JC Ryle is one of the most famous pastors in church history. And in this episode we have one of his children's sermons read by a young man who listens to the show!
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00:09 --> 00:11 [SPEAKER_02]: This is Troy and Jill, and you're listening to Revived Thoughts.
00:17 --> 00:29 [SPEAKER_00]: He used to go up and down the land of Israel, teaching people how to serve God, and removing sinners, and some places he kept the schools,
00:31 --> 00:43 [SPEAKER_01]: Every episode, we bring you a different voice from history and a sermon that they delivered today's sermon was pre-spite jacety Ryle somewhere between 1841 and 1844 in Suffolk.
00:43 --> 00:48 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, yeah, everyone's been around Suffolk at some point.
00:48 --> 00:53 [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, I've never personally been there, but I imagine people know where that is I don't know where Suffolk is where
00:53 --> 00:56 [SPEAKER_02]: So I know where London is.
00:56 --> 00:58 [SPEAKER_02]: If you pull up a map of England, I can point to London.
00:58 --> 00:59 [SPEAKER_02]: Ish, I got an idea.
00:59 --> 01:01 [SPEAKER_02]: And then everything else, no idea.
01:01 --> 01:06 [SPEAKER_02]: Durvershire, suffoc, other places that have England sounding names.
01:06 --> 01:06 [SPEAKER_02]: I don't know.
01:06 --> 01:08 [SPEAKER_02]: I'm so sorry, English people, but I've never been there.
01:09 --> 01:09 [SPEAKER_02]: So I didn't, I didn't know.
01:09 --> 01:14 [SPEAKER_02]: Well, I mean, you ask your average Brit to point out, you know, then we're on a map.
01:14 --> 01:16 [SPEAKER_02]: They probably say point out Arizona.
01:16 --> 01:17 [SPEAKER_02]: I bet they would struggle.
01:17 --> 01:19 [SPEAKER_02]: So it's fair.
01:19 --> 01:24 [SPEAKER_02]: Um, they can't, I think a lot of us struggle to find airs on it about stars, I don't listeners.
01:24 --> 01:27 [SPEAKER_02]: I, I think I could do it, but I'm not a hundred percent.
01:28 --> 01:28 [SPEAKER_02]: I'm good geography.
01:29 --> 01:29 [SPEAKER_02]: And I can nail it.
01:30 --> 01:30 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
01:30 --> 01:31 [SPEAKER_02]: All right.
01:31 --> 01:35 [SPEAKER_02]: Joel, this is a special very nice episode that we have today.
01:35 --> 01:40 [SPEAKER_02]: We mentioned a few months ago, over the summer, we got an email from a listener if you recall.
01:41 --> 01:47 [SPEAKER_02]: If you don't go back, listen to some episodes, but we had a very special episode from a young listener named Mordecai.
01:47 --> 01:57 [SPEAKER_02]: And he really enjoyed our show, and he told us that he was hoping he could read a sermon for us some day, and it kind of, I think it felt like I got the impression from him.
01:57 --> 02:00 [SPEAKER_02]: He was very excited to read one, why wait.
02:01 --> 02:04 [SPEAKER_02]: So this sermon we have today is going to be read by...
02:04 --> 02:21 [SPEAKER_02]: Mr. Mortica this younger listener that we have he did I think of fantastic job and it is a children sermon So this was a sermon by J.C. Ryle that he would give to children that he would aim at the younger people in his audience and I think it's
02:21 --> 02:22 [SPEAKER_02]: All of this is great.
02:22 --> 02:23 [SPEAKER_02]: I couldn't be more excited about it.
02:23 --> 02:24 [SPEAKER_02]: I think it's really cool.
02:25 --> 02:27 [SPEAKER_02]: And so for this episode, I kind of wanted to do a little refresher.
02:27 --> 02:32 [SPEAKER_02]: It has been a long time since I think it's been years since we've had JC Ryle episode in sermon.
02:33 --> 02:34 [SPEAKER_02]: He's a fantastic preacher.
02:35 --> 02:36 [SPEAKER_02]: So well worth our time to go back.
02:36 --> 02:40 [SPEAKER_02]: But I also really just of all the people we've had in the show.
02:40 --> 02:44 [SPEAKER_02]: It was, I don't know, it was quite a coincidence, but I think it was,
02:44 --> 02:56 [SPEAKER_02]: a good choice at Jacy Ryle is the one that they chose because he actually does have a significant focus on children and I could find a lot of just how important it was to him to bring the gospel to young people.
02:56 --> 03:03 [SPEAKER_02]: And a way that I actually don't think it's true for every, I'm not saying that a lot of the pastors we feature in our show didn't care about the kids in their congregation.
03:03 --> 03:06 [SPEAKER_02]: I'm sure they did, but we can see it with Jacy Ryle.
03:06 --> 03:11 [SPEAKER_02]: I can point to hard evidence and say, look at these things he did to make sure young people knew the Lord.
03:12 --> 03:16 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, did you mention Troy 10 years old, Morika is 10 years old?
03:16 --> 03:17 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, the same man.
03:18 --> 03:19 [SPEAKER_02]: Same age as my daughter.
03:19 --> 03:20 [SPEAKER_02]: And I got to be honest with you.
03:20 --> 03:25 [SPEAKER_02]: My daughter's not yet ready to listen to these older episodes of Levi thoughts.
03:25 --> 03:28 [SPEAKER_02]: And she loves, she does love the stories of church history.
03:28 --> 03:30 [SPEAKER_02]: She likes talking about that stuff.
03:30 --> 03:33 [SPEAKER_02]: I, we read some of these books and stuff to read.
03:33 --> 03:35 [SPEAKER_02]: I don't think she could quite keep with the servants.
03:36 --> 03:37 [SPEAKER_02]: I don't think she'd be right, quite ready.
03:37 --> 03:41 [SPEAKER_02]: I'm impressed the more the guy is impressed me that he's he's keep it up.
03:41 --> 03:49 [SPEAKER_01]: He's going strong and ready to ready to read his own Very impressive and certainly a new record for our our youngest yes narrators.
03:49 --> 03:57 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm an narrator for revive that's And he was the one that suggested Jaycee riles that wreck too
03:57 --> 04:08 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, it's from what I can tell I believe I would imagine he may have had help from his family, but they're the ones who brought this sermon to us and so hey, look, we found some children's sermons by J.C. Ryle, you know, what do you think?
04:09 --> 04:10 [SPEAKER_01]: Love it.
04:10 --> 04:10 [SPEAKER_01]: Love it.
04:10 --> 04:10 [SPEAKER_02]: Love it.
04:10 --> 04:11 [SPEAKER_02]: Absolutely.
