Children—Mark Breman
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Good morning.
How's everyone this morning?
We have a lot of chairs up here where the children can sit, some ones over here, maybe a few here left open for the children and across here. So please feel free to come sit up here.
Can't see my flowers from way back there very well.
So if you want it, come sit up here.
Well, thank you. And if there's anyone else that has the courage to come sit up here later on in the Sunday school, just go ahead and come on up and sit down. Maybe one of your friends is sitting up here and you can come sit by them.
I think we still have a minute or so, but we could get started. So who has a song that they would like to sing? If somebody doesn't have a song book, here's some more song books.
Do you like one? OK, there's extras here if someone would would like another songbook.
But who has the first song this morning they'd like to give out? Yes, Sir.
#25.
Let's sing the first and last verse of #25.
Life at best is very brief.
To be in time.
And continue on your way to make my soul and get it. And your product is done through the head.
Whenever he's gone, anybody make the mother's turn out these joints, and I'll help him well drink the Lord's name.
Umm, from darkness into lighting, from the way. Let's see the Christ.
On the stars for heaven to night.
The community and Sun medium time.
While my wife's updated the scars to me tonight.
And send you on your way. You may find the old congregate.
I'm here, right? Be just too late.
In time.
And you know, the last part of this verse, of the last verse that we sang says come and start for heaven tonight. And that was put in there for poetic reasons perhaps, but it means very soon. But what does the Scripture say? Behold, when is the accepted time?
Now, behold, now is the accepted time. Behold now.
Is the day of salvation right now Come to the Lord Jesus.
And I'm sure if the one who wrote this him knew that we were going to sing it in Sunday school this morning.
The ones who wrote this hymn would probably say make sure the kids know that it means right now and not to wait till this evening.
I have some flowers up here. The second verse says fairest flowers.
Soon decay, youth and beauty pass away. O, you have not long to stay. Be in time. You know it. You may have heard this before, but I'll say it again. It seems like just yesterday.
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Just yesterday that I was your age, sitting on the front row of a Sunday school just like this, and time has flown by so fast.
Oh, I'm thankful that I know the Lord Jesus Christ as my savior, but I'm concerned that maybe there's a boy or a girl here this morning that has still put it off. It's still not come to know the Lord Jesus as their Savior.
Come to the Lord Jesus this morning.
Who else has this song?
OK.
#28.
Let's sing the first verse in the chorus of #28.
Praise. It is a charming.
And thank you man from children.
Walls a year and shall give you.
Save my friend alone.
There's a long time to sleep.
Do you need any sunlight over all day from I have a chase? It's not time for revenge disease.
Sometimes we enjoy these hymns and I wonder if we think much about what they're saying sometimes when we sing, especially if we know a song fairly well. Boys and girls raised in the Sunday School have learned these songs from little on. And when we sing them, maybe we look around a little bit. But you know, it's good to remember what these songs are saying, what the words mean.
Can each one of you this morning say and Jesus died for me personally? Maybe you know that the Lord Jesus died but haven't yet said yes, He died for me personally and taken the Lord Jesus as your Savior.
Well, this morning, let's see.
Think about that, because we don't know.
Like we've seen before, life at best is very brief.
We don't know, you know, when we were on our way here, we were coming out of a little town called Albion, IL.
Headed towards Mount Carmel and about four miles out of town we saw a lot of flashing lights on the side of the road and it didn't look very good.
When we got up there, there was a cement truck.
That was laid over in the ditch and they were there. The emergency crew was there, but it was sad because they had a white sheet spread over the cab of that truck that was split open from the crash. Now, we don't know if that man or that woman, whoever was driving that concrete truck, we don't know if they actually survived or if they were taken in that accident.
But how many of you think that the one who was driving that concrete truck said when they got up in the morning, you know what? Today I'm gonna have a crash.
Raise your hand if you thought that's what they said today this morning when I get up. Today could be my last day.
A nurse? No, we don't know. I, I I would be so very surprised if that were the case. Nor did any boy or girl hear this morning get up thinking that.
Oh, then it's important, isn't it, that we be in time, because not only do we have situations like that, and the Lord is over all those things.
But he tells us in his precious word, Behold, I come quickly.
I come quickly and the Lord is coming and he could come before the Sunday school is over and I feel burdened about that, that maybe there would be a boy or a girl left behind.
Oh, be in time. Who else has this song to sing this morning? OK.
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2829 OK, let's sing all of #29.
Uh, ruler once K.
Uh, last 30 days and I'm 38 words. We're doing like the flight, a mild, a milder come again.
