Thank you very much, Mr. McKemmon. And indeed, all the boys and girls and young people do very, very well. I think I can speak on behalf of everybody here today to say how impressed we are to see the work that's gone into that and the effort and the ability even here today in God's house that has been shown. And we trust the Lord might bless you richly in the coming days. I wondered what I might say today. I knew what the theme of your children's day was going to be. I knew it was heroes. So I began to think and wonder and ponder and indeed ask the Lord what I might bring by way of children's address today. I went through various options and wondered about different things, but the Lord brought me to the very portion, indeed to the portions. One of the portions was read today already, but to the portion that deals with God's call to Samuel. And in God's word, in fact, in the early chapters of 1 Samuel. And we heard today from some of the chapters a wee bit later on, some of those verses, but in the early chapters of 1 Samuel, and maybe you'll follow along the reading, follow along this theme today, because we read there something of the history and something of the story of Samuel, because young boys grow up. Whenever I come to a service like this, I look down at the young ones, the young people, the children, in fact, even the babies farther back as well. What potential there is in God's house today. What potential in this place. Do you realize what God can do through one person? In fact, I maybe have a quote here. There's something I typed out the other day, unrelated, about D.L. Moody. D.L. Moody heard a sermon whenever he was in England one time, the great evangelist by the name of Henry Varley, he challenged his congregation one day, the world has yet to see what God can do through a man who is totally yielded to him. And Moody was captivated by those words, captivated by that challenge. and he resolved by God's grace, by the grace of God, I will be that man. What potential there is here in God's house today. Now, in the early chapters of 1 Samuel, we read about the history of this lad, this boy, this judge of Israel, Samuel. He was a very, very special boy. And indeed, every one of you is special. Never listen to the devil's lie that you don't matter. Every one of you is special. But Samuel's mom, does anybody know what Samuel's mother was called? Oh, there's a wee boy there, quickly, right away. Hannah, that's right. Samuel's mother was called Hannah. Samuel's mother was not able to have any children. And indeed, this made her very, very sad. What do you think she did about it, boys and girls? What do you think Samuel's mom did about it? I'll give you a clue. What do you think she did about it? Do you think she just cried and didn't do anything about it? What'd she do? She took the matter to the Lord in prayer. Does anybody hear whenever we pray? Somebody from the other side. I think this side's sleeping. Are you all sleeping over here? What does the Lord do whenever we pray? I'll give you another clue. What does he do? Know anything about our prayers? What does the Lord do? Does the Lord hear our prayers? Some of the young ones in the front here are going. He's not going to put me in this spot, is he? If you could hide under the seat, do you think you would? God hears and answers our prayers. You remember that older ones as well. And Hannah was really upset, really annoyed, really sad about the fact that she couldn't have children. And she did what we must do whenever we come up against a problem such as that. She took the matter to the Lord in prayer and God heard her prayers. In fact, in 1 Samuel 1, verse 20, read it there if you've got God's word open. We'll read there that how she bare a son, see at the end of that verse, and called his name Samuel, saying, because I have asked him of the Lord. He really was a special boy. He really was an answer to prayer. Every one of you today is special. In fact, whenever that little child, Samuel, Whenever he came to a certain age, whenever he was winged, the scriptures tell us that he was brought to the temple and his mum Hannah handed him over to the high priest, to Eli, to the service of the Lord. But there's a big massive but here. And I wonder, does this apply to some of you? Does it apply to some of the parents maybe in the meeting? Some of those sitting at the back or upstairs? Does it apply to some of you that Samuel, even though he was a good boy, are you all good boys and girls? You're not so sure, especially you in the front row. Hope he doesn't know anything about me. Are you all good boys and girls? You've done well today so far, but I can only see what's on the outside. Samuel was a good boy. Samuel practically lived in the temple. He did actually live in the temple. He did everything that was asked of him. He was hardworking and all of that. But even though all of those things were true and could be said of Samuel, and maybe some of those things are true of you, you come along to Sabbath school, you come along to church, but what was said of Samuel was, look at chapter three, verse seven, if your Bible's opened. 