Children—Josh Costron
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For the sake of time, I think we're going to stop there for the songs for now. And I'd like to take some memory verses of anybody who would like to volunteer and say their verse. And if you're shy, that's OK you don't have to say it, but.
Little boy here.
The Butterfly's Race.
His son cleanses us more than first time They didn't know 1/7.
Anybody else?
I don't that's OK. That's Okay. Just raise your hand if you have one to share it.
You know that we are not redeemed with corruptible things such as silver and gold, but by the precious blood of Christ.
First Peter 118.
You know that you were not redeemed with collectible things as silver and gold.
But with the pressure, but with the Precious Blood of God first, Peter 1/18/19 hold on.
Whatsoever you do, do it heartily, ask the Lord, and not unto men knowing that of the Lord, ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance Colossians 323 and 24 Thank you anybody else over here, this little guy here.
Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved.
Acts 1631 Wonderful verse. Anybody else?
I can't have written it with my own hand. I will.
I pull.
Going to come back to you, you want to look it up just to no, it's alright. I, Paul, have written it with my own hand. Therefore I will repay it, albeit I do not say yeah.
Brother, let me have joined me.
Into the Gourd by Lehman.
19 and 20. What's up, David? Do you want to try again? No. You're good. OK. Anybody else? No.
No. OK, let's pray. Let's close our eyes and we'll ask the Lord's help. OK. My loving God and Father, we just thank thee for this beautiful morning, another Lord's day. And we thank you for the little time that we have here this morning to open up thy word with the children.
And we just look to thee for help, as we would consider a few verses and thy truth, and we pray that we would take it into our hearts and might be made good to us.
Lord, we look to thee for clarity of thought. Pray that the message might be simple and clear, and we look to thee for thy help. We ask this all in the name of our Lord Jesus. Amen.
Well, as you can see, I've got a couple things here that I'd like to show you.
And before I do.
My, my son had.
Brought up a question the other day when we were in our family Bible reading. And you know, I really appreciate the questions of you little children because it tells us parents, that you kids are thinking about what we're trying to teach you from the word of God and what it had to do with was the greatness of God.
And how God can be everywhere at any given time, no matter where it is.
That's a pretty big thing to wrap our minds around.
And I dare say that none of us can truly understand it, but we believe it by faith because.
God is God and he is everywhere.
And so my son was struggling with this wonderful truth, and it LED us into a nice little conversation about how God is everywhere now. There are three things that we need to understand about God as it relates to his divinity.
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And there's three big words that I'm not going to use, but I'm going to use them, I think, in kid language that we can all understand one that God is all powerful.
God is all powerful. God can do anything because he is God.
Do you know that the creation, the world, everything you see out in the world, in the universe?
Was created by God. It says that by his word he spake things into existence, he commanded.
And it stood fast.
By the word of the Lord were the heavens made, and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth. And it says of the Lord Jesus that without him was not anything made that was made.
He made it all.
And he spake it into existence just like that.
Incredibly powerful.
Wonderful to think about the power of God. So that's number one.
#2
is that God knows everything.
He's all knowing.
There is not one thing that the Lord Jesus Christ does not know.
He is infinitely wise.
He knows everything that there is to know.
He is the beginning of wisdom and knowledge.
And then the last thing #3.
Is that he's, as I said at the start of this meeting, he's everywhere.
At any given time, no matter where it is.
He is here.
He is everywhere.
And I would like to dwell a little bit maybe on more so on the last point.
That our God.
Is with us at all times.
And it reminds me of.
What a brother. I remember standing. Well, I wasn't at the meeting, I heard it recorded, but he stood at a podium like this.
And he was recalling when his when he was a little boy and he'd go off to school. And his mother would say this to him, he said. Now remember.
That the Lord Jesus is watching you and he's listening.
To what you're saying?
That's some pretty good advice.
You know, that's good advice not only for a child but also for us adults to keep that in mind.
He's always watching us now.
I'm going to show you something and then I'm going to read some verses here.
Just bear with me here as I get this out.
Does anybody know what this is?
What is it?
You know what this is?
A. What the haggle?
I didn't quite get that but.
