Children—W. Gill
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Now there's another song that isn't on our gospel sheet, but I think we know it and that's the gospel Bells are ringing. We all know the first verse and I'll read to you the the last verse and then we'll sing the 2 verses together. Last verse is the gospel. Bells are joyful as the echo far and wide, bearing notes of perfect pardon through a Savior crucified good tidings of great joy.
Do our people, do I bring unto you, as born a Savior, which is Christ the Lord and King?
Gospel bells are ringing. The gospel bells are ringing.
Over land, from sea to sea.
Lesser news are free salvation.
For you and me.
Or God so loved the world.
That is only son he gave.
So where believers in him?
Everlasting life shall help.
How they ring.
Overland from sea to sea.
Gospel.
Bells freely bring.
Blessed news to you and me.
The gospel bells are joyful as they echo far and wide.
Marry not so perfect pardon through a Savior crucified good tidings of great joy.
To all people do I bring unto you, is born a savior.
Which is Christ the Lord.
King Gospel bells, How they ring overland from sea to sea.
Gospel bells freely bring.
Blessedness to you and me.
Now let's sing one more song and that is on our hymn sheet #44, The Gypsy Boy.
Probably we know it by heart, but we sing it as it's written here on our hymn sheet #44.
Into the tent where a gypsy boy lay dying alone at the close of the day.
News of salvation we carried, said he.
Nobody ever has told it to me.
Salvation story. Repeat all and all.
Till none can say of the children of men.
No one ever has called me before.
Let me give you so love me up for a little boy.
Stand onto me the good tidings of joy.
My man will behold nobody.
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Ever the story has told, tell it again. Tell it again.
Starving some story reaping our end.
Stay on the children of men.
Nobody ever has told me before.
Landing, we caught the last words of his breath.
Just as he entered the valley of death, lost them his son whosoever said he.
Then I am sure that he sent him for me.
Tell us again. Tell it again.
Salvation story reaping horrible.
None can say of the children of men.
Might be ever has told me before?
Now I'd like to talk about some boys.
And then two stories in God's Word and I want to turn to. And it's almost all about boys, so I hope you girls won't mind.
The first story is in the second book of Kings, chapter 4.
Second Kings Chapter 4.
The only way they won't read all of this. There aren't very many verses, so we will read this. Now they're crying a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets unto Elisha, saying, Thy servant my husband is dead. And thou knowest that thy servant did fear the Lord, And the creditors come to take unto him my two sons to be bondsmen. And Elijah said unto her, What shall I do for thee? Tell me, what hast thou in the house? And she said, Thine handmaid, hath not anything in the house?
Favor part of oil. And then he said, Go, borrow thee vessels abroad. Of all thy neighbors, even empty vessels. Borrow not a few. And when thou art come in, thou shalt shut the door upon thee, and upon thy sons, and shall pour out into all those vessels, and thou shalt set aside that which is full. So she went from him, and shut the door upon her and upon her sons who brought the vessels to her. And she poured out.
And it came to pass, when the vessels were full, that she said under her son, Bring me out a vessel. And he said unto her, There is not a vessel more, and the oil stained. Then she came and told the man of God, And he said, Go sell the oil, and pay thy debt, and live thou thy children of the rest.
Well, we're not going to talk very long about this story, but one important thing that I hope your children will realize, and that is that that lady's two boys were obedient.
This is most important to the next story that we're going to look at. Here's a lady in Israel, long time ago, and her husband died and she was left with her two boys, and I suppose her husband had a job, but when he died then there was no way to support the family. And then some men came around. I suppose they knocked on the door.
And they said you pay up or get out of here.
And I think she said, you're going to take her boys away from her. Well, she did what most all of us in this room would do. She went to the man of God about it, or we would go directly to the Lord himself. But she went to Elisha, who was the man of God in that day. And she said, you know, that my husband feared God. Now what can I do? Well, he told her what to do. We've just read the story.
But as I said, children, those boys were obedient.
Now, just yesterday morning, I know a young fellow, I mean, not just a boy, but he was told to do something and he said, who? Me. Why? Why do I have to do that? And that's the way boys are in it. Yeah, and girls too. Why do I have to do that? Well, this lady, she spoke to her boys and I kind of think that she said boys.
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Mr. Elijah had told us what to do, and I'll have to have your help. You go to the neighbors. You go this way and the other boy go that way and borrow all the pans and pots that you can get.
And those boys went from neighbor to neighbor and they got these pans and pots and kettles and buckets.