He is not straightforward and I can't remember him. He didn't even have faith on my throat again. I better ever let him get the better of the years. I didn't know how to do it today.
Good morning. Good morning. I'm not again.
The children don't matter.
Don't stop and play after my dreams of the Lord. I bless not this man to ensure you begin plain. He must be in the heart again.
You must be born like them.
I better proceed better from the same day until the end of the day all our time again.
OK, J tomorrow big one again.
Give us a call back down.
You want to be born like that, I better be fairly come to sleep.
In my life again.
OK, we've had a couple of boys give out songs now about a girl. Maybe there's a girl that would like a song.
OK #41.
Around the throne.
I came from the apartment by big one will be already.
Uh, let me continue to tell her last name goodbye. And Joyce has never.
Been singing glory.
Glory.
Glory.
To God.
Umm.
Bring them to that world that you have no pride and 1St.
Where all this peace and joy and love have come to spill the rainbow singing glory.
Glory to God.
The gods, understanding the Shaggy's blood to her, jump with their sins. Now what is that most precious life? Behold, and wide and clean singing glory.
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This is a song of joy, isn't it? Glory, glory, glory be to God on high.
It speaks of children singing that song. Older ones are going to sing that song too. But what is it that gives the children the joy and the older ones the joy as they sing this song? This song is this song is going to be sung around the throne of God in heaven. And how do those children get there? This this song tells us? And where do they get that joy that this song springs from?
Where does it come from?
Where does that joy come from?
It comes from heaven, he says, yes, originally it came from heaven. The Lord Jesus came down from heaven, came down as a man, and he walked through this world doing the glory of his Father and the will of his Father, and he went to the Calvary's cross, and there he died, and he bled for your sins and mine. And if you put your faith and trust in the Lord Jesus, He by the His Spirit will impart into you this joy.
And you too can sing this song. Glory, glory, glory be to God on high. I wonder if every boy and girl will be there when this song is sung in heaven. We don't know when. Very soon. Lord Jesus said, behold I come quickly.
OK, let's put our books down and let's close our eyes and we're just going to ask the Lord for His help this morning.
Father, we come before Thee and seek Thy help this morning because we need it, and we pray for each one of these boys and girls here in the Sunday School. Thou knowest each heart. Thou knowest each condition. And we pray, Lord Jesus, that as we have Thy word open before us and we speak of these things, that Thou would be magnified, and that that would be precious to the hearts of each one of us.
We pray that these children would have a sense of the in their souls this morning. So we go over these scriptures together and we say the verse and we look into Thy word and speak of it. We just pray for a blessing from thyself this morning. Lord Jesus, and thy most worthy and precious name we pray, Blessed Savior, Amen.
Well, at the Sunday School in Pella, we all say the verse that was in the Sunday School paper. And if you would like to say the verse this morning, you can say the verse and then we'll talk about the verse a little bit and I'll say it first, so that might refresh your memory a little bit. It says the fool has said in his heart there is no God. Psalms 53.
One, you remember that. OK, who would like to be first?
There's a race we'll start at this end of the row and we'll just work down here because I see some boys that are anxious to say OK.
The fool has said in his heart there is no God.
Psalms 53 one. Thank you very much. Would you like to say it too?
The floor has set in his heart. There is no God. Psalm 53 one. Thank you. Very good. You want to also, don't you?
The school has set in his heart that there is no God.
Psalms 53 one very good. Would you like to say it?
Undecided. OK, you don't have to. Would you like to say it?
53 One the fool has said in this heart there is no God. Psalm 53 one very nice. How about over here is this? Would you like to say it?
In his heart there is no God Psalm 53 one thank you, this will have set In his heart there is no God. Psalms 53 one.
The fool has said in his heart there is no God sign 53 one.
The fool has said in his heart there is no God. Psalm 53 one.
Thank you. How about back here? Would you like to say it OK? Would you? No, that's OK. That's OK. Yeah.
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And I'm sure there's others who have memorized it too. And that's good, isn't it? To commit the word of God to memory. This is a solemn verse, isn't it? The fool has said in his heart, there is no God. That's a foolish thing to say, isn't it? And that's what the fool says in his heart. God's Word tells us that there is no God.
The first thing that I thought of when I thought of this verse is.
How foolish man could be to say that there is no God?
And what is it that brings man to the point where they would say there is no God?
It's pride, isn't it?
They don't want to stand before God.
Because if there was a God, they would have to do with him. So man would say there is no God out of his mouth, that he has a conscience that tells him that there is a God. But if he can say that out of his mouth, maybe he can persuade others that maybe to think similar thoughts. And then consequently, if there was no God, then they have no one to answer to, to be responsible to.