04:11 --> 04:21 [SPEAKER_02]: And honestly, too, I will say, once in a while, we do have a listener that, you know, even outside of the specialness of Mordecai here, but we'll have a listener say, hey, I found this servant, what do you think about reading it?
04:21 --> 04:26 [SPEAKER_02]: And man, I don't think I've ever turned one down.
04:26 --> 04:28 [SPEAKER_02]: bring me a sermon by Joseph Smith or something.
04:28 --> 04:30 [SPEAKER_02]: I'll probably like, no, no, thank you.
04:30 --> 04:30 [SPEAKER_02]: That's not our show.
04:31 --> 04:35 [SPEAKER_02]: But if you, I mean, 99% of the time you're, I'm probably gonna be like, yes, awesome.
04:35 --> 04:36 [SPEAKER_02]: Let's, let's bring it on.
04:36 --> 04:41 [SPEAKER_02]: I love when people find these great sermons from history on their own and say, hey, let's bring this to life together.
04:41 --> 04:44 [SPEAKER_02]: So again, all the things you could possibly want coming together here.
04:45 --> 04:48 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, a true, revive, thoughty, and we need it.
04:48 --> 04:55 [SPEAKER_01]: We need to come up with a better name for, yeah, you know, our listeners, like, what's that, what's a cooler name?
04:55 --> 05:01 [SPEAKER_02]: I like to call them historians or cool people, you know, but I don't, you know, I think about it.
05:01 --> 05:07 [SPEAKER_02]: We've never actually come up with a name for you because you who are listening right now, you were just always you to me.
05:07 --> 05:08 [SPEAKER_02]: I didn't give you a name.
05:09 --> 05:10 [SPEAKER_01]: Well, we didn't like we get what we get.
05:10 --> 05:12 [SPEAKER_02]: It was air with the K.
05:12 --> 05:15 [SPEAKER_02]: But that sounds like a very obscure reference from an earlier episode there.
05:15 --> 05:17 [SPEAKER_01]: They hold inside joke.
05:17 --> 05:17 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
05:17 --> 05:18 [SPEAKER_01]: There you go.
05:18 --> 05:23 [SPEAKER_01]: We have people like this that are now like though engaging in submitting instruments that they want to read like it.
05:23 --> 05:25 [SPEAKER_01]: There's there's a survivor.
05:25 --> 05:26 [SPEAKER_01]: That's right there.
05:26 --> 05:27 [SPEAKER_02]: A survivor.
05:27 --> 05:28 [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, how do we miss that?
05:29 --> 05:31 [SPEAKER_01]: other fellow survivors.
05:31 --> 05:32 [SPEAKER_01]: That's, that's, that's great.
05:32 --> 05:32 [SPEAKER_01]: Love it.
05:33 --> 05:34 [SPEAKER_01]: Um, all right.
05:34 --> 05:35 [SPEAKER_01]: J.C. Vrile.
05:36 --> 05:38 [SPEAKER_01]: I know you've long since forgotten about them.
05:38 --> 05:43 [SPEAKER_01]: Let's do our 30 second elevator pitch to catch us up to speed on on the lay of the land.
05:43 --> 05:50 [SPEAKER_01]: Born in the year 1816 and would die in the year 1900 and again, we're in the UK here.
05:50 --> 05:52 [SPEAKER_01]: So, lived a relatively long life.
05:52 --> 05:59 [SPEAKER_01]: When he was younger, he went to Oxford at a very young age, so this is another example of our genius category.
05:59 --> 06:00 [SPEAKER_01]: He's just a smart kid.
06:01 --> 06:03 [SPEAKER_01]: He was a quick learner.
06:03 --> 06:04 [SPEAKER_01]: He was a good learner.
06:04 --> 06:10 [SPEAKER_01]: Had a great education and he has this account upon hearing the gospel at a church.
06:10 --> 06:11 [SPEAKER_01]: He was at a church service he heard.
06:12 --> 06:16 [SPEAKER_01]: Ephesians 2-8, 4 by grace, you have been saved through faith.
06:16 --> 06:18 [SPEAKER_01]: It is none of your own doing.
06:18 --> 06:19 [SPEAKER_01]: It is a gift of God.
06:19 --> 06:31 [SPEAKER_01]: He heard that verse and by his own account he says he was instantly converted so that there was something that clicked that switch just flipped in his brain and he understood the gospel and it changed his life.
06:31 --> 06:38 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, and I will say to and I don't I remember the first time I covered JC route I found one resource kind of saying like,
06:38 --> 06:48 [SPEAKER_02]: I think it was like he was coming into church like he hadn't even sat down just like the pastor was warming up the sermon and said that verse and it was like He was being converted as he sat down.
06:48 --> 06:56 [SPEAKER_02]: I don't know if that's true since then I've never found that like where that source came from so I can't confirm it But that's always hit me as like man.
06:56 --> 06:56 [SPEAKER_02]: That's kind of an image.
06:56 --> 07:08 [SPEAKER_02]: If it was like that Wow, what a powerful moment from God like he hadn't even gotten in the pew yet and the Lord was already doing the work But again, I've never been able to confirm it or find that source again
07:08 --> 07:23 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, but I mean, regardless by his account, he seems to have a regenerative moment that changes the trajectory of his life there, because he was planning on going into government and kind of making a name for himself and politics.
07:24 --> 07:30 [SPEAKER_01]: He was wealthy, he came from a family of wealthy bankers, but again,
07:30 --> 07:42 [SPEAKER_01]: It kind of went in a different direction, shortly after being saved, his family would go into some hard times with their fortunes with their money, you know, kind of fall apart and his family would have to declare bankruptcy.
07:43 --> 07:51 [SPEAKER_01]: All of these things kind of combining, you know, it's interesting how the Lord works, where he can kind of stage things to put you on a trajectory for life.
07:51 --> 08:02 [SPEAKER_01]: And this is a moment that Ryle specifically calls out, looks back to and he says, you know, I don't know if my life would have been the same if my family didn't go bankrupt at this moment.
08:02 --> 08:18 [SPEAKER_01]: Like that's, there was something that he believed and I think is, it's fair to assume that the Lord was using or in, you know, the Lord was in that because he doesn't think Jacy Ryle doesn't think that he would serve God in the same way he would have if he still had
08:18 --> 08:36 [SPEAKER_01]: access to, you know, that those fortunes and those riches in that way would have, it would have pulled them in a different direction or not been as, uh, not been as easy for him, you know, so I think there that combination of him becoming a believer and needing to rely on the Lord kind of in the same swath.
08:36 --> 08:37 [SPEAKER_01]: It was important to him.
08:37 --> 08:40 [SPEAKER_01]: Ryle had misfortunes with his family life.
08:40 --> 08:46 [SPEAKER_01]: He would end up getting married three times because two of his wives would pass away very young.