And they brought them back. And then that Lady did that strange thing. She poured this oil into that bucket. And the the thing that she was pouring from never got empty. She filled that one up, and she filled that one up and filled that one up. But I want to say again, children, or how important it is to be obedient.
Now God loves obedient children, that is, he loves to see obedient children, and we have that in his word to be obedient children. Be obedient to your parents, for this is well pleasing to God.
So this is the little story here.
First of the two stories that I wanted to call your attention to. Now the other story is back in the book of Genesis and it starts in chapter 37.
And it's a long story and we're not going to have time to talk about it all.
We'll just read part of it.
Most of you know that it's going to be about Joseph.
And I said, I'm going to talk about a lot of boys. We just talked about a lady that had two boys. She didn't have any girls in her house.
Now when we talk about Joseph and his father, we have to remember that there were 12 boys in that house Ohio. 12 boys and only one girl. And that girl's name was Dinah. We don't really know much about her, just that there were thirteen children there, only one girl and some boys would say my only one girl to do all the dishes. But I'm glad there was one girl so I don't have to do them.
Well, we don't get any part of that kind of the story, but maybe there was trouble once in a while in that home because the boys didn't want to do what they were supposed to do, and we can have trouble in our homes that way too. But all we can make it much happier if we're obedient and don't say, well, why do I have to do that? Why can't she do it? Why can't he do it?
No, it's obedience that we want to see. And we're going to talk about obedience to God's word too.
Well, the story about Joseph where we want to start is Chapter 37.
Of Genesis and the 12Th verse.
And his brethren went to feed their father's flock in Shechem. And Israel said unto Joseph, Do not thy brethren feed the flock? And Shechem come, and I will send thee unto them. And he said to him, Here am I. And he said to him, Oh, I pray thee, see whether it be well with thy brethren, and well with the flocks, and bring me word again. So he sent him out of the veil of Hebron, and he came to Shechem, and a certain man found him, and behold, he was wandering in the field.
And the man asked him, saying, What seekest thou? And he said, I seek my brethren, telling me, I pray thee where they feed their flocks. And the man said they are departed hence For I heard them say, let us go to Dothan. And Joseph went after his brethren, and found them in Dothan, and when they saw him afar off.
Even before he came near unto them, they conspired against him to slay him. And they said one to another, Behold, this dreamer cometh Come now therefore, and let us slay him, and cast him into some pit. And we will say, some evil beast hath devoured him, and we shall see what will become of his dreams.
And Reuben heard it, and he delivered them out of their hands, and said, Let us not kill them. And Reuben said unto them, shed no blood.
But cast him into this pit that is in the wilderness, and lay no hand upon him, that he might rid them out of their hands to deliver him to his father again.
Well, let's stop there.
How? As I said, boys and girls.
In that family where Mr. Jacob was, there were 12 boys.
12 boils and somewhere in the.
Somewhere when all those boys were born, there was one girl came to that family.
But now lots of things have passed in Mr. Jacob's life, and we know that Joseph's mother was dead.
But Jacob loved Joseph perhaps more than all the rest of those boys.
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But the Joseph was one of the youngest, next to the youngest boy and the older boys, as we've had in our story here, they went out and took care of the sheep that their father owned.
And they led them quite a ways off so they'd find grass and water.
And then Jacob. I guess he hadn't heard from the boys for a while, so he called Joseph and he said, Joseph, I want you to go and find out how your brothers are.
Now do you think that Joseph said, oh, why me? Why do I have to do it?
Nor Joseph said, Here I am, Send me where you want me to go. And so you see, children, the importance of obedience.
How important it was for that Lady in Israel with her two boys, and it was important here in this story.
That Joseph being obedient to his father. Well, Jacob must have packed a little lunch, maybe a big lunch for Joseph and told him which way to go to find his brothers. And Joseph set off for that place.
And we know that he didn't find them right away. But pretty soon he found them ten brothers because Benjamin was still at home, you remember?
Ten brothers and they saw Joseph and they said here he comes, let's kill him.
Oh my, isn't that sad?
Just think of your Big Brother said that here he comes, let's kill him and get rid of him.
But that's what the human heart will do, boys and girls.
Well, Reuben said. No, let's not kill him. Let's sell him.
And so in the verses that follow our story here that we've been reading, we find how they sold Joseph, sold him as a slave. But they did something else too. When Joseph? When Jacob.
I was going to say when he sent him away, but it was before he sent him away. Jacob must have sat down with a needle and thread and made a coat. Now my father couldn't sew it all, but my mother did, and sometimes fathers can do that though. And Jacob made a coat for his son Joseph and his sister was a coat of many colors. Must have been a pretty thing. Joseph was 17 years old when this happened, so he wasn't just a little boy.
