Pretending

Children—Paul Daplyn
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I'd like to welcome everyone to the Sunday School in Montrose and uh, before we start singing some hymns from the hymn sheet here. And we'll look to the Lord for His hell.
Our gracious God, loving Father, we just look for thee again. Thanks thee again for thank goodness to us.
Let me just thank you again for giving thine only begotten Son, the Lord Jesus Christ.
Your Savior, we just look to thee.
This morning, Lord Jesus, that.
If there's anyone in this room this morning.
It doesn't know whether he is savior and it.
They will come today, They will come to Thee today, except Thee as I own personal Savior. So we just looked at the Lord Jesus for Thy help and thy blessing this morning. We thank Thee again, my worthy and precious name, Lord Jesus.
Amen.
Now there's children hymns on the back, but you don't have to pick just the children hymns. So you just give us a number and we'll try to get it started. If I can't start it, I'll ask your brother to get started for us. Don't get a number for us.
Oops, sorry, sorry.
Pardon me 11.
#11.
That's a good ham.
Will your anchor.
With your hands turn, the floor turns green.
We have a good.
Soul said that the joy of the flame of the.
When the rainbow and the beast with me.
Wow, that's the prescription for me. So while I'm on the main too low, you got to hit you got anything to breathe in the way to get you to take care of our flowers over the floor?
And I think it's hard to fall asleep.
At the shore, while the pillow grows like you see in the rocks, and it can not like you.
So you're done while I think about it.
The way I'm not highlighting Friday, we're going to be riding your head today. But it's OK, I'll have to leave so.
When my thorns are passed for phantom born.
With our neighbor.
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Souls.
That has been sure about the pillow control.
The rock is the Lord Jesus Christ.
Our Savior.
Someone else have a hymn for us?
OK. And your number is?
13.
#13.
Man of Sorrows.
I really don't know.
Anything like that?
Heal my body when I turn on the.
Water Day.
Guilty.
Of last week.
Spotlight blah blah blah blah blah blah Dee ORU throat and everything's proud of your.
Father's Day.
That's a beautiful expression of phrase, isn't it? One has accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as their Savior. Who has the number for us.
#46.
Spelling Song.
Gladi.
You know what happened. Let me convince you.
And he called and he called all the GRE $500.
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You know the hymns that we sung already? We've already. We've already.
Proclaimed the gospel and the hymns, the words of this hymn, these hymns that we've sung this morning.
I guess we have time for one more because I want to see if anybody knows their memory verse. So we got we have a number.
OK #8.
Oh, maybe. We probably could start that for us.
Shall we gather?
All right, tell me there's no dangerous problem.
Different alcohol beyond the sky.
Yeah, blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.
Daily Mail is gone on again, the best many saw this long to be gone every day. Every day to see them, drive them to house and how how how to get it on.
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Yeah. Well, kind of a kind of.
It's glory eyes ah, then down your legs to stay inside the sunny airport in the same air. There's a lot of.
When does it say your eyes come on?
Glory breathing.
Round your feet and have lots of dogs. Brilliant here with naked Gray and Sagittarius and.
Yeah, I'm glad I was out there. Now I can't come on. And then it's already up, it's lowering up and, uh, on the pain.
Yeah, I I know what I'm at the same time.
In the past, in the second, uh.
And last day, when Jesus come again Lisa's father, and praise him. No, no, no, no, no.
Thank you.
Bye, bye, she'll reply. And so.
Yeah, well, yeah, you're right. It's gone up to me a little bit little slower. Yeah, just blow up everything up and, uh, once again, I have a wedding. When you're saying it's like it's not only different, what symptoms say different, umm.
Well, I think everybody knows.
What this is, I think everybody knows what that is.
And they made it easy this time. They got a verse here.
That they liked you to memorize. You didn't have to remember the whole thing. It's Psalm 40 and verse two. You brought me up also out of a horrible pit.
Out of the miry clay, is there anyone here that learned that verse?
