Children—K. House
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All right, well, welcome to Sunday school this morning, everyone. Glad to have everybody feel your smiling faces.
Through Rust. All right, well, let's start with singing some.
Together. Does anybody have one?
#3 All right.
#3.
A Little Chef was all I see was that.
So who could this glorious person be?
Yeah, that's right, The Lord Jesus.
Is this glorious person?
This song talks about something that I'd like to talk about this morning.
When it said let's see why, I was thinking of all but one, were sore afraid of sinking in the beep and talk a little about that later on. Anybody else have another song for us? Did you have a song you like to sing? Which one?
The wise man said.
7878 Scarlett. Scarlett. Yeah. All right. Thanks for help 78.
Number 78 Scarlet. Scarlet.
All right, maybe one of the bigger kids. What scripture does that song come from?
Good if the songs that we sing are from the word of God, but who can think of what scripture?
This song comes from.
Anybody think of what it might be?
What do you think, Liz?
Well, Moses did talk about scarlet and the law, and they had to do some of the offerings. They had to get scarlet.
It wasn't what was the one I was thinking of, but.
Yes, that you're connecting that.
Who else can help me?
Didn't have to be a kid either.
Talked about Scarlett as you talked about.
Since we was.
Yes, the verse I was thinking about and being the words found.
The first I was thinking of is in Isaiah chapter one and verse 18 and says come now and let us reason together, saith the Lord. Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. Though they be red like Crimson, they shall be as wool.
That's quite a contrast. Usually if we spell ketchup on our clothes. Or maybe some red wine.
Some things that stain pretty bad, right? And sin is like that, it stains us.
But you know, usually this time of year we see quite a bit of snow on the ground, but not today.
Nice and white.
We can be whiter than snow, right? Because snow has a little black thing in it, a little piece of carbon.
Little bit of a black spot even in snow, but the Lord Jesus and his blood can wash us even whiter than snow. So the way God sees you or he sees me.
He sees us perfectly clean. Now that's wonderful. And talking with that a little later, who else has the song for us?
No one there yet.
#10 All right.
Together #10.
Around the throne of God.
Very good. Number six, number six.
ABCD.
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They also have one.
59.
59.
Well, let's talk about Jesus.
Let's ask for the Lords help in our time together.
God and our Father, we're thankful to be able to be together and to be able to sing. These songs bring before us such wonderful truths concerning my beloved Son, our Lord Jesus. We just ask for help this morning as we speak about Him, that He would be precious to each of our hearts, so there will be glory brought to Him.
Need of help Speaking of such a wonderful person and so would ask Father in Jesus name.
All right, so I'd like to talk this morning about one of the most exciting stories that's contained in this book.
Anybody have a guess as to what it might be?
Sam.
That's a great guess. It isn't actually the one I'm thinking of leaving Ezra.
What is somebody else? It is about Jesus. So give you a hand. What do you think, sweetheart?
Yeah, it is about Jesus. You're right.
You know something spectacular about Jesus. Go ahead.
That is one of my favorite stories, but that is not the one I was thinking of later in the Gospel of John.
What I what I wanted to talk about a bit this morning is the resurrection.
So what can you tell us? The resurrection assignment?
The resurrection is when Jesus rose from the dead.
That's quite incredible, and I'd like to go to where we were yesterday in the reading meetings. So what brought us to my attention? So Hebrews chapter 2.
Sorry, Second Timothy chapter 2. Go to Hebrews 2A little later, little going Second Timothy chapter 2.
And.
Verse 8.
It says, remember that Jesus Christ is the seed of David was raised from the dead according to my gospel.
Or perhaps it could say, remember Jesus Christ raised from among the dead?
Oh my gosh.
So this verse is telling us to remember something.
Anybody ever forget anything?
Think all of us forget things sometimes.
But it's nice one to remember, especially when it's something that's important.
Right. And this verse is telling us to remember Jesus Christ raised from among the dead.
OK, so another verse I wanted to talk about that I mentioned a second ago in Hebrews chapter 2 That I've been thinking about.
Hebrews, chapter 2.
I.
And I like verse nine a lot, so I think I'm going to read it. But the one I'm thinking about is further down the chapter Hebrews 2, verse nine. But we see Jesus, who has made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honor, that He, by the grace of God, should taste death for every man or for everything.
And then we'll stop. We'll move down to verse 14, or as much then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, He also himself likewise took part of the same that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is the devil, and deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to *******.
All right, so right now.
We're all sitting or I'm standing here in this meeting room wearing masks. OK. Is this kind of what we normally do? No. This is different than normal. All right, so the government has told us that we're put on some masks, so we're doing that to obey them. OK, But why?
