Family Worship Guide: Week of June 5th 2022
**Parents, these next two months are review months at Deer Park Fellowship as it relates to the catechisms and memory verses.
Memory Verse: John 14:6
6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
Catechisms: 6-10:
6. Are there more gods than one? Answer: There is only one God.
7. In how many persons does this one God exist? Answer: In three Persons.
8. Who are they? (Name the three Persons). Answer: The Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
9. Who is God? Answer: God is a Spirit and does not have a body like men.
10. Where is God? Answer: God is everywhere.
Bible Reading
This week we will be looking at various passages of Scripture that support catechism question & answer 6.
Monday
Scripture: Deuteronomy 6:4-5
4 “Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. 5 You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.
Point of Focus: Christianity is a monotheistic religion. That means we believe there is only one God. We believe this because God tells us this in the Bible. The Lord is one. And he created us to love him with all of our heart, soul, and might because that is what is best for us. Loving our one true God is good for us.
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Tuesday
Scripture: Jeremiah 10:10
10 But the Lord is the true God;
he is the living God and the everlasting King.
At his wrath the earth quakes,
and the nations cannot endure his indignation.
Point of Focus: Our Lord is the one and only true God. He is the everlasting King which means that He has no beginning and He has no end. No one will ever topple His Kingdom. Nothing is more powerful than Him. Nations with all the powerful people you can think of are not more powerful than the Lord. The whole earth is not more powerful than the Lord.
Pray
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Wednesday
Scripture: Mark 12:29-31
29 Jesus answered, “The most important is, ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. 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.’ 31 The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”
Point of Focus: In today’s passage we see Jesus quote the Old Testament and specifically the passage we read on Monday when he is asked to summarize the Law of God. He summarizes it by saying that we are to love the one true God with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength and by loving our neighbor as much as we love ourselves. That is how the 10 commandments are divided up. The first 4 commandments teach us about loving God. The remaining 6 commandments teach us how our love of God should spill over into how we love people. If we love God, we will love others well.
Pray
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Thursday
Scripture: Acts 17:22-31
22 So Paul, standing in the midst of the Areopagus, said: “Men of Athens, I perceive that in every way you are very religious. 23 For as I passed along and observed the objects of your worship, I found also an altar with this inscription: ‘To the unknown god.’ What therefore you worship as unknown, this I proclaim to you. 24 The God who made the world and everything in it, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by man, 25 nor is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives to all mankind life and breath and everything. 26 And he made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place, 27 that they should seek God, and perhaps feel their way toward him and find him. Yet he is actually not far from each one of us, 28 for
“ ‘In him we live and move and have our being’;
as even some of your own poets have said,
“ ‘For we are indeed his offspring.’
29 Being then God’s offspring, we ought not to think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by the art and imagination of man. 30 The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent, 31 because he has fixed a day on which he will judge the world in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed; and of this he has given assurance to all by raising him from the dead.”
Point of Focus: This is an important message by the Apostle Paul given in front of all these really smart people called philosophers. These philosophers loved to think about new ideas. They loved to debate and argue. Well, Paul decided one day to talk to them and reveal something to them that may have seemed new, but in reality, was very old. He wanted them to know that God isn’t unknowable. We can really know him. He made himself known to us ultimately through Jesus Christ who is the image of the invisible God (Colossians 1:15). God is not far from any of us. He proved this by stepping into our world to seek and save the lost.
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Friday
Scripture: Isaiah 42:8
8 I am the Lord, that is My name;
And My glory I will not give to another,
Nor My praise to carved images.
Point of Focus: Our God will not share his glory with anyone because this would be idolatry. Only God is worthy of our worship and praise and honor. To worship anything else would be sinful and wrong because nothing else is deserving of our adoration. Also, it wouldn’t be good for us to worship anything lesser. We become like what we worship. If we worship something sinful and fallen or created, it will have a negative impact on our lives. When we worship the Lord alone, we grow to be more and more like Him and this is good. So it is good for us that God will not share His glory with another.
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Saturday
Scripture: Exodus 20:3
3 “You shall have no other gods before Me.
Point of Focus: This goes along with yesterday’s passage of Scripture. The first commandment in the 10 commands is that we shall not have any gods before our one true God. Is this because God is insecure? No, it is because He is the only one worthy of our absolute devotion and worship. Worshipping anything else is really bad.
Pray
Sing