Children—Jonathan Blake
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If you have a hem sheet, on the Backpage are children's songs, but if you give out another one, we'll sing that too. And if the one you're thinking of is not in here and we know it, I think we'll get it figured out. Do you have a number #44? Let's start with #44?
Days.
No, I didn't know how long you have done that. Make it Shirley together with you and nobody has a murderer. That's the whole place for the community.
I don't know if I can tell it again. Now they can explore religious Lord.
No, no, you should get out of there. Let us go see if you wish to go over your door.
There is no me no more than a soul while I heard that nothing to me that I was doing. I exchange the last drama on my birthday, give me an hour and give me an hour and a half here and then She's my parents and I don't believe Oh.
No. Why did you have to earn time? So I'm gonna be done.
And.
Grow up together now I'll bring it in. So we're going to do it with you and you're going to go.
And I'll try again together. And I don't know what you don't have to be having.
No, no, I don't know if you didn't have that number. That's not what we need to do.
And then we can't go out where it fell again for us. God, now see you again. There's no phenomenon.
Volatility on the alternative constitutes. So I have somebody else in the evening and now I can't go and manage the experience and all of our communities.
Uh.
Thank you.
Very nice call. Someone have another song?
Number #6 Is that the ABC song? Is that the one you're thinking of? OK, let's try it out.
A man to hit the side for James Bond and.
Who thinks you are asking you We will be gone clutter against true you. You believe I'll be here. I'll have it on consumer guide slide again. I'm hoping there are no places.
Alright, somebody have another song?
#39.
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3533500 and 2900 from.
Is there any problem with that? I need to buy out there right now.
Umm, OK, OK, uh, the one I'm going to start off with.
That would be.
Uh, we'll find that soldiers together.
All right. It's after 930. I'd encourage if there's any more children back there, we have a whole section available of seats.
And it makes me feel better if there were, if it was still.
Have more company up here. So if you're, if you're willing, you can come up front and sit and I won't call on you unless you raise your hand.
All right, why don't we go ahead and sing another song someone has? I don't think anyone's giving it up in this section.
Number one, which one on this OK #1?
All right, why don't we pause? We're going to ask the Lord for his help.
Our gracious God and loving Father, we thank you this morning that we can have this meeting for children. Thank you for them here in the front row. And we just pray that their hearts would be touched by their by thy word. Pray that no one would be putting off.
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The accepting the as their savior, but there wouldn't be any almost persuaded.
So we just pray for help for this time and listing years for the children. To my name we pray. Amen.
One more young man up here. That's excellent. You know, I was thinking.
Can you just, we're going to stop seeing just for a few minutes and then maybe I'll have someone over here give us a call. Thank you for all your choices.
I was thinking I when I go to work.
Company I work for wants us to think about safety and I appreciate that.
They want us to work safely. You know what it is to be safe.
Do things that won't get yourself hurt. Well, sometimes we sit down in a meeting quite a bit different from this, but we'll be around the table. And they asked us if there's four or more people to do what's called a safety brief briefing. And what that is, is we remind ourselves things like someone will ask or someone's in charge and they'll say, where's the fire extinguisher?
Nearest fire extinguisher.
Where's the first aid kit?
Where do we go if there's a fire and we have to leave this building? Where do we gather together? Who's gonna call 911? So they ask those questions and someone needs to answer. Now, I could do that here, but you know, there's something much more important than your safety.
Your safety is very important, but something much more important than your safety. And I think you all know what that is. The salvation of your souls is more important than your safety. So I wanna do a little brief, umm, time here where we make sure we get out the gospel because we don't know when the Lord's coming. So I'm thinking of four verses and you all have learned these as memory verses, so I'm gonna start.
1St and you raise your hand if you know it and help me finish it. OK you ready for all have.
Aaron.
Very good. Romans 323 All have sinned and come short of the glory of God. Next verse.
It is appointed.
Any hands?
Unto a man once to die, but after this, but after this the judgment very good. So Christ was once offered the bearer, the sin of many. Sin is upon us, but it is, and it is appointed on demand. Wants to die. But after this the judgment. So Christ was once offered to bear the sin of many. That's the solution. What's next? The blood?
The blood of Jesus Christ.
He then cleanses us for all sin.
First John 17. Excellent. Thank you. OK, last verse. What am I to do about it? What must I do to be saved?
And they said.
Marcus.
Oh, you want me to watch Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved? Very good. Act 16. That's salvation in four verses. You all know that very well. But have you acted upon it?
