthday.
And uh, it's wonderful. I look back on my life and said.
Everything in place. He never forsook me once, never forsook me once, you know. But one of the things that I want to say this morning, his desk is that, umm.
When I was a child, I grew up in a Sunday school and sure, I said my verse, I read my Bible and I listened to my dad and, but you know, I wasn't interested. I'm not interested at all. And so I grew up, I, I never thought about the Lord and I got out into the world and I did all kinds of bad, bad things. And if you had to know me, then you probably would have said.
Forget it.
No, he's too bad. And that's what I was. I was, I was one of the worst persons that you could think of.
But you don't right now, tonight.
Who is standing before you is one of the trophies of God's wondrous grace.
You saved me, You know, there was a sister in our meeting in Vancouver and she said looked at me and she said, uh, Al, if God can save you, there's hope for my son.
And, uh, his Her son is still gathered to the Lord's name in Richmond.
There's hope for you if you're not saved. I want to tell you this one thing, and it's so very, very important. I wasn't saved until I was 24 years old, and those were wasted years, absolutely wasted years when I could have been into this precious word of God.
And reading it, memorizing verses and.
And watching the life of faith unto God.
And there were wasted years and I missed that.
And so, uh, you might say when it comes to the scriptures, I had to catch up because I wasted all those years and how precious it is. I will never leave the nor forsake thee. What a God that we have.
And all the way home, Saviour.
Umm, Brother Philip Gladding, anybody ever remember him? OK, he gave me some verses and I wanted to just pass them on to you. Uh, first of all, in, in Hebrews here it says Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today and forever, uh, the same yesterday you went to Calvary's cross the same today. Who who cares for us and the same.
The one we're gonna spend an eternity with? The same yesterday.
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Today and forever yesterday.
Joshua 23.
Joshua 23 and verse 14.
And behold, this day I am going the way of all the earth, and you know in all your hearts and in all your souls that not one thing hath. I want you to specially note. Note that word hath.
Failed of all the good things which the Lord your God spake concerning you, all are come to pass unto you, and not one thing hath failed thereof.
E Fearless. No. And then that's the past, present Joshua, chapter one.
Joshua, chapter one.
Have night Ike at verse 9. Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of good courage. Be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed, for the Lord thy God is.
Note that word is today with thee whithersoever thou goest.
Go back one verse.
This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth, but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein. For then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and thou shalt have good success. That's the formula, isn't it, for this life of faith that we have.
This book of the law shall not be part out of thy mouth.
This should be.
Your constant companion, this precious word of God.
He is with the Withers. You know we want prosperity in our life, don't we? And this is the formula for the precious Word of God.
First Chronicles.
Chapter 28.
And verse 20 And David said to Solomon his son, be strong.
And of good courage. And do it.
Fear not, neither be dismayed for the Lord thy for the Lord God, even thy God will be with thee underline will He will not fail thee, nor forsake thee, until thou was finished all the work for the service of the House of the Lord that was written to to Solomon.
And we can take it for ourselves. He will be with thee.
Yeah, you know, I don't know what the future holds for me, but I know that the Lord will be with me, and that's so comforting to know.
I'm gonna tell you a story.
My wife and I.
Are about three or four months ago we, uh, had to do some shopping, OK and uh, the problem was it was a cold rainy morning and the rain was just coming down and uh so we got out of our apartment our apartment and we headed for our car and we really.
Uh, hooked up to get to our car so that we wouldn't get too wet, right?
Now on the way out, there was a box on the lawn, a box about like that.
And.
Somebody dropped their garbage on the lawn, you know, Uh, yeah. Uh, it's a common expression. Don't be a litterbug. And this exactly, probably what happened. There was this box and the lid was partly closed. And so we hurried by heading for the car. And I stopped because I heard a little whimper.
And I looked into that box like that and there was a Guinea pig.
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Guinea pig.
And the thing was soaking wet and cold.
You know, I, I, I in our apartment, I can't have animals. They won't let allow animals in our apartment. So I said, well, you know, what can I do? You know, that's what happened. Somebody just said, well, I, I'm just going to get rid of this and I'll dump it anywhere. What a heartless thing to do to a, to a little animal.
So I went to the car and I got in my car and I was just sort of sitting there for a minute. I mean, what can I do? There's a, there's a little Guinea pig and it's cold, it's wet and it's whimpering away. So, uh, what I did was I went back and I sort of, umm, kicked the box over so that the Guinea pig could get out.