A telescope. close Yeah. This is a microscope.
This is a microscope and you can see some pretty incredible things with this microscope and we plot these things in here.
And then we can look at things under these lenses.
That magnify things that you and I can't see with our naked eye.
Now.
These things here.
Our slides.
That we can put under the microscope and magnify and see some very incredible minute details.
As I said, things that we cannot normally see now.
I'm going to show you some photos here.
Let's see here.
First off.
What do you think this is?
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You see that?
You see that?
If.
This was sitting on a white table such as that one over there.
We might just dismiss this as maybe a little hair or something like that.
Right. You know what this is.
Does anybody have a guess as to what this might be?
Anybody have a guess? Jack? Do you want to guess?
A Peacock feather? Well, not quite.
Let me show you something.
This is blown up. Now I granted these photos are not super high quality because when you put things under the microscope you can see various levels of the the subject in question, the thing that we're looking at. So if you had a higher powered camera lens, you can see more detail, but this is it.
This is it that's magnified into a somewhat distorted picture.
Nope, not an eyelash. This is a butterfly antenna. Did you know that?
It's a butterfly antenna.
All right, I'm going to show you another one here.
Similar. Does anybody know what this might be?
Nope. No.
It's close.
It's a leg of something.
This is a butterfly leg. Sorry.
All right.
Show you another thing here.
What is this? I'm going to start over here.
You guys might know.
You guys see this?
It's hard to see.
See that? Any guesses what this might be?
You know, if we put it under this microscope, it would tell us some interesting things about this.
This is Dandelion Fuzz.
Look at this.
Dandelion fuzz, you think would be quite soft, but look, that's what those strands look like. See the hooks on those things?
And you wonder why? How weeds propagate?
And they just tend to cling to things. Look at this one.
It doesn't look that fuzzy right now, does it?
That's what Dandelion fuzz looks like when you put it under the microscope.
Pretty neat.
Pretty neat.
All right. I'm just going to show you a couple more here and then we're going to read something this ones really neat.
Let me grab the slide this one I think you could pick out figure it out.
At a quick glance, what do you think that is? What does it look like?
We're having to move a bit quick here.
Anything that looks like anybody?
I'm sure you could probably guess.
This is the wing of your common house fly.
Do you want to see? Do you want to see a picture to see what that looks like?
Look at that. This is the edge, just the edge of that wing.
That's what it looks like.
You see those little hairs and I mean, you would never think that that was the edge of the wing of a family that we swat in our homes.
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Commonly throughout the summer months, but that's what it looks like.
You and I, our eyes would never have known that. We could never pick that up.
It almost looks hairy, doesn't it?
Amazing.
Maybe let me show you.
Umm, one more here for the sake of time.
This picture here. Anybody know you guys could probably guess this one?
Jude.
Close. Kinda.
It's a feather. This is when you get right up close to those little soft.
Parts of the feather, That's what the feather looks like. I have a couple here in here. One was a little soft one, this, this one here. It's actually this feather here, believe it or not.
Well, those are a few photos, these slides, and there's many more slides here of various things that you and I couldn't would never see. So for example, let me just show you this last one.
This is not that spectacular, but.
You see this?
You know, there's something in there.
You would never see this.
You see anything in there?
You know what's in here is a cluster of frog eggs.
Do you know that there's a cluster of frog eggs? I've got the photo there, but again, we don't have much whole ton of time here. I want to get through some verses.
Frog eggs can't see it unless you really.
Looked into the sunlight, You'll see a little reflection in there. OK, let's read a verse in Psalm 139.
Actually, we're going to read some verses, not just one.
O Lord, Thou has searched me and known me.
Thou knowest my down, sitting in mine uprising, Thou understandest my thought afar off. This tells us that when you went to bed last night.
God watched you go to bed.
And he watched you get up. And in fact, he watched you all night.
And also that he understands my thoughts afar off.
This means that he knows your thoughts, everyone of them.
The very thing that you think and that I can't hear and that you can't hear what's going on in your mind, God knows.
He understands. He hears all those things.
And then in verse three it says, Thou compass my path and my lying down, and aren't acquainted with all my ways.