08:46 --> 08:52 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm leaving him with four children that he was a single father to married one life.
08:53 --> 08:55 [SPEAKER_01]: I think he had two kids with each wife.
08:55 --> 08:57 [SPEAKER_01]: She'd pass away married again.
08:57 --> 09:01 [SPEAKER_01]: That one passed away and then he eventually and married a third one just.
09:01 --> 09:02 [SPEAKER_01]: Who do we just do that?
09:02 --> 09:04 [SPEAKER_01]: Had the exact same marriage?
09:04 --> 09:05 [SPEAKER_01]: Do you know what I'm talking about, Joey?
09:06 --> 09:06 [SPEAKER_02]: No, I definitely do.
09:07 --> 09:10 [SPEAKER_02]: And you're definitely right in the last couple episodes.
09:11 --> 09:14 [SPEAKER_02]: We had another guy who had three different wives.
09:15 --> 09:17 [SPEAKER_02]: And it's killing me that I can't answer that all the time.
09:17 --> 09:19 [SPEAKER_02]: I don't need all of a sudden commentary.
09:20 --> 09:22 [SPEAKER_01]: Uh, uh, Matthew Henry.
09:22 --> 09:23 [SPEAKER_01]: Matthew Henry.
09:23 --> 09:25 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, Matthew Henry had the exact same situation.
09:25 --> 09:52 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, where he had two wives passed away Which by the way Matthew Henry was obviously extremely recent version of that But it's actually it is not an uncommon story in the history I mean really honestly, you know when we did our now and then episode things that have changed That actually could have been a zone section how much marriage has changed and how the idea of like
09:52 --> 10:03 [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, historically speaking, that happened a lot, but it also didn't, and a lot of people would have multiple wives follow, or, you know, I imagine the women would also marry multiple husbands at times, and they did.
10:03 --> 10:11 [SPEAKER_02]: That was a pretty common thing, and I just, that part is, that's actually something I've never really gotten used to, and doing revive thoughts for over six and a half years.
10:12 --> 10:16 [SPEAKER_02]: Just how many of these guys lost a spouse or two.
10:16 --> 10:17 [SPEAKER_02]: and lost children.
10:18 --> 10:23 [SPEAKER_02]: Like, it is just something devastating that they just live with.
10:23 --> 10:24 [SPEAKER_02]: It doesn't even come up that much.
10:24 --> 10:27 [SPEAKER_02]: And I just, I don't know.
10:27 --> 10:29 [SPEAKER_02]: It is very different than how we live today.
10:29 --> 10:38 [SPEAKER_01]: Definitely a testament to modern medicine and childbirth in general, like the fact that this would go to
10:38 --> 11:01 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, like I don't know the percentage are it seems like, you know, based on our show you had like a 30 40% chance of dying with complications around childbirth back then where nowadays it's relatively a safe and normal procedure and women actually have a longer life expectancy than men women went from having a very much shorter life expectancy to nowadays
11:01 --> 11:14 [SPEAKER_01]: Men are more likely to do some stupid and get yourself killed before your your wife actually dies So definitely I will say to this is that if you think it's pretty wild here on her by thoughts I'm looking at a poster.
11:14 --> 11:27 [SPEAKER_02]: We have here hanging up of markers and missionaries and I'm like it's even worse over there Like in a Lisa's show I feel like every famous guy who was a missionary lost his wife on the field I wore like several kids, you know Hudson Taylor William Carey
11:27 --> 11:46 [SPEAKER_02]: like it was all of the big names had to go through that at one point and it's just it is something that we just don't we don't have that same level of experience it's something that thankfully our pastors are not just going through and we're not all just going through loved ones that same level of a same level
11:46 --> 11:49 [SPEAKER_02]: Ryle did a lot of important work in his life.
11:49 --> 11:57 [SPEAKER_02]: He criticized ritualism in the Church of England at the time, which had become quite common where people would just do things because they believed the ritual of it had it power.
11:57 --> 11:59 [SPEAKER_02]: It's things like that.
12:00 --> 12:03 [SPEAKER_02]: It wasn't a no longer about the kind of personal relationship it was just do this.
12:03 --> 12:06 [SPEAKER_02]: And he also did a ton to help the poor.
12:06 --> 12:09 [SPEAKER_02]: We've talked about some of just the amazing work he did in his part of England.
12:10 --> 12:12 [SPEAKER_02]: We've also talked about
12:12 --> 12:24 [SPEAKER_02]: The sermons, how they've been read for years, I can tell you there are several large pages and books and YouTube channels just dedicated to J.C. Ryle's sermons.
12:24 --> 12:31 [SPEAKER_02]: In fact, outside of Charles Bergen, I think he's probably one of the biggest names in sermons, like the outside of him.
12:31 --> 12:37 [SPEAKER_02]: In terms of current internet cloud, we can expect people to tune into an episode with him.
12:37 --> 12:40 [SPEAKER_02]: But today we're focusing on his teaching for young people.
12:40 --> 12:44 [SPEAKER_02]: After all, like I said, a sermon we're listening to that is aimed at young people that's bringing preach to.
12:45 --> 12:54 [SPEAKER_02]: I think only one other time did, in all of our research of episodes, have I ever seen somebody really take a time to focus on the young people that I can think of?
12:54 --> 12:57 [SPEAKER_02]: And that was actually a sermon episode we did with BB Warfield.
12:57 --> 13:02 [SPEAKER_02]: The sermon wasn't for young people, but I mentioned he wrote a bunch of books and stuff like that for them.
13:02 --> 13:04 [SPEAKER_02]: This started very early in his ministry.
13:04 --> 13:08 [SPEAKER_02]: We mentioned that this sermon was preached between 1841 and 1844.
13:08 --> 13:17 [SPEAKER_02]: That would have been right at the beginning of his ministry, right when he first started working at a church and you can just see from the very beginning.
13:17 --> 13:23 [SPEAKER_02]: bringing the children in and reaching them for the gospel was just this very important part of what he was doing.
13:24 --> 13:30 [SPEAKER_02]: And I think that's really cool because, you know, so many pastors when they're getting going, they're just trying to kind of get their legs under them.
13:31 --> 13:42 [SPEAKER_02]: It's so common in the church today and I think in the world today that the young people are kind of brushed aside or forgotten or not brought in or not focused on
13:42 --> 13:46 [SPEAKER_02]: And over their problems can be kind of swept by as like yeah, it's not as big a deal.
13:46 --> 13:59 [SPEAKER_02]: They're young blah, blah, blah, blah And it's really just cool to see how much J.C. Ryle wasn't going to do that and how much he saw young people as Absolutely precious and their souls are extremely important.
13:59 --> 14:04 [SPEAKER_02]: You know what, maybe I'm saying some of this because I'm a teacher And I think I think the kids that I teach are great night.
