Children—Mark Debu
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This morning.
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Thank you.
There's any more younger ones that want to come sit up front. Don't be shy.
Who has a song that they would like to give out to get started with?
What number?
#8, what's your name? Connor. Connor. All right, thank you. Connor #8 if somebody would like to start that.
#15
I'm glad you gave that one out because I want to talk a little bit about some of the things that are in here.
And there's still room in the front row to so many more young ones 1-2 you want to give out of him.
Number six, what's your name? Landon? All right, number six.
Before we sing a couple of more, Couple more let's OK, I'll try to remember that. Let's look to the Lord 1St and ask for His help.
Adam, Father, we thank you so much that we can be here this morning.
And we thank you so much for the Lord Jesus Christ, because it's of what he did.
In his loving coming down and going to the cross that we can be here this morning.
And we thank thee for these songs that we can sing about the Lord Jesus and about what he did.
But also about him coming back to take his people home.
And this morning, Lord Jesus, it's our desire and our prayer that each one here, and we think especially of the ones in the front row, the younger ones, We know the Lord Jesus as their personal savior. So we pray for help as we speak of thee a little bit, Lord Jesus, and open thy word.
And we will be able to concentrate and to listen to that word and that it might help us.
We pray this now in Thy worthy name. Amen.
OK, before we sing another song, I have a question.
Probably a slim chance, but by any chance, is it somebody's birthday here today on the front row? A younger one?
No. OK. That was kind of how about today's July 2, how about in the next couple of weeks, is it anybody's birthday here in the first couple of weeks of July?
You see one there? All right. When's your birthday?
July 12 OK, what's your name?
Abigail. All right. Anybody else?
I know there's somebody else here, and he's right there. I don't know if he's going to put up his hand. Was there somebody else there? All right. You're landing, right? When's your birthday?
July 13. Do we have a July 14th?
Where's that pointing?
Oh, right here.
What? July 5th? OK, all right, Trevor.
Yeah, I found out on Friday at the picnic that we shared the same birthday. We're both July 14. I've got a few years on him, though. OK, so we got Trevor. We had Abigail, there was Evan, and there was Landon. All right, I might ask one of you guys to come up in a few minutes. Don't worry, we're not going to sing for you. But I want to ask you some some questions, if that's OK.
You had a song, right? What was your song?
Which one?
Less assurance, OK. I don't know. Does anybody know what number that is?
Is it in here?
We can probably ask leasing a verse of that blessed assurance What's your name?
Logan. OK, Logan. All right. Could somebody start Blessed Edition?
Who has another number?
You do?
21 I should know your name, but I forgot it. What's your name? Elliot. All right, #21 please.
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I will sing one more. Who has the last one?
All right.
#14 what's your name? Tucker. All right, Thank you, Tucker.
Is there anybody here that all right, Elliot?
Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. For if any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. First on 215. Very good. Anybody else? All right.
Of not the world, neither the things that are in the world.
If any man loves the world.
The love of the Father is not in him.
First John 215.
That's very brave.
All right. Do you have anybody else right you want to say?
Heather is not found. The book of life is casting like a fire.
All right. Anybody on this side?
You want to say it good?
Here's another one.
Love not the world.
Neither the things that are in the world.
Amen. Love the world.
The love of the Father.
Is not in him.
First storm 3:15 Thank you.
You want to say it?
Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved.
X1631.
Whatsoever.
Believe in him.
Shall not perish, but have eternal life.
John 315. Thank you.
OK.
Let's turn to Matthew chapter 22.
And we'll read a story there.
Matthew Chapter 22.
And verse 2. This is the Lord Jesus, He's telling a parable.
And he says this the Kingdom of heaven is likened to a certain king, which made a marriage for his son, and sent forth his servants to call them that were bidden to the wedding, and they would not come again. He sent forth other servants saying, Tell them which are bidden. Behold, I have prepared my dinner, my oxen, and my fatlings are killed, and all things are ready common to the marriage.
They made light of it.
That made that means they kind of made fun of it.
And went their ways, one to his farm, another to his merchandise. And the remnant took his servants, and entreated them spitefully, and slew them. And when the king heard thereof, he was wroth, and he sent forth his armies, and destroyed those murderers, and burned up their city.
Then said he to his servants, the wedding is ready, for they which were bidden were not worthy, but they which were bidden were not worthy. Go ye therefore into the highways, and as many as ye shall find bid to the marriage.
So those servants went out into the highways and gathered together as many as they found, both bad and good. And the wedding was furnished with guests.
