Children—Tim Roach
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If any children wanna come up to the front, now's the time to come.
And while we're while the children are coming to the front, we can sing a song. Does somebody have a song you'd like to sing?
Nobody likes to sing.
How about we Yes.
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Around the throne of God.
We're all over there to be nice. Oh my God, I love about getting those girls and friends that are making me Lord.
Glory.
Glory. Glory.
Alive.
Be honest with them saying your mechanic and fly to rise on the wind and.
Now the white man's land was crashing his blood in the hole in his life and bleeding anything.
Oh, everything. Whoa, everything. There's no.
Umm, when we were in Malawi some years ago, we were at the breaking of bread in the SI in a village called Nyungwe. It's kind of a remote village and there's a sister there who is in the fellowship and when they started passing the collection plate around, she didn't have any money and so but she brought two ears of corn and she put the two.
Cobs of corn on the plate as it went around.
She didn't have very much, but that's what she had to give. Another time. I was in that same village assembly and again the plate came around.
And she still didn't have any money, But she had two eggs, and she put two eggs on the plate.
That was an old widow. She's blind, she can't see, but she loves the Lord, and she was happy to give what she had to the Lord.
Someone else have a song would like to sing?
This little girl here.
Yeah, you you, me. OK. What? What number did you wanna sing? Yeah, you. No, the one. The boy next to you.
45 OK in my song sheet, there's not a song there. Does someone have a?
While we sing this song to all the children who are sitting in the front row, we're going to be giving out some money to you. But there's there's a reason for it. We're going to give you each 1/4 and a dollar. And so anybody, any children sitting in the front row, you're going to get 1/4 and a dollar. And so we sing this song, we're going to give them out to you, OK?
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1 day of time to speak he's going through.
One, there's a whole life for him down in my human.
Take them, Lord, give us, and let them be in.
OK. Hold on to that dollar in that quarter because you might need it later. OK, Don't lose it. And if any children want to come up and and sit in the front row, you're more than welcome.
You know, when we were.
When we're in Malawi and the collection plate comes around.
Everybody. They put some money on the plate.
And after the plate goes around at the end, they O they often announce how much collection money was on the plate at the end of the meeting. And sometimes there's 16120 quache. Now, quacha isn't like a dollar, there's 725 quache to the dollar and so if you do the math, 16125.
Somebody might have to do the math for me.
Well, it's about a 2-3 dollars.
And that's when we put in 1000 clots ourselves. And so for themselves, there might be 20 people and they're putting in 620 quache. That's less than a dollar for the collection. But they love the Lord and they're willing to give to the Lord, you know, sometimes.
They only want to put in 50 kwacha, but they only have 100. And so when the plate comes around, they put in 100 and they take out 50 and they get change, but they put they give to the Lord. They give to the Lord Jesus. What they have, it's not much, but they're giving to God. Does someone else have a song you'd like to sing?
Yes.
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Were you saying this one last night in the Gospel Meeting?
Price is the.
Cerebral palsy.
Alumni for the same instant.
But it is great. I am free.
Slave to your house. To hear me, listen to me. Stay in your house. Stay in there. It's like millions.
Just as I want everything.
In front of God 22 please.
Now there is no thousand day shrunk. Let's take a second.
Save your name.
Yeah, yeah, Everything's gonna be around the same. And it's like, man.
Blood flowing, my grandson, Let's say the singer for me.
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Oh my God, I'm saying, therefore he.
2 Lords days ago we were in the city of Lilongwe and there was just a few Christians gathered together to remember the Lord in his death. And the collection went around and at the end of the meeting, the brothers, they decided that they were going to give the money from the collection to two sisters there who were very poor. They had no they had no income and they hadn't paid their their rent or their electricity for three months.
And they they were having problems and so they decided they would give the collection to these sisters. Well, there was an orphan boy who was present, and he was from another assembly. He was gathered there, but he came to the meeting and he had just graduated from high school, but he had no, no people to give him guidance. And so he moved into the city and he was a Barber. He was learning to cut people's hair, and so he made a little bit of money from cutting people's hair.
But.
The electricity is not on very often.
Some days electricity only comes on at night. And so how can you cut hair with an electric Barber, with a razor, with no electricity? So the little the young man, he didn't have money. And so I saw the one sister. She gave some of the money to her daughter. Her daughter is about 10 or 12 years old. And so she took the money and she went over to the little boy.
Or to the young man and gave him that money so he would have money for transport to get back home.
The Lord Jesus appreciates it when we give money to him, and giving is important. Giving to God is important for the believers after Sunday School.