14:04 --> 14:04 [SPEAKER_02]: I worry in
14:04 --> 14:08 [SPEAKER_02]: about their souls and I want to reach them as well, but I just think it's really cool.
14:09 --> 14:11 [SPEAKER_02]: I think it's a humbling thing to see.
14:11 --> 14:27 [SPEAKER_02]: You know, here are all these big names in the world today, and I think of just some of the kind of, sometimes it's called celebrity pastor or whatever, and I think a lot of them are really great guys, but I don't feel like I hear as many stories of them trying to reach young people as I feel like I would like to.
14:27 --> 14:33 [SPEAKER_02]: I would like to see more of this kind of J.C. Ryle energy of let's get the youth and the young people because they're so important.
14:34 --> 14:38 [SPEAKER_02]: And so anyway, as a big deal, we often see young people, like I said, kind of push this side.
14:38 --> 14:50 [SPEAKER_02]: And one more thing that to that to worldview is so important and what you believe is shaped at such a young age that the work of a pastor to reach those young people really is like, it is essential.
14:50 --> 14:59 [SPEAKER_02]: And so I hope that if you are an administrator, if you are hoping to be an administrator someday, if you are going to seminary, you're listening to this show from, you know,
14:59 --> 15:19 [SPEAKER_02]: Any of those kinds of places, or you just volunteer your church, I really do hope you're taking time to mentor or look after or volunteer or Disciple, do something for these younger people that you have because They yeah, maybe you're intimidated, maybe you're something you're comfortable with, but man, they do really need it
15:25 --> 15:28 [SPEAKER_01]: This went beyond just teaching them in Sunday's school.
15:28 --> 15:31 [SPEAKER_01]: He also wrote a book called The Duty of Parents.
15:31 --> 15:34 [SPEAKER_01]: And it was on How to Raise Children to Follow God.
15:34 --> 15:39 [SPEAKER_01]: And it was based on the text to train up your child, like we've seen in the scriptures there.
15:39 --> 15:43 [SPEAKER_01]: So he gave us 17 different lessons for training up your child.
15:43 --> 15:44 [SPEAKER_01]: For example,
15:44 --> 16:05 [SPEAKER_01]: A theme that runs throughout the book is he recommends using grace with children regularly because grace softens up hearts just as it softens our hearts up to God and was what he said in One of the lessons here that I'm going to read an excerpt from so this comes from lesson number four again four out of 17 He says quote
16:05 --> 16:12 [SPEAKER_01]: Train with this thought continually before your eyes that the soul of your child is the first thing to be considered precious.
16:12 --> 16:19 [SPEAKER_01]: No doubt are these little ones in your eyes, but if you love them, think often of their souls.
16:19 --> 16:24 [SPEAKER_01]: No interest should weigh with you so much as their eternal interests.
16:24 --> 16:28 [SPEAKER_01]: No part of them should be so dear to you as the part to which will never die.
16:28 --> 16:31 [SPEAKER_01]: The world and all of its glory shall pass away.
16:32 --> 16:48 [SPEAKER_01]: The hills shall melt, the heavens shall be wrapped together as a squirrel, the sun shall cease to shine, but the spirit which dwells in those little ones whom you love so well shall outlive them all, whether it happiness or misery will depend on you.
16:48 --> 16:49 [SPEAKER_01]: and quote.
16:49 --> 16:54 [SPEAKER_01]: So very poetic, a little bit, you know, he's cutting to the point.
16:54 --> 16:55 [SPEAKER_01]: He's a little bit direct there.
16:56 --> 16:58 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, more than I can usually speak.
16:58 --> 17:08 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I really like that, too, because I think and like parenting today, if you look up parenting device Christian parenting advice, so much of it's about discipline, how to deal with children, you know, all these different things.
17:08 --> 17:11 [SPEAKER_02]: And those things are all, you know, I'm not saying they're not important.
17:11 --> 17:14 [SPEAKER_02]: Of course, we want to
17:14 --> 17:25 [SPEAKER_02]: right way and all that kind of stuff but I love that he's just like one of his very first points is like don't forget the soul which is the actually most important thing and I certainly could not agree with him more on that.
17:26 --> 17:31 [SPEAKER_02]: Another one he says parents I beg you for your children say beware of over indulgence.
17:31 --> 17:44 [SPEAKER_02]: I call on you to remember it is your first duty to consult their real interests and not their fancies and liking to train them not to humor them to profit them
17:44 --> 17:48 [SPEAKER_02]: You know, it must not give way to every wish and every desire of your child's mind.
17:48 --> 17:50 [SPEAKER_02]: However much you may love him.
17:50 --> 17:55 [SPEAKER_02]: You must not let him suppose his wills to be everything, and that he has only to desire a thing and it will be done.
17:55 --> 17:57 [SPEAKER_02]: Do not I pray.
17:57 --> 18:00 [SPEAKER_02]: You make your children idols.
18:00 --> 18:06 [SPEAKER_02]: Less God should take them away from you and break your idol just to convince you of your own folly.
18:06 --> 18:08 [SPEAKER_02]: I really like that one because I'll be honest like it.
18:09 --> 18:13 [SPEAKER_02]: I feel like even today, 200 years later, that's good reminding advice to people.
18:13 --> 18:16 [SPEAKER_02]: It's so easy to please the kid, just let them be happy.
18:16 --> 18:18 [SPEAKER_02]: If they'll stop crying, they'll stop this.
18:19 --> 18:21 [SPEAKER_02]: And I think a lot of us will...
18:21 --> 18:45 [SPEAKER_02]: suffer if we do that but it's nice to see that 200 years ago they were dealing with the same temptation of just you know just give it the capability one so he's happy and we all know that doesn't work and it's you know it's not easy to do the right thing there but it's nice to see that this has always been a problem it's easy to think maybe like all the modern age these kids are more spoiled no nope nope 200 years ago but we were writing the same advice don't just give them whatever they want you love them
18:45 --> 18:47 [SPEAKER_02]: It's feels easy, but it doesn't actually work.
18:48 --> 18:48 [SPEAKER_02]: Here's another one.
18:49 --> 18:50 [SPEAKER_02]: Learn to say no to your children.
18:50 --> 18:53 [SPEAKER_02]: Show them that you're able to refuse whatever you think is not fit for them.
18:53 --> 18:59 [SPEAKER_02]: Show them that you're ready to punish this obedience and that when you speak a punishment, you're not only ready to threaten it, but you will perform it.
18:59 --> 19:01 [SPEAKER_02]: But do not threaten it too much.
19:01 --> 19:10 [SPEAKER_02]: And these lessons were, these lessons as parenting book was written by a dad who had different times was a single dad because these children had lost their mom.
19:10 --> 19:14 [SPEAKER_02]: And he had at one point he would have four children in the home and no mother.