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Are they telling us to wear masks? Well, stop the spread of the virus. OK, Now what might the virus do? It might cause you to die, right? There is a chance, and some people have a higher chance than others.
And I think all of us know that.
They can't die without the Lord allowing.
Right, but there's a lot of people in this world that don't know about Jesus.
And think that they have to stop things from happening to keep people from dying. And I realize there's a responsibility the government has, and that's not my point to getting to you at all. The point is there's a lot of people who are terrified to die.
They're in a *******. OK, so ******* is kind of like being imprisoned. You're tied up by something.
It's not very nice to be tied up. Sometimes as kids, we would tie each other up. It's just trying to escape. It was kind of like a game all right, But if you realized you were stuck and you had to ask somebody to help you get out, it really wasn't that nice.
And there's lots of things that people can be in ******* to. You can be tied up by stuck, OK? And there's a lot of people in this world. Maybe there's somebody in this room that's stuck in this fear of death.
Because one thing is certain.
All of us were born.
And all of us will die.
Now we know from the word of God that Jesus is going to come back. Read that verse a little later. Lord welcome. And he is going to take the people who have believed in Him to heaven, and they won't die, but everyone else is going to die.
All right, that's for sure.
You might get sick, you might not get sick, but you will.
Not there's no escaping them other than what I said with the Lord Jesus knowing Him.
Taken to be with.
All right, so this last week was the last week week before.
I guess be the week before, because this is the Lord's Day. The week before.
Last week that we just went through, we had a very sad thing happen at home at the same time, a very happy thing. And that was a very good friend of ours, Lynnwood, a sister in Christ. She died. She had cancer and she came to the end of her time on earth and she died OK. And it was sad, very sad. And she was the person that babysat our kids. She was a sister in the assembly that had an open home. She always had people in. She always said, look at my doors are always unlocked. If you need something, even if I'm not home, come in and get it.
She had a very, very big heart towards everyone.
And we're going to miss that sister, but we know that she, when she died, went from being in a body suffering with cancer, lots of pain, to being with Christ, which is far better. You know. Do we have sorrow for her? Are we sorry for laying that she died? No.
But if Wayne wasn't trusting in the Lord Jesus, Oh dear.
That fear of death that she would have had would have been very legitimate. She would have gone to hell.
That would be awful.
To be forever separated from light and love.
To be in darkness with hatred forever.
That's awful.
But it doesn't have to be that way. You know, the fear of death, you know, laying. She was talking about death before she said I know what's going to happen after I die. I'm going to be with Christ. But she said it's I don't quite know what it's going to be like to go and to.
Pass through death to go to the other side and really thought too much about that myself, but the Lord has said he's going to take us to be with himself and so however that feels or is like, you know, we can trust him for that.
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But you know, your kids particularly we're talking to this morning, but each one of us, do we have that fear of death, a ******* like chains or handcuffs that are holding us? Or do we have a confidence because of what God has said that we're going to be with him?
You know that fear of death, He doesn't want us to have it. You know I don't want to die.
I'm very glad to be alive, but I know that if I die, I'm going to be with Jesus. You know? It's going to be so much better than you know. It's nice to be with all of you, but by comparison, to be with Jesus is going to eclipse everyone else. Everyone else is going to be eclipsed by him. You know He's perfect.
His glory is wonderful.
And the wonderful thing is that he loves each one of us.
He loves us personally.
You know, to the important people this world love the individual.
No, they don't.
But Jesus does. He cares for each and everyone of us intensely.
You know, it's the very hairs on our head.
Understands every feeling, everything that we've passed through. He partook of flesh and blood so they could understand.
And so it says that through.
Death, he might destroy him that had the power of death. That is the devil. And so that's where the resurrection comes in. Okay, so I think each one of us knows the wonderful story, the sad story, and yet the amazing story of how the Lord Jesus was hung on a cross, how they took those nails, they pierced my hands and my feet.
They hung him up there to die.
For everyone to see. And you know what he did? The soldier with this spear. He took that spear and he thrust it into his side, and forthwith came there out of blood and water he was.
Death, you know, there was a few men, Joseph of Arimathea, Nicodemus, they took that body down from the cross and there was a tomb, seems sort of like maybe a cave. We would call it some sort of a, a hole in the ground. I don't know exactly what it looked like, maybe a cave. And they carried him in there and they took his body and they wrapped it up all nice with linen clothes and put some nice spices in there so it smelled nice.
And they left that body.
And they rolled the stone back over the door.
Jesus was dead.
You know, there are some people that really loved him, like Mary Magdalene.
Some other women marry his mother, Joanna.
Those women that truly loved him. And they were there. They were weeping.
Because the man that they loved was Dash.
The one that they had hoped would be the savior, the one that they had hoped would redeem Israel. He was going to be the king, set up the Kingdom. He was dead.
