Week 105- Free Weekend Program for Children

Date : 23-24 Aug. 2025

Scripture - Genesis 18: 3-15

Theme - Blessed to be a blessing.

In Genesis 18:3–15 we see Abraham receiving the Lord with reverence, offering hospitality, and Sarah wrestling with doubt when God reaffirms His promise of a son. This passage reflects deep truths for us today.

First, having received the gospel, we serve God willingly out of a grateful heart. Abraham had already encountered God’s grace, and when the Lord appeared to him, as He does to us through the gospel, he ran to serve with eagerness.

His service was not out of fear or compulsion but out of love and gratitude. In the same way, those who have truly received the gospel find joy in serving the Lord. We don’t serve to earn His favor; we serve because He has already shown us favor. The gospel makes us willing hearts.

And service can take many forms. For one it may be preaching, for another singing or geneousity. It could be sweeping the floor where believers gather, visiting the sick Christian, showing hospitality, or simply encouraging someone who is discouraged. The form may differ, but the heart is the same—willing, joyful, and grateful because of the grace we have received. Every single service we do for His sake is unto Him. Jesus Himself said, “I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink… whatever you did for one of the least of these, you did for Me.”

This means no act of service is too small or unnoticed when it is done in His name. Even the most ordinary act, when offered in love to others, is received by Christ as done to Him. Like Abraham, we run to meet the Lord and gladly give of ourselves.

Second, God doesn’t stop with us simply knowing Him and serving willingly. He desires that we bear fruit. That is why He reaffirmed His promise to Abraham and Sarah. He had already spoken, but He came again to remind them, “I will surely return to you about this time next year, and Sarah your wife will have a son.” God is not content with us merely having knowledge of Him or even just being busy in service—He desires that His promises come alive in us, that His word bears fruit through us.

This fruit is not only in our own lives but also in the lives of others through us. For us, every one of us here, we can invite our friends, tell our mothers, our neighbors, our children about the gospel—and never think it’s impossible for God to save them through our feeble words.

The Lord delights to work through weak things. Scripture says He uses the “foolishness” of preaching to save those who believe. So do not think it impossible to see fruits of salvation, to see souls brought to Christ, even through our simple witness. God is the One who brings life out of barrenness.

Third, when we doubt Him, even laughing at His word because we see ourselves as weak and unable to conceive His covenant promises, He lovingly convicts and corrects us. Sarah laughed inwardly when she heard the promise. From her perspective, her body was old, her womb was barren, and hope was gone.

How many times do we respond the same way? We hear God’s Word, we hear His promises, yet because of our weakness, our circumstances, or our past failures, we quietly laugh in disbelief. But notice—God did not abandon Sarah. Instead, He gently but firmly confronted her doubt: “Why did Sarah laugh?” In His correction, He revealed His heart: “Is anything too hard for the Lord?” His correction is not to condemn us but to restore faith and remind us of His power.

Finally, the fulfillment of the promise rests on Christ, not on us. Abraham and Sarah’s bodies were as good as dead, yet God’s word was sure. Since He has promised fruit, He Himself will bring it to pass in us and through us. We must never forget that the gospel is not about what we can produce in our own strength but about what God brings to pass through His Spirit. He calls us to believe, to yield, and to wait on Him. Just as Sarah conceived Isaac in the appointed time by God’s power, so also the promises of God in Christ are fulfilled in His time and by His Spirit.

Beloved, this message calls us to serve willingly from grateful hearts—in whatever way God places before us—knowing that every act of service done in His name is received as unto Him. It calls us to trust His promises even when they seem impossible, to be bold in sharing the gospel with others, to receive His loving correction when doubt arises, and to rest in His faithfulness to fulfill what He has spoken. Truly, nothing is too hard for the Lord.

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