But there is a God.
And I thought of these flowers. That's one of the first things I thought of. Lance has a flower garden at home. And right across the front of the chicken shed, he has some big, tall flowers. And one day he was over there looking at those flowers. And he said, dad, look, there's little flowers inside the big flowers. Have you ever seen that? Now, there's some flowers here this morning that are kind of like that. And I have some magnifying glasses here.
If you want to come up and take a look at the inside of these flowers, please do. Who wants to come up here and take a look inside those flowers?
Do you see a little flower inside the flower? Yeah.
Now I'm not sure what these flowers are called.
No yellow flowers, they are very good. Would you like to look inside the flower?
Yeah.
You can pick any flower here you want to and look at it.
You think you could put together a flower like that? I know you. Some kids are pretty creative. I've seen some pictures that kids have drawn and seen some artwork and stuff. You think you could make a flower like that?
Mm-hmm. You, you think that if, if we, uh, took a, a scissor and cut that flower all up in pieces, that you could put it back together just the way it was?
No, God had to do a thing like that. We look at all the beauty of it all.
Even from little dandelions.
You know that song we sang the verse of it says.
Ferris flowers soon decay. Last night it was fairly late and I snuck over to Christopher's house to get a flower, and I cut a flower off of a big Bush that was in their backyard. A beautiful, beautiful flower. You know that Bush mat? Yeah. And I put it on the dash of my van. I thought this would be a fine, fine specimen.
For the children in the morning, what do you suppose happened? When I went out to my van this morning? It was even still dark out before the sun was up. And what had happened to that beautiful flower?
It it died, it was all wilted. And there it laid. It was, it was, it had died.
Death is in this world, even in beautiful things like flowers.
This world is cursed by sin. Man has disobeyed God and sin has come, and these flowers here will have an end. Even the beauties of God's creation like the as we know, the mirror on this table will come to an end.
Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my word shall not pass away.
Everything in this life is going to be changed.
Except for your soul, if you know the Lord Jesus as your Savior, your soul can go to be with Him.
And when this scene falls under the judgment of God for sin.
You will be safe.
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If you're saved, if you know the Lord Jesus as your savior, do you? Does each boy and girl hear this morning know the Lord Jesus as your Savior?
When you read this verse, there's two words there that are what we call in italics.
There is.
There is. So sometimes when we read the verse that has italics, meaning that perhaps the translator put that in to help us better understand the verse. Sometimes we read the verse and drop the italics. And what does it say if we do that? The fool has said in his heart.
No God.
Oh.
No God. Maybe there's a boy or a girl here this morning that knows that there is a God and would confess that there is a God. But you have said no God to his offer of salvation through the Lord Jesus. Oh, what a solemn thing that would be to say. No God, how sad. And man says.
Some men say there is no God man who doesn't want to be responsible for God before God. That is, they have all kinds of theories and all kinds of teachings that are just foolishness.
I saw a bumper sticker that said that fairy tales say that a frog became a Prince.
Scientists call it evolution.
That's how foolish it is, some of the things that men believe.
It's sad, isn't it? You know, one time we were at the zoo and we saw on the wall there, umm, a monkey painted and it was all hunched over and bent down with his face to the ground. And then the next painting, it was stood up a little more upright and it was a little more defined. And then the drawings went on in progression until the last drawing was a a drawing of a man that was walking.
Where did they get that idea?
The fool hath said in his heart.
No God.
You know.
They say that there was a Big Bang and these things just happened. What has happened every time you have saw a Big Bang? If you light a firecracker, does things come together real nice and pretty or do things fly apart and are destroyed?
The fool has said in his heart.
No God.
But you know, God had an intention. God had an intention. If we turn to the first verse of the Bible, it says in the beginning, God, what a wonderful thing God is. God is. We read that in Romans. It says God is, and he's the justifier of him that believeth in Jesus. What a wonderful thing.
Acts chapter 17 as a verse I'd like to look at this morning.
Just the phrase of a verse, and we'll read some scriptures together here this morning.
Acts chapter 17 and verse 24, the first part of the verse, it says God that made the world and all things therein, there is a God. We sang of that God this morning, that God who so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever meaning you and me, and each one of us, and any boy or girl or man and woman in this world.
That believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. Oh, do you know the Lord Jesus this morning?
Do you have everlasting life?
God's intentions in sending His Son was for you and me, that He might bless us.
That we might come to know him. Proverbs chapter 8.
