Children—John Roossinck
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Good morning.
Looks to me like it's about time we're supposed to get started. We have a few children here in the front row, but we have quite a few front row seats for children that are vacant.
So when you're looking for a place to sit, think about that.
So if somebody wants to come up here in the front row, the children and sit here, that's fine, even while we're singing, but we'll start singing. Who has a song in the back page of the hymn sheet is especially for it says children's hymns and courses. But I don't think we have to automatically exclude the other pages. But I think that's what this page is especially for.
And I will say right here at the outset that, umm, unlike some speakers that might take this particular job, I'll not start the songs because I've said before that they'd probably be in the cellar if I did. A little over a year ago, we were in Newfoundland and they were having their meeting and singing quite a few songs in the basement of the meeting room, and I noticed that each person they gave out.
Long started that and I thought, man, is that what you got to do? I gave out a song and I said we're singing in the basement but we don't want to be in the cellar so somebody else can start it. OK with all that. Now who's got one?
OK, we got, oh, I don't know. Are you raising your hand for a song? Are you raising your hand to get somebody's attention? This girl's got a song. 42 Good for you. A little child of seven. I bet we have children here that are 7, three and four.
I was seven once, but it's quite a while ago. Even longer ago, I was three and four. OK, let's say #42.
Well, the last part of that song said salvation through his blood. That was talking about Jesus. It said Christ the Son of God. That's a very important thing is through his blood. But let's go on sing another one. You got one, Zach.
55 You know what? This paper doesn't go to 55.
The one we have at our Sunday school goes past 55.
But this one, umm, stops at 47. But I wonder what 55 is. You know, it might be in here with a different number.
Jesus wants me for his sunbeam. Think that's in here, Sam?
Think we could sing it anyway? I bet we could. Jesus wants me for a sunbeam. Maybe he's thought about that because of yesterday it was raining and today it might be sunny.
We're saying 55.
Gordon to pray.
In every way I simply use every.
So who has another one?
Which one would you like us to sing?
#41 around the throne of God in heaven will many children sing? Well, we don't even have to wait until we're around the throne of God in heaven, because we can sing right now. But that'll be nice. Then let's sing #41.
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Right in the end of the song, the last verse said something about the blood. So we've had that in the end of two songs. So that's an important thing. OK, we've got another one.
How about Drew? Gotta have a boy.
#40 Jesus loves me this I know. OK, let's say #40.
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Your eyes is like one place.
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3000 plus many months may come when I'm buried away that now.
Granted, Shining Place one time.
Come to watch me where I live.
Your dream? That's called living.
Yeah, it's being a lovely.
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Apple's here to remind me of what I do on other days.
Umm, and I think we're supposed to say the verse. Nobody told me what order we do things in, but maybe just to make sure that we don't run out of time, we just sing one more song and then we'll save the verse. Probably most of you children have learned the verse in this paper, but maybe some have other verses. But we'll get this boy here.
To have a song, Which one?
#44 into the tent where a gypsy boy lay. This boy, in this song, he was about ready to die. And in the song that we just sang across the column, Jesus loves me. The last verse of that song said, If I trust him, should I die, he will Take Me Home on high.
Well, now we'll sing 44 about this boy because that's just what happened to him. You know, I have a sister.
I guess it's OK to say I have a sister, Maybe I say I had a sister and she wrote that last verse of Jesus loves me on a piece of paper and put it on her bedroom door because I think she knew she was going to die. And she did die, but she loved the Lord Jesus. So just like this boy we're going to sing about in #44.
She went to be with the Lord Jesus long time ago, but let's sing about the gypsy boy now #44.
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Well, it's nice to think about this gypsy boy and that he got saved just before he died, but it seems like one of the main themes of this song is, and I think there's probably another verse that isn't in this.
Song sheet that makes it even more clear that this boy wanted the story of salvation to be told. That's why it says tell it again. Tell it again so we can keep doing that. But now let's just look to the Lord here for a minute and then let's say the verse.
Our blessed God and our Father, we thank Thee that we can be here with these children. You know, there's older people here, they're listening in, but we just thank you for these children. And we just looked at these for our little time with them and asked for thy help. We thank Thee for the story of salvation and that it is available to whosoever will. We had that word in this last song we sang whosoever. What a wonderful thing.