God is aware of everything that we're doing.
And this is for there is not a word in my tongue, But, lo, O Lord, thou knowest it altogether.
The Lord Jesus hears every word we speak.
And not one word, even when we whisper it to our friend next to us, those secrets that we tell each other.
He hears clearly clear as day.
And since thou hast beset me behind him before, and laid thine hand upon me, such knowledge is too wonderful for me. It is high, I cannot attain unto it.
Now notice this. Whither shall I go from thy spirit? Or whither shall I flee from thy presence? If I send up into heaven, thou art there.
If I make my bed in Shields where it should read, Behold, thou art there.
If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea even there.
Shall they?
Shall thy hand lead me in thy right hand shall hold me.
He says in verse 11. If I say, surely that darkness shall cover me.
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Even the night.
Shall be light about me. Have you guys ever played hide and go seek? We've all played hide and go seek and it's a lot of fun, isn't it?
And it's most effective when you do it in the dark.
But you know what? There's one game of hide and go seek that we can't play and we cannot play it with God.
Because God.
Sees perfectly, even in the night.
The night shines as the day to him.
It says in verse 13, For thou hast possessed my reigns. Thou hast covered me in my mother's womb.
I will praise thee, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
Marvelous are thy works, and that my soul knoweth right. Well, my substance was not hid from thee.
When I was made in secret.
Our framework, our bones he watched and he formed in your mother's womb.
Look at this.
This frog egg cluster of frog eggs that you and I can't see.
When you were just that in your mother's tummy.
He was forming you.
It says that my substance was not hid from the God did not overlook you because he was forming you in your mother's womb.
When you were just the speck.
It says that thine eyes.
Did see my substance yet being unperfect, and in my book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.
How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God, how great is the sum of them? If I should count them? They are more in number than the sand.
When I awake, I am still with thee.
We've all been to the beach.
And you know, if we took one of those tiny particles and put it underneath this microscope, I'm sure we would see some pretty amazing things. They probably look like boulders.
God created that.
And God's thoughts to you and to me are more than the sand.
That we find on planet Earth.
That's what Scripture says. So that tells us something that tells us that God is thinking about you and me constantly.
Not for a second does he take his thoughts or his eyes off of you and me.
This tells us something else.
That if he is that interested in you and me, that means that he loves us.
We read that the Lord Jesus said.
That all our hairs are numbered.
So when I woke up this morning, I lost a few hairs.
It's been happening for a few years now.
And he recounted all of them. He knows the number. He doesn't even need to count them. He just knows.
Lose one more hair, he resets that number. He knows exactly what number of hairs are on my head and on yours. You know why he loves you. He's interested in you. Sometimes we want to be somebody else. Let me tell you, dear children.
That.
You are unique.
And there is nobody else like you on the face of the planet.
You are one-of-a-kind, and God made you.
And God loves you.
There's something that God sees.
We've looked at a lot of things at the minute level to show how God can see things that you and I cannot.
And that he is interested in his creation. That God made all of this and all the details, and if we had a higher powered microscope and camera, we'd go deeper and deeper to the molecular level and just see things that would blow our minds.
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And he sees it all, and he put it all together. He made it. He created it. It's his.
He's interested in it.
But there's something that no microscope can see.
No telescope could see.
And that's sin.
God can.
If you're in your sins today or not.
And God knows if you belong to him and if you've accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as your personal savior.
He can look down into our hearts.
And you know, we read about it in the 19 Psalm yesterday about those secret sins.
I dare say we've all had them and have had to deal with them before God, But if you haven't come to the Savior today.
It's just not one or two secret sins.
But it's sin and sins all.
Before God, and he sees every single one of them. He knows your thoughts, He knows where you are constantly. He's seen everything that you've done.
And before him, if you don't know the Lord Jesus as your Savior, he sees you in your sins today.
And he sees those sins on your heart.
And you know if those sins are sitting on your heart.
And you die.
You're not going to heaven.
Going to hell.
That's the truth of God. But the Lord Jesus came into the world to seek and to save that which was lost.
He came.