If the Lord Jesus was to come this morning, would you be ready?
Got a seat for you? Alright, someone from this section or this section have a song.
Maybe we'll give someone else a turn, OK?
If not.
We can see #2 why don't we sing? It's a very nice song. Why don't we sing the first and last verse of #2 Thank you.
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My goodness, God, the creation, we have to go with you.
Mm-hmm.
Our deals include inviting us to come, come now, don't fill out. All right, Maybe we have time for one more.
99 at stake. I remember right this 99 whisper of prayer. Is that what you're thinking of?
We'll give it a try.
And it's a lot of grass. Congratulations, believe me.
Alright, children, we're going to have some time now to say versus. If we have volunteers to say versus, I know the verse that was in this week's Sunday school paper is pretty long. You don't have to say all of it. And of course, if you have another verse you've memorized, I'd welcome to hear that one as well. I'd appreciate volunteers to save versus Anyone want to start?
Already the version of the Sunday school paper. Maybe that'll.
Get someone started. He that believeth on him is not condemned, but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
And he volunteered to start with that verse or another one.
I'm gonna try taking this off and just.
OK.
He believed on him is not condemned, but he that believeth not if numbed already, for he, because he hath not believed. On the name of the family we got the Son of God. John 318. Thank you.
Any more volunteers?
He definitely upon him is not condemned, but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he has not believed on the name of the only begotten Son of God. John 318. Very good.
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Any more volunteers?
Steven.
He's at believeth on him is not condemned, and he that believeth not is condemned already, because he has not believed on the name of the only begotten Son of God. John 318. Very good.
Anybody else other verse you wanna try it?
It's not condemned, but he had believed noise to them already.
Turn 318.
Someone else wanna try? We have a volunteer down here.
You wanna try?
Huh. Alright, I don't think I would have at your age.
Believe me, it's not easy to be up here speaking. You want a chair?
Great, more tips.
OK. Last call for versus, anyone else think of a verse that they'd like to say?
All right.
I'm going to try and stand where I can see everybody.
So.
It's wonderful for you children to be here this morning. Wonderful for you to be here at the conference, I'm sure.
Your children are having a really nice time. I see you playing together, eating together, running together, running and then eating together. Looks great.
But we've been here.
And every, umm, day we've been having meetings, and I hope you're listening in the meetings. You know, I heard something in the first reading meeting that I thought, aha.
That goes with what I wanted to speak about a little bit, Brother said.
The New Testament is the text. That means it's full of words, the Old Testament.
Is pictures.
Anyone else hear that?
New Testament has the words and the Old Testament is pictures you know your children are learning to read.
At a certain age and as you get older.
Well, the first books you read has maybe even less than a complete sentence and a big picture on it, right? And as you get older, at least this is my experience, the pictures got less and the words got more.
Isn't that how it goes? The more you read, the less pictures there are?
Well, if I take what was said in the reading meeting and I turn to the Old Testament.
I haven't found a colorful picture in the Old Testament yet, literally speaking, but I'm gonna ask the brother if he still says that's true. Eric, is that true?
Alright Nick, would you agree with Eric? They say yes. I know brother Robert did because he he spoke for an hour on pictures. I think one of the pictures he said was.
Egypt is a picture of this world.
You know, children. This may sound harsh, but this world has doesn't have A use for children.
They they have other objectives. They want to see you grow up into something, but they really don't have much time for children. But what you know the story of the Lord you is he took a chill out child, he said, suffer the children to come unto me, for such is the Kingdom of God. Another time he took a child set him in their midst and said.
Except you have the faith of a little child. The Lord Jesus values you little children.
But let's get back to the pictures.
I brought a coloring book with me.
And I saw a nice picture in it. Can anyone tell me? I just wasn't to say that I brought this. Can anyone tell me what they see?
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Three flowers and a bird. He sees 3 flowers and a bird. That was the answer I wanted. Everyone raise their hand if they see three flowers and a bird.
The adults are playing on as well.
Thank you. You know, I don't actually see three flowers and a bird.
This has goldfinch. I've never been this close to a goldfinch if it's a bird.
These flowers.
I can't smell them. I can't pull the petals on them. So it's a I'm being a little bit too technical here, maybe it's a picture of three flowers and a bird. It's not an actual bird. It's not an actual flower. It's not an actual flowers. It's a picture of three flowers and a bird.
OK, so if no one had seen a bird or no one had seen a goldfinch, let me try to explain this a little bit. You show them this picture.
And say this is like this represents, this is similar to a goldfinch and three flowers. It's a picture, it describes it to us. That's what it is. And so.
