Children's sermon for Thomas Sumter (October 7, 2020)

 

1 Peter 2:2

Growing in our faith

 

I love babies, don’t you?  I have two grown sons, I love them so much.  I have two grandsons, they are so sweet.  I have a little tiny baby puppy at our home, his name is Chance.

He has literally stolen my heart.  He is so cute and sweet.  He was barely old enough to be away from his Momma when we got him.  We were thinking we might have to feed him a bottle.  But, my wife worked with him and he has a good appetite and he is growing and maturing.  He is doing great.

He has learned that our food is better than his little puppy food.  So being the spoiler that I am I will give him a little bit of what I am eating.   The other morning I had cream of wheat.  He was sitting beside our other puppy watching each spoonful I would eat.  I put a little on my finger and gave it to him.  He loved it.  He is growing and hungry.

You guys are growing and maturing too.  All the learning and activity you do each day makes you hungry.  You need healthy food so you will grow up strong.

Same is true spiritually.  The Bible is our source of strength as a Christian.  As we read the Bible or have the Bible taught to us we grow each day.

The Bible tells us we are to put away some things:

Malice- means to want to cause injury, pain, or distress to someone.

Deceit – means trying to trick someone, trying to get someone to accept as true something that is false.

Hypocrisy – actors would wear a mask for a different character in a play, play acting, behavior that contradicts what we claim to believe, or feel, or be.

Envy – jealousy about what someone else has with a desire to have it ourselves.

Slander- saying false things about someone in order to damage their reputation.

Desire the Bible that will help us to grow spiritually

Baby begins by drinking milk and eventually is able to eat solid food.

Like our puppy Chance he started with his puppy food and now he has learned that what we eat is better, so he wants that.  He is growing and hungry. 

When we read the Bible, when we have the Bible read to us.  When we learn the Bible by memory.  We want more of the Bible.  The more of the Bible we get the more we want. 

I became a Christian when I was 10 years old.  I am 58 now.  I want the scripture more now than ever.

The more I read and study the more I want.

Just like you eat healthy food to help you grow up physically, the Bible is spiritual food to help us to grow spiritually.  Develop a habit of reading the Bible early in your life.  It will help you mature spiritually.