They were devastated. How could it be? He never did anything wrong. The leaders took him. They killed him.
Seemed like the end.
But you know what? It wasn't the end. Miss First tells us that through death you might destroy him. That had the power of death. That is the devil. And so the first day of the week, same day we're on today.
Maybe we'll just look at it quickly in John.
John 20 says the first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark under the sepulchre, and see if the stone taken away from the supplement.
All right, so.
Mary in her love and devotion, she comes while it's still dark.
Just to be at the sepulchre, just Jesus dead body was enough for her.
And there was some discussion amongst the ladies how, how are we going to open the door? How are we going to roll back this enormous stone and put the spices that we prepared on his dead body?
You know when they got there.
Was the stone still over the door?
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What do you think, Lydia? No, the stone wasn't over the door. Now that would be a little surprising. You're coming while it's dark and the sepulchre is open. There had been guards there. We read in Matthew that they had sat there to make sure the disciples didn't come and steal away his dead body at night.
So there were guards that they were worried about. I mean, I shouldn't say I don't know whether they're worried about them or not, but the regards that were there, there was a stone that I don't expect these two ladies could have rolled back by themselves.
And yet they come, and here is an open sepulchre.
And this is different than they expected. You know, first of all, they didn't expect Jesus to die. Now they don't expect the sepulchre to be open.
So she run up and cometh to Simon Peter, the other disciple whom Jesus loved, and saith unto them, They have taken away the Lord out of the sepulchre, and we know not where they have laid him. Peter therefore went forth and the other disciple and came to the sepulchre. So they ran both together. The other disciple did outrun Peter, and came first to the sepulchre. And he's stooping down looking in, saw the living clothes line. Yet when he not in, then come as Simon Peter following him.
And went into the subtle currency at the linen clothes. Why? And the napkin that was about his head, not lying with the linen clothes, but wrapped together in a place by itself. Then went in also that other disciple which came first to the sepulchre, and he saw and believed, for as yet they knew not the Scripture, that he must rise again from the dead. Then the disciples went away again under their own home.
Stop there for a moment. So Mary, she runs away from the sepulchre and comes and she tells Peter and John, perhaps the others, and so they run. Who is the faster runner, Henry? You know who the faster runner was? One of them? Peter and John. All right, I put you on the spot, Sam. John seemed to be the faster runner, so he got there first.
So he peeks in, and when he peeks into the sepulchre, he saw those linen clothes that they had wrapped Jesus up in, and they're lying there, but there's no body.
I don't know, I'm sometimes a little.
Creeped out by things like that. So I probably wouldn't have gone in. Kind of like John, he just kind of peeked in and then he stayed out. But Peter wasn't like that. He came in, he wanted to see exactly what happened. And so any ghosts right in, he looks at everything. And when Peter was there, then John seemed to.
Going to.
And I thought, what is going on?
We know he was dead, but his body isn't here. What happened? He says John saw and believed.
But it also says that they didn't realize that the scripture said he was going to rise again from the dead.
So they went back home.
But who didn't go back home?
Verse 11 Mary stood without the sepulchre, weeping.
And as she wept, she stooped down, and looked into the sepulchre, and see if 2 angels in white sitting, the one at the head, and the other at the feet, where the body of Jesus had lain. And they say unto her, Woman, Why weepest thou? She saith unto them, Because they have taken away my Lord, and I know not where they have laid him.
When she had thus said, she turned herself back, and saw Jesus standing, and knew not that it was Jesus. Jesus saith unto her, Woman, why weepest thou? Whom seekest thou? She, supposing him to be the gardener, saith unto him, Sir, if thou have borne him hands, tell me where the house laid him, and I will take him away. Jesus saith unto her, Mary.
She turned herself and saith unto him, Or bone I, which is the same master.
Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not, for I'm not yet ascended to my Father, but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my father, and your Father, and to my God and your God. Mary Magdalene came and told the disciples that she had seen the Lord, and that he had spoken these things unto her.
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I'm just so impressed by the heart of Mary.
That loved the Lord Jesus so much.
So much.
She just wanted to be with him. She didn't know where his body was, but that was the last place she knew it had been.
She was just there, weeping.
She wanted to be with him.
You know what? Each one of our hearts wants to know the Lord to be with Him. He's going to reveal Himself to us.
He wants that closeness.
With each one of us, you know, does he just want it for those that are older? No, he wants it with each one.
To be close with him.
You know he had suffered for married sins.
Mary had had seven demons cast out of her.
She had known evil.
And she also knew that Jesus had set her free, and she left.
You know, he revealed himself to her and he revealed this wonderful truth that we have. I ascend to my Father and your father to my God and your God. And he told that to Mary, the one that wanted to be with him.