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And when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man which had not on a wedding garment. And he said unto him, Friend, how camest thou in hit her not having a wedding garment? And he was speechless.
Then said the king to the servants, bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast him into outer darkness.
There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
All right.
So.
We'll talk about this a little bit in a second, but is there any of those people that receive the card who are having a birthday soon that's willing to come up for a couple of minutes?
And answer a couple of questions, they're not hard questions. So we had Landon, Abigail, Evan and Trevor. Any of you want to come up for a couple of minutes or or not?
Should I choose one?
Are you willing to come up, Trevor?
Oh, oh, Landon. OK, it's OK You're off the hook. Landon is coming.
Oh, and we got two. Well, that's good. That's going to work. All right. Well, you stand here. Like I said, it's going to be very easy. So you two are going to have a birthday soon, right? Is either one of you going to have a birthday party?
Do you think you'll have a birthday party?
You're not sure? You're not sure you don't have birthday parties? Well, let's say you're going to have a birthday party, otherwise it wouldn't work, right?
If you're going to have a birthday party, who are you going to invite?
Who would you invite? You don't have to name names, but would it be your friends?
Would you invite your friends to your birthday party? Yes. How about you, Landon? How many people do you think you would invite?
Well, let's let's do it different. Who in this room would like to come to Landon or Abigail's birthday party?
Do you think you'll invite all of them?
Are you going to invite all these people to your birthday party?
Might want to talk with mom about that, but that's nice. It's good. Why would you not invite all these people? They're all nice people. Why would you not do it? Actually, it's good that Trevor didn't come up because he could actually do it. They have room enough.
But we can't, right? How many of these people could you all fit in your house? Could you fit them all in at your party? I couldn't. Boy, I would have a hard time fitting in one section.
All right. And how long is your birthday party going to last?
What do you think? If you go to a birthday party, how long does it usually last?
About 3 hours. Yeah. I think my boy went to a birthday party a few days a few weeks ago, and they were. It was on a Saturday and they were supposed to get around 10:00 and then they were going to have pizza together and it says come and pick him up around 1:00 or 1:30. So it's about 3 hours. All right, good. You guys can go back to your seats. Thanks for coming up.
Well, I want to talk about.
Something a little bit similar. It's not exactly a party, but it's a wedding feast.
And it's called the marriage peace of the lamb. Now, when the brother called and asked me if I would have a word for the kids, I asked the Lord to give me something and I started thinking about birthday parties and invitations. You know, the reason we're all here today is because the people of the Aberdeen Assembly invited us. Otherwise I would be back home in Kirkland going to meeting there. But we're all here because we've been invited.
By the local veteran. And So what I have here on this little card that some of the kids got.
It's a little invitation, and it's an invitation to the marriage supper of the land. You know, there's a day coming really soon that there's going to be a great feast in heaven.
And you know, the first verse that was read on Friday at the prayer meeting at the conference here talked about the Father's house having many mansions or abodes and the Lord going there to prepare a place for us.
And because the Lord went there, and when he went to the cross first all of us.
Are invited to that great feast that someday will happen. You know, I don't think there's ever been a feast or a party in this world where everyone was invited.
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You know this feast. The whole world is invited. You know we have the gospel last night. And Brother Josh, Josh made it very clear that whosoever will may come.
So everyone here that can listen, that can understand what the Lord Jesus did, is invited to that feast. And so sometimes we have parties here or we have a conference that we invite people to.
But they're quite a bit different than this feast that's going to happen in heaven soon.
You know, when we have a party here, like a birthday party or even the conference, it's limited. You know, the invitation to come to this conference went out to many assemblies.
And if everybody would have said we're coming at some point the Brethren were here, would have to say I'm sorry, but we're, you know, we had a conference in Kirkland.
Some weeks ago and there was a point that I had to e-mail people back and said I'm sorry, I have to put you on the waiting list. We are. We ran out of rooms. We don't have any more rooms at the hotel.
That this feast will never run out of room. You know, we read it here about a king preparing A feast wedding feast for his son. And there's a story similar in Lukes Gospel and it says yet there is room.
And we sometimes sing that hymn at the Gospel Meeting. Yet there is room.
So.
When we read that verse in John four, maybe I should read it in John 14.
It's a well known verse.
Verse two, it says In my father's house are many mansions. If it were not so, I would have told you I'd go to prepare a place for you.
You know, if you have an A conference or even a birthday party, you make some preparations, don't you? In order to have so many people here together, make sure they all have a place to stay, Make sure they have a seat, make sure there's food. It takes a lot of work.
