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KIDS MESSAGE
by Theresa Murray
theresa@masoncounty.com
“Jesus answered them, ‘Healthy people don’t need a
doctor—sick people do. I have come to call not those
who think they are righteous, but those who know
they are sinners to repent.’ Luke 5:31—32 NLT
Do you know what it means to repent? We have been
talking about John the Baptist, and how he preached,
“Repent of your sins and turn to God, for the Kingdom
of Heaven is near. ” Matthew 3:2
But what IS repentance? Is it the same as forgiveness?
’ Has someone ever done something to you that hurts
your feelings, and they say “I’m sorry, do you forgive
me?” If you forgive them, and they hurt you again,
how does that make you feel?
When we sin, it hurts Jesus. If we say I’m sorry, He
will forgive us—over and over, as many times as we
ask— but, if we still keep sinning, we have not really
repented. '
To repent means to turn away from sin and turn to
God. And, sure, other sins will pop up that we will
have to ask forgiveness for, and repent of them also,
but we are acknowledging that we are sick and we
need Jesus to help us NOT sin! We CAN’T do it by
ourselves! God says His thoughts are not our thoughts,
and His ways are higher than our ways. Isaiah 55:9
In Luke 18:9—14, Jesus told this story to some who
had great confidence in their own righteousness and
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scorned everyone else: “TWO men went to the Temple
to pray. One was a Pharisee, and the other was a
despised tax collector. The Pharisee stood by himself,
and prayed this prayer: ‘I thank you, God, that I am
not like other people—cheaters, sinners, adulterers.
I’m certainly not like that tax collector! I fast twice a
week, and I give you a tenth of my income.’ But the
tax collector stood at a distance, and dared not even
lift his eyes to Heaven as he prayed. Instead, he beat
his chest in sorrow, saying, ‘0 God, be merciful to me,
for I am a sinner.’ Jesus said, ‘I tell you, this sinner,
not the Pharisee, returned home justified before God.
For those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and
those who humble themselves will be exalted.’ “
What kind of prayer did the Pharisee pray? That’s
right! He thanked God that he wasn’t a sinner. He
thought he was better than everybody else, and he
was not sorry for anything he had done. The tax
collector did not repent in this parable, but he knew
he needed Jesus to help him. He knew he was in need
of mercy and grace. He acknowledged that he was a
sinner. The Pharisee did not see himself as a sinner.
Jesus did not come to call those who thought they
were righteous to repent—He came to those who knew
they were sinners!
Romans 3:23 says we ALL sin and fall short of the
glory of God. That means every one of us! Your sin
may be different than someone else’s, but we all sin,
and God doesn’t say one sin is better than another.
In fact, He says if we break one commandment, we
are guilty of breaking them all! That’s why He had to
send Jesus to us, so Jesus is our Lord, our Savior, our
Friend, and our Lawyer. Yep, that's right! He is our
lawyer when the Devil wants to accuse us. He tries to
point out all our weaknesses, and Jesus says, “Yeah
but they know they are struggling 'with this. They pray
to Me to help them be strong!"
Jesus is actually very glad when we repent. He knows
we want to be like Him, and He likes when we ask
Him to help us do good things. Remember that,
when you ever struggle with things. You know right
from wrong! You know when you do something that
you need to say you're sorry for. We all just have to
pray and ask Jesus to help us not do those things!
Remember, He will ALWAYS forgive us, but repentance
means we ask Him to help us not do them again.
Jesus is the BEST doctor!! He can make us well!
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BIBLE TRIVIA
by Wilson Casey
1. Is the book of Beelzebub in the Old or
New Testament or neither?
2. From Matthew 12, when an evil spirit
returns to a person, how many companions
does it bring? 2, 3, 7, 16
3. In which book’s 22:18 does it state, “Thou
shalt not suffer a witch to live”? Exodus,
Numbers, Isaiah, Hebrews
4. From 1 Samuel 16, what king of Israel
was tormented by an evil spirit? Solomon,
David, Elah, Saul
5. Who called the city of Nineveh the mis-
tress of witchcraft? Ahab, Nahum, Lucifer,
Peter
6. What mark of the beast number comes
from Revelation 13? 7, 333, 490, 666
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