Free sermons for youth people is a collection of sermons to help young people consider the importance of following Jesus as the way, the truth and the life.
Free Sermons For Young People
Free sermons for young people are two sermons centered around our need for Jesus in our life. The first sermons asks the question: “Who is Your Best Friend?” The second sermon is about “Building For Eternity!”
1. Who Is Your Best Friend?
INTRODUCTION: Aron Ralston was a loner. He was involved in a climbing accident.
Type Aron Ralson into google search and read his story.
One of the rescuers said, “If only he had a friend, things may have been different.”
God tells us that one of our most valuable possessions is a true and faithful friend.
Friendship . . . Mateship!
You know, it is very important to have a true friend.
The Bible says, “There is a friend who sticks closer than a brother” (Proverbs 18:24).
This verse tells us that it is important to have a true friend.
Let me share with you three reasons why it is important to have a true and faithful friend.
1. It is not good for man to be alone (Genesis 2:18)
Two Inferences:
- God created man to be a social being
- God created man to interact with one another
2. It is not good for man to be left alone (Ecclesiastes 4:9-12)
Four Reasons:
- A Friend helps us with our work
- A friend helps us in times of difficulty
- A friend comforts each other
- A friend helps in times of danger
3. It is not good for man to be left unaccountable (Proverbs 27:5-6)
Two facts:
- We need to choose the right friends
- We need friends who will watch over us
Our best friend is JESUS. Our true friends are those who love JESUS.
2. Building For Eternity!
INTRODUCTION Let me read a poem written by Edgar A. Guest!
As I watched them tear a building down
A gang of men in a busy town
With a ho-heave-ho, and a lusty yell
They swung a beam and the side wall fell
I asked the foreman, “Are these men skilled,
And the men you’d hire if you wanted to build?”
He gave a laugh and said, “No, indeed,
Just common labor is all I need.”
“I can easily wreck in a day or two,
What builders have taken years to do.”
And I thought to myself, as I went my way
Which of these roles have I tried to play?
Am I a builder who works with care,
Measuring life by rule and square?
Am I shaping my work to a well-made plan
Patiently doing the best I can?
Or am I a wrecker who walks to town
Content with the labor of tearing down?
“O Lord let my life and my labors be
That which will build for eternity!
Building for eternity!
That’s what I want to talk about this morning.
Building for eternity.
You see, there are some things that we build that will not last. They are temporal. They are here today and gone tomorrow
And yet, there are some things that we build that will reach into eternity. They have eternal value…they last forever and ever.
I don’t know about you, but I want to build for eternity.
You know, when we are young, we seldom think about eternity. After all, life is all before us. Why think about the end of life when our lives are just beginning? However, the Bible challenges us to think about eternity and where our lives are heading. HAVE YOU THOUGHT ABOUT ETERNITY LATELY?
Also, many people today build for retirement. Someone said, retirement is a short-sighted goal. Instead, we should live in light of eternity . . . not retirement.
Are you building for eternity?
How can we build for eternity?
What is involved in building for eternity?
Well, building for eternity involves . . .
1. Laying the right foundation
If we are going to build for eternity, then we must start with the right foundation.
The right foundation is Jesus Christ.
The bible says, “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have [eternal] everlasting life” (John 3:16).
If we are going to build for eternity, it must begin with Jesus Christ.
If we look at our reading in Colossians 2:6-7, we see that the Colossians had received Jesus Christ. They had laid the right foundation to build for eternity.
You know, when I was a young man, I wasn’t building for eternity. I was building for here and now.
But when I got older, I realised life on earth was very short. It made me think about eternity. Where is my life heading? If something happened to me today, where would I spend eternity?
There was a time in my life where I said to God that I wanted to spend eternity with Him. So, I asked God to forgive me for my sin, and I asked Jesus Christ to come into my life and to be my Lord and Saviour.
It was then that I laid the foundation that would build for eternity.
Have you laid the right foundation that will build for eternity?
Furthermore, building for eternity involves . . .
2. Building on the right foundation
The Bible says, “As you have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him, rooted and built up in Him and established in your faith, as you have been taught, abounding in it with thanksgiving” (Colossians 2:6-7).
Once we received Jesus Christ as our Lord and Saviour, we need to build upon the Lord Jesus Christ.
That’s not always easy because we can so easily get side tracked and build on other things.
That’s why we need God’s help. God has given us several tools to help us build on the right foundation.
A. We build on the right foundation with God’s word.
Ps 119:105, “Your word is a lamp to my feet, and a light to my path.”
Isaiah 2:3b, “God will teach us His ways (through His word) and we shall walk in His paths.”
God’s word gives us direction in life.
- It teaches us the truth
- It rebukes us in sin
- It corrects us in error
- It instructs us in righteousness
2 Tim 3:16-17, “All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.”
B. We build on the right foundation with prayer
Prayer acknowledges God in our lives and it acknowledges our need of God.
“In everything by prayer and supplication, let your request be made known to God and the peace of God will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus” (Phil 4:6-7).
C. We build on the right foundation with worship
Worship is a place where we can encourage each other to continue building for eternity.
“And let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works, not forsaking the assembling together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching” (Heb 10:24-25).
D. We build on the right foundation with fellowship
E. We build on the right foundation with discipleship
“Go therefore and make disciples, teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you,” Jesus said.
Finally, building for eternity involves . . .
3. Resting on the right foundation (Colossians 2:7b)
Once we are established in the faith, we must learn to rest in the Lord.
Everyone of else will face the storms of life, but will we rest in the Lord? Will we trust regardless.
CONCLUSION O Lord let my life and my labours be
That which will build for eternity.
Are we building for eternity?
Have we laid the right foundation? Jesus Christ.
Are we building on the right foundation?
- Reading God’s word
- Prayer
- Worship
- Fellowship
- Discipleship
Have we learned to rest upon the right foundation? Trusting the Lord in all things . . . all situations
Will you invest in eternity?
Will you build for eternity?
These free Bible sermons were compiled by Rev. D. Blackburn BA GDM.