While the Lord Jesus he went to prepare a place.
For everyone, because everyone is invited to be with him for all eternity in heaven.
But you know what I believe in? Maybe somebody can correct me if I'm wrong. That place was prepared the moment the Lord Jesus went into heaven.
Right.
Why? Well, it says in the story that we read.
All things are ready. All things are ready when the Lord Jesus went back to heaven after he had gone to the cross.
After he had taken the punishment for our sins.
After he had shed his blood to wash away our sins, there was nothing more that needed to be done for us to be able.
To go to heaven and to go to be with him.
And so on this card, it says several things. It says what are you invited to? It says the marriage supper of the lamb.
And it says where in heaven?
When? Very soon, very soon. That feast that you're all invited to is going to take place very soon. You know, we often speak about the Lord coming back to take His people to be with him, and that can be any moment. Well, I believe it's not going to be very long after that that we're going to have this marriage feast of the land. Because you know what, the Lord Jesus has been looking forward to this for 2000 years.
And justice before he went to the cross, He ate the Passover with His, with his disciples. And He said with desire, have desire to eat this with you. He really wants to be together with His people. He enjoys their fellowship.
Well, he's looking forward to this even more than he was looking forward to eating the Passover with his disciples.
How long is this going to last?
Well, I wrote on here for all eternity.
The feast in itself is probably an event, but we're going to get to spend the rest of eternity with the Lord Jesus.
You know, if you have a birthday party, you look forward to it, and even conference, you look forward to it for a long time and you're excited about it.
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And then before you know it, it's over.
No, maybe this afternoon and certainly to more of many of us will be going away again to our own homes or wherever we're going and the Aberdeen Conference will be over for this year.
But when this marriage fees comes.
Will be enjoying the Lord, and it will never end. How about that? Have you ever heard of a feast that never ends?
Knowing in the book of Esther speaks of a feast, and I think it was 180 days that the king invited all the important people of the Kingdom and he had a feast for 180 days. Hey, I have a hard time imagining that, but this happy time, perfect time together with the Lord will never end.
Who wants to go to a feast like that? I do. I do. But then it says here at the end what to wear.
And that's important, you know, it says in this story, it says this. I'll have to turn back to it.
So it says in verse four of Matthew 22.
All things are ready.
And then the invitation went out. So this little card here is an invitation, and I can actually hand that out to you because the Lord has told us to go out with the gospel and invite people into this marriage feast. Isn't that amazing that God wants to use us to hand out invitations to this whole world to come to the feast that he's going to prepare for his son?
You know, I can't hand out invitations for people to go to the White House. I can't do that. But I can hand out invitations for people to go to the feast that God is going to prepare for his son. Isn't that amazing?
And so you can see in the story that the invitation goes out over and over again. It never stops. And I was thinking about that. What an amazing thing that is. You know, the Lord Jesus came into the world and people rejected him and that the worst thing that they could to him.
And right after they crucified him, what happened? The gospel started going out. Isn't that amazing?
People did the worst thing they could to the Son of God and God because his love. Right after that he started sending out the gospel, the glad tidings. What if you had a friend and he did something kind of mean to you and the next week was your birthday?
Would you be going up and say, hey, I want you to go to my birthday party?
I don't think I would somebody. That's something mean to me, but that's not how God is, children. God is love and man that the worst they could to him and to his son. And he says now, because I'm love, I'm going to invite you to be with me for all eternity in heaven. What an amazing God. He didn't need a few months or a few years to kind of get over the fact that man had.
Killed his son.
He didn't need that because his love.
But here, there's a little warning here at the end of the story.
It says the king came in in verse 11 to see the guests and he saw there a man which had not on a wedding garment. I don't know much about this, but I heard that it was the habit in those days to practice that if you went to wedding feast, as you went in, they handed you a garment that you put over. So everybody would be kind of it would be obvious that you were invited to that feast. And here was a man in this story who had somehow gotten in and he hadn't put on this wedding garment.
And what happened with him? He got kicked out. He got taken out.
How sad is that?
Well, it tells us that all things are ready and we often hear that we don't have to do anything.
To be saved. But really there's something we have to do.
And it's not something that we have to do to workout our own salvation, but we need to accept the Lord Jesus Christ.
This feast.
Everybody in this whole world is invited.
But if you don't have the wedding garment, if you don't have the Lord Jesus.
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You won't get into this feast.
Do you have to do anything to get that wedding garment? You just have to believe.