So we just.
Commend yourselves to Thee as we go on, and maybe even look at something in Thy word. We ask for Thy help and give thanks and the precious name of the Lord Jesus.
Amen. OK. Who learned the verse in this paper? You did good. You wanna say it? You wanna say it in this little thing so everybody can hear you. I'm not.
And believe it's in that Lord.
Are you not today if you will hear his voice harden, not your heart. He was 3/15.
Yeah, I bought this fellow here.
Today, if you will hear his voice, harden not your heart. Hebrews 315.
Good. You like to say this verse into this thing so everybody can hear you.
Today you are here in force, hard and not your hearts.
It's 8:15.
Can you say today?
Apparently not.
Today, if you will hear his voice harden on your heart, he was 3/15.
Hear my voice.
Hebrews 15 three. OK, Thank you.
Nice, we can help each other, isn't it?
Today he here.
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Hard not your heart, Hebrews.
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Today if you will hear his voice harder, not your hearts. Hebrews 315.
Today, if you will hear his voice, harden not your heart. Hebrews 315.
Here his voice hardened on your heart.
Hebrews 315.
Today, if he will hear his voice, harden not your heart. Hebrews 315.
Now we'll come over here, see what we find.
Today is today. If you are here, voice harden, not your heart.
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Today, if you'll hear his voice, harden not your heart. He was 3/15.
Today, if you shall hear as well, It's hard, and let your heart Hebrews 315.
Today, if you will hear his voice harden on his heart. Hebrews 315.
Today if you will hear his voice harden not your heart. He was 3/15.
Today, if you will hear his voice, harden not your heart. Hebrews 350.
Today if you will hear his voice harden on your heart. Heart. Hebrews 315.
Today is today, if you will harden, not your hearts.
Oh, today if you were here, His voice are not your heart. Hebrews 315.
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Well, what about this quadrant over here? Who are we gonna pick on here to say the verse must be somebody?
I don't see any little children here, so I'm gonna have to ask John, because somebody in this quadrant has to stay the earth today if you will hear his voice harden not your hearts. Hebrews 3:1515While it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation. (Hebrews 3:15) Thank you, John. There we got somebody from each quarter of the room.
Harden not your heart. That's, umm, means to not let God's word enter into your heart. Because when something's real hard, there's farmers around here that sometimes they worry that the ground is too hard and, uh, maybe the seed can't get in. Although they got pretty fancy planters now they probably can get it in anyway, but maybe the rain can't get in. So they don't want hard ground and we don't want hard hearts.
Well, I told you I had these apples here. You can't see them, so I'll get them out of this box. Isn't even an apple box because I'm a farmer. There's a lot of farmers around here and there's quite a few farmers in this room. But umm, most of the farmers in this room are probably what we would call grain farmers.
And I'm what we call a fruit farmer. We mostly grow two kinds of fruit. We grow a little bit of another kind, but.
We grow apples, see, We got apples here. We grow cherries too, but we don't store cherries. So it's pretty hard for me to have any cherries here on the table in March because we just have cherries in July.
Well, we have them in June and in May, but usually in May and in June. That ain't good to eat because they're not ripe yet. But we have apples for a lot of the year because we have a way to store apples and keep apples pretty good.
And so I was thinking about fruit.
Because like I said, I'm a fruit farmer. And there's a verse in the Bible here that says something about fruit. Because, you know, these apples all came from an apple tree. And there's a verse here that says, wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them. So we want our apple trees to produce fruit.
And so I think these apples all came off of different trees.
Not really sure a couple of them could have come off the same tree, but umm, most of them are different trees. But you know, you can all produce fruit too. And there's a verse, several verses in the Bible that say something about that, says something about the fruit of the Spirit.
And I think I didn't save enough time. Maybe that's good. But umm, so we're not gonna ask these children to all find these verses, but.
Umm, maybe I'm not gonna find it either, but I think I just found it that, umm, it says the fruit of the Spirit. And I can just tell you because most of you aren't looking at this in your Bible, that spirit starts with a capital S, and that's important. It says the fruit of the Spirit is Lovejoy, peace.
Long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance.
Well, that was nine things that the fruit of the Spirit is, and we don't have time to talk about all those things, but those are all real good things and those are things that we can produce.
