Sermon
The nature of the onion - children's address
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No, this morning. I want to leave just a thought
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with the boys and the girls and the young people and I've
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discovered. That.
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There's a word in the Bible That's only used once.
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Last week. We were looking at the word
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Apple. Today, I want us to think all
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this vegetable. Can anybody tell me what this
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vegetable is? Who knows?
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Sarah Jean? It's an onion.
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That's right. Did you know that the Bible only
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mentions the onion wants to let me read the reference in numbers
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11 verse 5. We remember the fish which we
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did eat in Egypt, freely, the cucumbers, and the melons, and
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the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic, young people.
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The word onions is only mentioned in the bible once and
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I want us to think today. They just very quickly, briefly
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think of the character of onions.
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Onions. Cumin different shapes and
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sizes. And this RC Regina said as a red
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onion, and did you know that onions can grow and grow?
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There's a mr. Glover won a prize for growing
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onions, and his onion grew to 18 pounds.
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And we hit that that's the equivalent to name bags of
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sugar. Onions can be planted in any
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type of soy so they can grow anywhere all over the world in
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different places. And what an onion needs is the
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right amount of sunlight and the right amount of water and it can
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grow in any soil and, you know, boys and girls, young people.
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The Bible tells us something about being a Christian that
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were to grow in Grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior
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Jesus Christ, and maybe sometimes you're thinking well,
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how can I be a Christian at school?
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There's nobody else in my class saved.
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How could I be a Christian? In in the workplace may be of
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gone into the world of work and you discovered how Wicked and
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ungodly individuals can be with their language and their
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lifestyle. Maybe you're thinking, well, I'm
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off to University and I'm worried about the drug culture
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and the drink culture. And how is that going to impact?
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And me, and I could experience that peer pressure to go along
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with that crying. Well, can I encourage you if you
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have the right amount of light on the right amount of water?
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Her, you can be a Christian anywhere.
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The workplace home school University.
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Even in the most difficult places that you can imagine in
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the whole of the world brother. Graham was praying for North
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Korea. And I'm sure it'd be very
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difficult to be a Christian in North Korea.
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But even there if you have the right amount of light on the
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right amount of water and I'm thinking, of course of the water
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of the word of God, I'm thinking of the light of God in the soul
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through the instrumentality of His Holy Spirit.
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And I have discovered something about an onion that I didn't
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know at all the deeper, you caught into an onion.
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The stronger, the smell of the onion s that the stronger and
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sent that gives off, and of course, isn't that true for
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ourselves and for the grew in Greece, the knowledge of Christ,
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then we must dig deep into the word of God.
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And an in fact if I took this onion and cut it and put it into
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my fridge, everything that was in my friends.
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Let's say my steak and my harm and my bacon and sausages and
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and maybe even some other things that it pineapple buns that are
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there. Well, they'd all be attacked by
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The Onion over time such as the strong scent that the onion
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gives off the smell of the onion goes into other food and doesn't
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other even the lesson for us and relation to its character.
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The deeper, you caught the stronger, it has and the deeper
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you go into Christ and then to the word of God, and get into
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the very heart of the gospel and try to understand who God is and
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understand the gospel. Then the stronger you'll be and
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the more fragrance of Christ. Will you give out and you'll be
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in able to do exactly as the Bible says, to grow in Grace and
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in the knowledge of Christ? Now, I've brought a knife with
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me here and I'm going to cut this onion and we're going to
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have a little look at it. If they don't cut my fingers
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now, with the sand for the ambulance, or the doctor.
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Okay. Now you can all see cutting into
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the onion. You see if I was to peel off all
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this skin and began to cut the onion into little bits for the
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fryin pan. The onion would release us
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sulfur that Sent to the A's. And it would open my tear ducts
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and it would make me cry. In fact, I can smell of sulfur
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right now. So we could talk about the
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calling of the onion. And here's the children of
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Israel and they're in the wilderness for a number of
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years. And God has given them at the
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start. All this lovely manner.
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It came as a gift of God, but over time they get so used to
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it. They started to completely in
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and Mumble and murmur and then they started saying to God, but
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we remember the fish. Shhhh, we remember the
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cucumber's, the melons the leeks.
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We remember the onions. You see?
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They were thinking of the onions.
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Supposed to be a high source of vitamin C help with stomach
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ulcers, lower your cholesterol. If they get stung with the bay,
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they could rub the sulfur of the onion onto that.
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It's supposed to be a good Conte.
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Oxen. They saw the onions or something
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was good for them. Rightly, so, but the cutting of
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the onion. Brings us to tears.
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And in life's journey, we have many things at Regis has to
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tears as we're going to learn later on in the sermon.
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The last thing I want you to learn to put the onion, has this
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the consistency of the onion. If you look very carefully, you
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can see the many, many layers. And if I was to peel off one
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layer and another, their eight Slayer would be the sium.
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So I could go from the outside right into the N side and it's
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all See him consistent all the way through.
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Could I just asked how consistent are?
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You boy, or girl, or a young person as a Christian?
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You see there's many that profess to be Christians in the
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outside, like the Pharisees. They're cleaning the outside.
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They pray, they read the Bible, to go to church and they say all
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the right things. But in their heart, they've
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never had a new heart. They're not clean, from the
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inside out. They're not consistent rate down
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to their heart. It's all artwork.
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And remember the Bible tells us that God requires truth in the
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inward parts. Now, I've discovered this that
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over in the town of boundary, which is in Lisbon not too far
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away, that used to be famous for Onions.
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And in fact, the used to be a sin as strong as a voluntary
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onion. Wonder if anybody's ever heard
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of that a strong as a voluntary onion you see?
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And it's not what we want. If you're going to be strong in
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the Lord and you're going to trust in him, then we've got to
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remember to do exactly as the Bible says.
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And God will, I praise his word and God, have I put my trust and
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in every situation in life. Journey of you're going to be
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strong in the Lord and have that consistency.
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Then you must allow the Lord to be your strength and to be your
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help. And I leave that little fought
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with you today. Onion is only mentioned once in
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the Bible, the character, The Cutting, and the consistency.
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Well, the Lord bless you have to be careful for time.