19:14 --> 19:17 [SPEAKER_02]: He was the sole provider for those children.
19:17 --> 19:19 [SPEAKER_02]: I'm sure he had family or people nearby helping him.
19:19 --> 19:22 [SPEAKER_02]: I don't think he was completely all alone out there.
19:22 --> 19:24 [SPEAKER_02]: But it still just kind of tells you what he was going through.
19:24 --> 19:33 [SPEAKER_02]: So this is parenting advice, not from an academic or a socio-psychologist, or somebody, you know, like, that is just like, yeah, I don't have kids, but I still be them from far away.
19:34 --> 19:40 [SPEAKER_02]: I like that this advice from J.C. Ryle, it's a guy who's in the trenches of parenting, living it out himself.
19:40 --> 19:45 [SPEAKER_02]: Between his ministry, his own family, his preaching, and his writing on children.
19:45 --> 19:49 [SPEAKER_02]: It is evident that J.C. Ryle cared greatly for the souls of children.
19:49 --> 19:54 [SPEAKER_02]: Before we listen to this young man's sermon, we had to say, I just have to leave you this quote, which I thought was a really good one from him as well.
19:55 --> 20:08 [SPEAKER_02]: Let us believe that they children think more and feel more and consider more than at first sight may appear, and that the spirit is often working in them as really intruly as it is in older people.
20:08 --> 20:14 [SPEAKER_02]: Above all, let us often name them before Christ and our prayers, and ask him to take them under his special charge.
20:14 --> 20:16 [SPEAKER_02]: He never changes.
20:16 --> 20:17 [SPEAKER_02]: He is always the same.
20:17 --> 20:20 [SPEAKER_02]: He cared for boys and girls when he was upon the earth.
20:20 --> 20:25 [SPEAKER_02]: Let us not doubt that he cares for them at the right hand of the Father and Heaven.
20:41 --> 20:42 [SPEAKER_00]: the two bears.
20:43 --> 20:55 [SPEAKER_00]: He went up from dense unto Bethel, and as he was going by the way, there came forth little children out of the city, and mocked him and set on to him, go up though bald head, go up though bald head.
20:56 --> 21:07 [SPEAKER_00]: And he turned back and looked on them, and cursed them in the name of the Lord, and there came forth two sheep bears, out of the wood, and tear 40 and two children of them.
21:08 --> 21:11 [SPEAKER_00]: Dear children, did you ever see a bear?
21:11 --> 21:12 [SPEAKER_00]: Perhaps not.
21:12 --> 21:15 [SPEAKER_00]: There are no bears wild in this country now.
21:16 --> 21:24 [SPEAKER_00]: There are some kept fastened up and wild beacows, or carried about in cages, but there are none loose in the woods and fields.
21:25 --> 21:26 [SPEAKER_00]: So perhaps you never saw a bear.
21:27 --> 21:35 [SPEAKER_00]: A bear is a large shaggy savage wild beast, with great teeth and claws, and very strong.
21:35 --> 21:40 [SPEAKER_00]: It will kill sheep and lambs and calves and goats and eat them.
21:41 --> 21:47 [SPEAKER_00]: When it is very hungry, it will take men, women, or children and tear them to pieces.
21:48 --> 22:00 [SPEAKER_00]: She bears that have little cubs are particularly fierce and cruel, how thankful we ought to be that we can walk about in England without fear of being caught by a bear.
22:01 --> 22:07 [SPEAKER_00]: Now I'm going to tell you a story about a good man, two bears and some children.
22:07 --> 22:13 [SPEAKER_00]: It is a story out of the Bible, and so you may be sure that it is all true.
22:14 --> 22:20 [SPEAKER_00]: Stories and other books are often only make believe, and tell us things that never really happened.
22:22 --> 22:28 [SPEAKER_00]: Stories out of the Bible, you must always remember, are true, every word, never forget that.
22:29 --> 22:36 [SPEAKER_00]: once on a time, about 2 years ago, through lived a good man whose name was Elijah.
22:37 --> 22:45 [SPEAKER_00]: He was at first servant to a famous prophet of God, named Elijah, after Elijah was taken up to heaven and a chariot of fire.
22:45 --> 22:49 [SPEAKER_00]: Elijah was appointed to be prophet in his place.
22:50 --> 22:54 [SPEAKER_00]: From that time to his death, he was a very great and very useful man.
22:55 --> 22:57 [SPEAKER_00]: He did many miracles.
22:57 --> 23:09 [SPEAKER_00]: He used to go up and down the land of Israel, teaching people how to serve God and removing sinners and some places he kept the schools, called schools of the prophets.
23:10 --> 23:13 [SPEAKER_00]: And this way he became famous all over the country.
23:14 --> 23:19 [SPEAKER_00]: All people knew, Lisha, and all good people loved him.
23:19 --> 23:26 [SPEAKER_00]: One day, not long after her Elijah had been taken up to heaven, Elijah went to a place called Bethel.
23:27 --> 23:41 [SPEAKER_00]: Where there was a school, I dare say, he went to see how the school was getting on and whether it was doing any good, all schools need looking after and examining and it does them good to be examined.
23:41 --> 23:45 [SPEAKER_00]: It is only bad boys and girls who dislike being asked.
23:45 --> 23:46 [SPEAKER_00]: what they have learned.
23:47 --> 24:00 [SPEAKER_00]: Now as this good old man, Alisha got near Bethel, a very sad thing happened, a great number of little children came out of the tower and behaved extremely ill.
24:01 --> 24:09 [SPEAKER_00]: They began to mock Alisha and called him names, instead of respecting to him and bowing to him like good children.
24:09 --> 24:14 [SPEAKER_00]: They made a game of him and said silly things, go up the ball
24:14 --> 24:16 [SPEAKER_00]: They cried, go up though, bald head.
24:17 --> 24:25 [SPEAKER_00]: They called him bald head, I have no doubt, because the good prophet was bald with age and had no hair on his head.
24:25 --> 24:43 [SPEAKER_00]: They said, go up, I suspect, because his master Elijah had lately gone up to heaven as everybody knew and they meant that Alicia, Elijah had been, had better go away after his master and not trouble them anymore with his teaching.
24:43 --> 24:45 [SPEAKER_00]: It was as much as saying, be often begun.
24:46 --> 24:49 [SPEAKER_00]: It is high time for you to go up as well as your master.
24:51 --> 24:54 [SPEAKER_00]: just think for a moment how wicked these children were.
24:54 --> 24:58 [SPEAKER_00]: They lived in town where they might have learned better things.
24:58 --> 25:07 [SPEAKER_00]: There was a school of prophets at Bethel, but I'm afraid they had not used their opportunities and had loved play better than lessons.
