The parable of the weeds
Children's sermon
Object:
a weed and a flower
Good morning! I brought two plants to show you this morning.
I brought this beautiful flower. (Show the flower.) And I brought
this ugly weed. (Show the weed.) Now let me ask you something.
Which of these two plants do you want to grow in your garden?
(Let them answer.) Yes, of course, we want the pretty flowers to
grow, not weeds.
Have any of you ever weeded a garden? Have you pulled out
the weeds from a garden? (Let them answer.) If you do pull
weeds, you must be very careful that you don't pull up the
flowers with the weeds. Sometimes the weeds grow so close to the
flowers that we can't pull them without damaging the flowers.
The Bible tells us that the people of the world are like
flowers and weeds. God wants everyone to be flowers, that is
people who believe in Jesus. But there are a lot of people who
don't believe and these are the weeds. God allows the world to go
on day by day with flowers and weeds all mixed together. But a
time is coming when God will take all the flowers out of the
world to be with Him in Heaven. When that time comes, all the
weeds, that is all the people who refuse to believe in Jesus,
will be sent to hell. We will no longer have flowers and weeds
all mixed up together.
I want to ask you this morning, are you a flower or a weed?
Are you one of God's flowers who believe in Jesus as your Lord
and Savior? (Let them answer.) That's good! We are flowers and we
must thank God for making us flowers.
Dear Father: We are so grateful that You have made us flowers by
Your grace, through faith. Help us to live like the flowers You
want us to be. Amen.
I brought this beautiful flower. (Show the flower.) And I brought
this ugly weed. (Show the weed.) Now let me ask you something.
Which of these two plants do you want to grow in your garden?
(Let them answer.) Yes, of course, we want the pretty flowers to
grow, not weeds.
Have any of you ever weeded a garden? Have you pulled out
the weeds from a garden? (Let them answer.) If you do pull
weeds, you must be very careful that you don't pull up the
flowers with the weeds. Sometimes the weeds grow so close to the
flowers that we can't pull them without damaging the flowers.
The Bible tells us that the people of the world are like
flowers and weeds. God wants everyone to be flowers, that is
people who believe in Jesus. But there are a lot of people who
don't believe and these are the weeds. God allows the world to go
on day by day with flowers and weeds all mixed together. But a
time is coming when God will take all the flowers out of the
world to be with Him in Heaven. When that time comes, all the
weeds, that is all the people who refuse to believe in Jesus,
will be sent to hell. We will no longer have flowers and weeds
all mixed up together.
I want to ask you this morning, are you a flower or a weed?
Are you one of God's flowers who believe in Jesus as your Lord
and Savior? (Let them answer.) That's good! We are flowers and we
must thank God for making us flowers.
Dear Father: We are so grateful that You have made us flowers by
Your grace, through faith. Help us to live like the flowers You
want us to be. Amen.