Noah.
Wow, well I guess I better explain. Maybe we better talk about that a little bit. Maybe you didn't understand what some of the words meant.
Well.
It's talking about salvation.
Being saved by the Lord Jesus Christ. And perhaps you all know that a pit is a very big deep hole. Very deep, big hole.
It says here out of the Marie Clay.
Now, Murray Clay is a kind of mud, and believe it or not, there are different kinds of mud. Perhaps the boys are more familiar with that.
It's a very, very slippery kind of mud.
If you're walking in that.
And you go every kind of a hell all, even a teensy weensy one. You're probably going to slip and go splat and you're going to be covered in it. Very, very slippery stuff.
And you know.
This pet that they're talking about?
Is probably not only just this slippery Myron clay, this slippery mud on the bottom of this hole. It's all up the sides too. There's no way you can grab on anything to get out.
No way at all.
Except there's someone above who can reach down and get you out of there, and not one is.
Our precious Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, and I pray this morning, each one of you, dear children and older ones too, have accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as your Savior, as you let him reach down on that deep hole and bring you out and set you on a rock which is the Lord Jesus Christ and establish your going. That's the rest of the verse you didn't have to memorize.
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I, uh, brought a few things this morning. I'm going to kind of, uh.
Copyright brother Mr. John Kemp a little bit. He sometimes brings some pretty interesting stuff and, uh.
I trust you'll find it as interesting.
A photograph here, it's taking quite a while ago and, uh, some interesting objects to look at as well.
Now.
There's umm.
A couple of verses in the book of Titus.
In chapter one.
And it was first two.
And three of chapter one is verse two and three I was thinking of in particular.
And now you're wondering if there's.
Someone here would like to read those two verses for me.
There's someone here like to read that for me?
It's, uh, Titus, chapter one.
And uh, verse two and three and I can, uh, I'll let you hold my Bible and I'll get this closer, closer to you so they can hear you. Yeah. Two and three, in hope of, in hope of eternal life, which God that cannot lie promised before the world began, but hath in due times manifested his word through preaching, which is committed unto me according to the commandment of God our Savior. Thank you.
You know, that's an amazing thing.
We have.
Father. Father who cannot lie. He's too holy, He does. In fact, he doesn't even know how to lie. That's an amazing thing, not being able to lie. This precious book.
Every word in this precious book, the word of God is truth and it's pure When you read this precious book through There's no reason to doubt a single word on this precious book because.
As his first is, we've just read, God cannot lie.
In the third verse, when half of duties manifested, his word now manifested as a probably a bigger word. Maybe the smaller children understand it means to make clear or make obvious to the eye of mine the eye or mind. To make clear to the eye or mind. That's what manifests means.
Through his word, through preaching, which is what we're doing this morning.
Which is committed unto me. That's the apostle Paul, according to the commandment of God our Savior.
Each one of us knows the Lord Jesus Christ should be seeking the salvation of others, telling others about the Lord Jesus Christ. That's what he's committed unto us.
Now there is another verse.
We've talked about one who cannot lie.
There's another one. Satan, the enemy of our souls. The exact opposite. He doesn't know how to tell the truth.
And that's in John chapter 8, verse 44.
John, Chapter 8.
And verse 44.
Would you like to read it?
You can. You can use my Bible if you like. I'll hold this so you can. We can hear you.
Ye are of your father as the devil, and the lust of your father he will do.
He was a murderer from the beginning. And Adobe.
Dubai not in the truth, because there is no truth in him when he speaketh a lie and he speaketh of his own, for he is a liar and the father of it. Thank you.
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Well, here we have the St. and the enemy in our soul is an exact option. It doesn't even know how to tell the truth. Isn't that something?
It says here, I forgot to mention that this the beginning of this verse is referring to those who don't believe the Lord Jesus. They haven't accepted Him as their Savior.
Those who have accepted have not accepted the Lord Jesus to save them. They're lost.
