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Kids & Thankfulness
One day a father of a very wealthy family took his son on a trip to the country with the firm purpose of showing his son how poor people live.
They spent a couple of days and nights on the farm of what would be considered a very poor family.
On their return from their trip, the father asked his son,
"How was the trip?"
"It was great, Dad."
"Did you see how poor people live?" the father asked.
"Oh yeah," said the son.
"So, tell me, what did you learn from the trip?" asked the father.
The son answered: "I saw that we have one dog and they had four.
We have a pool that reaches to the middle of our garden and they have a creek that has no end.
We have imported lanterns in our garden and they have the stars at night.
Our patio reaches to the front yard and they have the whole horizon.
We have a small piece of land to live on and they have fields that go beyond our sight.
We have servants who serve us, but they serve others.
We buy our food, but they grow theirs.
We have walls around our property to
protect us, they have friends to protect them."
The boy’s father was speechless.
Then his son added,
"Thanks, Dad, for showing me how poor we are."
Isn’t perspective a wonderful thing?
Makes you wonder what would happen if we all gave thanks for everything we have, instead of worrying about what we don’t have.
Scriptures: Luke 18:22, Revelation 2:9
Father, help these children and all of us to be thankful for what we have.
Help us not to focus on what we don’t have.
Amen.
Eternal Life
We are about heard two bible stories:
First, where children are receiving eternal life
Second, where a rich man
a man blessed of God
does not receive eternal life.
Why is that?
Give that some thought as we look at these stories
Children Receiving Eternal Life
The disciples were with Jesus.
They were doing important work for God
Why let these little children interrupt His work?
How easy it is of us to fall into self important thinking, but how did Jesus react?
Jesus was indignant!
The idea that his disciples could be so self important
as to keep children from coming near Him
because they had more important things to do
was repugnant to Jesus and
it offended Him.
How often are we
too self important, to talk with children about Jesus
about how He loves then
about their need to be saved
about Jesus free salvation
about receiving Him in their hearts
and about living for Him.
Jesus after being stirred up, said
“Let the little children come to me and do not hinder them.....”
But that is not all He said
For the kingdom of God belongs to such as these.
Wow,
Little children, in Christ belong to the kingdom of God
Why does it belong to them?
They belong to the kingdom
Not because they are perfect
Not because they have memorized the Torah
But because
In their receptive little hearts,
these children have received the kingdom,
whatever Jesus had for them.
And then Jesus goes on and shows them how important these children are
What did Jesus just teach about eternal life?
It has to be received!
The Rich Man’s poverty of faith
Now let’s look at the story of the rich man,
who wanted to obtain eternal life
So in the last story, Jesus brings up eternal life as something you only get by receiving it like a child.
Eternal Life comes from a loving relationship with Jesus.
The children freely enter into that, but this man
His question seems like:
a transaction
a purchase
a once and done thing.
like paying your dues and becoming a lifetime member of National Geographic Society.
In those days, Rich people were known to give large amounts to the temple treasury with trumpets and fan fair
If this scene was in the Newspaper the picture might have looked like this
Can you imagine the heavenly throne room
suddenly a parade comes in with trumpets and plays a big fan fare
and then the rich man loudly sings out
I am hear, because I gave a large sum of money to your son!
Think he’s staying in heaven?
Not a change with that attitude.
Jesus begins to address the man’s issues by pointing out only God is Good.
The rich young man, wants this good teacher to tell him how to win God’s favor.
what must he do?
First he needs to understand who Jesus is
Jesus is not a mere teacher,
He is the Christ,
the Son of God
the Messiah.
When Jesus challenges the mans greeting
He is causing the man to re-think who Jesus is.
Then Jesus takes the Rich guy to the 10 commandments
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