Children—Alex Nash
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Uh, we're gonna start off with singing a few hymns. Does anyone have a thing you'd like to start with? Go ahead.
#41.
And this one I'm I know it but I'm not too familiar with it with someone. Please start #41.
No, no, no, no, no.
Really shy.
Feeling strong when I'll see you afterwards. Growing up, our life is life and joy and joy that may have a birthday.
Anymore.
Call everything about 362 blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.
What brings them to my brother?
Swear all in his thy joy and love out any of the children, that they're saying glory.
Glory, sorry to talk about your heart.
#16.
Whosoever hears.
Over here crying out loud, it's, umm, really Slider little dragon?
But far away.
That's not possible.
There's a loving father on the wonderful.
Line around that call.
Good. So I'm not going to buy cigarettes like cigarettes.
All day and see why you're in bed. 831 we fell out for real. OK come.
Lose my life around the world. Lose my life around the world.
There's no problem. And the loving father of the wanderer of the wanderer, home with the land, the world may come.
You were first. Go ahead.
#40 Is your name Isaac?
Was it? Yeah, I see. That's like me.
Yeah, she's not 5 minutes, she's not about Don't tell me so.
These are from me to God. That's not a mistake. You're lost. And why he will wash away my sins. Let our land so shallow thumb and yeah, give me some 12 days to love. She's got me.
Just because of me, she loves my nose. Don't need so.
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I know not one anymore.
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I have been doing anything with that and I have a great spray and then, uh, continue to spray and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
SN what about in the evening? Is it raining anywhere to get anything to work right here this Wednesday and then run high 5190. I have to do anything and I have a great sweat and hang on a minute. Uh, continue. That's great and bold to.
OK, I'm doing good, my hands.
Away.
OK, last song.
#11.
We might sing some more after the message, but I have no idea how long the message is going to take so.
#11.
Well, you're right.
And then we have to drive like it's powerful that I can shut up. What they're going to grow fasting to the rock where it can run through.
12130 MSA.
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In the strain of air who went to Breakers, all the transformation is near.
On the rising side, you can never fail while you're answering the call and love.
We Are dangerous and **** ****** falls as a joy of the love of novels.
Therefore, guidance and help.
Lord Jesus, we thank you for another Sunday, another Lord's Day that we can all be together. Thank you for these children that are here, these boys and girls, and just pray that you would give to the speaker a message that would touch our hearts. And if any of these little ones don't know the Lord Jesus as their personal Savior, pray that they would bow to thee and they would accept thee as their Savior. Look to thee for this and just commit the rest of this time to Thee in Jesus name, Amen.
OK, now I'm gonna need some of your guys help. I have written down four different references. So people who have Bibles, is anyone willing to read some references for me? You will. You're willing to read one? OK, now you're gonna. I'll call on you when it's time to read your references. I'm trying to remember who's got what reference.
Thank you.
I'll give you one and your name. OK, so these references, umm, let's see one of the references I'd like read right away if that's OK. So if you are finding them, who has the reference in Isaiah? Which one of you has a reference in Isaiah?
Not you. You was your reference, Matthew. Where's yours?
OK, that must be you, Mayola.
Proverbs. Jeremiah. Not Isaiah. They're close together. Jeremiah. Could you read yours, Marianne, please? I'm sorry.
Jeremiah chapter 6 verse 16 I think for anybody else who wants to find it in their Bible.
Oh dear, and I'll give you this so that you can.
I can hear you a little bit. Thus saith the Lord Sandy, and the ways. And seek and ask for the old path, where is the good way? And walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said we will not walk therein. Thank you very much, Miriam. OK, so I have AI, have AI. Think a fun story for you guys.
So this is I'm gonna tell you a true story happened about, I don't know, between 6 and 10 years ago.
And it happened to me and I almost lost my life in this story there. Kind of exciting for you guys. And umm, this is basically a story when I did not follow that verse. OK, so, and I have some pictures because I'm going to take you back to a scene in Acadia National Park, which is a park in Maine, umm, where there's some beautiful mountains. I'm gonna take you back to a scene there. And so I'm gonna show you some pictures of Acadia National Park and of a particular mountain that we were hiking.
When I chose to go my my wayward way. Alright, so the first picture I'm gonna show you is the actual mountain.
I do not know if this picture is real because the clouds don't really look real, but.
It looks like the mountain anyway, so this is called Beehive Mountain. Everyone can see it. This is Beehive Mountain in Acadia National Park. It's called Beehive Mountain because it kind of looks like a beehive.
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If you hopefully you can see from the picture.
I think it looks like a good guy anyway. OK.