1 Samuel 3, verse 7, we read some very almost sad words. Almost. But God had a plan to do something that day. God was going to do something that night. Look what it tells us in verse 7 of chapter 3. Now Samuel did not yet know the Lord. I wonder, do you know the Lord as your own and personal Savior today? Or maybe you just knew about him. Maybe you're good and you come along to church and you're very helpful. You do what's asked of you. Samuel did all those things, but the testimony is still there that Samuel did not yet know the Lord. Now that night was a very, very special night. That time was a very, very special time. It started off like any other night. He did all his chores. Like he would have done at the end of any night, and he lay down to get a good night's rest, a good night's sleep, but God had a plan that night. He was going to do something special. He was going to call Samuel. What about you today? What about you maybe in the meeting, maybe you're a parent to some of these children, maybe you attend here regularly, or maybe this is your first time, maybe you've never been here before, maybe God has a plan today to put his finger in your life. Maybe he's going to draw you out after himself. That, chapter three, in 1 Samuel, was the very night that God was going to call this young boy. What will you say if he calls you? What will your answer, what will your reply be if he calls you? In chapter three, we'll read of how the Lord calls Samuel not once. Maybe he's been knocking on your heart's door more than once. not twice, not even just three times, but four times the Lord calls Samuel that night before he finally responds and goes to him, here am I for thou callest me. Remember, boys and girls, remember older ones today, Samuel did not yet know the Lord, and yet this was to be a very, very special night in his life. Samuel would go on to do great things. Samuel lived after this time, probably around a hundred years after this. He did mighty wonderful things for the Lord throughout his lifetime, but this was the most important night of his life. Do you know this can be a red-letter day in your life if you're not saved as yet? This could be the very day where you'll be able to respond to the Lord knocking in your heart's door, and you can ask the Lord Jesus Christ to come into your heart and into your life. We had those chapter or those verses read to us from 1 Samuel chapter 16. We'll read one of those verses again, verse seven. In fact, I have the verse here all blown up. I might need somebody to give me a wee bit of a hand later on to hold some stuff. Look, here's one here, look. 1 Samuel chapter 16, verse seven. Can you read it there? Can you see it at the back? Maybe not everybody can read that, especially if you need glasses. I'll read it out for you. The Lord seeth not as man seeth, for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh upon the heart. You're all looking very well today, boys and girls. You're all well turned out. Look at Mr. Patterson. Look, he's all, you'd think he's going to a wedding. Look at that, all done up. In fact, you're all looking so well today, but the Lord looks past that outward exterior. and he sees what's going on in the heart. I've got something in my bag that I want to show you. Do you want to see what I've got? Maybe you're not that bothered. Do you just want me to let you away home early? Away home to dig. Rub your father's feet for Father's Day. Is that what you want to do? I'm only joking. You don't have to do it. Boys, do you want to see the looks I was getting there? Maybe you want to get away home early or do you want to see what I've got in my bag? Where do I see what I've got here? It might be something that might interest some of you. I'm going to come down because I want everybody to be able to see this. Where do I see? I might need helpers here. You see, I don't like to go anywhere. I always like to be prepared. I've been past the church here a couple of times yesterday, driving a bus, and I was thinking about this and what I would do and what I would say. Well, maybe get some of the wee ones up to hold this. Who wants to come up and hold this for me? Both you boys come up. Because we need to keep reminding the people that the Lord looks on the heart. Now, I might need you to do something else as well. This bag goes everywhere with me. It's traveled with me probably about 15 years now, thousands of miles around the world, and I always like to pack my lunch in it. So where do I see what I've got? What do you think I've got here? It looks like a full barbecue, doesn't it? What have I got here? Oh, I've got a lunchbox. I never go too far from a lunchbox. The boys I used to work with called it the port-a-cabin, because I don't know why that was. It was maybe because it was so small. They said, you don't need a lunchbox. You need a port-a-cabin. I'm not sure what they meant by that. They must have meant that it had a very small appetite. Now, what have I got here? A tray. Oh, sorry. I thought you were speaking French. What have I got here? A tray. That's right, a tray. Now, you haven't got an oven to put it in. You'll see in a wee minute what this is for. Right, can one of you hold that and the other one help me? You hold it maybe that direction a wee bit, because I want everybody to be able to see this. Can you all see? Can you