Many of us will sit down for a meeting here. Who will sing? We'll pray, we'll read verses and we'll eat the bread and we'll drink the cup. And each Lord's day, many Christians, they come together in this way to break bread.
They come to remember what the Lord Jesus did for them when he died on the cross.
And this is the time when we come together like that. We're gathered together to give to Jesus. We come to give to him as a group collectively. And the Spirit of God gathers believers into a group.
That represents the body of Christ.
And this is And when we're gathered together for the breaking of bread, it's a time when we give to God.
And when the collection comes around, we give money to God, we give worship, we worship together as many members in one body, but we give to the Lord. And it's not important about. Well, it is important about giving the money. But when we come to the to remember the Lord, we're giving the Lord Jesus thoughts. We're giving the Father thoughts about the Lord Jesus about his death.
And when we all think about the death of the Lord Jesus.
It makes us want to give Him worship and we give Him praise.
And we give Thanksgiving.
You know, boys and girls, we give worship to the Lord Jesus. That means we're thinking nice thoughts about the Lord Jesus because he is God. That's worship. And then we give praise to the Lord Jesus because we're happy. We're happy because the Lord Jesus saved us. And so we want to praise him. And then we give Thanksgiving. We thank the Lord Jesus for what he did to save us.
Because we know the Lord Jesus went to the cross to die on the cross because you.
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Are a Sinner.
And you are going to be punished if you don't believe on the Lord Jesus because the Lord Jesus wants you to go to be with him in heaven. He doesn't want to punish you, so he wants you to be saved.
And So what? Three, what three things do we give to the Lord Jesus? We give him worship. We give him praise. We give him Thanksgiving, but we also give him something else. We can give him money. And that's why the collection plate goes around at the end of the meeting. It goes around and people put the money in it. They're not giving the money to the assembly. They're giving the money to God, to the Lord Jesus.
And so.
The collection it's only for believers. Only the believers can put the money. Should be putting the money in the basket because.
You can't get saved by putting money into the collection.
But do you think the Lord Jesus is interested in the money that we put into the basket? Do you think the Lord Jesus is interested? Well, let's look at a story in Mark's Gospel, chapter 12. We're going to read a story about people who are giving money.
And in mark chapter 12 and verse 41.
Says in Jesus sat opposite the treasury and beheld how the people cast money into the treasury, and many that were rich cast in much.
Just a minute here.
Mark 1242.
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Giving a little.
I had my Bible on to a different translation so we won't get confused. We'll read this from this one. OK, Matthew or Mark, chapter 12, verse 41, and Jesus sat over against the treasury and beheld how the people cast money into the treasury and many that were rich cast in much. And there came a certain poor widow and she threw in two mites.
Which make a Farthing. And he called unto him his disciples, and saith unto them, Verily I say unto you, that this poor widow has cast in more than all they which have cast into the treasury. For they did all cast of in of their abundance. But she of her want did cast in all that she had, even all her living in this story.
The crowd of people, they were came to the temple and they went and put their money in the treasury. They were giving gifts in the treasury for the temple and they threw their coins into a box. And Jesus was sitting there and he was watching and he watched as people came and put their money in. And the rich people came. They were dressed in their very nice clothes, expensive clothes, maybe they were made of fine twined linen.
But they had very nice clothes and they came and put a lot of money into the box.
Then the Lord Jesus saw a widow.
A woman, she came to put money in the box. Her husband had died and she was poor and she went to the box and she put in two mites, 2 little pieces of money that weren't worth very much.
And Jesus asked his disciples, come here. And Jesus said to his disciples, says, what I'm saying to you is true. He is this poor widow woman.
She has put into a better gift into the box than all the other people have put in.
And the disciples looked at him. She only put it into two little pieces of money. These other people put in a lot of money. The Lord Jesus said her gift was better because she put in all the money that she had.
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She had nothing. Those people, they still have plenty of money and they only put a part of their money into the box.
They gave a little bit of their abundance.
Few children have been given an abundance this morning. You've been given $1.25.
That's that could be an abundance. Well, these people, they came and they put a little bit of their abundance into the basket, into the box. But this lady, she came and put all her money in. That was all the money she needed to live on. Now what was she going to do? But that widow, that woman, she had faith in God, and she loved God so much.
That she put in everything.
That she had.
You see, Jesus is more interested in your heart and what you think about Jesus more than how much money you put in.
Many of the people there who are putting money in the treasury, they put the money in because everybody else was doing it and they wanted everybody to see that they were putting money into.
And they wanted to look good to everybody else.
But I think that that widow woman, I think that she knew that she was giving the money to God and it meant a lot to her to give to God.
Well.
