On Greater Joy

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Children—A. Zacarias
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Good morning, everybody.
9930 So let's start with the Sunday School Welcome. Welcome to the Spanish class.
I'm just kidding is the Sunday school. I hope your Spanish is better this year.
So all my English is better this year, so I keep learning. Let's commit ourselves about their head are gone and loving Father, we thank you.
This beautiful sunny day where we can come and be together. Open the Bible freely. We asking you for all these kids over here.
Younger kids, Older kids.
Thank you for the opportunity to.
Open the word and.
Read more about our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ to learn a little bit more about Him.
We asking you to open our hearts, our ears, our eyes.
So we can be.
Ready to receive?
Whatever you have for us, we're asking you for the speaker, we're asking you for everybody who got to participate today.
But we asking you to you use.
US.
And that your Holy Spirit can move freely.
And everybody here can receive the portion that you have for for us.
We are here for the kids, you know that.
With desire for them.
Moore of our Lord Jesus Christ in his life.
We desire for our lives to.
But we pray for these kids in this room every everywhere where the Bible is open, that your Holy Spirit move.
And if it's somebody who still needs to receive the free gift of salvation, today can be the day of salvation for that person, that kid.
That person everywhere, we thank you and we pray in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, Amen.
Well let's start with some songs. I confess I'm not very good to start song so I got to need some help. So who wants to have the first song this morning OK #100.
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Three.
Zero where the light is crying out for his clothes in your heart.
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Hallelujah.
You know, it's a it's a big difference from all those on this world that may they name God.
Our profit I need many I can mention just couple maybe Buddha, Krishna, Mahoma, the prophet uh of different sects. It's a big difference You can go and visit maybe the grave and see where they die and where the bones are or where the bones used to be because now it's dust there but they.
Still dead there, but you know you can go.
And look the place where the Lord Jesus Christ, they put it to when he was dead, but that place is empty now because he arose from the dead and he is alive. He is God and he's coming soon. Who? Who else have a a song? OK.
Which one?
Four in the appendix.
Thank you.
Let's do it from here to the chairman to get Jeremiah to hear my heart run, my heart run down the.
Where we find that?
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And from.
The love of God.
Is deeper than the oceans.
Higher that the sky.
That great love of God. And we can come today and sing about that love, love. Rejoice on that love.
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That he sang his only begotten Son.
That whosoever believed in him, I hope.
There's nobody here that don't believe that.
I hope that everybody's here today believe in our Lord Jesus Christ as His personal Savior.
You know, it's, uh, sometimes we hear people saying, oh, I hope I can be in two places at once.
And maybe somebody dreams to be here and to be somewhere else. But you know, I believe we can, we can do that. We can be here physically, but mentally we can be somewhere else our.
Our mind can go away and start thinking maybe on what I need to do tomorrow, what I need to go do home when I get there.
And miss and lost that.
Message that God has for us today.
That his love is great and is for us. I always tell tell my kids make it count. And I say for myself too, when I go to meeting, I need to re to keep telling my mind, make it count. If we go into a meeting where we go to pray, let's pray. Let's let's put my body, my mind, my soul.
At that time, at that moment, to be on my knees or.
And and be praying and to bring my mind to the things of God.
And if we hear singing some late sing songs to him.
And forget about what is outside. Let's sing songs about Jesus. Let's bring praises to his name because he deserves.
I always tell my kids too, I use a lot of my kids, for example, because I, I think it's the, the ones I preach the most. I preach to my kids, but I preach to myself too. And I always tell my kids, you know, I really believe in a practical way that when we come together here.
And sometimes I think, well, I got to come and bring prices to low to the lower and and and exalt his name. Yeah, that is that is very good. But I think also is for my own benefit. It's for my own benefit. I tell my kids, you know.
Is next Lord's Day or this Lord's Day? Every Christian in the world say we got to make a strike and we don't. Nobody, nobody got to sing songs to the Lord. Nobody got to be precious to his name. Do you guys believe God got to cease to be God?
He needs us for him to be who he is. You guys believe that?
I don't think so. God is all sufficient, all powerful.
So when I bring prices to His name, when I bring glory to His name, when I read the Bible is for my own benefit, because He is God forever.
So let's make a count today.
Don't be in two places at once. Be here today and listen for what He has for you today. We've seen songs to His glory, to His name, because He deserve it. He has all the glory.
He has belongs to him.
So it's nice to be here and to.
Make account somebody else have a son.
Hannah.
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OK. So I don't know if everybody has his Bibles over here in the front, maybe they will don't. Do you guys think we can do it, maybe with some help maybe?