And I suppose it wasn't a little coat, but it was a coat that.
Jacob had made and it showed his love for his son Joseph, and then those 10 Big Brothers.
First they said let's kill them and get rid of them. Then they said no, let's sell them, but let's send the coat back to our father.
And they took a land and they killed that land and they drained that lambs blood into a pan, I suppose. And then they put the coat into that blood.
And then they sent the coat back to their father and they pretended something and they sent word to their father. And they said, we found this code must be Joseph's. And it's got a lot of blood on it. So suppose we just supposed that Joseph is dead. Wasn't that an unkind thing to do?
Oh, how unkind that was. And poor Jacob Lord cut his heart here so hard.
It hurt him so bad to think of what had been done to his son Joseph.
Well, we know from the story.
How they sold Joseph for 20 pieces of silver.
And they sold them to some men that were on their way down to Egypt.
And then when those men go down to Egypt, they sold them again, sold them as a slave. And here was Joseph, only 17 years old and far from the home. His mother was gone, and now he's taken away from his father and mistreated.
Well, Joseph got a job there in Egypt.
And the man he worked for liked him very, very much. But one day somebody lied about him.
Somebody told some real mean naughty lies about Joseph.
And they put Joseph in prison.
I don't know if it was a nice prison at all. It may have been a really bad old prison, but anyway, they locked him in there.
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And poor Joseph, I'm sure he would say. What did I do here? I did what my father told me to do, and now I'm in jail.
And he had to stay there for quite a while, more than two years. He stayed there and at last something happened and they came and they got him out of jail.
And while that was going on, there were some other things going on.
Well, in God's wondrous ordering, pretty soon Joseph. Instead of being in prison and being accused of things he didn't do, Joseph was right next to the king. Oh, it was wonderful how he was brought up to be next to the king.
But then what brought this about was that there was going to be a famine in Egypt.
Famine means there's no food, but Joseph told the king what to do.
Now there were some other things going on at that same time up in Canaan, where Jacob was with those ten, well, 11 boys and Dinah.
And what is going on there was that those folks too got hungry.
And they heard somehow they got word that down in Egypt there was lots of food to eat. And so Jacob said, you better go down there and get the food for us if you can so we don't starve here.
Well, they went on down to Egypt and I think maybe you remember the story.
Of how there they met Joseph.
And we're just looking a little bit at that. It's over in the.
Let's see, it's in the 44th chapter, 45th chapter.
45th chapter Genesis.
Joseph was a lot older now than he had been. I don't know just how old he was, but he was, I think, more than 30 years old, the 45th chapter of Genesis says. Then Joseph could not refrain himself before all them that stood by him, and he cried, 'cause every man to go out from me, and there stood no man with him, while Joseph made himself known under his brethren.
But then Joseph said something was so nice, he says in the fifth verse.
Now therefore, be not grieved nor angry with yourselves that you sold me, hit her, for God did send me before you to preserve life. For these two years hath the famine been in the land, and yet there are five years in which there shall neither be hearing nor harvest. And God sent me before you to preserve your posterity in the earth.
And to save your lives by a great deliverance. So now it is not you that sent me hit her, but gone. We're not a nice thing for Joseph to say. Joseph knew what his brothers had done to him, how they sold him as a slave. But now he says to those same men, he said, don't worry about it. Don't worry about what you did to me because God let you do it. And he sent me down here so I could help you out. Will children know that's the story of Joseph.
But that isn't the whole story.
Because when we read that story, it makes us think why that's like the Lord Jesus.
And that's the beauty of this story. Oh, I'd love to hear it ever since I was a little boy like some of you here, to hear about Joseph and then to realize it's like the Lord Jesus. And so as we hear that story, we say that boy that's like the Lord Jesus did, just like the Lord Jesus our children, if we were to love it.
I think in several places in our Bibles we'd find that the Lord Jesus was way up there in heaven long, long ago, and God said to him.
Something about going down to the Earth.
I think long, long ago there was a conversation in heaven.
When the Lord Jesus.
We know said something and God wrote it down. We had it this morning in our meeting even it says.
It says in the volume of the book it is written of Maine that is a long, long time ago.
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We think that God was talking in the Lord, Jesus was talking, and the question was what are we going to do about sinners?
What can we do to save awful sinners from their sins? And the Lord Jesus must have said, I'll go to earth, I'll go down there and become a man, and I'll die on Calvary's cross.
Well, you see, there came a day when God said today is the day, now's the time to go. And then the Lord Jesus came down to earth and he was born in Bethlehem's Manger.