We want you boys and girls to to kind of experience what those people did back in this story back when the Lord Jesus. So how many of you have a dollar and 1/4?
Oh, everybody in the front row. Very good.
Well, we want you to see what it's like to put money in the Treasury.
But we're not going to give the money to the Jewish treasury. We don't want to do that. But we want you to give the money. We want to give the money to the Lord Jesus.
And so after I want you to put just not yet, but I want you to go up and put some money in the ball in this little silver basket we have on the table.
And we want to give that money to the Lord Jesus. So if it's OK with the brothers here in Saint Louis, after the children put the money into the basket, we can give that money to the Saint Louis assembly and we can let them use that money. However the Spirit of God directs them to help share the gospel with others. But now listen, you have a dollar and you have 1/4.
One of those is for the Lord, and one of them is for you. So don't put them both in you. Keep one of them. You can put whichever one in you want, and you can keep whichever one you want and.
You can keep the other one for yourself, but but before we do that, you know the Jews, they would receive money from anybody. Everybody could put the money in the basket.
But I think that Jesus only wants to receive the money from believers.
From Christianity the the those who are saved.
So Jesus does not want you to think that if you put money in the basket, you're gonna go to heaven. He doesn't want you to think you get a a good place in heaven just because you put money there. No, He wants you to know that you are saved. And so if you don't think that you are saved, maybe you better not put any money in the basket in the treasury. OK, now.
I want you each to go up and one by one you can put either your dollar or your quarter in the basket, whichever you would like to. And you can keep the other one for yourself. OK, go ahead.
OK.
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Very, very nice. The Lord Jesus appreciates that.
Oh, and here comes a widow woman.
Putting in 2 Pennies.
Thank you, Jesus, our Lord Jesus.
Ah, thank you, Lord Jesus. We just gave money to the Lord Jesus.
If you think.
That maybe you are not saved.
And maybe you didn't feel that you could put money into the basket.
Because you weren't saved.
We want you to know that we love you.
And that the Lord Jesus loves you.
And that you can be saved right now.
And for you to be saved right now.
You must believe.
Believe that you are a Sinner.
And believe that there's judgment.
For the center.
And that you deserve to be punished.
And then you need to believe that Jesus came into this world, the Father sent the Son, the Lord Jesus, to die on the cross. And you believe that Jesus died there and that during three hours of darkness he was punished for your sins. Do you believe that? Do you believe the Lord Jesus made a way of escape for you?
Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved. And then we heard last night about the soldier who pierced the Lord Jesus with his spear, and out came the blood. And so do you believe that the blood of Jesus can cleanse you from all sin, and so that you can never lose your salvation.
Do you believe that?
Then the Bible says that if you confess the Lord Jesus with your mouth, you will be saved.
Believe that Jesus is Lord and confess. Tell somebody that Jesus is Lord. Tell your mom. Tell your dad. Mom, I believe Jesus Christ is my Lord.
And you will know that you are saved.
No, the Bible doesn't tell the the Sinner to confess his sin.
Because if you had to confess your sin to get saved.
You probably wouldn't remember them all, would you? I can't remember all the things I've done, and if I had to remember all of them, I wouldn't be able to confess them all.
And so we need to confess that Jesus is Lord.
And that he took our sin away from us.
Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ.
And you will be saved.
I have a small little purse here.
We got some.
Some coins in here.
Let's see, we have 10203040555657 cents.
That's not much money, is it $0.57?
Well, this morning I want to tell you about a story about a little girl named Hattie. Hattie.
I want to tell you about the gift that she gave of $0.57 to help build a bigger Sunday school building so children could come in here, the gospel.
One Sunday morning, the Sunday school teacher he was, he went outside the the building and to find a group of children there who they wanted to get into the Sunday school, but they couldn't get in because there wasn't room and so many of them had to sit outside.
And one of those children was 6 year old Hattie.
And when the kind man saw Hattie sitting there, he lifted her up in his arms, and he put her on his shoulder and he carried her into the building, and he found a place for her to sit in the Sunday School class.
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The next morning, as he walked down the street, he saw Hattie sitting out there, and he stopped to talk to Hattie, and he told her that he hoped that someday they would be able to build a bigger building that was large enough so that all the children could come in to hear the gospel that anybody who wanted to attend could come into the room.
But two years later, the little girl, Hattie, she died. And the kind man, the Sunday school teacher.
They asked him to have the funeral service to preach at the service. Well, after the service, Hattie's mother came up and handed the man a small purse containing 57 cents. She had been saving her pennies and the mother told told the man she said she's been saving her pennies so that she could give it to you so you could build a new building so people could hear the gospel.
