Bad stains
Children's sermon
Object:
stain remover and a stained shirt
But as it is, he has appeared once for all at the end of the age to remove sin by
the sacrifice of himself. (v. 26b)
Good morning, boys and girls. Today we are going to talk about sin. Sin is an ugly word, isn't it? (let them answer) Have you ever heard about a good sin? (let them answer) Sin is really bad. However, we are all sinners, did you know that? (let them answer) There is not one person in this church that is not a sinner. I don't think there is a person in the church that is not a sinner. Maybe I should ask first before I say that everyone is a sinner. Will those of you who are not sinners, please stand up? (look very closely around the church and ask the children to stand and look as well) Everyone here thinks they are sinners. That must mean that you are also sinners. You have such young, beautiful faces and wonderful smiles, but you are sinners. I will tell you a secret if you don't run out and tell everyone. I am also a sinner, maybe the worst sinner in the church.
Being a sinner is not just a name we give each other. Sin is evil; it hurts, it makes other people hurt, and it causes a lot of problems all over the world. If you tell a lie, and the person you told it to tells it to someone else, and they tell it to other people that they know, then before you know it, thousands of people are telling the lie just because you said it. Sin is a bad, bad, thing. What can we do about it? We can promise that we will never tell another lie. Will that take care of all of the people who also told the lie and are hurting other people? We can't do much about our sin and we can't do anything about other people's sin. It just hangs over us like a coat that is too big for us. The Bible says that Jesus died for our sins and we are forgiven. Jesus has taken them away.
Let me show you something pretty neat. I have this wonderful shirt and I love to wear it. But almost every time I do I stain it by spilling some food on it. Do you see this stain? It is like a sin. It just started in one little spot but it has spread this far. If I waited until I got home, the stain would stay and it would never go away. Let's say this stain is sin, ugly old sin. But now I have something that I carry around in my pocket like a pen [towelette]. As soon as I spill something, I take this wonderful pen [towelette] and I rub it on the stain. The next thing you know, the stain is gone.
Jesus is like the stain pen [towelette]. Jesus gets rid of sin by forgiving us and loving us in such a wonderful way that our sin is gone. It doesn't mean that we won't sin again, but when we ask Jesus to forgive us and we mean it, then he comes and forgives us again. Jesus is the sin remover. So the next time you see a stain think of it as sin and then imagine that Jesus is rushing to us and forgiving us for all of our sins. Amen.
Good morning, boys and girls. Today we are going to talk about sin. Sin is an ugly word, isn't it? (let them answer) Have you ever heard about a good sin? (let them answer) Sin is really bad. However, we are all sinners, did you know that? (let them answer) There is not one person in this church that is not a sinner. I don't think there is a person in the church that is not a sinner. Maybe I should ask first before I say that everyone is a sinner. Will those of you who are not sinners, please stand up? (look very closely around the church and ask the children to stand and look as well) Everyone here thinks they are sinners. That must mean that you are also sinners. You have such young, beautiful faces and wonderful smiles, but you are sinners. I will tell you a secret if you don't run out and tell everyone. I am also a sinner, maybe the worst sinner in the church.
Being a sinner is not just a name we give each other. Sin is evil; it hurts, it makes other people hurt, and it causes a lot of problems all over the world. If you tell a lie, and the person you told it to tells it to someone else, and they tell it to other people that they know, then before you know it, thousands of people are telling the lie just because you said it. Sin is a bad, bad, thing. What can we do about it? We can promise that we will never tell another lie. Will that take care of all of the people who also told the lie and are hurting other people? We can't do much about our sin and we can't do anything about other people's sin. It just hangs over us like a coat that is too big for us. The Bible says that Jesus died for our sins and we are forgiven. Jesus has taken them away.
Let me show you something pretty neat. I have this wonderful shirt and I love to wear it. But almost every time I do I stain it by spilling some food on it. Do you see this stain? It is like a sin. It just started in one little spot but it has spread this far. If I waited until I got home, the stain would stay and it would never go away. Let's say this stain is sin, ugly old sin. But now I have something that I carry around in my pocket like a pen [towelette]. As soon as I spill something, I take this wonderful pen [towelette] and I rub it on the stain. The next thing you know, the stain is gone.
Jesus is like the stain pen [towelette]. Jesus gets rid of sin by forgiving us and loving us in such a wonderful way that our sin is gone. It doesn't mean that we won't sin again, but when we ask Jesus to forgive us and we mean it, then he comes and forgives us again. Jesus is the sin remover. So the next time you see a stain think of it as sin and then imagine that Jesus is rushing to us and forgiving us for all of our sins. Amen.
