Servants Punished or Rewarded – Children’s Sermon on Luke 12:35-48

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Scripture: Luke 12:35-48

 

Children’s Sermon: Ask, How many of you have ever been a king?

Imagine you’re a king in your palace. You’re getting ready to go on a trip. You tell your servants who live in your palace to keep the palace clean and keeping cooking meals for each other while you’re gone. And then you go away on your trip, riding your horse out of the palace gate. All your servants wave goodbye and say they’ll miss you while you’re gone.

You have a great trip, and are ready to come home. But when you get home, you see that your palace is a mess. The grass hasn’t been mowed outside. Everything is dirty inside. Instead of working, some of your servants are sleeping. Some are getting drunk. Some are fighting with each other.

If you were that king coming home to his palace and saw all that, what would you do? (You would probably punish or fire those servants.)

Now imagine that instead of everything being a mess when you came home to the palace, everything was spotless. The yard looked good. Everything was tidy and clean inside. The servants were doing exactly what they were supposed to be doing.

What would you do then? (You should reward your servants for doing a good job.)

In our Bible story today, Jesus is the King, and we’re His servants. When Jesus comes back to Earth, if we’ve been doing what He told us to do, He will reward us. But if we have been disobeying Him and not doing what He told us to do, He will punish us and send us to Hell.

 

Closing Prayer: Jesus, we know that You are a good King, and we know that You are coming back someday. Help us to be Your good servants, doing what You want us to do and waiting for You to return. Amen.