25:08 --> 25:12 [SPEAKER_00]: They had no business to mock Elisha and treat him so badly.
25:13 --> 25:20 [SPEAKER_00]: He had done them no harm and had never been
25:22 --> 25:26 [SPEAKER_00]: Above all, they ought not to have said, go up and get away.
25:26 --> 25:31 [SPEAKER_00]: They ought rather to have said, stay with us, and teach us the way to heaven.
25:31 --> 25:38 [SPEAKER_00]: Truly it is sad to see what length of wickedness, even little children may go.
25:38 --> 25:42 [SPEAKER_00]: It is sad to see how corrupt boys and girls may become.
25:42 --> 25:47 [SPEAKER_00]: And what naughty things they will say, even when they live close to a school.
25:48 --> 25:58 [SPEAKER_00]: But what they should do when these children behaved so ill, we are told that he turned back and looked on them with sorrow and displeasure.
25:59 --> 26:02 [SPEAKER_00]: They probably had often done the same thing before.
26:02 --> 26:06 [SPEAKER_00]: It had become a habit within, which could not be cured.
26:07 --> 26:10 [SPEAKER_00]: The time had come.
26:10 --> 26:11 [SPEAKER_00]: when they must be punished.
26:12 --> 26:16 [SPEAKER_00]: And then we are told that he cursed them in the name of the Lord.
26:17 --> 26:27 [SPEAKER_00]: That does not mean you may be sure that Elijah flew into a passion and swore at the children as some bad old men might have done.
26:27 --> 26:29 [SPEAKER_00]: He was not the man to do that.
26:30 --> 26:35 [SPEAKER_00]: It only means that he solemnly pronounced God's anger and displeasure against them.
26:35 --> 26:45 [SPEAKER_00]: He gravely told them in the name of the Lord that God would certainly punish them, and that was his duty as God's servant to say, no indeed.
26:46 --> 26:49 [SPEAKER_00]: All I should did not speak and passion or ill-temper.
26:49 --> 26:51 [SPEAKER_00]: The judge at the S.E.'
26:51 --> 26:56 [SPEAKER_00]: 's is not angry with the prisoner when he
26:56 --> 27:14 [SPEAKER_00]: When Elijah pronounced God's curse on these wicked children, he did it as God's appointed servant, firmly and faithfully, but in sorrow, God told him not, no doubt, what to do, and like an obedient servant, he did it.
27:15 --> 27:29 [SPEAKER_00]: What happened as soon as Elijah had spoken, at once there came forth out of a wood close by, two she bears, which rushed upon these wicked children tearing and killing all they caught.
27:30 --> 27:40 [SPEAKER_00]: Think what an awful surprise that must have been how dreadfully frightened these children must have felt, what running and screaming and tumbling over one another
27:40 --> 27:45 [SPEAKER_00]: and crying for help there must have been how sorry in the shameed of themselves.
27:45 --> 27:59 [SPEAKER_00]: They must have felt, but with many, it was too late before they could get within the walls of Bethel, the two bears had caught them and killed no less than 42 little children.
27:59 --> 28:04 [SPEAKER_00]: 40 in two little boys and girls that night never came home to Bethel alive.
28:04 --> 28:08 [SPEAKER_00]: 40 in two little suppers were not eating.
28:09 --> 28:12 [SPEAKER_00]: 40 and two little beds were not slept in.
28:12 --> 28:18 [SPEAKER_00]: 40 and two little funerals took place next day.
28:18 --> 28:27 [SPEAKER_00]: Many children, I can not help hoping, got home safe and were not hurt, but I am sure they would never forget what they had seen.
28:28 --> 28:32 [SPEAKER_00]: They would remember the two bears as long as they lived.
28:34 --> 28:36 [SPEAKER_00]: Now, dear children, this is a sad story.
28:38 --> 28:42 [SPEAKER_00]: but it is very useful and instructive one.
28:43 --> 28:47 [SPEAKER_00]: Like everything else in the Bible, it was written for your good.
28:47 --> 28:51 [SPEAKER_00]: It teaches lessons, which boys and girls ought never to forget.
28:52 --> 28:54 [SPEAKER_00]: Let me tell you what the lessons are.
28:56 --> 29:01 [SPEAKER_00]: Number one, learn for one thing that God takes notice of what children do.
29:01 --> 29:07 [SPEAKER_00]: He took notice of the little children at Bethel and punished them for their wickedness.
29:08 --> 29:11 [SPEAKER_00]: Remember, I beg of you that God is not altered.
29:12 --> 29:13 [SPEAKER_00]: He is still the same.
29:13 --> 29:16 [SPEAKER_00]: He is every day taking notice of you.
29:16 --> 29:21 [SPEAKER_00]: I believe some people fancy that it does not matter how children behave.
29:21 --> 29:25 [SPEAKER_00]: because God only notices grown up men and woman.
29:25 --> 29:27 [SPEAKER_00]: This is a very great mistake.
29:27 --> 29:37 [SPEAKER_00]: The eyes of God are upon boys and girls and he marks all they do when they do right his pleased and when they do wrong his displeased.
29:38 --> 29:41 [SPEAKER_00]: Your children never forget this.
29:42 --> 29:49 [SPEAKER_00]: let no one make you think that you were too young to serve God, and that you may safely wait till you are men and woman.
29:50 --> 29:59 [SPEAKER_00]: This is not true, it is not too soon to take up religion, as soon as you know right from wrong, you are old enough to begin taking the right way.
30:00 --> 30:08 [SPEAKER_00]: As soon as you're old enough to be punished for doing wrong, you are old enough to give your heart to God and to fall Christ.
30:09 --> 30:16 [SPEAKER_00]: The child that is old enough to be chastised for swearing and telling lies is not too young to be taught.
30:16 --> 30:18 [SPEAKER_00]: to pray and read the Bible.
30:18 --> 30:24 [SPEAKER_00]: The child that is big enough to displease God is also big enough to please him.
30:24 --> 30:32 [SPEAKER_00]: The child that is old enough to be tempting by the devil is not too young to have the grace of the Holy Spirit and his heart.
30:33 --> 30:37 [SPEAKER_00]: Children, however little and young you are, that is always noticing you.
30:38 --> 30:44 [SPEAKER_00]: He notices how you behave at home, how you behave at school,
30:45 --> 30:49 [SPEAKER_00]: He notices whether you say your prayers are not and how you say them.
30:49 --> 30:55 [SPEAKER_00]: He notices whether you're mind what your mother tells you and how you go on when out of your mother's sight.
30:56 --> 31:02 [SPEAKER_00]: He notices whether you're greedy or selfish or cross or tell lies or take what is not your own.
31:03 --> 31:07 [SPEAKER_00]: In short, there is nothing about children that God does not notice.