And he grew up, became a man. But when I wanted to point out, was this children?
That just as we had those two boys in that lady's home, their mother's home, they were obedient.
And we had it in Joseph when old Mr. Jacob said. Joseph, I want you to go and see how your brothers are, he said. I'll go.
And the Lord Jesus like that said, I'm going down to earth he was obedient to his Father.
Then when he was here on earth, you know, somebody sold the Lord Jesus. Judas Iscariot sold them for 30 pieces of silver. Now they sold Joseph for 20 pieces of silver. But you say, oh, that's like the Lord Jesus, isn't it? They sold the Lord Jesus and they sold Joseph.
But now the Lord Jesus.
Has made a way for us.
To be saved. You know, when Joseph's brethren, well, when his father, I think it was, was speaking to the 10 boys, he said, you go down to Egypt and save our lives, get some food and save our lives. And God the Father, our father said to the Lord Jesus, now it's time to go down to earth.
There to live and there to die like you promised you would. Oh, I think this is a wonderful thing that God wrote it down in this book.
What the Lord Jesus said. And then the Lord Jesus kept his promise and came down here to Calvary's cross. Now Joseph was put into prison, but the Lord Jesus actually died for.
It's a wonderful story, children, and seeing what they did to Joseph helps us to see what they did to the Lord Jesus.
But now the Lord Jesus went to Calvary's cross and all children, I want to tell you again, if you girls just look here, the Lord Jesus, you know, he hung on Calvary's cross just like that with his arms stretched out. And you know what they did to him? They put nails through his hands. They actually took a hammer and nails and they pawned him through his hands.
And through his feet.
And then they put them. They raised up that cross. And children, they put a crown of thorns on his head. Now Queen Elizabeth in England has a crown. And there are other kings and Queens. They have crowns, all their beautiful things. But you know, those wicked folks there on Calvary's hill, they mock the Lord Jesus. They made fun of them. And they said, you said you're a king, so you ought to have a crown. And then they made a crown out of thistles and thorns.
And they put that on his head. And then they said, a king ought to have a staff in his hand, which is a long stick. You ought to have a staff in your hand. So they took a stick, an old weed, really, And they put it in his hand, But then they took it, you know, and they beat him over the head with it.
And then they spat on him and children. The Lord Jesus stayed on that cross for you and for me.
And Joseph, when he saw his brethren, you know, as we just read here, he said, don't worry about what you did to me, because God let it happen. God sent me down here to Egypt to preserve life. And so the Lord Jesus says that today, now the Lord Jesus hung on the cross like this, and he died there like that, with his arms outstretched. But all children, he's not on the cross anymore.
No, he's not on the cross anymore. He's not in the grave either. He's up in heaven. But you know, children, instead of his arms being out as they were on the cross, and now they're like this and they're saying come to me.
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And that's the invitation to your children today to come to the Lord Jesus.
Let's look at John 316 just to be sure we know what that verse says, you children that have your Bibles.
If you can find John 316.
For God so loved the world.
That he gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
No, Mr. Jacob had twelve sons and all. How he hated to give up just one of them. How he cried and wept and mourned over the loss of Joseph.
And then he was going to lose another son. Well, he lost Simeon, he thought, and then he thought he was going to lose Benjamin.
God gave up his only begotten son that you and I might live. That's John 316.
For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life, no children. That's why we're here today.
Doctor, Clausen said. I believe others have said it even today, that perhaps today is the last time. Perhaps we won't need a Sunday School paper next Lord's Day. Perhaps we're going to be there in the courts of glory, those of us who know the Lord Jesus as our Savior.
But now, children, I said that God wrote something down in his book that the Lord Jesus said.
And there's something else in this book that I'm awfully glad about. There's a page in God's book up there in heaven, and it says Walter Gill on it.
Because it means that Walter Gill is saved.
Now your name is there too, if you've taken the Lord Jesus as your savior.
And children, all we want you to take them. Take them right now as your Savior, the Lord Jesus says, Come unto me, all you that labor, and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. I'll save you forever.
And that is God's only offer.
Now it's not only to children. If there's any older person in this room, the same offer is made to you.
And or I urge you to take it.
You may think it's too cheap.
But all the cost we cannot measure.
I met a man just recently.
His name is Jim Robertson.
Talk to him about.
God's claims upon us.
And then I had occasion to visit his city again just a week ago.
And I found them, and we talked again.
And I told them about John 316.
