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Here are four great youth sermon topics they should love.
Joseph’s Life
The life of Joseph is a great story about life being unfair. The fact that Joseph’s brothers tried to kill him and then found out that they could make a
profit by selling him to slave traders. They thought they had seen the last of Joseph and for all intents and purposes, he was dead; at least in their
minds. They even deceived their father Jacob about it, making him endure needless grief over what he thought was the life of his favored son. Joseph
was special to Jacob because he was the youngest born to his more beloved wife, Rachael, whom he loved dearly and so Joseph had a special place in
Jacob’s heart. Imagine what he must have felt like for many years, since Joseph would be there for at least 8 years when his brothers finally came from
grain due to a severe famine that had struck the whole region. The point is Joseph never complained and although God never directly communicated
with Joseph, even in prison, it was said “And the Lord was with Joseph” (Gen 39:2). It probably didn’t look like it to us because he was sold into
slavery, falsely accused and thrown into prison, forgotten about, and yet, “the Lord was with Joseph” (Gen 39:21). Never forget that God is always
with you and even in the silence of God there is the presence of God (Heb 13:5) and will turn evil into His own good for us (Gen 50:20; Rom 8:28).
Daniel’s Obedience
Daniel shows that true obedience to God is obeying when no one is looking. Really, God is looking, but humanly speaking we know that a person’s
character is revealed by what they do in the dark or alone would be the same thing they do in the light, in front of everyone. Daniel was a young teen
when he was brought into captivity but he was separated from the rest of the Jews because of his intellectual capability and when they brought Daniel
some of the king’s food, “Daniel resolved that he would not defile himself with the king’s food, or with the wine that he drank. Therefore he asked the
chief of the eunuchs to allow him not to defile himself” (Dan 1:8). Daniel was willing to risk his life to reject the king’s feast. He would have been
outraged and Daniel wouldn’t have lived past the day. Maybe this is why Daniel tried to reason with chief of the eunuchs (Dan 1:9) but the chief was
afraid for his own life saying “I fear my lord the king, who assigned your food and your drink; for why should he see that you were in worse condition
than the youths who are of your own age? So you would endanger my head with the king” (Dan 1:10). Daniel couldn’t partake of the king’s feast
because it likely had unclean foods on it and Daniel was not about to disobey God so he told the chief of the eunuchs, “Test your servants for ten days;
let us be given vegetables to eat and water to drink. Then let our appearance and the appearance of the youths who eat the king’s food be observed by
you, and deal with your servants according to what you see” (Dan 1:12-13). What happened was “At the end of ten days it was seen that they were
better in appearance and fatter in flesh than all the youths who ate the king’s food. So the steward took away their food and the wine they were to
drink, and gave them vegetables” (Dan 1:15-16). This reminds me of a great point that Dr. Charles Stanley often says, “Obey God and leave the
consequences up to God.” I like that.
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Conclusion
I would urge you to use biblical examples when teaching the youth, every single time. That’s because there is the power of God contained in the
gospel of salvation (Rom 1:16) and it takes the Word of God, from a teacher of God, mixed with the Spirit of God, to make these youth into the
children of God, and all for the glory of God.
Jack Wellman is Pastor of the Mulvane Brethren Church in Mulvane Kansas. Jack is also the Senior Writer at What Christians Want To Know whose
mission is to equip, encourage, and energize Christians and to address questions about the believer’s daily walk with God and the Bible. You can
follow Jack on Google Plus or check out his book Teaching Children the Gospel available on Amazon.
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