So let's be high National Park. And this one's a blurry because it was, I think taken from a cell phone or something, but this is an actual picture to prove we were there. So you can't make out who is there. I think the guy in white might be Kevin House and the girl in red might be Marianne. I don't think they were married at this time. So anyway, but here's a picture of us climbing along, uh, along the mountain. I don't know if I'm in the picture or not, but I, I assure you I'm in other pictures and I was there.
OK.
All right. And on the on the backside of this you're probably seeing is a picture of the old path that I chose not to follow. So you can kind of see there's a reference that one of you guys has in Matthew. Would someone read their reference in Matthew?
Oh hang on, let me do this.
Gate For the gate destruction, and there are many who enter through it. For the gate is small and the way is narrow that leads to life, and there are few who find it.
Thank you very much.
OK, so does this look, does this look like a narrow path to you? This is a real picture. It's, it's really part of the path that you climb to get us to the top of beehive. At the top of beehive, you can look out over sand beach. It's a very pretty view. So this is, this is probably one of the narrowest parts of the past, but it's, it's quite a narrow path. So hopefully you all can make that out. OK, so I'm, I'm there, right. And, uh, when I was younger, I was a lot more athletic and I, I went out way in front of everybody and.
But there's one guy who couldn't lose Ben Porter, a friend of mine named Ben. And we, we went way out in front of everybody together and we felt we were pretty, uh, intellectual individuals. And, uh, we were walking along this path and we looked up ahead, way overhead. You could see that the path crosses again. So basically the path kind of switched back up the mountain because you're going up basically a, a Cliff base. So the path would go up and then would turn around and come back up.
So as you climbed up you or as you went, you could see the path above you and you could see down where you'd been, you know, 20 minutes before or something like that.
So Ben and I, we got an idea. We both loved Rockland. Do any of you guys like to rock climb? Do you like rock climb? A few of you. Rock climbing is a lot of fun as long as you do it safely. So we didn't have any equipment or anything, but we thought this is a grand idea. I see the path up there. So we can't get lost. We'll just climb up this rock face. So we said great. So we did and and we made it.
We said, oh, that was a lot of fun. Let's go to the next one. So we started climbing to the next one and this the the next path was a little bit harder. So I'm gonna try to walk you through. I don't know how well I'm gonna be able to explain this.
Because this was my climbing experience. So I was climbing and Ben was climbing off to my right about 15 feet and we were climbing up and I started to realize I was getting in trouble because I was starting, it was turning into more of just a, a sheer granite face. And I you need hand holds or footholds or a crevice or something in order for you to climb a mountain. Because even mountain goats, I actually need that. So maybe if you're a spider or something, you can just climb straight up, but we're not like that. So we have to have hand holds.
And so I was climbing up and I started to run out of run out of handholds. So I realized I'm in a, I'm in a little bit of trouble here. But if I, Ben was still climbing and he was making it OK. So I realized, well, he's doing all right and I don't really want to go back down. So I think I'll just keep trying to go a little further. So I kept climbing and umm, and I got to a point where I couldn't climb up any further.
And umm, I had a good hand hold I I remember this decently clearly, but some of the details might have gotten lost over the last 10 years. But anyway, I had a decently good handle with my left hand.
It was on a good a good handle and I had a good pudding with my right foot. So I'm here. My left foot was there wasn't really anything. There wasn't anything from my right hand. So I'm there in this situation. I've got no nowhere else I can go. I could get back down, but I couldn't go up any further and umm, the only option I had. There was nothing to my right. The only option I had was I saw a toehold off to the left and I thought I saw a pretty good hand hold over there too. So I thought if I could get over there, I bet there's a way I can keep going up. So I switched over and I took my right hand.
On the handhold OK, now I've got my right hand on the hand hold kind of bracing myself and I've got my right foot I said, alright I'm going to have to swing so I let go and I swung down it was below me so I, I swung down and I caught it to hold with with my with my left **** and so it was like great I made it so now I'm holding up here with my right hand and I've got a toehold here and I reached up to the hand pulled and it was it was a false hold It was when I it was a nice little hole, but when you put your.
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And it was like this and you, you can't, you couldn't grip it. It was nothing you could grip. So I couldn't get anything with that hand. And so most of my weight was on my right arm and I had a little bit of weight on the toe hole, but it was just a toehold. It wasn't very big.
And so I was in a predicament, as you can imagine. And so I'm sitting there and I thought I have to swing back. But to swing back, I would have had to try to jump off of a toehold and pull myself up and get my foot back over and pull myself over. And I didn't know if I'd be able to do it. So I'm sitting there.
Hell, look down.
And it 6080 feet into rocks. Oh boy, what do you think? I started thinking, who has the verse in Proverbs? You haven't. Would you read it? Please let me bring this over to you.
