Family Worship Guide: Week of March 13th, 2022
Memory Verse: Matthew 6:9-13: 9 Pray then like this: “Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. 10 Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. 11 Give us this day our daily bread, 12 and forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. 13 And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
Catechism Question 18: What did God give Adam and Eve besides bodies? Answer: He gave them souls so they could never die.
Catechism Question 19: Have you a soul as well as a body? Answer: Yes, I have a soul that can never die.
Monday
Scripture: Ecclesiastes 12:7
7 and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
Point of Focus: This week we are going to look at some of the Scriptures that support our catechism questions for the month. Here, the wisest man who ever lived—Solomon mused on the body and soul (also called spirit in Scripture) of man. It is true that God formed Adam out of the dust of the ground, but he also gave him a spirit—a soul. This means that we will live forever even though our body dies. God made us to live forever.
Pray
Sing
Tuesday
Scripture: Genesis 2:7
7 then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.
Point of Focus: Everything God created He spoke into existence, except for when he created man. The Scripture teaches us that God had an intimate relationship with us from our very beginning. He shaped us and it is his very breath that made us a “living creature”. This intimacy has continued all through redemptive history up to now. Christ came and dwelt among us and sought us and saved us, and upon his ascension, He gave us the Holy Spirit who dwells in us. God is near to us.
Pray
Sing
Wednesday
Scripture: 1 Corinthians 15:45
45 And so it is written, “The first man Adam became a living being.” The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.
Point of Focus: In today’s passage we see Paul quote our verse in Genesis from yesterday. In chapter 15 Paul is reminding the Corinthian Church that they will live forever and that this is because Jesus bodily rose from the dead. One day, our souls will be reunited with our bodies— we will have a resurrection just like our Savior Jesus. We are living beings and Christ has given us eternal life.
Pray
Sing
Thursday
Scripture: Zechariah 12:1
12 The oracle of the word of the Lord concerning Israel: Thus declares the Lord, who stretched out the heavens and founded the earth and formed the spirit of man within him…
Point of Focus: This is a prophecy of Zechariah to Israel reminding them not only that God created the heavens (what is invisible) and the earth (what is visible), but that he created them. He is the one who “formed the spirit of man within him” which means we will give an account to Him as our Creator.
Pray
Sing
Friday
Scripture: Matthew 10:28
28 And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell.
Point of Focus: Because we have a Creator, and because He has spoken to us in His Word, and because we have a body and soul, we will give an account to Him for how we’ve lived our lives. And we will spend an eternity either with Him in the new heavens and the new earth or in eternal hell under His righteous anger and wrath. God’s standard for an eternity with Him is perfection. The problem is that even on our best day, we fall short of perfection. And God knows this. So, He provided a way for us to have eternal life. He provided a way for us to be forgiven of our sins and a way for his wrath for sin to be appeased. That is through the person and work of Jesus Christ. The only way to be with God forever is to have our sins forgiven and to be clothed in righteousness. God has graciously done this for us in Jesus. If you put your trust in Him, you will live with God forever.
Pray
Sing
Saturday
Scripture: Mark 12:30
30 And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’
Point of Focus: God’s Word teaches us to love Him with all of our heart, soul, mind, and strength (which is a summary of the first 4 of the 10 commandments, by the way). This is another way of saying we should love God with our body and with our soul because it is God who created both.
Pray
Sing