By rising from the dead, Jesus showed that death is not the final answer for people.
Because death up to that point had claimed people and they had not returned. Yes, there were people who had been raised from the dead, but they would die again.
Lazarus there was the one who touched the bones of Elijah.
There was the widow's son who's brought back to life. Maybe with both Elijah and Elijah there were people who had been brought back from the dead, but they died later on.
But when Jesus rose from the dead, he showed that death is not the end.
We looked at that sister lane lying in the coffin.
Body is there.
That's not the end, even for that body. That body is going to rise again, just like Jesus rose from the dead. Each one of us has this body that we live in. That is part of us, as Alex was speaking about yesterday.
So that fear of death, that *******.
By going into death, showing that Jesus was in death, He was dead. He came out of death. It no longer could hold him.
You know what? He offers that to each one of us, with the offer of eternal life.
The death cannot have that final dominion over us.
Now each one of you here, each one myself.
Do we have the confidence?
That what God has said in His Word.
True.
Believing God, Right faith.
OK, so I'd like to go to another well known verse in Romans chapter 10.
Romans chapter 10 and verse 9.
That if thou shalt contrast with thy mouth.
The Lord Jesus and.
Hand shall believe in thine heart that God has raised him from the dead. Thou shalt be saved.
Believing.
In the resurrection.
That Jesus died and he rose again.
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We believe it. What does it say here if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus? Jesus is Lord. You believe in your heart that God has raised him from the dead. You will be what?
You can help me?
Saved. You will be saved. Does it say you might or there's a 99% chance? No, you will be saved.
Know your kids. You can have full confidence that you are saved. Do you believe that Jesus died and rose again? Yes. All right. Have you confessed in your mouth? Have you said I believe in the Lord Jesus Christ?
If you have, then you're saved. You don't have to have the fear of death. You don't have to have that *******. You can be free now. This is amazing.
How many people in the world do not have this?
So many and we have this treasure right here in the Word of God. Jesus has died for us so that we can be saved.
Sometimes we get so used to it.
Same old story, heard that before I know all the details really.
That's not what it meant to marry. She wanted to be with her part. It meant something to her.
You know I need to respond that we have to the Lord Jesus we so appreciate.
Matters to him.
And I understand.
Get in First Corinthians 15 that.
She disappeared to more than 500 believers at once.
We know he appeared to Peter.
You know, Peter, when Jesus was being accused?
Peter said. I don't know him.
Even said bad words.
To announce I don't know this man.
Says that Jesus had met with Peter 2.
Perhaps there's somebody here that you.
Feel like you're away from the Lord.
Something that perhaps we've got.
The Lord wants you back to.
He didn't want Peter to just go off on his own. He wanted Peter to be fruitful and he wants that for each one of us. Don't stay away from him. Always come back. He always wants you back. He never wants us to be left.
You know Jesus went back to heaven.
And I said we'd refer to this person helping remember it, but in John 14.
Maybe we'll just end up with these verses. John 14.
1St 3 verses Let not your heart be troubled. You believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father's house are many matches. If it were not so, I would have told you, I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you unto myself, the where I am.
There he may be awesome.
You know this is the promise.
That the Lord Jesus left to his own shortly before he was going to go to the cross.
I will come again.
And receive you to the many mansions.
I will receive you to myself.
The where I am.
There you may be also.
No, that's the hope that we have for us is to be with the man who loved us and gave himself to be with him.
To be fully satisfied.
That's his promise. He said he was going to rise again after three days and then he also said I will come again.
So we have to look forward to each one of us who has put our trust in him, has believed in the resurrection. It's confessed with our mouth. They made you kids. If you really do believe in your heart, but you haven't told somebody with your mouth, say you believe it in your heart. Say it with your mouth.
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All right, sometimes it takes a little courage to say something.
Do it. It's a privilege, you know, Think about Jesus suffered or to remember that he was raised from among the dead. He went into death for us.
And that's the energy, the power that we have to live the Christian life.
He's given us what we need.
Remember Jesus Christ raised from.
Her.
Father, we're so thankful to.
Be able to read these scriptures together and be able to consider for a few moments.
This wonderful story of the resurrection of thy son.
Thank you for that grace in offering salvation to each one of us.
We could be brought from the ******* that awful fear of death that we legitimately have and deserve.
They will be free and instead to be able to look for the Lord's promise to come again. Father, just pray that each these things would touch our hearts. There would not just be a doctrine that we put on a shelf somewhere in our mind but that it would affect every area of our life. It's thank you for help this morning.
Pray that our hearts can be drawn out in worship to our Savior, Lord Jesus.
As we'll gather together, just pray in His precious name.