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