Ears To Hear (Children's Lesson)

And her name is Janice, and the Lord blessed us with eight children. We have four boys and four girls, and they're all married. Some are in South Dakota, some are in Tennessee, and the rest of them are in Pennsylvania.

And my last grandchild was number 28. Her name is Isabelle Marie. Born to my son Anthony and his wife Natalie.

I brought a little something along tonight. I would like to have a couple of children cut me out. Maybe a couple of children that love to do art.

Maybe they need to cut something out with a scissor, and maybe they can do some other things with it. So, if I could have two volunteers that like to do art, and are able to cut with scissors, I should have a couple safety scissors here, a couple of them. So, I should probably have two phones here for the help of the scouts.

So, let's play a little lesson here. So, maybe let's say 9 to 10 years old, or maybe even 11 or 8. So, who wants to come help the two children? And you get to keep the scissors, and you get to keep what you're making in mind. All right.

I see two heads back there. All right. Are you 8 or 9? Okay, come on up.

Very good. All right. Oh, you're just as good as you.

All right. All right. Thank you.

All right. Now, what we can do is we can cut out. And you get to cut out both pieces.

And cut that out. Okay. All right.

Let's see. You can tell me if the music is full or straight. All right.

So, let's use this phone. We all like to share messages with people. These people are very interactive people.

People love to come and meet us. All right. So, we all sit in here.

We've got all these items all for you. Okay. So, what we need to do is, if you see that, press one.

Press one. Press two. Press two here.

Press one. Press one. Press two.

Press one. Press two. Press one.

Press two. Press one. Press two.

Press one. Press two. Press one.

Press two. Press one. Okay.

Let's see. We have one more to choose. Okay.

All right. Oh, I didn't mean for it to go that way. No, I'm going... Oh.

It's... Ah! I'm sorry. I'll be careful. Let's see if it's here.

I'm going to help you. Oh, wow! Dang! Now, this is going to be a kind of a wonderful one that somebody's tied. There we go.

Let's go this way. There we go. All right.

Look at that now. Here? Would you like to have some, too? All right. Let's see if we can do this.

Oh, look at that. Good. Good.

Let's see. Get here. We can see this side.

Ready for this? Okay. There we go. All right.

Now, can anybody on your age 11 guess what we're illustrating here tonight? The lesson that Jesus taught about? What is it? Yes? What do they have on? Ears! Yes, good. All right. Now, here we're going to have a reading from Jesus, where he said, in Mark 4, verse 23, If any man has ears to hear, let him hear.

Let's say it together, everybody. Any man has ears to hear, let him hear. All right.

Very cool. Now, we're going to read from John the Baptist's text. In the words of the Lord Jesus, John the Baptist said, Let's put it the way it was said, Let you hear something, and to a mercy man compassion.

Every man can infer, Let the flesh not be bitter, nor the tongue of the wound, nor the tongue of the sore. For God has unified the evil against the good, and has given it a hope. Now, we're going to read.

Take your ears off. Take your ears off. Now, I'm going to read the text to you.

Take your ears off. I said, in the words of the Lord Jesus, John the Baptist said, Do you hear me? Do you want to know why? These things here are called noise. They're going to be very loud.

Do you hear what I'm talking about? This is the Baptist's illustration of why he stopped their ears. Because they don't want to hear. So he stopped their ears.

Maybe the word memory could be wrong. Have you tried that? Take your ears off. Are you good at that? What's better? Could you hear what I say? What did I say? So, take off my goggles.

Okay. Now, let's go ahead and stop those ears again. Why don't you do it this time? You can take your ears off.

And stop your ears. You'll try to use it. Did you hear what I said? Okay.

Did you hear what I said? What did I say? So, hold these in the heart. Okay. Now, how about this one? So, get ready.

Right away, we're going to go to our castle. And we're going to have a picnic. And we're going to rain in the creek and catch crayfish.

Could you all hear that? Do you feel good? Yes. All right. Well, thank you very much.

And like I said, you get to keep your ears and your fingers. Let's see. Here we go.

Keep your fingers. And I'll let you have all the ears you get. And that way, we want to illustrate it to somebody else.

Let's see. Here. What shall we do with our ears? Down here.

Okay. Are you feeling good? Can you hear? Thank you very much. Let's give them a round of applause.

Okay.