When someone when our brother said the Old Testament is full of pictures it describes it represents something in the New Testament.
It's not completely accurate, it doesn't completely describe it, but it it gives a very good representation.
Well.
I was hoping to take a.
Picture one of the pictures in the Old Testament.
And display it a little bit more before you so that you may understand the story of in that Old Testament, but also what it represents. And I hope I can do it in an honorable way and umm, in a way you can understand. All right, so.
How many of your children like to go on a walk with your dad?
Or your mom. I got a few.
Alright.
I need 3 volunteers.
Elliott, thank you for volunteering.
Go ahead, go ahead and come up here. So I got one more. You want to come? All right, Girls got left out.
Just a second.
Children, let's go ahead and stand over there.
Picture I wanted this display this morning is found in Genesis chapter 22.
You're all familiar with that. I think when we start talking about it, you'll see.
You'll remember what it's about.
You know Abraham had a son.
I'll give a little bit of background.
Abraham had a son. I don't have just one son. I have two sons that Abraham had to wait a long, long time for that son. In fact, he was 100 years old before he was given that son.
And you know that sun meant everything to him because the promises were all to be. All the promises that were given to Abraham were going to be fulfilled in that sum. And he had received that sum from God, and he loved that son. And again, it meant everything to him.
So I'm gonna read the verses starting Genesis chapter 22.
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It came to pass after these things, that God did tempt Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham, and he said, Behold, here I am.
And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah, and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains, which I will tell the uh. And Abraham rose up early.
Well, I told my son I may need a volunteer so he was prepped.
I love my son, Abraham loves his son, and Abraham was called.
To offer up his son for a burnt offering. Complete offering him up. His son was going to die. The Lord asked him to offer him up for a burnt offering.
What a.
And unimaginable thing as a father to be called to offer up your son. You know Abraham in years past.
Didn't always obey right away.
It took him a while to learn obedience. It takes us a while to learn obedience. But on this instance Abraham had walked with the Lord many years, and he obeyed right away. We say, see, he rose up early in the morning. Our hearts, we were told yesterday, our hearts are deceitful.
If we wait, when the Lord commands us to do something, we'll reason our way out of it. Abraham didn't wait. He knew his heart. He got up early in the morning and made preparation.
Says he rose up early in the morning, settled his *** and took two of his young men and Isaac his son, enclave the wood for a burnt offering.
I have wood or what looks like wood.
Carry that.
OK, that we're gonna go on a walk.
Anyone know how far of a walk they went on? Doesn't give us the distance. Let's start walking. So Abraham's walking along.
He has two servants.
You know they walked the full day.
And then the next day, they walked again.
You think those steps of Abraham were fast? I don't know, but they certainly were heavy. You know what heavy steps mean? He had a burden. He was caring. He was on his way to offer up his son, his only son. If I surveyed the room, there would be no hands given up by every father in here. They wouldn't OfferUp any of their children.
Abraham was called to offer up his son.
And what a journey that was, two days. And if we read verse four, on the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, He looked up and he saw the place that the Lord had told him of.
A far off what a site that must have been, to see that place where he'd give up his only son. OK, so Abraham said unto his young men, Stay here.
Me and the lad will go Yonder and worship, and come again to you. Abraham took the wood.
And gave it to his son. Laid the wood upon his son. You can go back to your seat. Thanks.
I on the lab will go Yonder and worship, and come again to you. So Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering, and laid it upon Isaac his son.
He took fire and a knife and they went both of them together. I didn't bring those two items.
Figured you can imagine what that was, but they went both of them together.
They journeyed a little bit and again, Abraham's heart no doubt was heavy. Now it's just him and his son.
And he, he, he has a heavy heart and they're walking along together and his son is thinking about things. As a side note, Elliot was asking, what's that box in our car for?
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My father, behold Jeremiah. My son, behold the fire. And what? What? Where is going for the burnt offering? That's what Abraham? What? Isaac asked. Behold the fire and the wood. But where is the lamb for a burnt offering? Something is missing in this picture. We have the knife, we have fire, we have wood.
But where's the lamb?
My son, God will provide himself a lamb.
For a burnt offering. So they went, both of them together.
And then they came to the place. No more steps to make.
They took came to the place that the Lord had told Abraham of.
And it says he built an altar there.
So it's a wooden order.
Help me put those on that thing.
Sure, Isaac had seen altars before.
And this is a very poor representation.
But they built an altar.
Says he bound his son Isaac.