see from upstairs? Get right up to the window there. Do you see what we're doing? Can you see there? Get yourselves into position. Do I see what I've brought in my lunch today? Do you like food? You know the thing I don't like about food? It ruins your appetite. One thing I don't like about food. What do I say? What do you think I've got in my lunchbox? He doesn't know what I've got. Oh dear. Do you like, do you not eat food maybe? Do you not eat food? What have I got here? What's this? My wife's going to be cross whenever she realizes I raided the cupboard. Here's some bread. You know what that's for? That's for the meeting tonight in case I get hungry. And here's some Oh, I was just going to say tea cakes, but listen to the descriptive we got here. Milk chocolate tea cakes. Oh, this is for the meeting tonight. You better come back again tonight to see what we're going to speak on tonight. But here's what's for the meeting just now. What have we got in here? Do you think you could very carefully open that? You know, I made a mistake this morning. I got up this morning early on before anybody else in the house, and I thought I'd make myself something really nice. I love to get, if of time, I never like to do this whenever I'm in a hurry, but I always like to have a boiled egg in the morning, if I can. I find protein keeps you full for longer. But I got all mixed up this morning, and I've got some boiled eggs, and I've got some raw eggs. How do you think we'll be able to tell the difference? What do you think? What's this, do you think? What is that thing? Can you all see this? What is it? An egg, right, okay. Do you think it's boiled? Oh dear, I think there's an egg that's broke. I think I must have driven too fast on the way down here. Look at that, what's that? What's that? That's a raw egg, and what's this? Oh, there's a wee bit of dampness about them. I didn't wrap them up carefully enough. Look at that. I've got three eggs with me. How can we tell which one's boiled and which one's raw? Does anybody have any idea of any experts in the meeting? Any experts in the meeting whatsoever? Any way to tell without breaking the egg over Mr. Patterson's head? Sorry, did I say that out loud? Is there any way to tell which of these eggs is raw and which one's boiled apart from breaking it? If it's warm, now when do you think I boiled them? That would all be dependent upon time. If I lived in the manse up the road a half a mile and I just boiled it before I come, that would be an excellent answer, but I don't. And I got up early this morning. They're all the same. Feed them there to see if they're all the same sort of temperature. Do you think one's warmer than the other? Yeah. If it just comes out of the hen, it could be warm. You didn't think of that one? I don't know what temperature the inside of a hen is. I know we've opened a can of worms there. Here's something. Here's something that you'll hopefully learn and remember from today. Now, this is where I need help. This is why I have a tray. The only purpose of the tray is to stop the eggs falling off the communion table and onto the lovely red carpet. I don't want that to happen. Right, I need you to help me. You stand here so that people can see. Right? And I want you to take this egg, which has been slightly damaged in transit. I wouldn't sign for that one. And I want you to spin it. Do you see if it spins? Does it spin? Yes. It spins, but not very well. Sure it doesn't. Try it again. Can you all see what we're doing here? See the way it spins, but not very well. I want you to do exactly the same thing with this egg. See if there's a difference. Is there a difference? Yes. Is there a massive difference? Yes. Tell the people there's a massive difference. There's a massive difference. I couldn't have said it any better myself. Do that again just to see what type of difference there is. Right? That one spins really well. Try this one. I have three eggs with me. I should have brought a dozen, but I didn't want to overwork the hen on the Sabbath. Does it spin really well as well? Yeah. Now try this one again. It's like as if it's broke, isn't it? Like as if it won't spin, like as if it can't spin. Isn't that right? Okay, that's great. That's good. That's what we wanted to see. Go you and take up your seat again. Maybe we'll get somebody else to hold this up to give you a break. Well, who else wants to help? One ahead. This is the expert. This is the one. This is the temperature expert. And then we'll get somebody else. Do you want to come up and hold the other corner? There's two top corners. You hold that and you hold the other one. Hold it nice and level. Hold it nice and high. You know what this teaches me, boys and girls, and older ones as well? Maybe we'll all learn something today. The boiled egg is solid on the inside. I boiled that for, I don't know, far too long, maybe 10 minutes. I boiled that egg between five and 10 minutes this morning, and as a result, the inside of it is now no longer liquid, no longer fluid, but solid and behaves very, very differently from the raw egg. Look at the way that spins. Wow, you'd think it was on batteries. Look at this one, the way it spins. You'd think it was broke. Well, it is broke. But you would