To seek you, to save you.
Let's read another verse in John. A couple verses actually in John chapter one.
John chapter one and verse 43 The day following Jesus would go forth into Galilee, and findeth Philip, and saith unto him, Follow me.
And Jesus was of Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter. Philip findeth Nathaniel, and saith unto him, we have found him of whom Moses in the law and the prophets did write Jesus of Nazareth the son of Joseph.
And Nathanael said unto him, Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth? Philip saith unto him, Come and see.
Well, Phillips said that he found the Lord, but in reality the Lord found him.
And the invitation was to come and see. There are things we've talked about that God can see, and if you're in your sins, he can see your sins before him.
But there's something that God wants you to see.
And that's his beloved son.
He wants you to have.
A look of faith this morning.
Looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of faith.
We see Jesus, who is made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man.
Have you looked to the Lord? We sing that gospel hymn sometimes. Look, look, look and live. There is life in a look at the crucified one. There is life at this moment for thee. Another is put it this way, and I've enjoyed the quote very much in my own heart. That one look to Jesus saves the soul, but every afterlook is the power of Christian living. All you need is that look of faith. Come and see.
The Lord Jesus says, Come unto me, all ye that labor, and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
He wants you to come and see him by faith as your Savior, as the one that died at the cross, who took all your sins upon him who died, who went into the grave and rose again the 3rd day, and who lives today, as Brother Verne reminded us the other day, a real man in heaven.
And inviting you to come, he wants to bring you to heaven, but that can only be if your sins are gone.
That's the only way.
Let's read.
In Exodus 12 to close.
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Exodus chapter 12 and verse 12.
For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night.
And will smite.
All the first born in the land of Egypt, both man and beast, and against all the gods of Egypt, I will execute judgment. I am the Lord.
And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where you are. And when I see the blood, I will pass over you.
And the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you when I smite.
The land of Egypt.
This world is condemned. It's under judgment.
And if you're in your sins.
You as I said before.
Die You pass into a lost eternity. You will be judged for your sins for all of eternity.
And so the invitation to come and see.
Is going out to you from God this morning.
And if you.
Make that look of faith and that decision, and repent of your sins and come.
And accept the Lord Jesus as your personal Lord and Savior.
God then sees something.
He sees something else.
He sees the blood of his son washing your sins away.
And he sees you.
As clean.
And is righteous.
And acceptable before him.
And fit for heaven because the blood of Jesus Christ, God's Son, cleanseth us from all sin.
I can lookout amongst everybody here.
And everybody looks pretty good.
And everybody might say that, yeah, I'm a Christian.
But there's one thing I can't see and you can't see. I cannot see your heart.
And God can see who has been sheltered by that precious blood of our Lord Jesus Christ, and who?
Has their sins washed away?
It's often been said that you can fool Ming, you can fool your parents.
You can fool your friends. You cannot fool God.
Again, going back to what we said at the start of this meeting.
That he knows your thoughts.
He sees your every waking moment and watches you constantly.
And before before him, nothing is hid.
And this just magnifies the greatness of our God, his power.
His ability to be everywhere at the same time, His all knowing mind. He knows everything about us.
And so we need to just get right with God this morning, if you're not right already.
By accepting the Lord Jesus as your personal savior and Lord.
OK, I'm going to close in prayer.
Come and grab your Sunday school paper.
And I have little magnifying glasses for you, so you can kind of look at things in a different light. There's different colors here and there's some girl colors and some boy colors, so I'll be happy to to pass them out. All I ask is that you they, they have little, they're in packages. So please put your packages in the garbage, OK?
When you come and get one.
And if you want to look at some of these photos a little bit closer, come and see me, that'd be great. OK, let's just close in prayer. We're loving God and our Father. We thank thee that thou dost love us. And we thank thee for the gift of thy beloved Son, that God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life. We thank the Lord Jesus for coming into this world to be a sacrifice for sin and to give thy life as a ransom for many.
And we just pray that if there's any here lost in their sins, be it a young child or older one too, that they might close in on that offer of salvation and be saved this very day, we ask for blessing now and thy worthy name, Lord Jesus, Amen.