And that little Guinea pig got out and he had very smartly, I guess, animal instinct. He had it for a big hedge up there, right? He had it for this big hedge. And you know what happened?
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Baby Guinea pigs falling.
Five of them.
I, you know, I was just dumbfounded. Here's his mother, Guinea pig and five little pigs.
Oh, and they headed for under the Bush and the mother, uh, stood guard in the Bush and the little babies were in there. And so we went shopping and we came back and, uh, the Guinea pig was still there. Umm, I, I mean, what can you do? Hey, umm, so we did. We phoned the SPCA and they shoot him out of that, uh, hope from out of the Bush and that.
I'm gonna read a verse Isaiah chapter 449.
Isaiah 49.
And verse 15 Can a woman forget her suckling child that she should not have compassion on the center of her womb? Yeah, they may forget, yet I will not forget thee.
Not a beautiful verse. I'll never forget you.
The person that had this Guinea pig dumped the Guinea pig so he could forget all about it.
You know what it says next. Behold, I have a grave in thee upon the palms of my hands.
Our names on the palm of his hand eternity will not erase. Impressed on his heart, they remain in March of indelible grace.
You know, this is so special to me.
They dropped that Guinea pig.
And this verse says, Yet I will never forget thee. They wanted to forget all about that Guinea pig, but you know Lord Jesus Christ.
Never forget you.
Never, never forget you.
And then he says, Behold, I have graven thee, and the palms of thy hands. And I think of that. How, how beautiful that is, that that blessed one, the Lord Jesus Christ 2000 years ago.
They put those nails in his hand and I was, I was just sort of meditating on this this morning.
When they when they put those nails in his hand, did the Lord say, What are you trying to do?
You can't have that hand of mine and nail it. Is that what he says?
No, he didn't say that.
He was brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as the sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth. The Lord Jesus never said anything.
He allowed man to put those nails in his hands.
And they took and nailed him to that cross.
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You know, we have often heard this, this expression. It wasn't the nails that held in there on that cross. It was love to you and I, those nails.
What is not what held him on that cross?
He loves us. He loves us with an everlasting love. He could see how.
Sinful we were, and he went willingly to that cross, to die for you and I. And I think of him on those dark hours on Calvary's cross there, and how he could cry out, My God, my God, why is thou forsaken me and I can't? And I think of how much he suffered from the hands of men, those nails that he put, that they put in his hands, and in his thought in his feet.
What, oh God we have? Did you know this wonderful God?
This wonderful savior.
This one same Savior as saying unto you this morning, suffer little children to come unto me and forbid them not, for such is the Kingdom of heaven.
He's inviting lost, guilty sinners to come to him this morning.
Yeah, the gospel last night.
Did you go through the gospel meeting without Christ?
You know for 24 years I went to a gospel, be there and never accepted Christ as my Savior. 24 years you probably saying to me you should have been ashamed of yourself and I am. I am ashamed of my past life. But I am also rejoicing that the Lord Jesus saved me and put me on the heavenly Rd. that leads to the glory.
What a savior, what a wonderful person. This is the one that we're going to spend an eternity with not coming. Scene of glory.
How near is the Lord's coming? How near? How near?
Oh, I believe that that moment is not very far off.
When I look at this whole world that we're living in today.
When everything about God is being erased. Schools, governments everywhere.
Don't mention the name of God.
It's just a little taste of what it's going to be after the Lord comes. Absolute complete apostasy, erase of the name of God in the Lord Jesus Christ. But you know here this morning.
Yes.
Behold, now is the accepted time. Behold, now is the day of salvation.
I'm going to tell you another story. Would you like a Newfoundland story?
The Despatch, it was a schooner and uh, it was 1835 and it was heading for Boston with 176 passengers and uh, it came, uh, down the South Coast of Newfoundland. Now, uh, to explain, the South Coast of Newfoundland is notorious for wrecked ships.
Rocks, storms. Boy, we could get some real storms there.
And the captain of the despatch saw the.
Ray of the Cape Ray Light Lighthouse. He could see it and so he steered for the Cape Ray Lighthouse. There was also another lighthouse at Port Avast.
And he steered to the wrong lighthouse.
What happened right at the little village of Isle of Mark where I've spent so much time in the severe sister that living there, umm, that boat went on the rocks.
