Family Worship Guide: Week of August 1st, 2021
Memory Verse: John 3:16: “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only son that whosoever believes in him should not perish but have everlasting life.”
Catechism Question: How do you bring God glory? Answer: By loving Him and doing what He commands.
Scripture for the Week: Romans 13:1-7:
13 Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God. 2 Therefore whoever resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment. 3 For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Would you have no fear of the one who is in authority? Then do what is good, and you will receive his approval, 4 for he is God’s servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God’s wrath on the wrongdoer. 5 Therefore one must be in subjection, not only to avoid God’s wrath but also for the sake of conscience. 6 For because of this you also pay taxes, for the authorities are ministers of God, attending to this very thing. 7 Pay to all what is owed to them: taxes to whom taxes are owed, revenue to whom revenue is owed, respect to whom respect is owed, honor to whom honor is owed.
Monday
Scripture: 13 Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God.
Point of Focus: Only God has absolute authority. God is the Creator, Sustainer, and Ruler of all things. Therefore, anyone in this world who has power only has power because God has temporarily granted it to them. Therefore, we see view leaders as those God has instituted and we should respect them as such.
Pray
Sing: Christ our Hope in Life and Death
Tuesday
Scripture: 2 Therefore whoever resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment.
Point of Focus: We can respectfully resist authorities if they ask us to disobey God, but to resist authorities on our own accord without a biblical reason risks us incurring God’s judgment because we are resisting what/who God has appointed in our society to serve us.
Pray
Sing: Christ our Hope in Life and Death
Wednesday
Scripture: 3 For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Would you have no fear of the one who is in authority? Then do what is good, and you will receive his approval, 4 for he is God’s servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God’s wrath on the wrongdoer.
Point of Focus: Those God has put in authority should serve according to God’s standards. This means that those in governing positions should promote morality informed by God’s Word by praising what is right and punishing what is wrong.
Pray
Sing: Christ our Hope in Life and Death
Thursday
Scripture: 5 Therefore one must be in subjection, not only to avoid God’s wrath but also for the sake of conscience.
Point of Focus: Our conscience is bound by God’s Word to be in proper submission to the righteous rule of law. As we seek to honor God in how we live as citizens in this country we will strike the right balance on how to glorify Him in the details.
Pray
Sing: Christ our Hope in Life and Death
Friday
Scripture: 6 For because of this you also pay taxes, for the authorities are ministers of God, attending to this very thing.
Point of Focus: Those who serve our country in public offices (like presidents/governors/senators/mayors/police officers) are should be paid for their services because God has put them in their position as His ministers.
Pray
Sing: Christ our Hope in Life and Death
Saturday
Scripture: 7 Pay to all what is owed to them: taxes to whom taxes are owed, revenue to whom revenue is owed, respect to whom respect is owed, honor to whom honor is owed.
Point of Focus: We will give an account for how we honored God as citizens in our country and the public servants will give an account to God for whether or not they worked righteously and were worthy of respect and honor.
Pray