Speaking of the Lord Jesus prophetically.
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Verse.
22 The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old. I was set up from everlasting from the beginning, wherever the earth was. And we can read down through here about creation and and all that had taken place in the Lord Jesus was before all that.
In in verse.
Umm, 30, it says. Then I was by him as one brought up with him.
And I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him, rejoicing in the inhabitable part of his earth and mighty lights wherewith the sons of men.
There is a God and he has a Son, the Lord Jesus, and in eternity past, even there he was thinking of perhaps boys and girls right here this morning in the Sunday School in Mayfield, KY.
In 2008 and wondering, pleading. He wasn't wondering. He was pleading with any boy or girl.
Oh, do you know the Lord Jesus as your Savior this morning? He was thinking of you and how He wants to bless you.
Let's look at verse in First Timothy.
Mm-hmm.
OK, OK.
First Timothy, chapter 2.
And verse 3.
It says this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior, who will have all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. The Lord Jesus would have you to be saved this morning and to come to the knowledge of the truth, for there is one God. The fool has said in his heart, there is no God.
Here the words there is is in italics also.
41 God, There is one God.
And one mediator between God and man, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself a ransom for all to testify in due time. The Lord Jesus came into this world in due time.
He came to bear our sins on Calvary's cross.
He stood between God and man because God is holy.
And God loves you, and he the Lord Jesus, boy, the sins of each one that would put their faith and trust in him on Calvary's cross who gave himself a ransom for all to testify.
In due time, do you know the Lord Jesus this morning?
Oh, if there's a boy or girl here who does not know the Lord Jesus, may you put your faith and trust in Him even now.
Let's look at a verse in Psalms chapter 50.
Psalms chapter 50 and verse 10.
For every beast of the forest is mine.
You ever see a wild animal in the woods? They belong to the Lord there. He is the cattle upon 1000 hills. I know all the fowls of the mountains. The wild beasts of the field are mine. If I were hungry would would I would not tell thee, for the world is mine and the fullness thereof. There is a God, and all things belong to Him.
These beautiful flowers, you know, as these flowers are setting up here, I saw a couple of little ants. They crawled out across the table and there's one right there crawling on the table. The Lord knows about that little Ant.
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He knows about you. He knows about each one of us.
All these things belong to him, but what is the heart of man? Let's read on.
The first let's read verse 15 and call upon me in the day of trouble, and I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.
There is a day of trouble. There is a day of trouble for each boy and girl who doesn't know the Lord Jesus as their Savior.
It's now.
Because we read that in John chapter 3, that if you don't know the Lord Jesus as your savior, the wrath of God abides on you even now.
I'll come to the Lord Jesus, call upon him.
While there is still time.
Verse.
16 But unto the wicked God saith.
And I would think of those who say in their heart not only there is no God, but let's say no God or say no to God. What a solemn thing. I think this in a certain sense is looking forward to the scene when the Lord Jesus was rejected and what was in the heart of man that.
Caused man to reject the Lord Jesus, and nail him to the cross. But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do? To declare my statutes, or that thou shouldest take?
Uh, my covenant in thy mouth, seeing thou hatest instruction and casteth my words behind thee. You know, in the Lord Jesus was come on the scene. They rejected him, but they carried on with their ritualism and their formalism. Even after the Lord Jesus was put on the cross and he died. They it says that they took his body off of the cross because it was the Passover.
There was ritual and formalism, but the heart was not in it, they said. No God.
When thou sawest the thief, when thou can consider us with him, then thou can consent us with Him. And has been partakers, partaker with adulterers. Thou give us thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit. Think of all the things that they said about the Lord Jesus that was wrong, things that he was accused of.
People.
Just rejected the Lord Jesus and denied him, and he was the holy Lamb of God.
Verse 20 Even his own brothers and sisters rejected him. Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother.
Thou slanderest thine own mother's son. These things hast thou done. And I kept silent. Thou thoughtest that I was altogether such, and one as thyself.
That's why man wants to say there is no God because they think that God is just like them. There are some who teach a wicked doctrine that says that God is what God was, what man is, and man can become what God is. How sad.
That's not the God we know, is it? That's not the God of the Bible. That's not the one who sent his only begotten Son into this world to die for us so we might be saved.
Now if there's a boy or girl here this morning and you realize there is a God.
And you have to do with that. God, this next Psalm, we're going to read a few verses in here that will help us to understand what God is looking for in the heart that is seeking Him. We talk about being saved. You know, part of that is repentance, repentance towards God and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ. And let's just read a few verses here and we can apply them this way in the gospel.