But, you know, these apples were produced on an apple tree. You're not going to find any. Some of these apples aren't too good. You know, in our business, we sort apples and only certain ones. This might be the only one here that really makes the grade.
To go to the stores where your mom goes to buy apples because this apple here I think would probably grade out as AUS extra fancy apple and that's what your mom usually buys. One of these other ones, this one probably would too. Anybody know what kind this is?
Anybody know what kind this is? I just tell you it's a Fuji. It's pretty good too.
This one's a gala. You might notice there aren't any Red Delicious. If I did this when I was the age of some of you children, I probably would have had mostly Red Delicious here. But they they're getting to be a thing of the past. But we're not supposed to be talking about that, supposed to be talking about these.
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Apples are produced on an apple tree, and these good things that I just read to you are produced by the Spirit. But in order to produce these good things by the Spirit, you have to have the Spirit. And so I told you it starts with a capital S and it comes from God.
And he gives you that spirit that can produce these good things.
If you believe on him to be saved, we had songs about the blood. You get saved, you get your sins washed away by the blood. You know, I was thinking a little bit about some of these things yesterday and yesterday evening. There was a man by the name of Steve that was standing up here and he had a good gospel meeting.
And several times in his gospel meeting he talked about the Lord Jesus being.
Long-suffering and I thought, wasn't that nice, Steve is telling us.
That the Lord Jesus is long-suffering and this verse tells us that one one part of the fruit of the Spirit is long-suffering. So we should be like the Lord Jesus that way. That means we can we can deal with things we can be not.
Not get all worked up about if somebody does something we don't like we can we can be what it says long-suffering. We can just take it. But at these apples here, you know, umm.
I said they have to come from an apple tree, but like this gala had to come from a gala tree.
And we planted an orchard a few years ago.
This apple here came from a Macintosh tree and it's called a Ruby Mac. That's why it's so red. Used to be Macintosh weren't very red.
But we planted an orchard a few years ago and we planted half of it to Ruby Max and we planted half of it to John Gold's. And just about the time we had those trees all planted or maybe the next year, the people that buy our apples decide they didn't want to buy very many Johnny Golds anymore. So we felt real bad about that. Here we got this nice orchard we planted and it's I think John Gold's a good apples. But see, I didn't bring any. I don't even think we have.
Right now. And umm, so we did something. We hired somebody that's pretty good at grafting to come and graft all those John Gold trees.
I shouldn't say all of them. There'd be a long story. We don't wanna talk about Fireblade, but we drafted those Johnny Gold trees to Gala. So then those trees that had been John Gold trees, now they can produce galas. And that's what your mom evidently likes to buy, because the people at the stores say they don't want Johnny Gold's anymore. So you know when you get saved.
That's like grafting a new life into those trees.
The bottom of that tree, I wouldn't want to start talking about Woodstocks either. So that's too complicated. I would say part of that tree is, uh, John, a gold tree. But the part of the tree that produces fruit, I think this year we're gonna cut it off all the John Gold part and just save the gala part. So those trees that were Johnny Golds are now gonna be gayless so they can produce this kind of fruit. And we hope that.
The markets keep wanting galas, but maybe they'll turn around and want Johnny Gold's, but that really doesn't fit in with this lesson. I was going to talk a little bit about these apples that don't make the grade, but we can't talk about that. So just talk about that. We drafted those John Gold trees over to galas and we want trees to produce good fruit, and it seems like the market thinks galas are more good fruit than Johnny Gold's.
And so the fruit that we want you children to produce is what we have here called the fruit of the Spirit, Lovejoy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance. We can't, we can't, umm, define all those things. But they're all good things. And you can only produce good things if you have that good life grafted into you.
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From the Lord Jesus and have his Spirit.
I think we have stopped now. Maybe we'll maybe they'll let us go for an extra minute if somebody has one more song and we'll probably only sing part of it. So let's see, we'll get this boy here. What song would you sing?
#47 oh boy, I could tell a story about that one too, but I guess I better not. Let's just sing the first verse in the chorus and then we'll be done.
The Bible.
And God refers to us as jewels. There's people here, I'm sure they're wearing jewels, pretty nice jewelry. Some people probably have on today. But God calls us his jewels, but only if we're saved, only if we have that new life and spirit from him. So let's just pray again that everyone would have that.