And I told him how the Lord Jesus went to the cross and died there. And he said, he says to us now from heaven, no matter how bad a Sinner you are, if you just put your trust in me and say that Jesus died for me, then I'll take you into my family forever. I'll save you forever. And you know this poor man, Jim Robertson, he said, oh, I couldn't do that.
Oh, he said. I couldn't do that.
And he seemed to think that there was something more he had to do to work for salvation.
That that was too cheap. I don't think he meant that he didn't want it.
But all children, grown folks, It's God's only offer of salvation.
To take the Lord Jesus as your savior to save in your heart right here Jesus died from me. I deserve to die under God's judgment but Jesus died for me. Now don't forget that the Lord Jesus who hung on the cross like this now stands like this and or how happy you can make them if you would just come now today and say Lord Jesus, I take you as my Savior.
You know there's a verse in our Bibles that says the Lord Jesus says all day long.
I stretched out my arms to an unbelieving people. Just think of that. The Lord Jesus standing all day long with his arms outstretched and a people who pay no attention to him. They don't want him.
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That's Israel. But all children, right here in Glendale today, you can take the Lord Jesus as your savior. Now you can do it right in your seat where you are just to quietly say, Lord Jesus, I'm a Sinner, but I take thee as my savior.
And then he'll take his pen in his hand and write your name in his book.
And you know, there's something wonderful about that.
He not only has my name written on that page, Walter L Gill, but there's another name written under there.
And I don't know what that name is, and I won't find out until I get home. But he's got a special name for each of us that puts her trust in him. But all be sure, children, that your name is written in the Lamb's book of life, Boys and girls. Now I want to tell you one more thing.
I want to tell you one more thing. I urge you to get saved. But there's something more than that. God says I command you to be saved.
I command you to be safe.
Now that's pretty serious. And we talked about obedience. Those boys were obedient to their mother. Joseph was obedient to his father. The Lord Jesus was obedient and came down here to earth. Now there's one more. That's you. What about you being obedient? This isn't a matter of saying, well, maybe I'll get saved sometime.
Some time will be all right. Plenty of time. No, God says you get saved right now.
That's in the 17th chapter of Acts. It says God commands all men to repent.
Now I want to tell you what's going to happen, children.
We heard about it just the other night.
The rest of the dead lived not again for 1000 years, it says in Revelation. But then everybody on this earth who didn't put their trust in the Lord Jesus is going to be raised out of their grave and they're going to stand before the Lord Jesus.
And I believe it right there at that time.
The Lord Jesus can say I told you to get saved and you didn't get saved.
Now won't that be solemn?
Then we won't be able to say, well, I meant to or I forgot or I didn't know how.
No, God says you repent and get saved. Be obedient to this.
Children, this is what we're here for this afternoon. We've had these three days meetings.
Those of us who are older have enjoyed them so much.
But the folks here once again set aside 45 minutes for a special meeting for children, For boys and girls.
And it's my privilege to tell you that the Lord Jesus loves you, wants you, and even commands you to be saved. Now you can take them as your savior right where you are. Or you can come to me after the meeting or to your mother or father and just say I want to take the Lord Jesus as my savior. I knew a boy who did that.
He came to his mother one night and he said I can't sleep. I'm afraid I'm not saved.
And his mother said. Well, why don't you just kneel down right here by me?
And just tell the Lord Jesus I want to be saved. And he did that, and he saved saved forever. And that's the way we can all be saved. It's really the only way.
Now, children, our time is almost up. But all I urge you to be obedient to God's Word. Remember what we've had before us, the kindness of the Lord Jesus who went to Calvary's cross.
And the author of Salvation to You, Boys and Girls, Men and Women. Horrible one in this room.
Now let's take our hem sheets again.
And we'll sing the last 1 #47.
#47
When he cometh, when he cometh to make up his jewels, all his jewels, precious jewels.
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Is London his own like the Stars of the morning? Is Bright crown on the.
Face of shine and if you peace fry gems.
Crown.
He will gather. He will gather.
Sponge. And for his Kingdom all the deer ones, all the bright ones, is long, and his bones, like the stars of the morning, is bright Crown Adorni.
For his ground.
Little children. Little children.
Who love very lemurs are the jewels, precious jewels.
Is long and his own life. The stars of the morning is bright, crown adorning.
Space will shine in his beauty, Brighton for his ground.
It's a wonderful song, children. The Lord Jesus wants little children, but he wants big children too. But right now we're thinking about little children, young children. He wants them. And they're going to be jewels in his crown because he doesn't have the crown of thorns anymore. No, He has a crown of glory. But we who put our trust in him will be like jewels in his crown. Now let's close our eyes.
And bow our heads.
We're going.