Well, the Sunday school teacher, he took the $0.57 and the other. He told the other Christians about the little girl who had been saving her pennies to help build a new Sunday school building and the people were so inspired by Hattie's gift of $0.57.
That they were soon able to build an addition on the building so that all the children could come and hear the gospel.
Hattie I'm sure that Jesus would say that Hattie gave more than anyone else from that that assembly, from that group of Christians.
Than anybody else to be able to build that new Sunday school room because Hattie gave all she had.
I want to look at a verse in Luke chapter 16.
Maybe we can just put this $0.57 in here too.
This verse is in Luke chapter 16 and verse 9.
And this verse is about giving money to Jesus.
And it's got some hard complicated words in it, so it might not be too easy to understand, but we'll try to explain it.
And it says, Luke 16, verse 9 And I say unto you, make to yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness, that when you fail, they may receive you into everlasting habitations.
Let's talk about mammon. Well, that's money.
And this verse is telling us to use our money to help spread the gospel so other people can hear about the Lord Jesus.
And the friends in the verse, the friends are the people who get saved because you used your money to help get the gospel out to people.
And then it says that when you fail, they may receive you into everlasting habitations. What's an everlasting habitation? A habitation is like a house. It's a place where you stay. And forever we're gonna stay with the Lord Jesus in heaven. And so when you get to the everlasting habitations that those people.
Who were saved because of the money that you gave. They're going to welcome you to heaven, and there's going to be a happy reunion when you get to heaven. And so that's what Hattie did. Hattie's gonna have a happy entrance into heaven when she's received by into the eternal heaven when she's received by all the people who were saved because of her $0.57.
That she gave to help build that building so other boys and girls could hear the gospel, to hear about the Lord Jesus, and so that they could get saved. And so it's going to be a happy day when we go to heaven, we're going to see the Lord Jesus.
We're gonna see all our friends who are saved because we were able to help them in a way where they could hear the gospel about the Lord Jesus. So it's very nice that you boys and girls put your money into the basket to give to the Lord. And we're gonna give this basket to the brothers here in Saint Louis and so they can use their discernment and be guided by the Spirit of God so they can give.
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That money to somebody who can share the gospel with children. But we have time to sing another song or two. Someone else have a song you'd like to sing? Yes. Yeah.
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The hills. Are you watching the blood of the blood?
Oh, I already got your time. Yeah, I'm just gonna say why it doesn't know why you lost in the world of land.
When the bright room come like when your rock in white your and white and blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.
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I like that song. That's one of my favorites because it talks about the love, the blood of the Lord Jesus and how he washes our garments white. You know, our sin makes us dirty, but the blood of Jesus Christ, it cleanses us from our sin and it makes it as if we are white and we are clean. But sometimes a person, they think that.
I know I'm safe, but sometimes I still do bad things and doesn't that get me dirty?
But I say to you, no, it doesn't get.
It might get you dirty on the outside, but it doesn't get you dirty on the inside because when the blood of Jesus Christ washes your sins away, he makes you white, he makes you clean and and you can never lose your salvation. Because the Bible says in Isaiah he says it's it's like wool when when you were washed in the blood. It's like being like wool and wool. If you know anything about wool, wool has its own resistance.
To dirt and you can clean it. You can wash it with water and it gets clean again. You don't have to. It doesn't have to die. Umm, So that thought there is that yes, you might get dirty on the outside, but you can be washed in the water of God's word. You don't need the blood to wash you a second time. You only need the blood to wash you once to make you clean. And after that, if you sin again, then you need the water of God's word to confess your sin.
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To him, see, only believers confess their sin. Unbelievers don't confess their sin because a believer confesses his sin. Because when a believer sins, it disturbs his fellowship with God. And so God wants you to be happy in His presence, but when you have sin, it makes you unhappy. But he doesn't want you to think that you're going to lose your salvation because you're unhappy. He wants you to confess your sins. Say Lord Jesus, I'm sorry.
I sinned again.
And the Lord Jesus says when you confess your sin, he's faithful, He's just. He will forgive your sin and he'll make you clean on the outside. You're already clean on the inside because of the blood of the Lord Jesus. We have time for one more song. And this is I hear, I hear someone over here saying a song each time.
Was it you? What? What number did she want?
43, OK 43.
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Before we pray and close, I'm going to give.
The the money that you boys and girls gave to Jesus. Thank you for giving to Jesus. I'm going to give it to Brother Mark Cell from the assembly here in Saint Louis. And I want, I want the basket back.
And may it might be that the Lord Jesus will use the money that you gave, that somebody else might be saved, and you'll see that friend in heaven, and you'll know it when you get to heaven.