Their father is the devil.
And they cannot do anything to please God. It's impossible to please God.
And there's no truth in them.
He doesn't know how to tell the truth.
Says here at the end of the verse he is a liar and the father of it.
So that means what Scripture says that that means the devil is a father of lies, the father of lies.
So if you're sitting in your seat this morning.
And.
You're pretending to be a Christian. This is bad news for you. Very bad news, because there's judgment coming if you have accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as your Savior.
We're going to read another bad news verse four. Someone who's pretending to be a Christian. There really isn't perhaps can fool everyone in this room except the Lord.
And we're going to look to.
We're going to look to umm.
I got out of order here. See.
OK, well, we'll do, umm, Revelation 22.
Revelation 22.
And.
Verse 15. I'm only going to read part of this verse.
It's a latter part I'm thinking of in particular.
Whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.
Now someone who loves lies would have to be pretty evil. I don't think there's anyone like.
That in this room.
But there could be someone who's making a lie, and with the Lord's help, I'll try to explain what that means.
Especially if you're someone.
Who's pretending to be a Christian?
Pretending to be a Christian.
We have some bad, more bad news.
Well, good news too. Bad news. Good news, Bad news. Worse for someone.
Pretending to be a Christian.
Now the first part of this first John 3 verse 36, verse five is talking about a believer. It's almost accepted Lord Jesus Christ as their Savior.
Latter part is for someone who's pretending to be a Christian.
Is there someone here who would like to read?
John, Chapter 3.
And verse 36.
The reason I can re. Oh, we've got a girl here.
He that believeth on the sun hath everlasting life, and he that believeth not the sun shall not see life, but the wrath of God abideth on him. Thank you.
The wrath of God invite us on one who does not loan the Lord Jesus Christ as their Savior.
But those of us who have accepted the Lord.
Has everlasting life.
We're reading this from a book from God, and Father cannot lie.
I have no reason to question it.
But the wrath of God abideth on him. Now wrath is very strong anger. It's righteous anger.
Towards sin.
If you don't know the Lord Jesus Christ as your Savior, the wrath of God abideth on you.
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I'm trying to think of a simple way to explain that. It's something that's stuck on you. You can't get it off. It's something stuck on you. You can't. You can't rub it off, you can't shake it off. You can't wash it off. My eyes on you and the only way.
That you can.
Have this wrath lifted off you?
If you accept the Lord Jesus Christ.
As your savior.
Now.
Boys and girls, it's, uh, perhaps you already have an idea of what I'm going to talk about in the next few minutes.
My exercise this morning.
Is everyone in the front row knows how to get to heaven? They're probably safe, and perhaps everyone else knows the way. Salvation too.
But there could be someone who's pretending to be a Christian, and that's my exercise this morning. That that, that you'll become real.
That you'll open your hearts in the Lord Jesus Christ and accept Him as your Savior before.
Is too late.
We talked about in Revelation one who maketh a lie, and we're going to the Lord's help explain what that means.
So we've kind of read bad news first for pretenders, a good news, bad news for US1 for those who are real and those are pretending.
But we also got a good news for good news first for someone who's pretending.
And that's in Second Corinthians chapter 6.
And verse 2.
Two Corinthians, chapter 6.
And verse 2.
Now, is there someone who would like to read that for me?
For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation.
Salvation have I secured the Behold now is the accepted time. Behold, now is a day of salvation.
Thank you.
The only time.
The Lord promises us now.
Not tomorrow, not next week.
Now, the only time he promises is now.
I'm going to read Mr. Darby's version of this verse. I think it makes it a little bit clearer. Succard is a very old English word. It's probably going back to, uh, umm, the 17th century, perhaps earlier than that. It means to help someone who is in danger or distress, to give help to someone who's endangering distress. That's what suckered means.
And if we read Mr. Darby's version of that, that makes it a little bit clearer. Before he says I have listened to the unaccepted time and I've helped the day of salvation. Behold now the well accepted time, behold now.