You just have to believe. And so it's wonderful that we have a God who is so big that he can invite everyone. And not only that, he's made everything ready.
But there's this one little thing that you have to do and it's very important, and if you don't do it, this invitation is not going to do you any good.
You need to have the Lord Jesus Christ. And so I was thankful when your children gave out these sins. Think every one of them was a gospel? Everyone.
Talked about what the Lord Jesus did and.
Accepting him is the one thing we need to do now.
This piece of paper card stock is really not worth that much. I tried to calculate and I think it's about $0.03 because I bought a pack pack of them and you're holding about 12:45 piece of paper card stock. So it's about $0.03 that you're holding. But if you believe what says on it, and if you believe the Lord Jesus Christ, this invitation is the most valuable thing.
That you have.
Now I want to show you something here.
Because value is a very relative thing.
How much is this piece of paper worth?
$1.00 How about this one?
$20.00 but they're the same pieces of paper and it's the same ink, they just mixed it around a little bit. So once there's one and the other says 20. So why is this one worth 20 times what this one is worth?
Do you know?
Or not? Who knows why is this one worked one and why is this one worth 20?
It's kind of a good question, right? There's some that are exactly the same and they're worth 100 look.
That's exactly it. That's exactly, he says. Because people believe that they're worth whatever the number is on there. So people have come to some kind of an agreement and we all accept that this is worth 20, this is worth 1.
And there's pieces of paper that are just a few cents worth of paper that are worth thousands of dollars. You know, if you would hold.
Like a letter that a person had a famous person president had written 100 years ago. Or what if you had an original copy of the Declaration of Independence? It's just some paper that it would be worth maybe millions of of dollars.
And so to a lot of people in this world, you would hand this.
Or you would hand the tract and it's worth nothing to them. It's worth nothing. It's not even worth the three cents of paper.
Why?
Because they don't have any appreciation of what the Lord Jesus did. Isn't that sad?
Here's God, and He sent his Son into the world to die for people's sin.
And man hung him on the cross. Man is responsible, and yet God and his goodness and love hands out these invitations. And every time the Gospel goes forth, it's an invitation.
Whosoever will may come, and so this can be worth nothing. This can be worth $0.03.
But if you believe the Lord Jesus Christ, the invitation to this marriage, Feast of the Lamb is worth is priceless.
Let's end by going to Revelation chapter 19, because that's where we have that term.
A marriage Feast of the Lamb.
We'll just read one verse, verse 9.
It says this, And he said unto me, Right blessed are they which are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb.
Bless it, that means happy, happy, are they that are called, and to the marriage supper of the Lamb.
And so.
There's nothing like the gospel message it was spraying.
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The Lord to to have something for the children.
And justice.
This this was put on my heart and it's the most important subject that there is.
You know, there's so many wonderful things in this book, and the same with this book. It's just some pieces of paper. But if you believe that this is the word of God.
It's priceless.
There are so many wonderful subjects in here, so many wonderful things that we can talk about. But there's nothing like the gospel message. There's nothing.
Like the story of the Lord Jesus going to the cross?
For our sins. And on these scarves that I printed out before you are invited, there's a line, there's a blank spot, and the kids that gave out a ham or was their birthday, I put their name on there.
And so it said Trevor or Elliot or Abigail, you are invited.
This invitation.
It's a personal invitation. It's for each one, and I got a whole stack of them. So if if any of your kids want one, you can come up after, after we've prayed and I write your name on there. And it's a personal invitation. And it's not from me. It's not my feast. This is a personal invitation from the God of this universe to spend all eternity with him. You'll never get an invitation like that.
You know, there's sometimes people that get invited to the White House.
While I wouldn't want to trade this invitation for an invitation to the White House or any other place, there's nothing like God inviting sinners to have their sins washed away and spend all eternity in His presence. Bless it. Happy are they that are invited to that. Let's pray.
Our God, Father, we thank thee for this wonderful invitation that we have, and we thank the our Godfather that thou has made it possible.
By sending thy beloved Son into this world to die for us. But we think of how much it cost thee to prepare.
That marriage supper, how much it costs thee to be able to invite us to spend eternity with thee. And so we thank thee now, and that we can talk about that. And we pray especially this morning, for these younger ones in the front row and sprinkle throughout. We pray that they would realize.
That God.
Is calling each one, inviting each one of them to be saved and to be happy and to be ready.
For when that time comes, Lord Jesus, when thou will call all thy people to be with thee for all eternity, we pray this in thy worthy name. Amen.