Found his Son Found Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar of wood.
Abraham stretched forth his hand to take the knife and took the knife to slay his son.
And the Angel of the Lord steps in, calls Abraham.
Abraham, Abraham and Abraham says here I am.
And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do anything unto him. For now I know that thou fierce God, seeing thou, hast not withheld thy son, thine only Son from me.
And Abraham lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold.
Behind him, a ram caught in a thicket by his horns.
And so.
Isaac came down off the altar.
And there was a lamb there.
Hot in the thicket by his horns.
And Abraham took that lamb and offered him up.
In place of his son. What a wonderful thing for Abraham to have that lamb to take his son's place.
So I told you children about pictures. I wanna go back to the story that we very, umm, weekly tried to demonstrate a little bit of what happened and see if you can understand the picture.
That the story is of the real thing. That's what's most important here is the real thing. This picture doesn't illustrate every detail, but the real thing.
In short is that God provided his Son on Calvary's cross to die for your sins.
You know God and a past eternity with his Son.
Jesus.
There was a question of who would pay the great debt, who could be the propitiation for our sins?
Who will go for us?
And the verse says then said, I lo, I come in the volume of the bucket is written to do thy will, O God, so Lord Jesus voluntarily.
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Came to do the father's will, which would lead even to death. You know, Abraham walked two days and the third day with his son.
Well, before we get to that, there came a time to nearly 2000.
Plus years ago.
That the Son of God became a man. You know, I had Elliot up here and at one point I took the wood from the two servants and I gave it to Elliott. He that wood speaks to the Lord Jesus becoming a man and walking down here as a man. He came as a man.
And for 33 years, he walked at every footstep.
LED only to the cross. There was no other path for him but that which led to the cross. So we followed that pathway for 33 years.
And.
They came to the place.
You know, we read often about the story of Gethsemane.
Lord jealous, it says he sweat, as it were great drops of blood, the thought of sin.
Being made sin, he was wholly spotless. I don't have a son like that. God had a son like that, holy, spotless, without sin, no sin in him. And to be made sin was an awful thought. And he said, Father, if it be possible, let this cut pass from me. Nevertheless not my will, but thine be done. That's what he prayed to his Father.
But there was no other sacrifice that could be made.
Then God's holy son, the Lord Jesus, and so it said, we read the verse Abraham and Isaac, they went, both of them together.
Lord Hughes said. Here I am, send me, we read in first. John the Father sent the son. They were one of one mind to go together to that altar. A little bit different than the story of Abraham and Isaac, but we still see it there, you know, and it came time.
Men crucified the Lord Jesus. They founded the nails into his hands, his feet. They hung him on the cross.
But that wasn't I bound Elliot up, I put him there. But those nails, they didn't hold them to the cross. It was his heart of love.
And then we read for three hours he was made a sacrifice for Sims. How awful.
The nails and all the suffering we heard this last night, all the suffering at the hands of man was nothing compared to those three hours of darkness when he suffered for your sins and mine.
In Isaac's case, we found a ram to be caught in a second and to be the substitute for Isaac being offered up. How wonderful that was for Abraham. But again, God's only beloved son has only begotten son. There was no one to substitute for him, says He that spared, not his own son.
Here we have in Genesis 22, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me.
So that was a story.
That was the actual thing, God sending his son in onto this earth to die for you and me to make propitiation for our sins. But you know that is on the end of the story. And we didn't finish the story with Isaac either. The next time we read about Isaac.
There's a servant going after a bride for Isaac.
And Isaac gets married. You know what the Lord is. He went into death. You all know this story very well. He rose again. And the Spirit is here, even working today to find children, men, women, to be saved and to be part of that bride. And there's coming a marriage.
Will you be there?
You can know all these things. You can know the gospel, those four verses of the gospel, but there's coming a marriage and will you be there? He has sent out the invitation. Come, we read a song. Come. You have to accept it. It's not enough to just know the stories, know the pictures. We can all know that. We have to believe on Him. Leave on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved. Take him at His word. Have the faith.
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Like Abraham did Phoebe the call and come to him. Thank you children, for listening. We're gonna close with the word of prayer.
Our gracious God, loving Father, we do thank thee for thy Son, the Lord Jesus. We thank thee for his work on the cross and that it was complete that he was made a propitiation for our sins. We pray that for these children that they would understand and accept the.
Believe on the and that they could say he died for me.
So we just thank Thee for this time this morning. We pray for Thy working in any hearts that are not yet thine. Thy name we pray, Amen.