God's promissory note
Children's sermon
Object:
a promissory note and a Bible
Good morning! Have any of you ever borrowed money from
someone? Your parents or somebody else? (Let them answer.) Well,
if you should borrow money from someone, there are two ways they
might lend it to you. The first way is to lend it to you with
just your spoken promise to pay it back. In other words, they
just trust you to pay it back. The second way is the way a bank
would loan you money. They have you sign one of these. (Show the
promissory note.) This is a written promise to pay it back. If
you didn't pay it back, this is the written evidence that you owe
the money, and they would use this to force you to pay it back.
They would take you to court, and the court would order you to
pay based on this written evidence.
Now, God has made some promises to us, hasn't He? What are
some promises that God has made to us? (Let them answer.) Well,
the most important promise that God has made to us is that we
will live with Him forever in heaven because we believe in His
Son, Jesus. Do you believe in Jesus and in God's promise that we
can have eternal life if we do believe in Jesus? (Let them
answer.) That's good. If you believe that, you have faith in
God's promise. You're just like the person who loans money to
someone and believes that they will be honest and pay it back.
That's what faith is all about -- believing a promise.
But, do you know what God has done for us? Even though we
don't need a promissory note, God has given us one! Here is God's
promissory note, the Bible! (Show the Bible.) Here, in this
Bible, God has written down all of His promises. Let's thank God
for doing that for us.
Dear God: We thank You so much for giving us Your promises in
writing in the Bible. Because of Your word, we have faith in all
Your promises and feel blessed by all of them. Amen.
someone? Your parents or somebody else? (Let them answer.) Well,
if you should borrow money from someone, there are two ways they
might lend it to you. The first way is to lend it to you with
just your spoken promise to pay it back. In other words, they
just trust you to pay it back. The second way is the way a bank
would loan you money. They have you sign one of these. (Show the
promissory note.) This is a written promise to pay it back. If
you didn't pay it back, this is the written evidence that you owe
the money, and they would use this to force you to pay it back.
They would take you to court, and the court would order you to
pay based on this written evidence.
Now, God has made some promises to us, hasn't He? What are
some promises that God has made to us? (Let them answer.) Well,
the most important promise that God has made to us is that we
will live with Him forever in heaven because we believe in His
Son, Jesus. Do you believe in Jesus and in God's promise that we
can have eternal life if we do believe in Jesus? (Let them
answer.) That's good. If you believe that, you have faith in
God's promise. You're just like the person who loans money to
someone and believes that they will be honest and pay it back.
That's what faith is all about -- believing a promise.
But, do you know what God has done for us? Even though we
don't need a promissory note, God has given us one! Here is God's
promissory note, the Bible! (Show the Bible.) Here, in this
Bible, God has written down all of His promises. Let's thank God
for doing that for us.
Dear God: We thank You so much for giving us Your promises in
writing in the Bible. Because of Your word, we have faith in all
Your promises and feel blessed by all of them. Amen.
