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Pastor Harold's Sermon Sampler
Dear Jesus
I am writing to let you know that I’m still here.
I’m sorry I haven’t checked in with you sooner.
But my dad died and I’ve been upset over that quite a bit.
Since I’m officially an orphan now, I figured I needed to talk with
you because I need your help now more than ever.
I’ve been going to church, Lord, with my grandmother.
She is a very nice person.
She has been taking care of me, and I have really been learning
things at Sunday school and church, too.
I learned last week in Psalms 68:5 that you are “a Father to the
fatherless.” The preacher was
talking about you being the Everlasting Father.
I sure wish my dad could have been everlasting, but he wasn’t.
I’m not mad at him or anything like that, I just miss him so much
‘cause I never knew my mother and my dad always was there for me.
But he was soldier and was killed by a bomb my grandmother told me.
I wanna grow up and be a soldier someday Jesus.
If you see him up there in heaven would you tell him I love him and
miss him very much? I would like
that. So, would you mind filling
in for him down here for me? I
read the passage the preacher talked about last week.
It sounds like you really have your hands full, too.
“For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government
will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful
Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.”
Isaiah 9:6. It took me a
little while to find it, but I did.
I read it over and over.
And I realized, Jesus that you are MY Everlasting Father now.
That is why my dad always took me to church and read the Bible to me
when he was with me because he told me he had trusted you as Savior.
So, since I want to be like my dad I gave my life to you the other
night when I was praying. I want
to go to heaven someday to see my dad again.
Would you help me this Christmas? It
is going to be very lonely without him. When I told Grandmother how lonely I
was the other night as she was tucking me into bed she told me about Hebrews
13:5, "Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you."
That is pretty cool, Jesus.
She said now that I asked you into my heart that you will never leave
me and will live in me. You are
always there for me. I sure
needed to hear that. I mean I
have been so lonesome for daddy.
Since it is only a few weeks before Christmas, I bet it was pretty cool
coming to earth as a baby and growing up here.
I would have liked to have been one of the shepherds out there in the
pasture that night when your angels told them about you being born in a
barn. When I leave a door open
Grandmother asks me if I was born in a barn.
I tell her each time that I didn’t think so.
Anyway, was it fun being around all those animals or did it stink?
I learned in Sunday school a week ago that you have another name,
Immanuel, which means God with us.
I guess you came to earth to be with us didn’t you ‘cause we are all
kind of orphans aren’t we, Jesus.
What’s it like being God?
Daddy told me once you sit on a throne right next to your Father and watch
out for us every day and night.
I asked Grandmother about you and your Father being one and she had me read
Hebrews 1:3, “The Son is the radiance of God's glory and the exact
representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful word.
After he had provided purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand
of the Majesty in heaven.” She
said that this meant that everything about Jesus represents God exactly.
That must be amazing. Is
that is why you told Philip in John 14 "Don't you know me, Philip, even
after I have been among you such a long time? Anyone who has seen me has
seen the Father. How can you say, 'Show us the Father'? 10Don't
you believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me?”
You know, Jesus, I don’t really understand how you and the Father can
be the same, but Grandmother told me that the important thing to remember is
that you are my father now and that you will be there for me.
I’m gonna be talking to ya quite a bit from now on.
You know when my dad was here with me he told me that a soldier completed
his mission at all cost. That
was what a soldier does, he said, complete the mission.
So, as I have been reading about your birth and stuff this year, I
figured out that you were on a mission.
You came to this world to be the Savior, not just to be a baby in a
manger with Mary and Joseph, but to be the Savior of the world.
That is what the angels were singing about;
your mission. Savior
means you had a job to do and you did it.
You were not only the Father from old, but you were the Savior, too.
You came to die on the cross, didn’t you?
But you had to battle it out and you were the winner when you came
back to life on Easter.
I’m glad I found out you are going to be my father.
In Deuteronomy 24:17-22, Grandmother and I read that the people were
to make provisions for those who were fatherless.
The fatherless were those who were without protection and provision.
A father was one who provided for and protected his family.
Just like my daddy did for me.
Now I am going to be protected by you.
That really makes me feel better, Jesus.
This Christmas I am going to remember that you came as a baby boy who
had a mission and that mission was to provide me everything I need.
I’m gonna be praying for a lot of stuff.
So get your ears ready.
My friend at school has a father that doesn’t take good care of him.
He told me that his daddy is mean to him.
I don’t get that. Why can’t
every boy and girl have a daddy like mine?
But, hey, I guess you are there to step in when they don’t, right?
I’m gonna do my best, Jesus to tell my friend about you and let him
know how much you love him. Even
though he has a dad it is like he doesn’t.
I will be praying for him, too.
In one sense, your entrance into the world was one of a "helpless baby,"
just like any other kid that is born. But, in another sense, Jesus, you were
unlike any other human kid, you came into this world with all of the Wisdom,
Glory, and Power of the Everlasting Father Himself!
I like that everlasting part.
You are never gonna leave me alone.
Thanks for helping me out and thanks for coming into this world in
which I live so I could have a new father.
I read the other day in Luke 2:41-52 about you when you were a boy.
I bet you had fun in those caravans, huh?
But it says that you stayed behind at the temple talking to the
teachers. It said you were
amazing them with your words even though you were the age I am now.
I like what you said to your earthly parents, “"Didn't you know I had
to be in my Father's house?" And
what is funny to me is that your parents didn’t get it, did they? I mean
they were told of your birth and that you were special, but they really were
so concerned about you that they just weren’t thinking.
Well, I’m glad you are here with me and in me as Grandmother says.
I’m glad you are providing for me and protecting me.
I’m so sad at times when I think about my father, but I know he is in
heaven with you. Help me be just
like him and you know, Jesus, I want to be just like you, too, come to think
about it. Thanks for listening
to me and oh, have a happy birthday Jesus.
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