Let's give it a try.
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I think it doesn't know.
OK, praise the Lord.
Let's turn into my name and then turn on the stars and pray.
For one generation and by the time it's been in grace of the world.
Uh, craziness of the ho ho ho.
Praise the Lord.
OK. All right.
We should bring the ball.
Praise the Lord.
OK, so I'm going to come back to you, by the way. I'm going to praise you, praise the Lord and praise the Lord.
Somebody else have another son?
28 in the back. Thank you very much.
OK, so I think the verses for this week, the verse for this week is found in Roman Romans 3623, Romans 623. Who wants to say the verse? Who memorized the verse for this week? Who want to say you want to say it?
OK, OK.
Eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
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Our Lord Romans 623 thank you and.
The way this is finished then the gains of calculator Jesus Festivals festival.
The material to the extract that they get the car is eternal life in Jesus Christ of Olympics 33.
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So it is a genuine test for the gifts of God and the same word, the Jesus Christ Jesus, umm who umm umm 600 umm.
Internal life.
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Where did he stay in his desperate to give some goddess eternal life to Christians over Olympic sources? Thank you.
Let me tell you that the gift of God's room is generalized.
Can you just press that button?
Yes Sir, we just finished yes, that the gifted guys eternal life to Jesus Christ our Lord believes him somebody else.
Somebody else wanna say it?
To Jesus Christ our Lord.
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663 Good job good. Sometimes we all need help, right?
He waited as soon as that the gift is parallel to the person around 626. Thank you.
Somebody else you wanna say?
From ma'am. Good job. Thank you. And you wanna see it now, not today, OK.
What? Why? You wanna say no, not today, OK. You change your mind, that's OK. You know, it's hard for even for adults sometimes come in front of everybody. And this morning we was talking about that. Sometimes I even forget the name of my own kids.
I look and it's Joshua here and I said Joseph, Oh, oh, sorry, Joshua. Sometimes I even forget. I am very, very bad to remember names and uh, I can't remember, you know, by a trade that a mechanic so I can take an engine apart and put it back together and I know how to do it. I remember what this piece go and with this go, but sometimes I don't remember the names of people.
And it's hard or sometimes it's hard when we come in front of everybody or when you guys need to send you versus and say it in front of everybody. That makes people nervous, uh, the kids nervous and sometimes we forget, but it's good to know that we have health. Why, why, why we don't all say this verse all together. Let's say that Romans 623, uh, for the wages of sin is death, but.
There is no light.
All right, no problem. The wages of sin is death. You know your daddy goes to work every day, Most every day. And you know why is why is the reason he goes to work? Who can tell me why your daddy goes to work?
Just because he wants to go over there and have fun.
Why your daddy goes to work.
Because the family needs to eat, right? The little kid needs to eat. We need we need a place where we can live a roof. And you guys need clothes and you guys need toys. You guys like toys, right? My kids love toys and looks like a day never have enough toys. They always want one more, one more. So that is goes to work and they work hard.
And comes a happy time for that is too when that check comes, when the wages of your work comes and you have the pay of your work and you have that money you receive. Well over here we can see that the the wages of the pay for seeing is dead. And the brother was.
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One of the brothers yesterday and when he was speaking with, he was telling the death on the Bible speak of separation, separation from God.
When somebody die without the Lord Jesus Christ, without believing in the Lord Jesus Christ.
He's separate from God eternally and is the pay from sin. The wages of sin is dead. But we sing some songs about the love of God and the love of God is eternal life in our Lord Jesus Christ. And you know, I think it's the Lord has been.
Speaking these days to to my heart about the the love of God and it's something.
Uh, I wanna talk to you.
Uh, last week on our meeting place.
We have.
Uh, the Holy Spirit brings to our hearts in our meeting place over there in Tacoma, the love of the Father, the love of the Father that he gave his only begotten Son, he gave us, he gave our Lord Jesus Christ to die for us in the, in the cross. You know, I, I used that example many times.
When I speak about the love of God.
Some years ago, I remember being shocked about the news that come and the and the radio and what's in the papers and everywhere in the Internet about that mad math guy, a young guy who went to a middle school.
With guns.
And he harmed many little children. I think 20 something children's died that day because this mad, mad kids, mad God.
Gracie.
If somebody comes to me that day or the day before in the morning and could you tell me something going to happen in that school that day and you know, your your kids go got to be hurt and maybe something got to happen to your kids. You know, I don't think I send my kids to the school.
I tell my kids, so my wife, the kids to stay at home. They don't even going out.