In verse 51, it says wash me thoroughly from mine iniquity and cleanse me from my sin. This is the language that God is looking for in your heart and mind. If we don't know the Lord Jesus as our Savior, I know the Lord Jesus as my Savior and I had to say these words to the Lord before. What a wonderful thing it is when a soul comes to the place where they can acknowledge these things to God.
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Verse 3 For I acknowledge my transgression and my sin, as ever before me against thee, and Thee only have I sinned. There is a God, and it is Him with whom we have to do.
Verse seven Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean. Wash me and I shall be whiter than snow. Verse 10 Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me. Verse 17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit, a broken and contrite heart. O God, thou wilt not despise.
If you don't know the Lord Jesus as your Savior this morning and you want to be saved, you want to come to know Him this morning right in your seat where you are. Come to the Lord Jesus and own that you're a Sinner and that you have rejected Him. I see here boys and girls that have probably sat in a lot of Sunday schools.
I trust there's none here, but it is the burden on my heart that there may be a boy or girl here this morning who doesn't yet know the Lord Jesus as their Savior. Come to the Lord Jesus and own that you're a Sinner.
Own that what he did on Calvary's cross was for you.
Let's look at John's Gospel, chapter 19.
John's Gospel chapter 19 and verse 5 Then came Jesus forth wearing a crown of thorns and a purple robe, and Pilate saith unto them, behold the man, look at the Lord Jesus, behold the man. That's what we would ask for you to do this morning. Behold the man. Verse six. When the chief priest therefore, and officers saw.
Him, they looked at the Lord Jesus, He said behold the man. And when they looked at the Lord Jesus, there was a reaction.
What is the reaction in your heart this morning when the Lord Jesus is presented? Their reaction was they cried out saying crucify him, crucify him. How sad.
They, in a sense, said no God, no God, the fool has said in his heart, no God. Oh, I trust there's no boy or girl here this morning.
That would be that way and say no God, how sad if that were the case.
Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved. There's a story I believe it's in Mark Chapter 9 of a man who had a son.
And his son had a problem.
But he did the right thing. He brought his Son to the Lord Jesus.
When this man brought his Son to the Lord Jesus, the Lord Jesus had a little talk with this man.
And the result was something that the man said that I would like us to look at real quickly.
Verse 24 of Mark Chapter 9.
And straightway the father of the child cried out and said with tears, Lord, I believe, help thou might unbelief. Maybe there's a boy or girl here this morning and you're struggling in your heart as to this word believe and wondering about it. Just say Lord, I believe help thou mine unbelief in the Lord Jesus.
Will take you up in his loving hands.
And he'll help your unbelief. Maybe you don't understand it all in simple faith. Just come to him. There's another verse about believing believe. It's in John Chapter 9.
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John, Chapter 9.
And verse 38.
And he said, Lord, I believe, and he worshipped him. Isn't that wonderful? Oh, if there's a boy or girl here this morning and you in simple faith, come and believe on the Lord Jesus.
And don't be like the fool who says in their heart no God, but say yes to the Lord Jesus and believe on Him. The result is worship will flow from your heart and praise.
For what God has done for you, the Lord Jesus will fill your heart with joy and happiness.
End.
When the Lord Jesus comes, we have assurance from His Word that He will go home to be with him and be with Him and like Him forever. What a blessed thing. But you don't have that hope. If you don't know the Lord Jesus as your Savior, you have no such hope.
It's like these flowers here, they're gonna soon fade. We can enjoy them here and they're beautiful. They're gonna soon fade and pass away.
But what have you done with the Lord Jesus? Time is gliding swiftly by. Don't let another moment pass by before you trust in the Lord Jesus. Behold, now is the accepted time.
Behold, now is the day of salvation. Please don't say no God, let's close in prayer.
Lord Jesus, our hearts go out to any boy or girl here this morning.
Who may not know Thee? And we just pray that thou would touch them with Thy precious word, that they might not say no, God, that they might come to know Thee. Whom to know his life eternal. Lord Jesus, we just pray for each one.
We just thank thee, Lord Jesus, for going to that cross to bear our sins, to wash us wide and clean in thy precious blood. We thank thee, Lord Jesus, for a privilege if we're still left here, that we have to sit down, remember the night death together. We look to thee, Lord Jesus, and would commit thy precious word in the presentation of it to thy care. And we just commit the remainder of this conference that I love and care. If we're still left here, we thank you for the.
Precious ministry that we've had before us thus far and asked that that would continue to bless us in this way. My most worthy and precious name, Lord Jesus, Amen.