Is a day of salvation.
Well, I have a photograph here.
And.
But this photograph I have, this is taking a long time ago. It was taken in 1973.
This is actually a picture of me.
Had more muscle and less fat back than 1973.
And I'm going to show this to you.
I think you know what the animal is.
It's a very young grizzly bear. It had been allowed to grow full size. It would probably have been about twice that size. As it was, this bear weighed 300.
£350 still big enough and dangerous enough.
Kill a man.
£350 still kill a man?
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About if it was full grown it could have been twice that size.
Now this picture.
It was taken way up north in Canada's Arctic.
A place where we had daylight 24 hours a day for two months. That's really weird.
And uh, I wasn't there when I had two months a night. I would have been awfully depressing. I don't think I want to be there. But we had two months of daylight. The sun would just go around and around and around. It would go lower when it was supposed to set, but it didn't. It got cooler. So you knew it was supposed to be quote UN quote night. There was still daylight.
And then we had this bear. It was it was a threat to our lives. Now we were on an island in the Beaufort scene, Kansas Arctic.
And this island wasn't very big. It was 3 miles wide and about 7 miles long, so this bear didn't have much space to roam around without bumping into us again.
But to make things matters worse, it was hungry.
As far as I could tell at that time, the only live meat on the island was US three men, and it was looking for food.
So it came to a point.
Whether it was either it, the bear or one of us could are going to lose our lives probably.
So we had to shoot it.
Now having looking at this picture.
Who shot the bear? That's a picture of Maine. Who shot the bear?
And we care to, yes.
What's the picture saying?
He says that the picture says.
I shot the bear. That's what it looks like for looking at this picture. Would anybody disagree with that?
No, OK.
Well, I'm going to tell you something.
This picture hasn't said a word.
But it's a lie. I did not shoot the bear.
I just pretended.
Shot the Barrett. I had someone take the photograph of a joke. I never actually used it to deceive someone thinking I shot the bear. I just had them take the pictures of joke. OK, it hasn't said a word, but it's still lying. It's what we read in Revelation 22.
Making a lie this picture is making.
A lie.
And dear, 1:00 this morning.
If you're pretending to be a Christian.
You're fooling everyone around. You're fooling your parents, you're fooling your friends, you're fooling everyone in this room. You can't fool God.
But you know what you're doing, you're making.
Why you're making a lie?
And worse than that is eternal judgment for you if you don't turn to Lord Jesus Christ now.
For forever.
Too late.
And I hope for the help of the Lord and this photograph.
That you can understand that it's possible to lie without even opening your mouth, OK.
Can do it. You can do it. It just proves it right here.
Now I say I'm just going to kind of copy Mr. John Kemp, so.
I got a couple of things here.
Now.
I've got this one little thing.
In this plastic bag.
I don't know if anybody can guess what that is. Boys may be able to.
Someone says it's a bullet. That's correct.
That's the bullet that killed the bear.
It's a little thing killed the bear. I won't go into the story of how I found it. It's a messy, yucky story and I, and we don't have time to talk about that anyway. But I did find the bullet.
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These are the claws from the front paw.
You can touch it if you want.
Well, if it was full grown, it would be twice that size. They're not sharp, but there's a tremendous amount of power behind them. Like tremendous amount of power.
Anyway, while you're looking at this, I'll talk a little bit more of despair.
This photograph was taken.
I wasn't saved, I was on the road to hell.
And.
If it had been up to me to shoot the bear.
Probably would have been missed.
I wouldn't be here to tell you about it, probably.
Do you know what?
I wasn't here to tell you about it, but Barry killed me. Where would I be?
I've been hell.
I would have been already in hell for 37 years. I still got forever to go.
There's something else I'd like to tell you about this bear.
Lord Jesus, I think this is the first time I was a young man.
The first time.
God used one of his creatures to tell me you may never live to see old age.