31:08 --> 31:12 [SPEAKER_00]: I read in the Bible that when Little Ishma was dead.
31:14 --> 31:17 [SPEAKER_00]: almost dead, with thirst and the wilderness.
31:17 --> 31:19 [SPEAKER_00]: God heard the voice of the lad.
31:21 --> 31:23 [SPEAKER_00]: Mark that he listened to the child's prayer.
31:24 --> 31:29 [SPEAKER_00]: I read that when Samia was only a little boy, God spoke to him.
31:29 --> 31:42 [SPEAKER_00]: I read that when I'd be abide you, the child of Gerobum, with sick and dying God said by the mouth of his prophet, there is some good thing found in him toward the
31:42 --> 31:43 [SPEAKER_00]: children.
31:44 --> 31:46 [SPEAKER_00]: These things were written for your learning.
31:47 --> 31:48 [SPEAKER_00]: I'll give you a piece of advice.
31:49 --> 31:53 [SPEAKER_00]: Taste, say to yourselves, every morning when you get up.
31:53 --> 31:54 [SPEAKER_00]: God sees me.
31:54 --> 31:56 [SPEAKER_00]: Let me live as in God's sight.
31:57 --> 31:59 [SPEAKER_00]: God is always looking at what you do.
31:59 --> 32:06 [SPEAKER_00]: And hearing what you say, all is put down in his great books and all must be reckoned for at the last day.
32:07 --> 32:12 [SPEAKER_00]: It is written in
32:13 --> 32:19 [SPEAKER_00]: learn for another thing that it is very wrong to market good people and despise religion.
32:20 --> 32:28 [SPEAKER_00]: The little children of Bethel mocked at Alisha and called them bald head for so doing their terribly punished.
32:29 --> 32:37 [SPEAKER_00]: Dear children, as long as you live, make it a rule, never to laugh at religion, or to mock anybody who is religious.
32:38 --> 32:40 [SPEAKER_00]: This is one of the wickedest things you can do.
32:40 --> 32:45 [SPEAKER_00]: It is pleasant to see boys and girls marry and happy.
32:45 --> 32:48 [SPEAKER_00]: Youth is the time for laughter and marriage.
32:48 --> 32:52 [SPEAKER_00]: but take care never to laugh at anything belonging to God.
32:53 --> 32:56 [SPEAKER_00]: Whatever you laugh at do not laugh at religion.
32:57 --> 33:02 [SPEAKER_00]: Some boys and girls, I'm sorry to say, are very thoughtless about this.
33:03 --> 33:08 [SPEAKER_00]: They think it clever to make a game of those who read their bibles and say their prayers.
33:08 --> 33:13 [SPEAKER_00]: and keep their Sundays properly, and attend to what is said at church.
33:13 --> 33:18 [SPEAKER_00]: They laugh at other boys and girls who mind what their mothers say, and try to corrupt them.
33:19 --> 33:28 [SPEAKER_00]: Some indeed are so wicked that when they see children trying to do what pleases God, they appoint their fingers at them and cry.
33:28 --> 33:30 [SPEAKER_00]: There goes a little saint.
33:30 --> 33:39 [SPEAKER_00]: Now, all this is very wrong and offends what, and offends God exceedingly, there sits one heaven who sees these wicked children.
33:40 --> 33:44 [SPEAKER_00]: And when he sees them, he is greatly displeased.
33:45 --> 33:48 [SPEAKER_00]: We cannot wonder if such children come to trouble.
33:50 --> 33:51 [SPEAKER_00]: or turn out badly.
33:51 --> 33:55 [SPEAKER_00]: All who despise God's people despise God himself.
33:56 --> 34:04 [SPEAKER_00]: It is written then that honor me, I will honor, and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed.
34:05 --> 34:12 [SPEAKER_00]: I read in the Bible that Ishmael was turned out of Abraham's house because he mocked his little brother Isaac.
34:12 --> 34:16 [SPEAKER_00]: Saint Paul tells us about this, that he persecuted him.
34:17 --> 34:30 [SPEAKER_00]: At the time when Ishmael did this, he was only a boy, but boy as he was, he was old enough to offend God by mocking, to bring himself into his mother into great trouble.
34:32 --> 34:39 [SPEAKER_00]: Dear children, some of you perhaps have good fathers and mothers who tell you to read your bibles and say your prayers.
34:40 --> 34:46 [SPEAKER_00]: I hope that you never laugh at them behind their backs and mock at what they tell you about religion.
34:47 --> 34:50 [SPEAKER_00]: Be sure, if you do this, that you commit a great sin.
34:50 --> 35:01 [SPEAKER_00]: It is written the eye that mocketh at his father and despise it to obey his mother.
35:02 --> 35:04 [SPEAKER_00]: and the young eagles shall eat it.
35:06 --> 35:12 [SPEAKER_00]: Three, learn in the last place that sin is sure to bring sorrow at last.
35:13 --> 35:16 [SPEAKER_00]: It brought wounds and death on the little children of Bethel.
35:16 --> 35:20 [SPEAKER_00]: It brought weeping and crying to the homes of their parents.
35:21 --> 35:28 [SPEAKER_00]: If these wicked boys and girls had not displeased God, they would have not been torn by the bears.
35:29 --> 35:34 [SPEAKER_00]: Dear children, as long as you live, you will always see the same thing.
35:34 --> 35:41 [SPEAKER_00]: Those who will have their own way in running to sin are sure sooner or later to find themselves in trouble.
35:42 --> 35:51 [SPEAKER_00]: This trouble may not come at once, it may even be kept off for many long years, but sooner or later it is sure to come.
35:51 --> 35:56 [SPEAKER_00]: There is a dreadful hell at last, and those who will go on sewing sin.
35:56 --> 35:59 [SPEAKER_00]: are sure to at last to reap sorrow.
36:02 --> 36:09 [SPEAKER_00]: Adam and Eve would eat the forbidden fruit and edded, and what was the consequence sorrow?
36:09 --> 36:12 [SPEAKER_00]: They were cast out of the garden with shame.
36:12 --> 36:19 [SPEAKER_00]: The people before the flood would go on eating and drinking and despising, know as advice about the flood.
36:20 --> 36:22 [SPEAKER_00]: And what was the consequence?
36:22 --> 36:23 [SPEAKER_00]: Sorrow.
36:23 --> 36:25 [SPEAKER_00]: The flood came and they were all drowned.
36:26 --> 36:31 [SPEAKER_00]: The people of Sedomon Gmur would go on sinning in spite of lots warnings.
36:31 --> 36:32 [SPEAKER_00]: And what was the consequence?
36:33 --> 36:33 [SPEAKER_00]: Sorrow.
36:34 --> 36:37 [SPEAKER_00]: The fire fell from head and they were all burned.
