Children’s Sermon on Psalm 6 – How Does It Feel to Repent?

Use this children’s sermon on Psalm 6 to teach children about true repentance.

 

Scripture: Psalm 6

 

Needed: happy face, mad face, sad face (included below)

 

Children’s Sermon: Say, Raise your hand if you have ever done something wrong to someone. (Raise your hand as well.)

 

And when you do something wrong to someone, what are you supposed to do? (Tell them you’re sorry.)

 

And when you go tell the person you’re sorry, how do they know if you really mean it?

 

Should you go up to them with a happy face (show happy face) and say, “I’m sorry for what I did to you”? (No.)

 

Should you go up to them with a mad face (show mad face) and say, “I’m sorry what I did to you”? (No.)

 

Should you go up to them with a sad face (show sad face) and say, “I’m sorry for what I did to you”? (Yes!)

 

The word “sorry” means you have sorrow over what you did. It means you’re sad about it. In Psalm 6, King David had done something wrong, and he was so sad about it, he said…

 

(Read Psalm 6:3a, quoted here in the NIV.)

 

“My soul is in deep anguish.”

 

He was very sad about what he had done wrong.

 

God wants us to be sad about the wrong things we do so that we don’t want to do them again.

 

Let’s review:

When you do something wrong, should you feel happy? (Show happy face) No!

Should you feel mad? (Show mad face) No!

Should you feel sad? (Show sad face) Yes!

 

It’s good for us to feel sad when we do something wrong so that we don’t want to do it again.

 

Closing Prayer: Father God, You have given us all of our emotions, and they are all good at different times. When we do something wrong, we ask You to help us feel sad about it so that we don’t want to do it again. In Jesus’ name we pray. Amen.