You know I was a bad boy, but at least I was honest enough.
To know I was a Sinner.
When I was 14, there was a Christian who was seeking.
You know, they wanted me to come to Lord, but I was, I was. I was the Lord. The Satan used my friends to whisk me away so I couldn't hear the truth.
He asked me where I was going, and I was when I was 14 years old. I was honest enough to say probably going to hell. The tears start streaming down. This place, you don't have to go there. But I was wisp away before I could hear the rest of the story. Satan did that, so it was quite a few years later.
Before.
I would say.
30 to 90 years of age.
And.
Lord Jesus bear one of his creation.
To let me realize that we have no lease in life. We could be taken at any age. We've heard of different ones being taken at a very young age.
And I'd also like to say that Lord is so kind to her. You know what?
The man who shot the bear with a very good shot.
It went right to the heart.
Turned around, it was shot. It turned around and ran. Another shot was fired, which apparently missed. It ran about 50 feet and fell over dead. OK.
Lord is so kind after the bear had done its job.
Very little suffering had done its job. The Lord is so kind.
So kind.
You know.
I hope and pray there's no one here that's pretending.
Be a Christ.
And if you're real?
Have you told your parents?
Have you told your parents you've accepted Lord Jesus Christ as their Savior? You'll make them so happy. You know not only will you be making so happy, you'll be confessing Him with your mouth as well.
So if you haven't told your parents already.
Do it this morning. Do it this morning. Let them know that you belong to Jesus.
So if the Lord allows something to happen to you, you're taking at a young age.
They'll still be sorrow. They'll still be tears. They'll be comfort too. They'll know they're safe in the arms of the Lord Jesus Christ. So if you haven't told them already.
Tell now. Tell him now.
You know.
Today is a very special day for me. There's a few here who are aware of the state.
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My wife.
Passed away six years ago today. Six years ago today. 6th anniversary of her passing.
And yes, there certainly was cheers, and yes, there certainly was sorrow. But yes, there was comfort too, knowing my dear wife.
Is safe the arms of Lord Jesus? There's comfort too. And that's why I urge you, dear ones, if you haven't done so already.
That you tell them. Tell them this morning.
There's just one more verse I'd like to read in closing.
It's in uh.
John, Chapter 21.
John, Chapter 21.
And I'm going to read verses.
21 and 22.
Of John, chapter 21.
Peter seeing him, that's the the disciple, John says to Jesus, Lord, what shall this man do?
Jesus says unto him.
If I will that he tarried till I come, what is that to thee? Fall thou thee.
Follow thou me.
Now.
It's normal to expect the.
Lived her good old age, but as already said we have no lease in life to hold now as the day of salvation should be taken at any time. My wife has taken a relatively young age. She was 53 years old.
And there's many here.
Had their life partner and they're well into old age, you know, they're in their 70s and 80s.
You know, we could torment ourselves with the question, why? Why?
I'd like to.
Just read this, uh, verse 22 a little bit differently.
Jesus saith unto him, If I tear you that they, if that they.
Carry till I come.
What is that to thee? Follow thou.
Me.
Well, it's the Lord's desire that we run our course and finish our course with joy, but the only way we can do that is following the Lord, not once in a while, but all the time.
Follow thou.
Let's pray.
Our gracious God.
Loving Father.
We just look to thee and thanks thee again. Thine only begotten Son redeemeth.
These precious shed blood on the cross of Calvary. We thank Thee for the privilege of preaching the Word this morning, proclaiming the Gospel, and we pray earnestly if there's anyone pretending here this morning that they'll turn to the now before it's forever too late, and accept Thee.
As their own personal savior.
So we just look to me now, Lord Jesus, and thank Thee for thy help and blessing and trust.
Each one has learned a little more. My precious word this morning.
And if there is one here this morning attending.
They'll turn to thee now.
And accept thee, Lord Jesus.
Is their own personal say. We just look to thee and thank thee again, worthy and precious name, Lord Jesus.