Time Is Running Out
Children's sermon
The Giant Book Of Children's Sermons
Matthew To Revelation
Object: a new bar of soap and a very used bar of soap
Good morning, boys and girls. I brought along with me a couple of friends that most of you probably know but you don't talk to very often. How many of you have ever met Billy Big Bar and his older brother Larry Little Bar? Billy and Larry are good friends but Billy worries a lot about Larry. Every day when they wake up, Billy looks at Larry and becomes very sad. Do you know why Billy is sad about Larry? (let them answer) That's right; Larry is smaller today than he was yesterday. Do you know why? (let them answer) That's right; someone used Larry and there is less of him today than there was yesterday. One day something is going to happen that is going to make Billy very unhappy if he doesn't learn something that he doesn't know right now. Do you know what is going to happen to Larry that could make Billy sad? (let them answer) That's right; Larry is going to disappear. He is going to be gone forever. Would that make you sad if you were Larry's big brother? (let them answer)
Maybe it would, but it shouldn't. We must remember that this is the way that Larry and Billy were made, and some day the same thing is going to happen to Billy. It is a plan for soap to be used up and someday to be all gone. Billy shouldn't feel bad, but instead he should feel good for Larry because Larry is making the plan come true.
That is the same way for us. When God made the world that we live in, he knew that there was another world and that we would not stay here forever. Our world is like a piece of soap. Someday it is going to be all used up and we will disappear from this world just like Larry Little Bar is going to disappear. But it will be the way that God has planned it and therefore it will be good.
You and I are not going to live forever. Someday we will die according to the plan. Everyone else will die also. They will be used up just like us. The world that we live in will be used up and it will sort of die. But God has a bigger plan and a better plan for all of us and for all of his world. The time is always closer to the end but none of us knows when the end will come. We must trust that God will take good care of us and make us part of his new world when it is finished.
Good morning, boys and girls. I brought along with me a couple of friends that most of you probably know but you don't talk to very often. How many of you have ever met Billy Big Bar and his older brother Larry Little Bar? Billy and Larry are good friends but Billy worries a lot about Larry. Every day when they wake up, Billy looks at Larry and becomes very sad. Do you know why Billy is sad about Larry? (let them answer) That's right; Larry is smaller today than he was yesterday. Do you know why? (let them answer) That's right; someone used Larry and there is less of him today than there was yesterday. One day something is going to happen that is going to make Billy very unhappy if he doesn't learn something that he doesn't know right now. Do you know what is going to happen to Larry that could make Billy sad? (let them answer) That's right; Larry is going to disappear. He is going to be gone forever. Would that make you sad if you were Larry's big brother? (let them answer)
Maybe it would, but it shouldn't. We must remember that this is the way that Larry and Billy were made, and some day the same thing is going to happen to Billy. It is a plan for soap to be used up and someday to be all gone. Billy shouldn't feel bad, but instead he should feel good for Larry because Larry is making the plan come true.
That is the same way for us. When God made the world that we live in, he knew that there was another world and that we would not stay here forever. Our world is like a piece of soap. Someday it is going to be all used up and we will disappear from this world just like Larry Little Bar is going to disappear. But it will be the way that God has planned it and therefore it will be good.
You and I are not going to live forever. Someday we will die according to the plan. Everyone else will die also. They will be used up just like us. The world that we live in will be used up and it will sort of die. But God has a bigger plan and a better plan for all of us and for all of his world. The time is always closer to the end but none of us knows when the end will come. We must trust that God will take good care of us and make us part of his new world when it is finished.