And those 176 passengers were doomed. There was no hope for them. 176 passengers.
There was a young girl by the name of Ann Harvey and she lived in Isle of Wight and, uh, she liked to go down the beach and get, you know, little things that she could find in the beach. And, uh, while she was on the beach, she, no, she noticed a flare go up. Uh oh. And this happened probably quite a few times. So Anne ran home to her father and she says father is the boat out, out in the rocks.
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Well, uh, Mr. Harvey got in his Dory and he got a whole pile of rope and he put his dog in the boat and his son and Anne and they rode out. Well, they could only go so far because it was so rough.
And you know what they did?
They, they had our Newfoundland dog by the name of Hairy Man. And you know, a Newfoundland dog has a real web peak and he can really swim a strong swimmer and they're big and they can take the cold water. And So what they did is they got and put a rope in Hairy Man's mouth and they said go to the wreck and Harry Man took that.
That rope and he.
Swam to that boat. I told you it was tough going. Quite a few times you could see him Bob under the water. But he made it to that boat and they tied, uh, got that rope and they tied it and then they came back. Hairy Man came back with another rope and tied it to shore and then they put what they call a breeches boy on that rope.
And you know that 176 passengers were saved that day, all because of a of a Newfoundland dog.
You know, those passengers were so happy.
And, uh, the whole village of Islemort went out and opened all their homes to, uh, uh, to the passengers and fed them and, and, uh, they were there for about two weeks before, umm, they all went and, uh, King George the, yeah, I think it was.
Gave the whole town of Isle of Mort a uh.
Citation for their heroic, heroic work. Do you think those passengers were thankful they were doomed to die?
And did all If you are without Christ this morning, you're doomed to die.
Die without Christ, and it's a solemn thing to face eternity without Christ.
And so I urge everyone here this morning that doesn't know the Lord Jesus as their own Savior that they would come tonight, this morning.
And ask the Lord Jesus to save them. I got one last thing I want to do before I close.
You know I love giving out gospel tracts.
And so I'm going to give. There's only three or four children, OK? I'm gonna give you a gospel tract, OK. And I'm gonna give you one and I'm gonna give you one. And you went, had a girl and you won. Anybody want one?
OK.
How about a voice? OK.
Thank you.
There you go. Thank you.
Now you've got a gospel tract.
What we can do with those tracks?
Pardon.
OK.
OK.
And what was what you said? Your what?
OK. We got some customers down here.
Where? Oh boy.
OK.
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Hold on. OK.
Here there's a whole row of them, uh.
Where? OK, gotcha.
Thank you. Thank you.
Yeah, OK.
That's it.
Now I've given these gospel tracts out for a purpose.
You've got a, you've got a gospel tract in your hand. You know what I want you to do with them. I want you to give to your friend that you play with through your school name, through your office mate. Whoever give it to them, let them have this precious word of God. You know, uh, I, umm, when I, when I'm giving up tracks, the, uh, the first one I give out is always the hardest because it takes the most courage.
To give out that gospel threat to the first person after that.
It it you're broken the ice and it seems easier and you can give out more and more and more and more. And so, boys and girls, I want you to learn to share the precious word of God.
With those around you, with your schoolmate, with your friend, whatever. Because in these gospel tractions, the way of salvation, Bible verses and God can use them, God can use.
Even a little boy like you and like you, he can use you. And so this is this is this is a rewarding thing to do, to give out the precious word of God to whosoever will. You know, it's wonderful. It says whosoever will may come. I think we do have that song on our song sheet, don't we?
OK, 16.
Good. Thank you, 16. OK, that's good.
Whosoever.
On the ground.
That's the blood on you. Umm, and so I don't know.
That's ask the Lord's blessing on His Word, loving Father.
We thank you for that precious word, whosoever will may come. We think of how a loving father that still thine arms are outstretched to this world, and we hear from thy precious word. Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. We pray this morning that if there's a child or an adult here this morning that have not come, that they might come this morning, for before it's forever too late.
We thank you for the long-suffering heart of mercy lingering over this world, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. And we think, we think of the wonderful gospel that is still going out.
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We just pray that in these last closing days that many souls might be saved, and we pray for these gospel tracts also, Father, that that would use them for Thy glory and the blessing of souls. We commit this all to Thee with Thanksgiving to Thee, Lord Jesus, and Thy precious and worthy name. Amen.