think there was something wrong with it. It doesn't really want to spend. It's acting very, very differently because of what's going on in the inside of it. Look at the verse again. Hold it up nice and high. What does it say, especially the last part of it? Man looketh on the outward appearance, but God or the Lord looketh upon the heart. God sees past the outside, past the shell, if you like, and he sees what's going on on the inside. That's not a wonderful thing. I love eggs. Every time I eat a boiled egg, especially, It reminds me of a true story. In fact, I've got something here of that true story. I often think about this true story. It's about a man called Johan Brentz. Has anybody ever heard of Johan Brentz? Sorry, you're just covering your mouth. I thought you were going to tell us all about Johan Brentz. Has anybody ever heard of Johan Brentz? Johan Brentz was born in the year 1500 in the German town of Hall. And whenever he was 17 years of age, it was that time, whenever he was 17, that the reformer Martin Luther took his hammer, a fistful of nails, and the parchment he had prepared, the 95 theses, and he nailed them to the chapel door at Wittenberg. And that changed the whole of Europe. That brought Europe, and indeed the world, out of the dark ages. But in the year that Luther died, I think he died somewhere about the middle of February, 1546, in the year Luther died, the emperor at that time, see if you can remember this, Charles V was the emperor. Charles V wanted to make an example of all these Christians, of all these Protestants, and he sent his soldiers after Johann Brentz, the young reformer. And Johann Brentz was in his house at the time whenever the troops of Charles V come to the front door with hatchets and guns, and they beat the front door down with the hatchets. What do you think he did? Do you think he sat in the living room and waited for them to come in? No, he ran. But before he ran, he grabbed something and he took it out with him. What do you think he grabbed on the way out? No, he grabbed a loaf of bread. He grabbed a big massive loaf of bread. You know those big ones you get in littles? He grabbed one of those big loaves of bread, maybe even bigger than one you get in littles. Sorry, I shouldn't have filled you with holding the egg up. And he fled, he ran for his life. And he got to the city of Stuttgart. And he went to this house on the outside of the city. And he tried the front door. What do you think happened when he tried the front door? Was it locked? Yes, it was locked. And he tried the side door, and it was locked too. And he tried the other door, and it was locked. And he tried the last door, and you know what? The last door he tried was opened. And he crept inside to this house, and this is a true story. And he went upstairs into the attic, and he listened through the floorboards to hear what was happening in the city, because the family was in the kitchen down below. And he could hear them talking about how this reformer had come to the city and hiding. Johan Brents, and how the soldiers of Charles V were there, and they were there to capture and to kill Johan. And he started to panic because, you know, he heard something up in the attic with him. What do you think he heard? Now, I'm not going to fool you this time. What do you think he heard in the corner sitting on a nest? What do you think he heard? What lays eggs? Okay. I didn't expect that one coming. You're nearly right. Yes, what was it? A bird, yes, that's right. It was a bird, but a particular type of bird. I'll give you a clue. It starts with H and ends with N, as in E-N. A hen, that's right. There was a hen sitting in a nest. And he started to panic because he realized this hen's going to be sitting in the nest and they're going to come up to get the eggs. She's going to make noises. She's going to clock. She's going to be discovered. But you know what? She never made a noise. She was just real, real quiet. The Lord had sent that hen there to provide for that man, Johan Brents. And every day that hen come up and she laid a fresh egg. What do you think he did with the egg? He ate the egg. That's right. Oh, you are an expert, right enough. He ate the egg, and do you know the thing about eggs? They are, you can eat toast, and you can eat jam and marmalade on it, and you'll get fat, but you could be malnourished. But the thing about eggs is they're nutritionally complete. Everything that you need is in an egg. And for 16 days, I think it was, Johan Brent ate a fresh egg every day, and he took a bit of bread that was getting staler and older and harder, I'm sure. but the Lord provided for him in a miraculous way. Every time I have an egg, especially a boiled egg, for some reason, I always think about the story of Johann Brentz in the city of Salzburg. And you know what happened after 16 days living in that attic? The hen didn't come back, and the duck didn't come back either. The hen didn't come back, the bird didn't come back either, and he wondered, what am I gonna do? And he put his ear to the floorboards and to the joists that night and he looked down through and he could hear the family below talking over their dinner. And that night, the very night where the hen did not come