Family Worship Guide: Week of January 9th, 2022
Memory Verse: Psalm 122:1: “I was glad when they said to me “Let us go to the house of the Lord.”
Catechism 14: Where do you learn how to love and obey God? Answer: In the Bible alone.
Catechism 15: Who wrote the Bible? Answer: Holy men who were inspired by the Holy Spirit.
Monday
Scripture: 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. (2 Timothy 3:16-17)
Point of Focus: Last week we began to look at a passage that supports both of our catechism questions for the month of January. Today, we see that the Scriptures are profitable to train us in righteousness. There are two ways for us to think about this. First, we need to remember that the Scriptures point us to Jesus who is our righteousness. The Scriptures teach us to always rest and trust in the righteousness of Christ and not of ourselves. The second thing the Scriptures do is help us to walk in a righteous manner. God’s Word teaches us those things which are righteous and unrighteous. And as we seek to honor God as Christians, we should look to the Scriptures to know what righteousness is and seek to live in it. In summary, the Scripture points us to Jesus who is our righteousness, and it points us to God’s Law to show us the way in which we live righteously.
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Tuesday
Scripture: 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. (2 Timothy 3:16-17)
Point of Focus: Today we pick up with examining why the Scriptures build us up through “teaching, reproof, and correction and training in righteousness”. The aim is so that we may be complete, equipped for every good work. In other words, the Scriptures produce a ‘fully furnished’ man or woman of God. When I think of being fully furnished or equipped, I tend to think of the full armor of God (Ephesians 6). When we think this way, we should think primarily of our union with Jesus. To be in Christ is to be fully furnished. To be in Christ is to have the full armor of God, and the Scripture shows us how to cultivate what we already possess (the righteousness of Christ) in our daily lives.
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Wednesday
Scripture: 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. (2 Timothy 3:16-17)
Point of Focus: Today, we need to focus on “good work”. What kind of good work can God’s Word prepare us for? We don’t need to think of God’s Word as some dictionary or encyclopedia as it relates to this. However, we should see that God’s Word allows us to approach anything we do with a biblical, redemptive worldview. We should examine and labor in anything we do with a mindfulness of God and His Word.
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Thursday
Scripture:20 knowing this first, that no prophecy of Scripture is of any private interpretation, 21 for prophecy never came by the will of man, but holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit. (2 Peter 1:20-21)
Point of Focus: The Scripture is not man’s invention. Man could never dream up anything as glorious as what we find in God’s Word. Men were “moved” which means “led” or “carried along” by the Holy Spirit of God. This supports catechism question and answer 15.
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Friday
Scripture: 2“The Spirit of the Lord spoke by me, And His word was on my tongue. (2 Samuel 23:2)
Point of Focus: These were some of King David’s last words. We know that King David wrote many of the Psalms in the Bible and that large sections of Scripture are dedicated to his Kingship. David, before he died and went to be with the Lord declared that it was the Spirit of the Lord who spoke through Him. David’s Words were inspired of the Holy Spirit.
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Saturday
Scripture:18 But those things which God foretold by the mouth of all His prophets, that the Christ would suffer, He has thus fulfilled. (Acts 3:18)
Point of Focus: This is a sermon from the Apostle Peter in which he says that God spoke (foretold) through all (not some) of HIs prophets (all those writers in the Old Testament) that Christ would suffer. Peter is saying that God spoke through all the Old Testament saints that Jesus is in fact the long-awaited for Messiah.
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