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Kids Story
The Gift of the Magi
Over 100 years ago.
a man named
O’ Henry wrote the story
“The gift of the Magi”
It’s about a young married couple with very little money at Christmas time.
The family had only two things of value,
Jim’s pocket watch, which had been passed down from his grandfather, to his father and then to him.
My pocket watch here used to by my gram-pa's.
The only other thing of value that they owned was Della’s
long,
beautiful
hair.
Although they were very poor, they loved each other very much and wanted to give each other the best Christmas present they could give.
The only thing that would make Jim’s pocket watch better would be if he had a gold chain to put it on.
The only thing that would make Della’s hair look any better would be some hair pins/ hair combs.
Do you know what Jim did?
He sold his watch to buy Della a pair of beautiful hair combs.
Do you know what Della did?
She sold her hair to a wig maker
to buy Jim
a chain for his pocket watch.
They each gave the best that they could.
That’s like the gifts of the Magi to baby Jesus.
They were really expensive gives of:
Gold,
Frankincense and
Myrrh
One of the best reasons to give the best gift you can is because you are thankful.
I am thankful to Jesus for forgiving my sins.
Today's story for the adults is about 10 men who were healed by Jesus.
9 of them were not thankful enough to come back to him and express their thanks.
I want to pray for you and all of us that we have Thankful hearts.
that we give thanks to God and everyone else that blesses or helps us.
Especially those who help us when we don’t deserve help.
Let’s pray.
17 Thankless people
Edward Spencer was a seminary student in Evanston Illinois near Lake Michigan in 1860.
One miserably, cold, night a ship on Lake Michigan ran aground near Evanston.
Edward rushed to the scene and waded into the frigid waters over and over again that night rescuing 17 or 18 people from certain death.
He was so
over exposed to the cold that night that
his health was never the same!
Years later when he died it was remarked that
Nobody
NOBODY
Zero,
out of all those people saved by Edward
ever expressed to him a word of thanks for
risking his life to save their lives.
How can you do that?
How can men and women live such entitled lives that they
don’t make any attempt to express thanks,
when thanks are due?
Perhaps those men and women felt themselves entitled.
Certainly many people today are thankless people
Appearing to feel entitled to our help and generosity.
Today we will look at a story in the bible where 9 out of 10 men were healed but did not take the time to express any thanks to Jesus.
For these men to be healed, a number of things had to happen
They had to recognize that they were sick and needed healing.
These ten men were aware of their sickness and need for healing.
Men and Women today are living lives damaged by sin
sometimes devastated by sin but until they get past their pride
get past their denial
get past their wilfulness,
God won’t
God can’t
help them bet better.
What else
They had to ask Jesus for help
When the men first came down with leprosy, they may have asked Dr.s to help them
while they still had resources
But in that day and age, there was no remedy for Leprosy.
It wasn’t until Jesus came near that they had a chance to get well.
They asked for help.
All of us our sinner, under the curse
under the law
until we ask for Jesus forgiveness
for His help to be made right with God.
Have you done that, have you asked for Jesus forgiveness?
His forgiveness doesn’t help you at all,
if you do not ask for it.
At the close of the service their will be a chance to receive His forgiveness,
if you want it.
When asked for help, for mercy Jesus said
Jesus didn’t just make them instantly clean, as he had done with others
He gave them a task,
to demonstrate their faith buy turning around and going to the priest to be tested for cleanness.
This command comes from Leviticus 14.
It is shocking to me, that not one of them objected and went their own way.
Today, there are men and women who find God’s plan of salvation,
His free gift, to easy,
and they reject God’s salvation
But All 10 of these men had faith enough to go to the priest and
`on their way,
they were healed.
they were cleansed.
They demonstrated their faith in Jesus by turning around and heading to the priests.
Have you ever gone forward to an alter of prayer
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