Family Worship Guide: Week of March 27th, 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: Revelation 21:1-4
21 Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. 2 And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. 3 And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God. 4 He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.”
Point of Focus: The consummation of God’s Kingdom coming on earth will be when everything is definitively made new. This will be when Jesus returns. And everything is being prepared for His second coming—even us. In today’s passage, we are called “the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband”. We are being prepared as God’s church for the day when we dwell forever with the Lord without any sin, suffering, or death in the new heavens and earth.
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Tuesday
Scripture: Jeremiah 31:31-34
31 “Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah, 32 not like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, my covenant that they broke, though I was their husband, declares the Lord. 33 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they shall be my people. 34 And no longer shall each one teach his neighbor and each his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the Lord. For I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.”
Point of Focus: In today’s passage we see a promise from the Lord to His people. And while there is a lot we can say about this passage, we want to continue to demonstrate Scriptural support for our catechisms and memory verses. Today we see God promise to write His law on the hearts of His people– the heart is what we need to pay attention to today. The heart as is referred here is more than just the organ in your body. The “heart” the Lord is speaking of is the center seat of your person. It affects your entire being. It refers to your interior life. God’s Law is inwardly obvious. It may not seem like that because of our sin nature, but it is there, imprinted on the soul.
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Thursday
Scripture: Jeremiah 31:34
34 And no longer shall each one teach his neighbor and each his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the Lord. For I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.”
Point of Focus: Continuing with the idea of ‘heart’ we should see that not only is the Law of God written on the heart, but that God in Christ (especially through the new covenant) is knowable. He is near to us. In our unrighteousness (Rom. 1) we suppress our knowledge of God’s nearness, but God is near–creation testifies to it and Christ makes it possible.
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Friday
Scripture: Revelation 21:4
4 He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.”
Point of Focus: “former things have passed” is comforting. Not only do we experience pain and suffering in this life, but we taint our very souls with the sins that we nourish on the inside. And it can be so easy in this life to despair of all the inner turmoil, but there will come a day when ‘the former things have passed’. The blood of Jesus makes everything right. And we can have peace and joy even now as we think on that.
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Saturday
Scripture: Hebrews 7:25
25 Therefore He is also able to save to the uttermost those who come to God through Him, since He always lives to make intercession for them.
Point of Focus: Christ completely saves us—body and soul. Our passage today uses the word “uttermost” and it means to the complete end—in every degree. The death and resurrection and intercession of Jesus saves us body and soul for all eternity.
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