There is a way which seemeth right unto man, but the end thereof are always.
Are the ways of death. Oh, so you think that's what I was thinking.
So as you can imagine, and I don't know how well I've been able to bring this picture to you, but as you can imagine, I was actually not that far off from death, in my opinion anyway. I wasn't a very good rock climber. I didn't think I'd be able to swing back over and get the other toehold and my arm was giving out. I'm just holding onto it and.
I mean, I could maybe hold for 15 minutes or so, but most of my weight was on this arm. I could only take a little weight with my toe hold and there was just, there was nothing else.
So I don't remember all that. I thought it was a long time ago, but if I was in that situation now, I just, I just think of that verse in respect to that. There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death. Now, does anyone have an idea? I'm gonna apply this to all of your lives. What is the way, the right way, the narrow way that was read.
For you, does anyone have an idea?
Henry.
Jesus very good Henry, and I'm going to read you a verse for that. I forgot to write this reference down South. I'll just read it. It is John, it's a well known verse, probably most of us who quoted John 14 six. Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth and the life. No man cometh unto the Father.
But by me?
So in other words.
In applying this to all of your lives, it's like you're on a mountain.
And you have a way that's an old way, a traveled way, a narrow way. That way is Jesus Christ. No man cometh unto the Father, but by him. You also have a Broadway that's like the entire mountain face. You can pick any direction up you like. The Broadway is just anything aside from Jesus. Be it religion, be it atheism, be it good works, whatever it is, it's just whatever isn't Jesus. That's the.
And you can choose to take that Broadway.
You can choose to try to do a lot of good works, you can choose to just disbelieve or do whatever you like and try to climb. But I guarantee you you will end up in a situation like I did where you're out of holds and death is staring you in the face and you don't have an answer.
So I recommend to you, and I tell you from God's Word, to choose Jesus Christ as the path for your life. There's no other way, if you will, to get to the top of the mountain. In my figure. Jesus Christ is the only way.
And umm, does anyone have any ideas? Because I'm obviously here, I didn't die or fall. Does anyone have any ideas how I got off the mountain?
What do you think?
I do not remember. I probably did. I was a different person back then. But Simon, what do you think?
You think I swung over and caught it? You have a lot of confidence in me. OK, What do you think?
So we got a helicopter flying over all right? What do you think, Marianne?
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How do you know this story?
I did.
You have a better memory than I do. Well then don't say anything.
Does anyone else have ideas?
No other ideas. OK.
OK, I'm gonna open it. No.
I'm gonna open it up. Does anybody have any ideas as to how I got down? There's a little key part of the story that I said. I'm wondering if you picked up on it. Does anyone raise your hand if anyone has an idea?
I'm gonna ask these people first. Does anyone have an idea? Raise your hand if you do.
Oh, Ben Porter was climbing 15 feet to my right and he was a far better rock climber than I was. And I called out help. I'm in trouble. And he was able to climb up and over and he was able to drop down above me and he dropped down his foot and I grabbed his foot and I used his foot to swing back over and and catch. So I guess you were technically right. I guess we were caught back over, but I used.
Kind of climb over him and I got back over and I climbed up and I didn't climb anymore.
So I learned a lesson that day and I hope it's a lesson that's stick sticking with me. And I hope that you guys will learn from my mistake because in in the path of life, I mean, you all have to face death. You all recognize death may seem like a really long way away. I know even for me, sometimes death seems like all that that's way out of sight.
But we don't know how long we have. It's like you're walking along a path and you just don't know where the line is of death. And all of a sudden you realize, oh, I just.
This is the end. Now you may think that that line is a long ways down the road, but you don't know that.
None of you can possibly know that, and so as you walk along the path of life, you need to choose or take the path of the Lord Jesus. It's a narrow path. There's only one way. That's through Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ. I think you all probably know He died on a cross to take away your sins. He died the only way.
To umm to reach the Father or to go to heaven?
To be with Jesus is to believe on Him. That's the only way. There is no other way. No matter how many other ways may seem good and fun and right. There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the ends are of there is a way. I'm going to change it. There is a way that seemeth right unto a boy or girl. At the end thereof are the ways of death. OK.
Who has the verse in Deuteronomy? Because that's what I'd like to close the story with.
I called heaven and earth to record this day against you that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing. Therefore, choose life that both thou and thy seed may live.
OK, that's what I've done. I have just set before you life and death, blessing and cursing, and I am telling you to choose life. It is an order that is given from God in Acts that says God now commandeth every man everywhere. To repent is an order that is given from God. It's not an option. You are required to repent. You are required to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, however.
