Family Worship Guide: Week of June 19th, 2022

Joey Tomlinson   -  

**Parents, these next two months are review months at Deer Park Fellowship as it relates to the catechisms and memory verses. This week we are going to look at passages that support catechism #15. 

Memory Verse: Psalm 122:1

I was glad when they said to me, 

“Let us go to the house of the Lord!” 

Catechism Questions and Answers:

15: Who wrote the Bible? Chosen men inspired by the Holy Spirit

16: Who were our first parents? Adam and Eve

17: Of what were our first parents made? God made the body of Adam out of the ground and formed Eve from the body of Adam.

18: What did God give Adam and Eve besides bodies? He gave them souls that could never die.

19. Have you a soul as well as a body? Yes. I have a soul that can never die.

20. How do you know that you have a soul? Because the Bible tells me so.

Monday

Scripture: Acts 1:16

16 “Brothers, the Scripture had to be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit spoke beforehand by the mouth of David concerning Judas, who became a guide to those who arrested Jesus.

Point of Focus: In today’s passage we see the Apostle Peter say that the Holy Spirit intended Judas to be the fulfillment of Psalm 41:9. What is significant for parents to help their children see here is that no mere human authority could predict or bring about a fulfillment like that Psalm in the life of Judas the betrayer. Jesus quoted this psalm when he reclined at the table with the disciples and identified who would betray him in John 13:18. In summary, the New Testament tells us that the ultimate fulfillment of Psalm 41:9 is the betrayal of Judas. It really is the Holy Spirit of God acting through humans in writing the Scriptures.

Pray

Sing

Tuesday

Scripture: 2 Timothy 3:16-17

16 All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, 17 that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work. 

Point of Focus: Today it is good to simply focus on the fact that the Bible—all 66 books are breathed out by God. This means they were inspired by the Holy Spirit of God. That is why they are profitable.

Pray

Sing

Wednesday

Scripture: 1 Peter 1:10-11

10 Concerning this salvation, the prophets who prophesied about the grace that was to be yours searched and inquired carefully, 11 inquiring what person or time the Spirit of Christ in them was indicating when he predicted the sufferings of Christ and the subsequent glories.

Point of Focus: Jesus is who the prophets in the Old Testament spoke of. He is the salvation they hoped in and proclaimed. The only reason they spoke of Jesus before the incarnation is because they were inspired by the Spirit of God to prophesy.

Pray

Sing

Thursday

Scripture: Matthew 5:17

17 “Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.

Point of Focus: Jesus himself claimed to be the fulfillment of the Law and Prophets. That means that all of the Old Testament directs us to Jesus. That is a primary role of the Holy Spirit of God—to exalt Jesus. And the Holy Spirit does this all throughout Scripture.

Pray

Sing

Friday

Scripture: Luke 1:1-4

Inasmuch as many have undertaken to compile a narrative of the things that have been accomplished among us, just as those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and ministers of the word have delivered them to us, it seemed good to me also, having followed all things closely for some time past, to write an orderly account for you, most excellent Theophilus, that you may have certainty concerning the things you have been taught. 

Point of Focus: We will spend two days on this passage. The first thing to help your children see is that Luke (who was a physician) was one of the Holy men inspired by God who wrote an orderly account about the person and work of Jesus.

Pray

Sing

Saturday

Scripture: Luke 1:1-4

Inasmuch as many have undertaken to compile a narrative of the things that have been accomplished among us, just as those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and ministers of the word have delivered them to us, it seemed good to me also, having followed all things closely for some time past, to write an orderly account for you, most excellent Theophilus, that you may have certainty concerning the things you have been taught. 

Point of Focus: We started looking at this passage of Scripture yesterday, but the second thing to help your children know and see is that the Scripture was written by other Holy men who were eyewitnesses to the person and work of Jesus Christ during the lives of other eyewitnesses to the person and work of Jesus Christ. Our inspired Scripture is true and trustworthy and carefully compiled.

Pray

Sing