36:37 --> 36:39 [SPEAKER_00]: E. Saw would have the mess of cottage.
36:40 --> 36:43 [SPEAKER_00]: And he despised his birthright.
36:43 --> 36:45 [SPEAKER_00]: And what was the consequence?
36:45 --> 36:45 [SPEAKER_00]: Sorrow.
36:46 --> 36:49 [SPEAKER_00]: He saw it afterwards too late with many tears.
36:50 --> 36:57 [SPEAKER_00]: The children of Israel would not obey God's command and go up into the land of Canaan when he commanded them.
36:58 --> 36:59 [SPEAKER_00]: And what was the consequence?
37:00 --> 37:00 [SPEAKER_00]: Sorrow.
37:00 --> 37:03 [SPEAKER_00]: They wandered 40 years in the wilderness.
37:04 --> 37:17 [SPEAKER_00]: Aiken when Jericho was taken would not obey the command of Joshua, but took money and hid it under his tent, and what was the consequence, sorrow he was found out and publicly stone.
37:18 --> 37:24 [SPEAKER_00]: Judas is scarier, one of the twelve apostles would not give his whole heart to Christ.
37:24 --> 37:27 [SPEAKER_00]: but coveted money and betrayed his master.
37:28 --> 37:29 [SPEAKER_00]: And what was the consequence?
37:30 --> 37:30 [SPEAKER_00]: Sorrow.
37:30 --> 37:35 [SPEAKER_00]: The money did him no good and did not make him happy and he hanged himself.
37:36 --> 37:46 [SPEAKER_00]: An anious and sapphire told a great lie to Peter and the apostles in order to be thought good, and it keep hold of the riches at the same time.
37:47 --> 37:59 [SPEAKER_00]: And what was the consequence, sorrow, they're both structured in one day, your children, remember these things, to the end of your lives, the wage divs of
38:01 --> 38:03 [SPEAKER_00]: The wages of sin is death.
38:03 --> 38:06 [SPEAKER_00]: The fruit of sin at last is trouble.
38:07 --> 38:18 [SPEAKER_00]: Those who tell lies or steal or get drunk or break the Sabbath may not suffer for it at first, but their sin will find them out sooner or later.
38:20 --> 38:27 [SPEAKER_00]: In this world or the next, those that so sin, like the children of Bethel, are sure to reap sorrow.
38:28 --> 38:31 [SPEAKER_00]: The way of transgressors is hard, and now I'll finish.
38:32 --> 38:39 [SPEAKER_00]: All I have been saying, with three parting councils, consider them well, and lay them to hard.
38:41 --> 38:49 [SPEAKER_00]: Number one, in the first place, settle in your minds that the way to be happy is to be really good in the sight of God.
38:50 --> 38:54 [SPEAKER_00]: If you will have your own way and follow sin, you are sure to have trouble and sorrow.
38:55 --> 39:05 [SPEAKER_00]: In the second place, if you want to be really good, ask the Lord Jesus Christ to make you good and to put His Spirit into your hearts.
39:05 --> 39:07 [SPEAKER_00]: You cannot make yourselves good.
39:07 --> 39:09 [SPEAKER_00]: I know your hearts are too weak.
39:10 --> 39:16 [SPEAKER_00]: and the world and the devil are too strong, but Jesus Christ can make you good.
39:17 --> 39:19 [SPEAKER_00]: And is already in willing to do so.
39:20 --> 39:27 [SPEAKER_00]: He can give you new hearts and power to overcome sin, then take Jesus Christ for your shepherd and friend.
39:28 --> 39:30 [SPEAKER_00]: Cast your souls upon him.
39:30 --> 39:36 [SPEAKER_00]: Jesus who died on the cross to save us has a special care for little children.
39:36 --> 39:40 [SPEAKER_00]: He says, I love them that love me.
39:40 --> 39:50 [SPEAKER_00]: and then that seek me early, shall find me, suffer the little children to come on to me and forbid them not for such as the kingdom of God.
39:51 --> 40:07 [SPEAKER_00]: In the last place, if you want to be kept from evil, that is in the world, remember, that God sees you and live as in God's sight, never mock at good people or make a game of religion.
40:08 --> 40:13 [SPEAKER_00]: Love those most who love God most, and choose for friends those who are God's friends.
40:14 --> 40:16 [SPEAKER_00]: Hate sin of all sorts.
40:17 --> 40:19 [SPEAKER_00]: When sinners entice you, do not consent.
40:20 --> 40:24 [SPEAKER_00]: A poor that which is evil, cleave to which is good.
40:24 --> 40:30 [SPEAKER_00]: Dear children, if you live in this way, God will bless you, and you will be fine.
40:32 --> 40:38 [SPEAKER_00]: And you will find a glass that you have chosen, the good part, which cannot be taken for.
40:40 --> 40:46 [SPEAKER_00]: Remember these things, and you, how will have learned something from the two bears?
40:57 --> 41:07 [SPEAKER_01]: Thank you for listening to today's episode of Revived Thoughts, and a big thanks to Mordecai for narrating today's episode, again, a first and revive that history.
41:07 --> 41:10 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, this is the very first that we've ever had.
41:10 --> 41:15 [SPEAKER_02]: A children sermon, I think it's first children sermon, and the first children sermon ever delivered by a young man.
41:16 --> 41:17 [SPEAKER_02]: So we really appreciate that.
41:17 --> 41:19 [SPEAKER_02]: I don't have anything special to add to this episode.
41:19 --> 41:24 [SPEAKER_02]: I feel like this is just a wonderful special episode from Top to Bottom, we're really, really grateful.
41:24 --> 41:25 [SPEAKER_02]: Thank you, Mordecai.
41:25 --> 41:32 [SPEAKER_02]: And I only ask that as you walk away from the sermon, just like J.C. Ryle, just like the kind of theme of this episode, young people.
41:33 --> 41:42 [SPEAKER_02]: If you can think of people in your life, young people that could use your prayer, ministries that you could be a part of, you know, maybe you already are, and that's a fantastic.
41:42 --> 41:43 [SPEAKER_02]: But what can you do?
41:43 --> 41:46 [SPEAKER_02]: Depore into the lives of those who are young.
41:46 --> 41:47 [SPEAKER_02]: That's just kind of,
41:47 --> 42:03 [SPEAKER_02]: Before I ask you to hit a like or share us out there, I just spend some time thinking about what can you do to prolong that because I just think that it can so often be an overlooked part of what we do, we can be chasing other things, but it is certainly, it's going to matter a lot more than so much else we do.
42:04 --> 42:09 [SPEAKER_02]: When we are a long, gone, the young people that we mentored in the cycle and we poured into will probably still be here.
42:11 --> 42:13 [SPEAKER_02]: This is Troy Angel and this is Revye Thoughts.