Kid’s Sermon – 10:30a.m. Service

On MATTHEW 13:24-30,36-4

Here we have a box with both flowers and weeds all mixed together.

Do you think you can pull out all the weeds without touching or moving any of the flowers? Anyone like to try?

Jesus told a story like this. He said that the flowers (wheat in his story) are like people who do good things, and the weeds are like people who do bad things. Both kinds of people are so tied up with one another that the people who do bad things could not be “pulled up” without hurting the people who do good things.

So – God lets all people live until JUDGEMENT DAY, when all people will be judged by God, and the good people will be gathered into God’s home while the bad people will be destroyed completely and forever. This means that people who are doing bad things now have a chance to change before God destroys them. It also means that we can look forward with hope to the Kingdom of God, when “all causes of sin and all evildoers” will be destroyed by God as easily as we could burn these weeds in a fire. And in the Kingdom of God there will only be goodness, peace, joy and love. So we should hang in there, looking forward to the coming of God’s Kingdom, not do bad things ourselves, be aware of evil, and help give people who are doing bad things a chance to change so they can be saved.

(The Rev.) Francis A. Hubbard

St. Barnabas Episcopal Church