You do have to choose to do that. So my prayer for you, and I hope all of you will consider this, my prayer for you, is that you will choose.
You will believe on the Lord Jesus Christ if you have not already. And for those of you who have, you will choose as your daily path in your daily walk to take the path of the Lord Jesus. Because even as a Christian, you can. It's not exactly the same thought as a broad path, but you can. You know very well you can veer away from the Lord Jesus and you still end up in trouble and you still end up in sadness and death and destruction.
So I hope that for all of you who who do know the Lord Jesus.
Do believe on the Lord Jesus that you will continue on a daily basis to choose life, to choose blessing.
In the follow the path of the Lord Jesus.
OK, this ends at. When does this end?
10:00 OK, so we have about 15 minutes, something a little bit faster. All right, so I'm going to pray and then, umm, we're going to sing a few more songs. But before I pray, I'd like to just sing the first verse and the chorus of Trust and Obey.
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OK, and I, I'm not overly familiar actually with the verse. I always know it, but I normally have a hymn sheet and I can't say I think, I think I can start it, but I'm just gonna ask if someone would please start just the first verse in the chorus of Trust and Obey. We'll just, I don't, it's not on the hymn sheet. I look, umm, but I, I trust we all know it. Can someone please start it?
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To be happy and she has like to trust and go ahead.
Let's pray, Lord Jesus, we do pray that all of us in this room, all these boys and girls with trust in thee, Lord Jesus, as their Savior, as our Savior, and that we would also obey thee as we walk through our life. And we pray now just for a blessing on the message that's been given and for a blessing on the rest of the singing.
Let me just look to thee for this in Jesus name, Amen. OK?
Now I was told, and I promised that if we did singing afterwards, I would get out of this little sheet. You can call him from there too, if you like, but these are some action hymns and Mr. Grinton might have to help me to know what all the action songs are. But there's a list here and it's all back, so you already have your hand up.
Zacchaeus. Let's see, where is the picture? Oh dear.
Down the tree, Zacchaeus. OK, can we all do Zacchaeus? Zacchaeus was a wee little man.
Of good singing. And that's the savior. That way. He looks up in the trees and he said that yes, you are. Now we're unknown if you don't have to say anything or I'm going to have to say anything.
Alright, good one. Any others?
Simon.
Daniel and the Lioness, then.
I think that's Daniel was a man of prayer, right?
Daniel was a man afraid.
3 * 0 way 29 and umm and understand not why I'm leaving him crystal down and put all of our heads in him. God has got the light and smile double oxygen.
My heart again.
I don't know the actions for that one. OK, what's yours?
OK, sure.
What's that? Yeah, we can say versus too, if you'd like to. We can do that. Let's do this song and then we'll we'll say some verses. Umm, can someone start #4 please?
No, I can say I am fine, evidence happy and just sent by screaming.
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To her blessedness of Savior.
OK, let's let's have the appointment.
This is the standard for me.
I'm saying that like me.
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Alright, so we can do some verses now and I'll just start with you because I know you wanna do it and I'll just work my way around. If you don't have a verse, that's fine, don't worry about it. But if you do then you can say your verse and I don't know what your verses are, so I don't know if I'll be able to help a whole lot.
Farm 100 Make a joyful noise, and tell the Lord all you land. Serve Lord with gladness. Come before His presence of singing. Know ye that the Lord He is God. It is ye that hath made us, not we ourselves. We have people in the sheep of His pastures. Enter into his gates with Thanksgiving, and into His courts with praise. Be thankful unto Him, and bless His name.
For the Lord is good, His mercy is everlasting, and His truth endureth unto all generations. Some 100.
Pretty good. Wow.
OK.
Dolores, my shepherd, I shall not want. He may give me lie down in green pastures. He leadeth me beside the still waters.
He restores my soul. He leaves me in the paths of righteousness for His name's sake.
Yeah, either way I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for thou art with me.
Thyroid and they stash. They comfort me.
Thou perished the table before me in the presence of mine enemies.
Thou anointest my head with oil, my compromise over.
So surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life.
His eye will dwell in the House of the Lord forever.
Psalm 23.
Very good. All right. Do you have a verse?
The 360 For God to love the world that he gave his only beyond Son, for whosoever believeth in him should not pass the everlasting life.
John C-16.
No.
John 317 forgot that not his son into the world to condemn the Word, but the world through him might be saved.
John, 317.
Have I not commanded you be strong and courageous?
Uh, the lower you've got is with you and.
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Joshua 19.
Lord Jesus, thank Thee again for this message and for the singing that we could have and for these verses and we just pray that we take them to heart and commit the rest of the day to Thee in Jesus name, Amen.