back, he heard the family below speak about how Charles V's soldiers had been recalled and had left the city. And that night under the cover of darkness, Johan Brents, way back in 1546, He crept down into the kitchen and fled where he escaped. But God provided for him every single day. God provides for us men and women. What happened 2,000 years ago on the cross of Calvary? Who came to die for sinners? Who was that? The Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God and God the Son. God sent his only begotten Son, why? That he may die for our sins, the just for the unjust. I drove about 200 miles yesterday. I passed this church twice. from Hilltown right through to County Tyrone and back again and other runs as well. And right along all those routes, I was amazed yesterday, more than any time I have noticed in my life driving, I've noticed verses and texts and parts of verses and whole verses on trees and on signs and on billboards and on the sides of church, God provides for us. And you are no stranger to the gospel, both young and old. We started off by speaking about young Samuel and how that day in chapter three was the day that defined and indeed was the day that changed the rest of his life because that was the night that the Lord called him and that was the night that he responded to the call of God. What about you? Hold that verse up again to read it. For the Lord seeth not his man seeth. This was many years after he had met the Lord. This is the night, this is the day in fact, when God was putting his finger upon the next king over Israel, David. All seven sons were paraded before Samuel that day. And then the eighth, our sister read that for us. and the eighth son was young David, this ruddy boy, slippling of a lad that was out feeding the sheep, the one that everybody else forgot about, but he was the one that the Lord knew what was in his heart, the one that the Lord had chosen to go out after himself. So I trust this might be a challenge and indeed an encouragement to us today. In fact, we'll end up where we started with that quote Quote from Henry Varley, the world is yet to see what God can do through a man who has totally yielded to him. And remember how D.L. Moody gave his response, by the grace of God, I will be that man. What about you today? Young lady, young man, young person, child, older one as well, what the Lord can do through a life consecrated to and for him. I trust the Lord might be a blessing even through what has been said today already. You can take your seats again, leave that with us, and you can take your seats again. And as you've been so good, we'll let you share this raw egg after the meeting. We'll not teach you how to suck eggs, but I'm sure you know how to do it. I always wanted to be that wee phrase, teach your granny how to suck eggs. We're gonna sing our closing hymn, it's on your order of service. 701, come to the Savior, make no delay. Here in his word, he has shown us the way. Here in our midst, he's standing today. tenderly saying, come. 701, standing please as we sing and think of the words as we do so, especially that invitation from the Lord. Remember, he is the one that says, come on to me, all you that labor under heavy laden, and I will give you rest. We'd encourage you to come back again tonight, but please do take what has been said today and apply it to your own life and situations. standing today, tenderly saying, come. Joyful, joyful, all ye that wait, when from Savior hearts you're pure and free, and wish to gather, Savior with thee, in our eternal home. Let every heart be born and rejoice, and let us freely make him our choice, living up to him our God. From sinning our hearts are clear and free, and we shall gather, Savior with Thee, in our eternal home. Faith once again meets with us today, unites ways Hear how his accents tenderly sing, Hail, U.S. children, come! Joyful, joyful, world, unbeaten be, When from same our hearts you're pure and free! The closing words of that middle verse, the last line reads, do not delay, but come. Has the Lord been challenging you today? Think of Samuel, he was called not once, not twice, not even three times, but four. I was reading that passage this morning before I come out of this study. And on that third occasion, I was struck by the words of Eli as he said to the young Samuel, if God calls you again, You're not guaranteed another call, another challenge after this one. You may very well have one or many more, but the only one you can be sure of, the only opportunity you can be sure of is right now. Would you not delay but come? Let us pray. Father, we do thank thee for thy word as it's been read and sung and brought to us using many mediums and forms even this Sabbath day already. Lord, I pray that thy word, the entrance of thy word might bring light and life. That thou would speak on, Lord, when the voice of man, when the voice of the young people, when the voice of the children is now silent. Speak on, Lord, through the afternoon. Bring this people back again tonight. Lord, I pray that they would be pleased to save never-dying souls. Part us now with thy fear and thy favor. It is for thy glory and thy glory alone we do plead, and thy precious and holy name we do ask. Amen.