I don't want my kids to be harmed because I love it so much. So embrace my heart to know that God who knows everything, He knew that when he son the Lord Jesus Christ was coming to this world, they got to use.
Nails. They got to hit him. They got to put a crown of thorns. They got to spit on his face. They got to pull his hair. They got to pull his name.
They go to damages so bad and he will die in the cross and he still send his Son to this world. He knew what God would happen to the Lord Jesus Christ. The Lord Jesus Christ knew what was going to happen to him when he come to this world.
But He gives His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life, He knew.
And he thanked his son. He sang his son.
For you and for me, the love of God, great love.
That he gave us.
He's only begotten.
He gave us our Lord Jesus Christ. He gave freely. And the Lord Jesus Christ says send me, I'm here, send me. I wanna go because I love them, because I wanna die for them, because I wanna have a relationship with them. Like I told you before, he don't need you. He don't need me, but he wants you. He wants to have that relationship with you. He wants you to every day. Come to him and call him that.
Daddy. Hi, Dad. Daddy, I need you. Daddy, I want you.
I need your help. I I don't know what to do in this case. I don't know what to do doing this or doing that. Please guide me.
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Because he wants a relationship.
I always think on on my kids when when I I think in that great lot.
It's so nice, you know, every, every year when we come here to camp for my kids.
Is the high note of the summer to come to come to this camp and camping and be with you guys and grow and you know for the many years we see you guys growing. I remember seeing many of you guys being in in arms with your parents, very little babies and your parents bring you here. I see many kids learning.
Ride bikes around here. I remember some kids, the daddy.
Behind the bike, running behind the bike quickly because the kid is going, going, going, going. I see. I remember one time when one daddy let one of the little kids learning how to ride a bike down the hill, just there you go and the kid is going, going. And then he started going like back and forth. The mommy praying. Please, Lord help me, tell me, but you guys learned one of my finest memories.
And something I really remember.
Long, long time ago is my daddy.
Being behind me and I'm learning to ride my bike.
I don't have my dad for.
From much time he is still living.
I lost my mind when when, when I was nine and after that.
It's like I lost my dad too.
But one of my finest, one of my joyful memories is.
It's in my mind when my dad was behind me.
Running behind me and telling me go son just keep pedaling.
Keep going, you can do it.
The love of the Father.
And just like our brother was telling us yesterday, you know something I can tell you for sure.
Young kids. Little kids.
Is that your father? Your mother? They love you so much. They really love you. I love my kids.
This last week I needed to go back home. I bring my kids here.
And I needed to go back home because I needed to go to work.
You know when I get home.
To an empty house. My kids was not there, my wife, my wife was not there. I was about to turn around and come back.
I really need them.
Don't create families.
And you know, I got to keep let you know a secret, and I know you already know this.
But we are your parents myself. We are not perfect, we make many mistakes, but something I know is that your parents love you so much.
They love you so much.
And we want the best for you. And you know what is the best for you.
Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
That is the best for you.
I have a a person that I wanna read in the 3rd letter of John John.
Dear up, John.
And.
Let me read to you verse 4.
And if you have a Bible, little kids over here in the front or young kids, please go with me to George John.
Best for?
I have no great joy. I have no greater joy than to hear.
That my children.
Walk in truth.
I have no greater joy.
Can I say I have no greater joy than to hear that my children is going to college and he will become a rich man when he graduates?
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I have no greater joy than to know that one day my son or my daughter go to be a doctor and go to have everything they desire on this world. That is my great joy.
No, I have no greater joy than to hear that, my children.
Walking in truth, the Lord Jesus Christ says I am the truth.
I am the truth. I am the life. I am the way.
He is the truth. I have no greater joy than to know that my children's walk in truth.
I always push my kids.
I think the the once I push the most is my older kid Jonathan.
To go to school and to study. But you know, I I've been learning and the Lord has been talking to me.
He talked me through this verse.
And I don't say that going to college is wrong. It's OK. I don't say that if you have a good job, it's wrong. It's OK to have a good job. But you know what is better?
To know the truth and to walk in the truth. And the truth is our Lord Jesus Christ and is no greater joy than that. Let me tell you something, kids.
You can grow.
And be the richest man in the world.
But if you don't know the Lord Jesus Christ, your life is worthless.
You can be the most famous, the most strongest, the richest, but if you don't know the Lord Jesus Christ.
This passing through this life is worthless is nothing.
But if you know the Lord Jesus Christ, whatever happened to you on this life?
Because you know the Lord Jesus Christ.
I hope you put that in in your mind. I I've been hearing about kids who going to college and statistics says that in every three kids in every three kids, Christian kids who goes to college to lost his faith.
From every three to get away from the Lord.
I have no greater joy than to know that my children.
And you know.
I know that for your parents.
It is no greater joy than to know that you kids, you kids are walking.
Walking in the truth.
Is my desire, and I believe is the desire of your parents.
And you know, like I told you, we make many mistakes. I make many mistakes. And many times I needed to come to my children's and tell him, I'm sorry, son.
I'm sorry, son.
Because my priorities maybe was not right.
Where I desired the most for you.
He said you loved the Lord Jesus Christ.
And you walk with him every day of your life.
I love you so much, son.
That is what my desire is and I know the desire of the Father, the Heavenly Father, our God and our Father is that you walk with him, with our Lord Jesus Christ. A brother in San Diego once. Tell me, older brother, who now is with the Lord Jesus Christ. We don't have kids, we don't have kids. We don't bring kids of this world that they go to hell.
When?
We have kids and I'm a I'm a Christian. Our prayer is that you guys become a Christian too, that you know the Lord Jesus Christ, that you receive the Lord Jesus Christ into your heart and you have a personal relationship with him, You know, been sitting in this place.
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Or being born in a Christian family don't automatically make you a Christian.
You need yourself. Salvation is personal. Salvation is a personal relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ. You need to recognize that you are a Sinner and you need a Savior, and that Savior is Jesus Christ our Lord.
Is personal, is no from a group.
It's a personal relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ. You need to have that personal relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ. No, because you're born in a Christian family. Are you a Christian automatically?
We don't have kids.
So that they go to hell. We have kids believing.
Believe it.
That you and your house will be safe. Umm, and my house and I pray every day that my kids, they really have that personal relationship with our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. And I know it's the prayer of your parents too. And if there's somebody here today.
He feeds somebody here today.
They need to come and tell the Lord Jesus Christ, I believe in you. I want that personal relationship with you. Still time. Today is the day of salvation. Today is the day when you can come and tell the Lord Jesus Christ. Lord Jesus Christ, I need you. I need to have a savior, and I want you, please to save me.
Because it's no great joy.
But to know that my kids, that my children are walking.
In truth.
We love you kids, we really love you.
And the best?
The best we desire for you is Jesus, young kids.
Like I told you so.
It is a privilege to see you guys growing.
And be strong. It is a privilege to see you guys growing and to keep walking with the Lord Jesus Christ. I really hope that next year.
We can see you growing more, but not only in stature, but in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ and I, I and I think you can tell the same to me. I hope that for you too, brother.
I hope that you keep growing the Lord Jesus Christ, because it's the desire of our hearts. I wanna finish in a happy note.
I see this young kids doing tricks with his bikes, running backwards. Sometimes they go backwards in his bikes, they jump on from the table.
And they really don't have any fear. I think if I do something like that, I probably got to be with a broken bone for months. But I, I, I, let me tell you a story. Well, it's just a fictitious story, but, and I need to see to show you, this was a kid who was riding his bike and he was learning. And pretty soon he feels like he don't need anybody else. He can do everything in his bike. He's doing tricks now and everything.
He his parents was sitting in a table and he passed one side and passed it with his bike riding his and he said look mom, no hands and he just keep going no hands. And you say fast coming back and say look mom, no hands, no feet and he's just going like that in his body pretty soon.
A tree cross on the front and boom he hits the front the the the tree because he has no hands.
No Fear in his wife. So he started crying. He hit his face and he comes back and says look mom.
So be careful. We love you, we love you kids, and we desire the best for you. Who has another song we can sing before we close?
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God love your Father. We thank you for this, this song that we can sing to you. Thank you for your love.
Thank you because.
We lost because you love us 1St and you send your son to be the propitiation for a sin.
And if we love our children, it's because you put that love in our hearts.
We pray for our young people, our our children.
That just like this, sons say.
They never turned him back from our Lord Jesus Christ. They follow.
They follow our Lord Jesus Christ.
The Good Shepherd.
The one who?
Call us by our names and we know him.
And we followed him.
Help us give us the strength to never turn back.
And to keep walking with him, because we know.
His coming is soon.
Maybe today.
Please are going on a fire. Prepare heart for the next meeting where we can come and.
Remember our Lord Jesus Christ in his death and what He did for us in the cross.
Giving his body.
Giving his blood.
For us prepare our hearts that we can be, we can bring.
Sacrifice of our lives.
Sons, spiritual sons, verses that glorify His name.
Thank you for this time. We can be together.
And thank you for your amazing love, great love.
We pray in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, Amen.